Bitcoin Helps to Fight Domestic Violence

Recently Kris Haamer started a BitcoinCT r:  8 crowdfunding campaign to fight domestic violence in Sao Tomé. He partnered with a Sao-Toméan rapper Pekagboom to raise people’s awareness about the problem of domestic violence which stands sharply in many countries of the world. Kris told CoinTelegraphCT r:  23 that he and his team plan to start a far-reaching transmedia project that will help fight domestic violence not only in Sao Tomé, but also in other Portuguese speaking countries, as well as in other countries all over the world.

The idea of the project appeared two years ago when Kris Haamer met Pekagboom at the Sao Tome e Principe art biennale. After that they started gathering other people around the idea to create a strong team, “with members in Sao Tomé, Estonia, Portugal, Brazil and Taiwan”. This shows the problem they are to deal with is global indeed.

The team has created a musical video featuring a fictional character named Elsa Figueira and her tough story of overcoming domestic violence. This video is to demonstrate to all the abused women that there is actually a way out and that they shouldn’t suffer the violence silently.

http://cointelegraph.com/news/115756/bitcoin-helps-to-fight-domestic-violence

Bitcoin in a Suit: Why the Tech's Big Battle is Already Won

John Biggs is a New York-based writer. After spending years as a programmer, Biggs decided to become a full-time journalist. His work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Gizmodo and Men's Health. Biggs is currently an editor for TechCrunch. In this piece he details why he thinks bitcoin will eventually succeed.

A week ago I was in Belgrade watching a panel on "blockchain."

The makeup of the panel was typical: a young, plugged-in VC, an older banker guy and a crypto-anarchistic dude in a T-shirt. It was like watching a movie called "Bitcoin is Good And Bad" for the 50th time. I knew what was happening but I couldn't look away.

The panel started normally - VC guy said he liked the blockchain specifically but was iffy about those bitcoins, the older gentleman said bitcoin was bad, but then the anarchist dude was quiet. He let the banker talk. The banker said that bitcoin was untraceable. It was a fad. The crypto guy let him talk. bitcoin was a tulip bulb, said the old dude. It would never work, he clamored.

And the anarchist stayed quiet. Then the old dude was done.

The anarchist calmly explained what the future of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies held. He made cogent points that he had practiced many times. While the banker chortled at his own jokes, the VC talked about the blockchain and the audience grunted.

The anarchist won the discussion through reasoned argument.

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-in-a-suit/

SWIFT Institute Research Claims Bitcoin Won’t Be Regulated Soon

n the wake of the latest terrorist attacks, the EU requests to regulate digital currencies in an attempt to stop terrorism financing. It was reported that ISIL, a terrorist organization responsible for bombings in Paris, is widely using Bitcoin for funding their operations, though this has yet to be proven.

Last week, the above-mentioned EU request was formalized at a meeting in Brussels, reports Reuters. According to a joint statement of the meeting, the ministers urged the Commission to “strengthen controls of non-banking payment methods such as electronic/anonymous payments, money remittances, cash-carriers, virtual currencies, transfers of gold or precious metals and pre-paid cards in line with the risk they present.”

The statement is nearly identical to that reported in the draft document, with the noticeable additions of money remittances and cash carriers. The final text also calls for measures to stop the illicit trade of cultural goods such as stolen art works, reads Finance Magnates.

However, a new research conducted by the SWIFT Institute states that The European Union won’t regulate the cryptocurrency in the nearest future.

According the report, the revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2) and the fourth European anti-money laundering directive (AMLD4) demonstrate not enough plausible arguments to include Bitcoin under the EU’s current legal frameworks. The report states:

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/11/28/13437/

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Tixie: The Bitcoin Ticker For Your Home Goes Crowdfunding

A small group of passionate Computer Engineers from Toronto is going to launch a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for their first creation: a “physical” BitcoinCT r:  8 ticker. Funders and future buyers of the device will own an alarm clock that will also display the price of bitcoin, owner’s account balances, time and local temperature.

Real Coin Tickers (RCT) is a small team of Computer Engineer and Bitcoin enthusiast from Toronto that have invested some time into the realization of a “more complete” alarm clock for the Bitcoin enthusiast family and are soon going to open a crowdfunding campaign to enable mass production of their “physical” Bitcoin ticker.

So if you have ever awaken at 3 in the morning jumping on your bed because “oh my gosh what had happen to the Bitcoin price?” and struggled to find your mobile phone just to check it, this device is coming to help. Just by turning your head to the nightstand, you will read on flashing LEDs the Bitcoin price status and if your finances are still there, and, of course, what time did you wake on anxiety.

http://cointelegraph.com/news/115754/tixie-the-bitcoin-ticker-for-your-home-goes-crowdfunding

Interview with Alex Sunnarborg founder of Lawnmower.io

Lawnmower.io is a service available for coinbase customers which rounds up your purchases made with your bank accounts and converts the spare change to bitcoin. Recently, we had the pleasure of interviewing the founder of lawnmower.io, Alex Sunnaborg. We asked him a few questions regarding the startup:
What inspired you to come up with the idea for lawnmower.io?

    One of our founders came up with Lawnmower at a Hackathon (Money20/20 2014). He had recently ran across an ad for Acorns (spare change into ETF portfolios) and decided to take the concept a step farther into bitcoin, which we’re all huge fans of.

Since currently you are working with the Coinbase API have you thought of expanding to support customers of any other services such as Circle or Bitpay?

    When we were building Lawnmower we were searching for the best API to create user bitcoin wallets and initiate purchases, and Coinbase’s API seemed to be the best choice at the time. We’ve had a great experience with Coinbase and our sign up flow continues to improve for brand new users to bitcoin. We would love to support customers of other bitcoin companies, but we don’t think another integration which offers the same functionality would be the best use of our time. Many of our users actually send their bitcoin to the wallet of their choice after receiving them in their Lawnmower (Coinbase) wallet.

Do you have any plans to add any new features in the coming future?

    Yes definitely – we want to add an instant buy feature to let you purchase bitcoin immediately in addition to over time, a hopeful integration with Shapeshift to allow for investing in portfolios of different cryptocurrencies, and some cool analytics to illustrate your overall investing stats.

Have you thought of adding payouts in any other coins perhaps with the use of shapeshift.io‘s API?

    Yes, we’re actually exploring this right now – we’d like to be able to feature certain themed sample portfolios as well as allow you to customize your allocation between cryptocurrencies.

Is the service only available to US customers?

    Currently, yes. As part of our expansion plan we are considering having recurring bitcoin purchases through Coinbase drive your saving rather than spare change on transactions. With this fact set, we should be able to expand to the 30+ countries supported by Coinbase.

Where do you see lawnmower.io in one year?

    As the go-to app for investing in bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and other blockchain-tech related assets. Basically, the coolest app for the most cutting-edge investments

In hindsight was there anything you would have done differently if you could go back in time and start lawnmower.io all over again?

    We wish we would have included a recurring purchase alternative to spare change so we could support other banks, countries, and currencies like we intend to do in the future.

If you are looking to diversify your portfolio and invest in bitcoin, lawmower.io is the best way to do so without putting in much effort. With the upcoming integration of shapeshift’s APIs you can now easily diversify your cryptocurrency porfolio and invest in more than just bitcoin. Even though the service is only available through Coinbase, you can easily move the coins out of the exchange and back into a wallet you fully control.

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http://themerkle.com/interviews/interview-with-alex-sunnarborg-founder-of-lawnmower-io/

Andorid Altcoin Mining – Is It Possible?

The smartphone is by far the world’s favorite piece of technology. It is estimated that there will be over 2 billion smartphones across the world by next year (ref: eMarketer). Over 80 percent of these smartphones run on Android operating system (data: IDC, 2015 Q2). Nowadays, smartphones are literally miniaturized computers, their processors pack anywhere between 1 GHz to 2.7 GHz processing power which is on par with a decent low-range/mid-range laptop currently in the market. Processing power of these devices come to use only while playing games or running few process intensive applications. But it can be put to use for other purposes as well. For example, altcoin mining.

Theoretically the processing power possessed by smartphones can be harnessed to mine cryptocurrencies. While mining bitcoin using the currently available smartphones is out of question, there are many altcoins that could be mined effectively on these handhelds. However, it may not be as effective as it would be if you use your PC instead of mobile phone for mining your coins.  However, there are a few applications out there on the market that allows smartphone users to mine crypto coins on their handhelds.

Some of the mining applications available for Android platform are –

http://www.newsbtc.com/2015/11/29/can-we-mine-altcoins-using-android/

Bitcoin Price Likely Heading Towards ¥2500

Key Highlights

    Bitcoin price recovered well this past week and spiked higher to trade near ¥2360-70.
    There is an ascending channel pattern formed on the daily chart (price feed from BTCChina), which may act as a catalyst in the near term.
    Moreover, there is a bullish trend line formed on the hourly chart that can be seen as a buying area (price feed from Huobi).

Bitcoin price gained this past week and traded above a major resistance area of ¥2300 to setup for more gains moving ahead.


What’s next for Bitcoin Price?

There was a decent upside ride this past week in Bitcoin price, as it spiked higher to clear a couple of important resistance areas. The price recovered well after declining close to ¥1800, and currently looks set for more upsides. There is a bullish trend line formed on the hourly chart (price feed from BTCChina), which prevented the downside move on a couple of times, and may act as a mover for the upside break.

http://www.newsbtc.com/2015/11/29/bitcoin-price-likely-heading-towards-%C2%A52500/

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Bitcoin Flat in Calmer Session

With two hours to go, bitcoin looks set to close today’s trading session unchanged. On BTC-E we opened the day at $352.47 and bounced between $345 and $355 all day. One coin is currently selling for 352.25 on this exchange. The hourly chart below shows today’s session on BTC-E. As the market calmed down a bit, we’ve seen price differences between exchanges narrow closer to the ”normal” values. The BTC-E discount is at $3.76 dollars at the moment, down from $7 dollars yesterday.

On OKCoin we’ve been trading between $362 and $351 dollars all day. We are currently quoted at $356.01 on the USD exchange. Meanwhile futures on the same platform continue to fetch a premium, with the closer to expiration December 4th contract quoting BTC/USD at $362.49 while the far out December 25th contract is at $371.86.

While futures traders continue to price in more gains, the technical picture is not so clear. The momentum has clearly shifted to the upside, with gains of $37 dollars from the $315 low made just three days ago. But three up days don’t make a trend. Furthermore, today’s indecisive doji may be a prelude of things to come.

The two important figures are now at $290 dollars on the bottom and $386 dollars on the top. A breakdown below $290 would start a new downtrend, potentially leading to more losses towards $279 on OKCoin. Further down we find strong support at the round $250 figure. As we’ve noted in previous articles, this important figure was the starting point for two rallies this year, as well as one downtrend. It should continue to hold relevance going forward. A break of $250 may lead to exacerbated losses.


http://www.forexnews.com/blog/2015/11/28/bitcoin-flat-in-calmer-session/

Can blockchain help the cards and payments industry?

Blockchain has been for many years a synonym for bitcoin. Whenever people talked about blockchain they thought of bitcoin, and vice versa.

Things have quickly changed in the past few months as shown by the number of banks racing to harness the power of the blockchain technology, in the belief that it could cut up to US$20 billion off costs and transform the way the industry works [1].

https://www.techinasia.com/talk/blockchain-cards-payments-industry/

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Watch Out, Visa and MasterCard; Here Comes Blockchain

The hot, hot investment theme of changing how people pay for things is going to see even more dramatic changes in coming years than those imagined by upstarts such as Square.

A technology called blockchain, which has evolved as an open-source software program shared on the Internet, has the potential to remove multiple layers of processes and intermediaries in the sequence of steps that “settle” or “clear” payments from one party to another.

The immediate impact could be a big drop in the usefulness of credit-card networks such as Visa (ticker: V), MasterCard (MA), American Express (AXP), and Discover Financial Services (DFS).

As mentioned in this column last week, digital payment is the latest thing in technology, as evinced by the initial public offering two weeks ago of Square (SQ), the San Francisco start-up that provides merchants with an electronic reader for processing payments. Square’s shares recently were trading above $12, a third higher than the offering price.

But Square and other payment contenders, such as PayPal (PYPL), are just the start of a more profound revolution led by an open-source software program that creates a kind of financial ledger for transactions.

The technology came to prominence with the rise of Bitcoin. The virtual currency had a surge of popularity before a panic led to extreme skepticism about such fantasy money. But blockchain technology is a sound idea that’s separate from Bitcoin, and it could end up having a far greater impact than the currency.

Using a collection of computer codes, blockchain records credits and debits between parties. Whether the currency of those credits and debits is Bitcoin, dollars, or renminbi doesn’t matter. The system is kept honest by multiple computers comparing their versions of the ledger in order to come up with an authoritative single record.


http://www.barrons.com/articles/watch-out-visa-and-mastercard-here-comes-blockchain-1448691510

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