Foundation Election Runoffs Concluding

The Bitcoin Foundation runoff elections had a surprise for its members when it started earlier this week. Without warning it had changed the format for the election to the Swam platform. Users had to re-register, download a paper wallet, copy a password from that, and then wait for an email, or not, and then they […]

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Bitcoin Trading Slow This Weekend

Bitcoin trading has corrected yesterday’s advance and is now building the base of the next wave of advance. 1590 CNY and $256 (Bitfinex) remain tough resistance levels and 24 hours later trading has developed a knee-jerk sell reaction to this chart level. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3 hour delay. Read the […]

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Stripe Completes Beta Bitcoin Test; Offers Merchants Bitcoin Payment

Stripe, a San Francisco, Calif.-based mobile payments startup, has offered its customers a bitcoin payment option after completing a bitcoin beta test. CCN reported the beta test in March 2014. “While in beta, Stripe merchants accepted bitcoin transactions from more than 60 countries, so we’re excited to see what’s next,” said Tim Drinan, a company spokesman. […]

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Kim Dotcom Aims to “Give Bitcoin a Boost”

In 2010, when WikiLeaks was considering using Bitcoin as a means to get around the US banking blockade which had seen its Paypal account frozen and its other avenues of funding blockaded as well, the group began considering Bitcoin as a way to keep funding flowing. Bitcoin’s History of Aiding Groups Abandoned by Traditional Payment Processors Satoshi […]

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Mapping the World with GPUs Reveals Population Trends

Editor’s note: This is one of a series of five posts profiling finalists for NVIDIA’s 2015 Global Impact Award, which provides $150,000 to researchers using NVIDIA technology for groundbreaking work that addresses social, humanitarian and environmental problems. Refugee camps in West Africa. Mobile homes in U.S. tornado corridors. Both densely populated. Both with different needs.… Read More