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A bitcoin ATM has been installed at Google's Campus London, the tech giant's seven-storey hub for tech entrepreneurs in the UK capital.
It is the latest show of interest in bitcoin from Google and comes just a few months after the company partnered with digital wallet provider Coinbase to create a cryptocurrency price tracker.
The installation of the bitcoin ATM will make Google's London Campus the sixth location in London to offer the purchase of bitcoins with cash or credit card. It will be located in the campus' basement café and will enable patrons to use bitcoin to pay for food and drinks.
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All Alternate cryptocurrencies can be exchange here? I have many other Alternate cryptocurrencies.
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Remember the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust? Arguably the most talked about exchange traded fund that has yet to come to market, twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winkelvoss filed plans for the Winkelvoss Bitcoin Trust in mid-2013, but the ETF has yet to debut.
Bitcoin enthusiasts looking to display their affinity for the digital currency via the ETF wrapper do not need to fret because the brothers assured investors that the ETF is “alive and well.” The comments were made in an interview with Bloomberg TV’s Erik Schatzker from the Money 2020 conference in Las Vegas.
“We’re still going through the regulatory process. Any ETF is a long process to get approved and, in this particular case, we’re dealing with a very innovative product, which is a digital asset which has not been done before,” Tyler Winklevoss told Schatzker.
Importantly, they noted that there has been nothing to lead them to believe that the regulatory process for the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust is going any faster or slower than with a more traditional ETF.
The brothers did note that the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust is being geared along the same lines as physically-backed commodities ETFs such as the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSEArca: GLD) and the iShares Silver Trust (NYSEArca: SLV). Those ETFs give investors exposure to an asset class, in those case gold and silver, without the ability to redeem shares of the trust for direct access to that asset. [Commodity, Currency Debate Swirls Around Bitcoin ETF]
The brothers also told Schatzker that they remain long bitcoin and continue to control about 1% of the market. Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency based on a peer-to-peer network and can be exchanged through computers internationally without a financial intermediary.
In May, a regulatory filing revealed the Winkelvoss Bitcoin Trust will trade on the Nasdaq. In July, an Form S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveled the ETF, assuming it comes to life, will trade under the ticker “COIN.”
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The researchers collected Google Trends search query data from January 2011 to July 2013 for all US states, looking for terms related to bitcoin and its possible clientele.
Based on this data, the researchers constructed four possible categories of users for bitcoin: programming enthusiasts, speculative investors, libertarians and cybercriminals.
Illegal activity and computer programming were positively associated with bitcoin use, but there was no association for libertarian ideology or investment motives.
Previous research was also referenced, leading to the conclusion that the three main motives driving bitcoiners were curiosity, profit and political ideology. Yelowitz and Wilson warn that some of the correlations were “inherently difficult” to measure due to the sensitivity of bitcoin activity.
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3: Payments
Q: (vemrion) – What's your take on CurrentC? Does the Foundation have any plans to assemble a coalition of retailers to embrace an open standard like bitcoin?
A: Sounds like a good idea. Not sure the Foundation would best suited to take it on though. Maybe it's something that BitPay, BitNet, GoCoin, Coinbase, etc. would be able to rally around.
Certainly we'd love to support that type of initiative.
4: Crypto 2.0
Q: (FrancisPouliot) – Do you consider the rise of cryptocurrency 2.0 platforms as positive, neutral or negative for bitcoin?
A: Very positive. The first killer app for the blockchain is money and payments. More apps will bring more people to the network and benefit everyone in the community. This is particularly true with the advent of sidechains.
5: Tipping point
Q: (alphamystic007) – What do you worry about most?
A: The community pulling itself apart before bitcoin reaches a tipping point in adoption.
6: A technology platform
Q: (barkerw) – You mention the idea of bitcoin reaching a tipping point of adoption. What do you think that point is and how can the average user help it happen?
A: I think the best way to view bitcoin is as a technology platform. Platforms aren't really that interesting from a business or consumer standpoint when you only have around 5 million users (most not daily or even monthly actives), where bitcoin is at today. Email, wireless communications, social networking all get much more useful and interesting once there are 50 million or 500 million active users.
Getting the next 50 million people actively using the bitcoin network seems pretty critical over the next couple of years.
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Newly elected executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation Patrick Murck participated in an ask-me-anything (AMA) session on Reddit today, engaging the bitcoin community in a wide-ranging discussion to mark his new appointment.
Murck assumed his new position last week following the resignation of Jon Matonis, who will serve on the foundation's board through the year. Under its new direction, Murck indicated that the organisation will continue to defend bitcoin to policymakers and policy-focused groups while maintaining an open channel of discussion with the bitcoin community – goals he echoed throughout the AMA.
In his initial post, Murck introduced himself as a lawyer with 10 years of experience in policy and technology, before continuing to more advanced subject matter. Although some questions were unanswered at press time, his most memorable responses reflected his personal interest in payments innovation and professional interest in keeping open dialogue with banks and regulators.
Here are some of the top questions and answers from the AMA session. You can find the AMA session in full here
1: Washington and Wall Street
Q: (AKWAnalytics) – Do you plan on engaging the new Republican-controlled US Congress with regards to bitcoin, and more broadly cryptography? Any shift in strategy given the changes?
Additionally, any course of action with regard to Wall Street, or is regulation a prerequisite (hence my first question)?
A: I've found that bitcoin plays well with both political parties in US. Sometimes for different reasons. For us, the strategy is to be a resource on the technical rules that govern bitcoin and the social contract that allows the bitcoin network to regulate itself. We can be that resource for politicians or other groups and associations doing work on the ground.
For a lot of the traditional financial companies (banks and other investors on Wall Street), regulation is seen as validation. Whether you agree with that or not, some level of appropriate regulation will bring in new participants to the bitcoin ecosystem and seems inevitable.
Keeping that regulation sane and focused on actual risks is important.
2: The New York BitLicense
Q: (BTC123RN) – Hi Patrick, thank you for doing this so early in the morning. What do you think the impact of NYDFS regulation will have on other states? Any chance the foundation is working with states to build something less onerous?
A: We have had plenty of discussions with state regulators and they are watching how things unfold in New York. That doesn't mean they are interested in following New York's approach per se, but the "BitLicense" proposal has garnered a lot of attention both here and abroad.
What state regulators seem most concerned with is consumer protection and what happens if the citizens they are charged to protect lose their life savings in a bitcoin exchange meltdown. I think they would love to hear constructive thoughts on how they can do their job without getting in the way.
But, if you do reach out to your state regulator keep this in mind. As you pitch this cool new technology (or your business), you will tend to highlight all the ways that technology is different from everything out there in the market. When a regulator hears that something is "different" they think about how much work it's going to take them and their staff to understand how to deal with it. It's usually better to tell your friendly regulator all the ways that this new technology (or your business) is the same as something they already know how to deal with. That puts things in a useful context for them and let's you focus on the consumer benefits.
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The team behind dogetipbot, the popular tipping tool for the alternative digital currency dogecoin, has raised nearly $500,000 in a seed funding round.
The fundraising was led by Blackbird Ventures, a venture capital group based in Sydney, Australia. Additional investors, including angel investors Scott and Cyan Banister, also took part in the round. In total, $445,000 in new capital was raised for the project.
Dogetipbot enables microtipping, allowing users of its service to pledge dogecoin tips that can then be redeemed for the currency. Users can tap dogetipbot when pledging money on Reddit, Twitter and Twitch. To date, the service says it has processed more than 650,000 transactions.
CoinDesk spoke with Blackbird Ventures managing director Niki Scevak, who said that he and his team are interested in how digital currencies can be leveraged to make microtransactions economically viable.
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Is this true? A bank account can be transferrable ?  account collection? |
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It's unfair! 30 POSTS per week is two many. the pay out is too little for so many posts! It ofen 30 posts per two-weeks.
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A good signature campaign. But I had joined another one. Mayby next time..........  |
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My withdraw(4.5$ + 5.4$) pending.....pending......pending......, not paying!!
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Payment receive ! A good campaign, thank you! continue to the next two weeks. |
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As many other comments have pointed out, the BitLicense threatens to stifle the use of blockchain technologies, not just Bitcoin’s illegal and legal uses. The EFF “notes that digital currency protocols are used for more than just payments – they have expressive and associational uses, too.” EFF’s Special Counsel Marcia Hofmann wrote eloquently on the topic of free speech and Bitcoin in the full comments provided to the NYDFS and available for public perusal here:
The courts have long recognized that code is speech protected by the First Amendment. At their core, digital currency protocols are code. Attempts to regulate code must include robust protections to ensure constitutionally protected speech is not stifled, and the BitLicense proposal would undermine those First Amendment principles.
Internet users around the world should visit the EFF’s action site regarding the BitLicense. The EFF has a pre-written email that users can send to the NYDFS directed at both Superintendent Lawsky and General Counsel Syracuse. Lawsky has promised to have a revised BitLicense proposal by the end of October, something that everyone is looking forward to.
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Earlier today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Internet Archive, and Reddit, all filed public comments to the NYDFS regarding their proposed BitLicense Bitcoin regulation. The EFF first posted about the BitLicense, simultaneously revealing their stance and prompting the populace to send their own comments to the NYDFS, last week. The San Francisco companies have given voice to an opinion about the BitLicense that doesn’t require any prerequisite knowledge about Bitcoin.
The public comment submitted today represents the opinions of three defining organizations from the Internet generation and is notable because it casts the BitLicense in the same light as SOPA and PIPA, a fitting comparison. EFF’s Activism Director Rainey Reitman summarized:
Digital currencies such as Bitcoin strengthen privacy and are resistant to censorship. We should consider this a feature, not a bug; it’s an innovative way of importing some of the civil liberties protections we already enjoy offline into the digital world.
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Marc Andreessen （the header of Andreessen Horowitz）think BTC is better than Apple Pay. How do you think about it?
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The Cryptsy Important System Notification
Systems are coming back online. Withdrawals might be slightly delayed due to a systemwide audit running.
I had wait a long time!
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Is it true, down!? I am got a new error 504 Gateway Time-out for a long time.
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股市尽绿了吗？没有啊，虽然外围股市大部分下跌，但中国股市还是上涨的啊。中国特色是外围股市涨，中国股市跌，外围股市跌，中国股市也跌，可今天例外，涨了点。 |
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