Confirmed By Valve: Bitcoin Coming To Steam

“Bitcoin support coming soon!
We are excited to announce that Steam is going to start accepting payments via bitcoin.

http://coinjournal.net/bitcoin-coming-steam/


Hell, it´s about time!

What is Gavin Andresen Telling China? Chinese AMA Details Revealed

What is Gavin Andresen Telling China? Chinese AMA Details Revealed

The world of Bitcoin may be bigger in Asia than it is in Western culture, where it is seen more as a tech toy that is beyond comprehension and used by criminals. Western culture seems to have bought the mainstream media’s narrative if they haven’t missed it completely. China has become Bitcoin’s biggest market when it comes to mining and trading Bitcoin, and they should be addressed directly by Bitcoin leaders and experts. Gavin Andresen, renowned Bitcoin core developer recently conducted an AMA with 8btc.com to review the State of the Bitcoin and his thoughts on what comes next in Bitcoin’s biggest year to date.

https://bitconnect.co/bitcoin_news/bitcoinfront/details/126/

The BitFury Group Announces Launch of Breakthrough Blockchain Land Titling Project in the Republic of Georgia

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The BitFury Group, one of the world’s leading Blockchain technology companies, announced today that it has partnered with the Republic of Georgia’s National Agency of Public Registry as well as world-renowned economist and president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy Hernando de Soto, to design and implement a Blockchain-based land titling system.

https://medium.com/@BitFuryGroup/the-bitfury-group-announces-launch-of-breakthrough-blockchain-land-titling-project-in-the-republic-2431e499736e#.eknrr4tvy

Morgan Stanley Report Issues Predictions for Blockchain in 2025

A new Morgan Stanley report aimed at assessing whether blockchain is a threat to big banks agues that the short-term benefits of the technology are likely minimal, but that future growth is likely.

http://www.coindesk.com/morgan-stanley-positions-stock-medium-term-blockchain-earnings/

MIT Responds to Bitcoin Developer Concerns Over 'ChainAnchor'

A blockchain project being developed by MIT researchers gained new attention this week following criticism of its alleged design elements, though the veracity of these claims has been denied by those involved.

http://www.coindesk.com/mit-dismisses-bitcoin-developer-criticism-project-proposal/

Ex-JPMorgan Trader Explains Why $440 Bitcoin Price is Too Low

There was a lunar eclipse, the second that year, and it was the first day since 1990 that the NYPD reported that no one was shot, stabbed or slashed in New York. There wasn’t much to report. And while journalists around the world searched for a scoop, one small story went uncovered – the reward for mining a block on the bitcoin blockchain had just halved.

Commencing in 9th January, 2009 when the bitcoin blockchain initiated, each and every one of the 209,999 blocks mined – created at a rate of approximately one every 10 minutes, in an uninterrupted 24/7 operation – had attracted a new, autonomous creation by the network itself of 50 new, never before seen, bitcoin.

http://www.coindesk.com/daniel-masters-440-bitcoin-price/

Intel Conducting Experiments to Massively Scale Blockchain

Intel, the largest chip-maker in the world, is looking to trusted execution environments on its hardware chips to enhance security and privacy for blockchain users.

http://www.coindesk.com/intel-hardware-security-blockchains/

and his "company" is still running like a charm!

i never did this. and you have to be naive to think that such a company with talented people and serious money has not a solid plan.

good to have that company.

thx for the long AMA, good stuff.

and probably alot of people will think Gencoin/Bitcoin is a company    -  at least they heard it then.

probably you wont add it because it is from bitcoin.com but that is a cool thread 

CHARTS:

https://forum.bitcoin.com/post683.html#p683

How 420,000 might be bitcoin’s magic number

28th November 2012 was a slow news day. There was a lunar eclipse -- the second that year -- and it was the first day since 1990 that the NYPD reported that no one was shot, stabbed or slashed in New York.  There wasn’t much to report. And while journalists around the World searched for a scoop one small story went uncovered – the reward for mining a block on the bitcoin blockchain had just halved.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-420000-might-bitcoins-magic-number-daniel-masters

hi CryptoJeweler,

not a real world coin at the moment but probably (hopefully not) in the future. iam sure that somebody will launch it  
stay away in any case.

dont make it look like a startup would be my wish