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A big week for bitcoin venture capital shows the original blockchain isn’t going anywhere
This Super Bowl season, bitcoin has felt like the Canadian Football Association to the blockchain’s NFL. Which is why it is so interesting that this week there were two fundraising rounds — including one of the largest ever — in bitcoin, even as non-bitcoin blockchains continue to cross milestone after milestone. But what the two investment rounds really mean is that the choice between bitcoin’s blockchain with the robustness provided by a global network of millions of users, and the privacy of so-called "permissioned ledgers" may be a false dilemma. Those new-fangled upstarts with a fraction of the users and still developing technology shouldn’t take for granted the granddaddy of them all. Bitcoin’s blockchain is here to stay. http://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2016/02/05/a-big-week-for-bitcoin-venture-capital-shows-the.html
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Bitcoin Price Scales Beyond $390 in February
It’s early days in February, following a volatile January for the price of Bitcoin. In recent days, the cryptocurrency has swelled again, with a high pushing beyond $390, gaining over $20 in the space of a day. The Bistamp Price Index started yesterday, February 4th at $368.55 to rise through the day, leading to a monthly high of $391.880 at 9:00 PM UCT, the same day. At the time of publishing today, the Bitstamp Price Index sees Bitcoin trading at $389.00. https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-price-scales-beyond-390-in-february/
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Alleged Corruption of Chinese Financial Institutions Show How Bitcoin is Better
Plenty of people around the world have always suspected how the financial world is plagued by corruption and backroom dealings that shouldn’t ever see the light of day. With so much money revolving in this sector, it only makes sense that everyone has their price to be “bought”, but not much has been proven just yet. Over in China, it looks like the country’s financial system might be suffering from a variety of major problems, including corruption. http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/02/05/alleged-corruption-of-chinese-financial-institutions-show-how-bitcoin-is-better/
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Bitcoin Mining Platform Bitminer.eu Guarantees 99.9% Up Time and User-Friendly Interface
LONDON, Feb. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Bitminer.eu enables users worldwide to mine Bitcoin fast and secure and has since launch in November 2015 gained almost 5000 users. In order to ensure the ultimate Bitcoin mining experience Bitminer featured a minimalistic and user-friendly interface; without compromising efficiency and speed. Bitminer.eu incorporates the latest developments and trends to ensure the widest range of features available to its users. In order to ensure the highest profitability, Bitminer.eu offer advanced statistics and guarantees a stable hash rate and immediate mining payouts. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bitcoin-mining-platform-bitminereu-guarantees-999-up-time-and-user-friendly-interface-300216032.html
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Forget Bitcoin, The Value Is In Blockchain
Each of us at Neosho can trace our financial careers back to the days of timestamping trade tickets and handing them to another firm employee locked in "the cage" to begin the trade settlement process. Striking the bargain, then as now, merely starts the process of shares trading hands for cash. We share Commissioner Aguilar's frustration that clearing and settlement continues to operate in a quasi-analog manner while trade execution is fully digital and makes use of artificial intelligence and speed of light communications. As such, stock trades settle no faster than two days in Europe and three days in the U.S., no matter how liquid the stock. http://seekingalpha.com/article/3870446-forget-bitcoin-value-blockchain
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PayPal Continues To Drive People To Bitcoin And Other Solutions As It Starts Cutting Off VPNs & Open Internet Solutions
There's a fairly long history of Paypal being completely obnoxious in shutting down the accounts of basically anyone challenging the status quo in any way. Nearly all of our stories about Paypal follow a similar pattern: Paypal cuts off MEGA because it encrypts files Paypal cuts of account for supporting Chelsea Manning Paypal cuts off Wikileaks Paypal cuts off Mailpile, encrypted email program Paypal cuts off Smashwords, because it doesn't like some of its ebooks Paypal cuts off Diaspora Paypal cuts off a charitable secret Santa program Paypal cuts off Swedish ISP that stood for user freedoms https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160205/11394433534/paypal-continues-to-drive-people-to-bitcoin-other-solutions-as-it-starts-cutting-off-vpns-open-internet-solutions.shtml
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Factom Lands Smart-City Deal With China
With an eye to the future, China’s government is working with Factom, a blockchain based record verification and auditing infrastructure company along with consulting firm iSoftStone to plan blockchain based administration projects for smart cities. The plan will include strategies for storage, auditing and verification services. Named after the Factom brand, Factoids, a token value, are issues and transferred among users who purchase entry credits and record entries. Factom servers will create entry blocks and directory blocks. The hashing of directory blocks is secured onto the blockchain. https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/factom-lands-smart-city-deal-china/
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Merchant Spotlight – Bitcoin Coffee at Paralelní Polis
Have you ever paid for your coffee with bitcoin? Bitcoin Coffee of Paralelní Polis is a bitcoin-only coffee laboratory serving superior tasting coffee that reflects on the flavor profile and unique character of every variety and the influence of the environment in which the coffee grew. Blockchain’s initial exposure to Bitcoin Coffee and Paralelní Polis was last October, when our Security Engineer, Kristov Atlas, visited the space to give a presentation on currencies and fungibility. For Kristov, it was really interesting to see bitcoin so vibrantly in action, and he described the building to be filled with “a very technologically sophisticated and artistic group of people.” https://blog.blockchain.com/2016/02/05/merchant-spotlight-bitcoin-coffee-at-paralelni-polis/
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Removal of Dublin’s Southside Bitcoin ATM
We’ve reviewed the bitcoin ATM on Dublin’s southside that is located in Busyfeet & Coco on Dublin’s South William Street in the past. However, we were in there today for a coffee, and noticed that the bitcoin ATM that has been there for the past year has now been removed. We asked the staff what was about it, and they declined to comment, but this now leaves only one bitcoin ATM in the city, at GSM Solutions available for people to walk up to and get bitcoin. http://bitcoinsinireland.com/removal-of-dublins-southside-bitcoin-atm/
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19 Bitcoin Remittance Startups That Won’t Let the Cryptocurrency Die
Bitcoin has recently become quite a debatable topic as the opinions are diverse when it comes to the question of whether bitcoin use in terms of security and other risks related to cryptocurrency. There are even some compelling reasons why bitcoin may be dead soon. Despite warning signs, global banks are actively getting into the race of developing their own digital cash. Just yesterday, the news about MUFG coin came out, signifying growing interest from major financial institutions to develop proprietary digital cash alternatives. Regardless of the opinions on bitcoin and other digital money, there are still successful and growing FinTech companies working with the cryptocurrency. The LTP team has been actively following the activities in the remittance space, and it is particularly interesting that bitcoin has a great potential in the segment with at least 17 bitcoin-powered companies fueling bitcoin remittance around the world. http://letstalkpayments.com/19-bitcoin-remittance-startups-that-wont-let-the-cryptocurrency-die/
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Pessoal, Vejo muita gente vendendo contas por aqui, e o pessoal sempre fala de qualidade dos posts (Very poor, fair, good, etc). Essa qualidade influencia no preço? Se eu comprar uma conta que tem a qualidade de posts ruim e depois editar os posts já feitos, aumentando o tamanho, eu consigo melhorar a qualidade geral dos posts? Isso impactaria o preço dela se eu eventualmente fosse revendê-la? Estou tomando como base esse site http://www.bctalkaccountpricer.info/ que analisa os posts das contas e dá uma estimativa de preço baseado em cotações de mercado. valeu! Mas dependerá da conta e da linguagem(idioma) utilizada pelo dono da conta. Imagine que você compre uma conta do fórum que utiliza mais a língua portuguesa. Como que esse site irá avaliar a qualidade dos post ? Nada a ver isso cara O script usado pra avaliar isso se baseia no tamanho dos posts, quantidade de caracteres, etc. O software nao le os posts rsrsr |
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They stop stop pressing money already! What is the end of the line for this crazy debt spiral?
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This question would be like asking: why do you prefer gold over other precious metals? Well, there's no objective answer other than the acceptance of gold as a trade instrument makes it liquid, valuable, and accepted "currency". That's the case for bitcoin. Compared to other coins, it has a wider acceptance by vendors, exchanges, etc.
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It's not the money but the people who are using it,they do not have to blame everything on the crypto -currency,they will always find ways to get hold of the funds in any way possible,they should increase their intelligent and restriction on who are entering their country not blame it on bitcoin..
nobody is blaiming X e-currency. the new restrictions will apply to all e-currencies. Nobody can regulate the transaction of bitcoin but if they restrict on exchanging them to fiat than that will not make big problem to bitcoin ecosystem. What if they make it so it records your MAC/IP address every time you make an exchange from bitcoins to fiat and vice versa it becomes quickly transparent who you are and where you are in the world. Then you just need to avoid converting it to fiat. And I'm sure there would be black-market converting schemes... |
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I am selling Spotify premium egift codes that make your account premium for 1 year. This is a ~120$ value for only 45$ in btc. I can currently offer these codes for Canada (I have confirmed these codes as working for Canada) and USA accounts. Post here or send me a PM if interested  Sorry to spoil it for you but there are MANY sellers who offer this premium accounts for 2$. There also people offering them for free. Read the OP, this is not cracked accounts. These are valid Spotify 12 months CODES, that you redeem on your own account.Why would any sane person pay for it when they can obtain it for free or almost free?? |
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Lots of interesting videos on You Tube: Andreas Antonopoulos is an interesting speaker. As another poster mentioned... Stefan Molyneux (yes he will sometimes come across as [justifiably] angry) ;-) Jeffrey Tucker is an interesting character. And you will be able to view many other conventions and panels including everything from a couple days at the M.I.T. expo; to the New York committee (Loooong). Many talks from the core devs. https://letstalkbitcoin.comGood conversations buried on reddit. Coindesk I glance almost daily Thanks for these, I just check coindesk, here at BCT and of course Google in checking what is going on but those could be manipulated with personal interests so a different view is a plus. That's a very nice work there. Specially the conventions and panels and all the word of the core developers. thank you!! |
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Hey OP I'm a member now, please update my status on your table!
Thanks a lot!
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I think it's gonna take a minimum of 15 years before we have in the scene some technology able to beat up bitcoin's many advantages...
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Ótimos pontos. O que eu vejo de modo geral é que a galera entusiasta do bitcoin não vai aderir a essas blockchains privadas, porque saca que uma das maiores vantagens das cryptos é a descentralização e não precisar confiar num terceiro. Mas minha preocupação é que, para o público em geral, não sei se essa compreensão é bastante difundida, e creio que milhões de pessoas poderiam facilmente ser iludidas pelos bancos.
como seriam iludidos? Blockchains privadas se existirem não serão usadas pelo público em geral. Acho que eu sei a resposta!  A "ilusão" viria da promesa, aos clientes do banco, de que essa blockchain é "igualzinha" que a do bitcoin. Qdo na realidade n seria assim nem em sonhos, pra começar por ser privada. E pensando numa situação similar, e imaginando que um consorcio de bancos cria-se a sua blockchain privada, cada banco vendería, como já fazem com os "produtos financeiros" o uso dessa blockchain como um avanzo tremendo sobre os demais banco, etc. sem dizer nem uma palavra sobre os "MAS" dessa blockchain, como por exemplo que as pessoas normais n podem nem acessar ela, e etc... Resumindo, fariam publicidade de uma "liberdade", que é pura ilusão, gerada pelo uso dessa "blockchain privada". Eu ja posso ate ver isso acontecendo... Minha preocupaçao maior eh justamente com o publico leigo, que nao saberia a diferença e seria facilmente enganado... |
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