How Our Project Inspire Is Transforming Communities, Motivating Students

Mural-covered walls. Outdoor learning spaces. Community gardens. Sounds like a welcoming college campus, but you’ll find these scenes at a group of schools in an area of East San Jose, upgraded and beautified through NVIDIA’s annual Project Inspire community service events. Held each December in place of a holiday party, Project Inspire has grown in… Read More

Glasgow Pub Starts to Accept Digital Currency Scotcoin

The Arlington – a pub in Glasgow will start accepting the digital currency Scotcoin. For now, the cryptocurrency can only be used as settlement for one particular lager. Starting today on St. Andrew’s Day, The Arlington – a Glasgowian pub will start accepting Scottish-based cryptocurrency Scotcoin. The pub is believed to be the first in all of Scotland to allow its customers to pay with the cryptocurrency. As reported by the Herald Scotland, the pub’s Kenny Low admits that the pub will not be paying any worker in Scotcoin, nor buying any of its supplies with the digital currency. However, […]

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Bitcoin Price Profit Offer

Another bitcoin price advance and another successful trade concluded a few hours before this article’s publication. Sometimes the simplest indicators yield the easiest intra-day profit while co-located, on-site, algorithm-fuming, HFT bots squeeze little out of the apparently unorthodox bitcoin market. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and receive a $29 discount using the code CCN29. Bitcoin Price Analysis Time of analysis: 14h30 UTC Bitstamp 1-Hour Chart From the analysis pages of xbt.social, earlier today: xbt.social concluded another successful trade earlier – the second for this advance […]

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Greek Banks Targeted by Hackers Demanding Bitcoin Ransom

Authorities in Greece have banded together a special team of cyber sleuths to safeguard Greek banks from cyber-attacks after a malicious hacker group demanded a bitcoin ransom with the threat of further DDoS attacks. In yet another instance of the infamous hacked group ‘Armada Collective’ targeting banks, the online operations of three Greek banks were rendered offline for a few hours last week, in a demonstration of their malicious hacking abilities. The group threated to attack again unless the banks paid a bitcoin ransom before Monday. The deadline is today, as reported by Greek publication Kathimereini. Crazy story this am […]

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Bitcoin Price Climbs to 3-Week High to End a Memorable November

The Bitstamp Price Index struck a 3-week high of $383 at 9:22 AM UTC today, soon after a steady increase from Sunday when Bitcoin price to USD opened at $362.75. The late hours of Sunday saw the price jump from $364 at 9:43 PM UTC to $372.38 at 10:55 UTC. Bitcoin price opened Monday, November 30 at $370.95. At the time of publishing, Bitcoin is trading at $375.38. The steady turnaround comes after the frenetic increase earlier this month when the price set records with increased trading from Chinese exchanges playing a significant role with the recent yearly-high. The opening of […]

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Darknet Shopper Bot Back In Business; Who Is Culpable For Illegal Purchases?

Random Darknet Shopper, an automated, online bot that searches the Darknet and buys random items using a weekly $100 bitcoin budget, is back in business following a hiatus last year when it was temporarily confiscated by St. Gallen, Switzerland legal authorities. Last week, the bot, created by a European art group !Mediengruppe Bitnik, purchased a fake Lacoste polo shirt for $35, according to Digital Trends. The bot is programmed to randomly select and buy one item on the Darknet and send it to the art group’s exhibition space. The !Mediengruppe Bitnik website describes the shopper as “an exploration of the deep web […]

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BlockApps CEO Likens The Block Chain ‘Sandbox’ To Oracle’s Database Role

BlockApps, a Microsoft affiliate designed to provide an enterprise block chain toolkit to help businesses develop new functionalities, brings to mind the role that Oracle plays in the future of decentralized databases, according to Victor Wong, BlockApps CEO. In an interview with International Business Times, Wong cited Oracle’s role as a database provider as a parallel to BlockApp’s role providing tools such as smart contracts for businesses to use to create new functionalities. Microsoft Enters The Block Chain Arena Microsoft partnered with an Ethereum-based startup, ConsenSys, to deliver block chain as an enterprise solution for clients of its cloud-based Azure […]

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Bitcoin Price Micro Advance or Mini Consolidation?

Bitcoin price surged higher earlier today and then stopped short of printing a new high. At the time of writing, the small advance is retracing and the question is whether it will continue higher, or fall back into sideways consolidation. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and receive a $29 discount using the code CCN29. Bitcoin Price Analysis Time of analysis: 14h15 UTC BTCC 1-Hour Chart From the analysis pages of xbt.social, earlier today: xbt.social held back on opening a buy trade today, based on the […]

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