https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRrG-rQieck

Mars One candidate, Heidi Hecht, is looking to finance her Mars travel expenses using Bitcoin. Today, on Reddit, she posted a link to her StartJoin fund raising page which features the above video.

According to her StartJoin description, Heidi strives to become the first Mars cosmonaut to fund her trip entirely in Bitcoin. If her name is drawn to be on the first mission, she would depart earth in 2024 and arrive on her new planetary home sometime in 2025.

Mars One is a non-profit organization based in the Netherlands that has put forward conceptual plans to establish a permanent human colony on Mars by 2025. Mars One’s current concept includes launching four carefully selected applicants in a Mars-bound spaceflight in 2024, to become the first residents of Mars, and have every step of the crew’s journey documented for a reality television program.

StartJoin, launched in February 2014, is a crowd funding technology platform that accepts cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), in addition to traditional fiat payment methods.

Full Story: http://altcoinpress.com/2014/09/mars-cosmonaut-needs-bitcoin-for-one-way-flight-home/

Yes. I think based on the interview he would gladly accept Dogecoin and/or Goldcoin for intergalactic flights. I will contact his offices tomorrow to confirm.  

Video Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzwTXZDSyHo

Billionaire Sir Richard Branson, chairman and founder of Virgin Group, said in an interview yesterday that he believes Bitcoin is working and predicted that altcoins could have an even brighter future.

"I think it is working, and there will be other currencies like it, maybe even better. But in the mean time there’s a big industry around Bitcoin."

Richard Branson is a public supporter of Bitcoin, and as reported in May, part of a group who recently invested $30 million in Atlanta payment service provider BitPay. Alternative currencies like Dogecoin (DOGE), and Goldcoin (GLD), work very much like the Bitcoin currency, only with new improvements over the original bitcoin code, which was abandoned by its founder Satoshi Nakamoto.

Nakamoto vanished with over 1 million bitcoins in early 2010 shortly after his protege Gavin Andersen informed him that he was going to Washington, DC to speak with the CIA. Since that time there has been widespread speculation on the identity of Nakamoto and when he’ll starting spending his massive bitcoin fortune.

Branson’s commercial space travel company Virgin Galactic uses BitPay to accept payments in bitcoins. In fact, Branson was introduced to BitPay after one of the startup’s seed investors approached the business magnate about accepting Bitcoin to book Virgin Galactic flights. Three flights have since been purchased using Bitcoin.

Full Story: http://altcoinpress.com/2014/09/richard-branson-alternative-currencies-have-bright-future/

Interestingly, the Vice article explains this order and supposedly the explanation came from Satoshi himself.

"The first person with access to Nakamoto's email account told us that lead was “bullshit.” Adding that the email was from “a random guy who decided to use Nakamoto's email when ordering some mining equipment.” This Nakamoto fan insisted that “the real Satoshi isn't retarded enough to make a mistake like that.”

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-satoshi-nakamoto-email-hacker-says-hes-negotiating-with-the-bitcoin-founder

My Top Three:

GLD
BTC
DOGE

The defense in Ross Ulbricht’s case has accused the government of conducting illegal searches, and questioned exactly how law enforcement officials could have pinpointed the location of the Silk Road data center, considering it was hidden inside the TOR network.

The answer came just a hours ago in new court filings published by the prosecution as part of its rebuttal, describing the precise method used by the FBI to track down the marketplace used primarily for illegal drug trafficking.

As investigators typed “miscellaneous” strings of characters into the Silk Road login page’s entry fields, they noticed an IP address that didn’t match any known Tor “nodes,” the computers that bounce information through Tor’s anonymity network to obscure its true source.

And when they entered that IP address directly into a web browser, the Silk Road’s CAPTCHA prompt appeared, the garbled-letter image designed to prevent spam bots from entering the site.

“This indicated that the Subject IP Address was the IP address of the SR server,” writes former FBI agent Christopher Tarbell, “and that it was ‘leaking’ from the SR server because the computer code underlying the login interface was not properly written to work on the TOR network.”

That discovery by the FBI, the prosecuting attorneys in Ulbricht’s case argue, means that no illegal spying techniques were used or needed to pinpoint the world’s largest anonymous market for illicit drugs.

In fact, they stated, the evidence revealing the server’s physical location was left in plain sight due to faulty website code.

Full Story: http://altcoinpress.com/2014/09/fbi-reveals-exactly-how-they-hacked-silk-road/

She said, "They have elongated skulls, they may produce offspring in mating with female humans, but that offspring is not fertile."

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/03/28/former-world-bank-senior-council-says-a-second-species-on-earth-controls-money-religion/

http://youtu.be/TqyWUC3Xb2o

Former World Bank Senior Council, Karen Hudes, who earlier this year revealed that a "second species" controls the World’s banking and religious institutions, spoke today with Future Money Trends about Bitcoin, a digital currency apparently not yet controlled by this secret alien race.

During her interview she said that Bitcoin is both legal and flexible and gives people a new unrestricted way to make payments. However she did express concerns over the currency's strength as a store of value.

Karen held her senior position at the World Bank for twelve years before deciding to blow the whistle on the World Bank and the aliens that control it. She studied law at Yale Law School and economics at the University of Amsterdam.

Full Story: http://altcoinpress.com/2014/09/alien-race-controls-banks-and-religion-but-not-bitcoin/

Sorry. I will try to make these more comfortable in the future. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0YxEGQtG9g

The top executive of a New York City-based Bitcoin company and a Florida Bitcoin exchanger have now pleaded guilty to enabling money to be funneled to the black market website Silk Road.

Charlie Shrem, of Manhattan, and Robert Faiella entered their pleas in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday. The case grew from the government’s shutdown of Silk Road. Shrem was chief executive officer of BitInstant, while Faiella operated an unlicensed money transferring business.

Shrem processed transactions for Faiella through BitInstant despite knowing the bitcoin would eventually find their way to Silk Road, where the funds would be used for drugs, Shrem said in court.

Full Story: http://altcoinpress.com/2014/09/charlie-shrem-pleads-guilty-in-federal-court/

The top executive of a New York City-based Bitcoin company and a Florida Bitcoin exchanger have now pleaded guilty to enabling money to be funneled to the black market website Silk Road.

Charlie Shrem, of Manhattan, and Robert Faiella entered their pleas in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday. The case grew from the government’s shutdown of Silk Road. Shrem was chief executive officer of BitInstant, while Faiella operated an unlicensed money transferring business.

Shrem processed transactions for Faiella through BitInstant despite knowing the bitcoin would eventually find their way to Silk Road, where the funds would be used for drugs, he said in court.

“I knew that much of the business on Silk Road involved the buying and selling of narcotics,” Shrem said in court. “I knew that what I was doing was wrong.”

They were accused of letting more than $1 million in Bitcoins reach the website Silk Road, where they said narcotics were bought and sold. Both men agreed to forfeit $950,000 to the government as part of their plea deals. Sentencing was set for Jan. 20, when each faces as much as five years in prison.

Authorities have said Silk Road’s San Francisco operator generated more than $1 billion in illicit business since 2011 on the website. It used Bitcoin, a tough-to-track digital currency, before being shut down.

U.S. authorities shut down Silk Road last year, though a new version bearing the same name was launched soon thereafter. The man accused of creating and operating Silk Road using the alias “Dread Pirate Roberts,” Ross William Ulbricht, is facing separate charges and is scheduled for trial in November.

Full Story: http://altcoinpress.com/2014/09/charlie-shrem-pleads-guilty-in-federal-court/

We're coming to get you Dogecoin! lol. Woof! Woof!    

[2015 Top 4]

1. Bitcoin
2. Goldcoin
3. Dogecoin
4. Litecoin

The best way to understand why anyone would do anything is by first understanding that, "each and every action a person takes, he takes because he thinks it will make him feel better".

 I think Satoshi pulled a random number from his derriere.  

Bitcoin is in theory community controlled, but in reality is controlled by the tiny development group that decides when to roll out an update.

It opened the door for a new "Golden Era" in digital currency. Hehe

Welcome and enjoy the journey. 

There are unlimited opportunities awaiting you in the world of cryptocurrency!

You could try joining a smaller community and working alongside other early adopters. I think that's a good way to get started.

This make sense. I think it's going to take time and probably a crypto with a more relatable name for consumers.  

Pick the coin with the best name, greatest developer, and coolest community.