CoinTap Bitcoin ‘Gift Card’ Service Launches
The folks over at Calgary-based Bitcoin Ventures have launched CoinTap, their bitcoin 'gift card' service, allowing those unfamiliar with acquiring ...
French Senate Convenes Bitcoin Hearing, Outlook is Positive
As announced last week, the French Senate met today in Paris to hold a hearing on bitcoin, it's benefits, and ...
NASDAQ-Listed Eyewear Company Coastal.com to Soon Begin Accepting Bitcoin
Yet another large online retailer is announcing their support for bitcoin payments. This time around it's the folks at Coastal.com, ...
Mt. Gox Bitcoin Exchange Denies Involvement with Silk Road
On Monday, The Genesis Block posted an article titled: "Mt. Gox Seizures Linked to Silk Road in Fed Testimonies". In that ...
eToro Adds Bitcoin As Investment Option
Social investment network eToro announced today that bitcoin has been added as an investment option on the service's OpenBook platform, ...
Canadian Realtor Lists $1 Million Home, Accepts Bitcoins
Red Deer, Canada-based realtor Bryce Kander is looking to sell his 3.3-acre property in an area called Gasoline Alley for $1 ...
PayPal President: We're Believers in Bitcoin
PayPal president David Marcus took to twitter Monday morning to make some things clear on his company's stance on digital ...
Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Huobi Strictly Using Business Bank Account, Dumps Personal Account
According to a post today on Reddit, it would appear as if Chinese bitcoin exchange Huobi has made a modification ...
Gavin Andresen nullify 51% Attack on Bitcoin Network,Circa 2012
One of the bigger headlines last week concerned mining pool Ghash.IO and the amount of hashing power they have. In ...
You Can Now Charter a Private Jet With Bitcoin
Private Jet service PrivateFly.com is now accepting bitcoin payments for jet charters, in partnership with digital payment processor BitPay. The company ...
GHash.IO Hashing Market Share Drops to 28% Following Fears of 51% Attack
The bitcoin community endured a scare earlier this week when mining pool GHash.IO's hashing market share reached a whopping 42%, ...
Coinbase Reduces Instant Buy Limit For Level 1 and 2 Accounts
Brian Armstrong from Coinbase today made an announcement on Reddit with some changes Coinbase will be implementing on instant bitcoin ...
First Bitcoin ATM Coming to South America in Two Weeks
It would appear as if another continent is getting some bitcoin ATM machine goodness. This time around it's South America, ...
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Publishes Paper on Bitcoin
The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond has published an interesting paper surround bitcoin and digital currencies (which they refer to ...
Is Newegg Inching Toward Accepting Bitcoin?
We here at newsBTC don't like rumors. We don't like speculation. But something about online retailer Newegg's tweets is telling ...
GHash.IO Releases Official Statement on 51% Hashing Power Threat
newsBTC has received an official press release from the folks over at GHash.IO regarding the on-going threat of the mining ...
Butterfly Labs Shows Off Monarch Bitcoin Miner at CES
Let's just say there's a bit a controversy surrounding a little company called Butterfly Labs. Release delays and lack of ...
European Yahoo Sites Infect Scores of PCs With Bitcoin Mining Malware
Here's a flub of epic proportions. Yahoo! has confirmed a malware attack affecting visitors of their European web properties from ...
Bitcoin Exchange Vault of Satoshi Now Accepting Canadian Dollars
Bitcoin exchange Vault of Satoshi (VOS) today made an announcement that could be considered great news for those in Canada. "As of ...
Mars One Foundation Accepting Bitcoin For Private Manned Mission to Mars
Have some spare bitcoins you'd like to give away but don't know how? The Mars One Foundation -- the private operation hoping to ...
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