http://bitcoinblog.de/2015/07/08/seit-heute-kann-man-an-auf-der-deutschen-borse-tradegate-mit-bitcoin-handeln/

For those who can't read german, it says that germans can now buy bitcoin via an ETN.

http://www.bloomberg.com/research/markets/news/article.asp?docKey=600-201504290300HUGIN___EUPRX____HUG1916185-1

The world just got a much easier way to invest in bitcoin. The 2nd half of may is going to be very very interesting.

p.s. This is probably what caused that spike on btc-e a few days ago.

One company already has a working prototype of a permission less dumbphone bitcoin app. It is now rumored that 21 is also working on a project with Qualcomm to install a bitcoin wallet into every phone on the planet through 21. When these hit market, the world will never be the same.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNTObCr4gnM&feature=youtu.be
http://www.bitsim.co/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/336f1w/its_not_about_21_inc_its_all_about_qualcomm/

Looks like we are now breaking out of the second channel upwards on volume. Closing now above the channel would be in the short term quite bullish.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141125074749.htm

My first thought is that this only applies for the desktop client, but even in this case is this valid?

Nope. Yawn. Hodling cause I have been through this before 4x.

I remember there was a service that specialized in off exchange dealings for large buys and sells however for the life of me I can't remember it. Does anyone else know of a service like this that is based in either europe or the US?

Thanks

I am on vaca right now in Croatia and cant access the website except when behind VPN... Anyone else had problems accessing the site from certain countries?

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000281677

 

The concept of a Turning complete scripting language has come up as essentially the defining feature of this new coin, ethereum. If we assume Satoshi purposefully left out this feature set (as the developers of ethereum maintain), was that intentional because having this functionality is in itself to risky to the infrastructure? What does the community think regarding this distinction & what does the risk/ benefit look like?

http://www.boomfestival.org/boom2014/tickets/get-boom-2014-etickets-in-bitcoins/

Again apologies for the english in the german subforum, but my german is still terrible.

I'm living in germany now and thinking of getting a few bitcoin ATM's.

Couple of questions:

Does anyone know about the laws here in germany (or even austria/ switzerland) for this yet?
I'm thinking of putting them into bars, but does anyone have some specific location recommendations in their city/ area where they would like to see an ATM?
Is anyone else planning on doing the same thing?

Vielen dank leuter

[real-time]

I for one am sick and tired of using mtgox's price as the default price for everything. This is a vulnerability and a weakness that can and should be fixed for a decentralized system. In order to take bitcoin's price discovery to the next level I propose that we use an algorithm which is based on the price of multiple exchanges which weights the price according to volume. I built a very simple formula which weights the real-time price based on the 30 day volume. You can see it for yourself here (its an open office .ods file):

http://www.filedropper.com/pricediscovery1

This example could easily be extrapolated all USD exchanges and eventually to aggregate the total numbers by incorporating numerous currencies.

Questions for the community:

1. Is 30 days the best volume time set to use?
2. Is there another data piece which should be included?
3. What else am I missing?

If enough people here agree with me that this is something useful and should be implemented, I will put up a bounty for a site to incorporate the data in realtime (and eventually offer API support).

Thanks for your consideration

edited for clarification

https://www.bctip.org/

This is a brilliant (and quick) implementation of a recommendation posted on Reddit yesterday. It is a great way to leave additional tips to get people interested in bitcoin out in the real world. I literally can't wait to start trying it out.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/28/pay-with-bits-wants-to-be-the-square-for-bitcoin/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Just saying they want to be square is massively downplaying the significance of this announcement. They just enabled anyone with any kind of phone to be able to send payments between themselves. All of a sudden, it's entirely possible for Africa & other developing nations to start using the technology. This is fantastic news.

What do you think?

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/paypal-sees-20-billion-in-mobile-transactions-WlokACTBRterdjHAJGNB6w.html

Yes, really.

In another forum I belong to, someone said (claiming to have a background in cryptography) that the usefulness of such a system was limited to around 200 years because after that point the computers will be too fast and therefore cryptography as a method of security will be outdated.

I remember reading somewhere that it would take more computing power than energy was in the sun (or something insane like this) in order to hack a private key. Does anyone have the link to what I am referring to?

Thanks

And we are nowhere near finished.

I imagine that once the tree has been entirely shaken (90,000 coins were just sold in a few hours...), we will start heading right back up again.

The "Chief Market Strategist" at Convergex, Nick Colas has now recommended Bitcoin twice on Bloomberg.
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/bitcoin-is-gold-for-nerds-convergex-s-colas-says-zumT6iCSQBuJJPB3Nhonrw.html

I decided to look up who Convergex is and it seems:

"Formed in 2006, the firm is headquartered in New York with nearly 600 employees"

I don't see any info on financials, but simple calculations tell me that if he is pushing this to their clients... this is a bigger deal than the Hedge Fund Max is touting.
http://www.convergex.com/about-us/our-customers