Bitcoin Price Gains; Here’s What To Watch

The weekend is now over, and as expected (as we hypothesized on Friday) we saw quite a lot of volatility in the bitcoin price across the two-day period. We are now trading around 380 flat, having reached highs just ahead or 382 a little earlier this morning, giving us a jump in the region of $50 in a little of 24 hours. So, with this said, and as we head in to a fresh European session, what are the levels we are looking at today, are where will we look to get in and out of the markets in the event that we get a return to the volatility we saw over the last couple of days? As ever, take a quick look at the chart to get an idea of the levels in focus.

As the chart highlights, the levels we are looking at today are in term support at 371.98, and in term resistance just ahead of the aforementioned daily swing high at 382.89. These two levels outline today’s predefined range.

If we get a break above in term resistance ( and a close above this level on the intraday chart) it will put us in a long position towards an initial upside target of 395 flat. Beyond that we will look at 400, but keep in mind that this level will likely serve up some psychological resistance.

Looking to the downside, and if the overarching upside momentum reverses, we will look for a close below in term support to put us in a short entry with an initial downside target of 365 flat. This level was pertinent over the weekend, and we will be looking for a replication of this pertinence going forward. On this trade, a stop loss just the other side of our entry (somewhere around 366.5) will ensure we are taken out of the trade in the event of a bias reversal.

http://www.newsbtc.com/2015/11/30/bitcoin-price-gains-heres-what-to-watch/

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Hackers Blackmail Greek Banks Demanding Bitcoin as Ransom

A special unit of Greece’s National Intelligence Service (EYP) is investigating a racket of hackers who blackmail Greek banks, including the country’s central bank, asking for bitcoin as ransom.

According to information released by Greek Police, a group of hackers under the name Armada Collective ask for ransom in bitcoin in order not to cause damages in banking transaction systems. The deadline to receive the ransom is Monday, November 30.

On Thursday, the perpetrators hacked the systems of three banks and caused a few minutes of interruption of transactions. They threaten that they will hit again unless they receive the ransom by Monday’s deadline.

A team of bank employees and police of the electronic crime unit headed by Bank of Greece official Giorgos Paschas is also working on locating the hackers.


http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/11/30/hackers-blackmail-greek-banks-demanding-bitcoin-as-ransom/

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Bitcoin one of several unconventional payment methods that is accepted at Qhoster for hosting services and domain name registration. In addition to Bitcoin, Qhoster accepts credit and debit cards, PayPal, WebMoney, Perfect Money, NETELLER, Payza, Skrill, Litecoin, SolidTrust Pay, cashU, Ukash, OKPAY, EgoPay, paysafecard, Alipay, MoneyGram, Western Union, SOFORT, QIWI, Alfa Click, Sberbank Rossii, Promsvyazbank, Svyaznoy, Przelew24, Interac, Boleto Bancario, MercadoPago, PagSeguro, OneCard, DaoPay, and Fortumo. Founded in 2004 and specializing in Linux VPS and Windows RDP VPS, Qhoster serves the international hosting market with over 2000 customers on five continents that are hosted in seven different geo locations. Web hosting services include cPanel shared and reseller hosting, SSL certificates, and dedicated servers.

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Listed as Readers’ Choice in the 2013 HostReview awards, Namecheap started in 2000 by offering value-priced domain name registration services. Now managing over three million domains for more than a million customers, Namecheap offers hosting services that include shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated servers, and private email hosting. Additional services include SSL certificates, one page websites, and a support center that features how-to videos and live chat. Choose from a datacenter located in the US or UK for shared hosting plans that start at US$3.98 per month. Business-class SSD shared hosting plans start at US$19.98 per month.

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Can Drivechain make bitcoin sidechains a reality?


Imagine there is a Bitcoin-like system out there that you’d like to use, but would rather not go through the risk and effort of buying the native tokens for. Sidechains offer a solution where the value of bitcoins can be transferred onto other blockchains, so that bitcoin users can take advantage of the properties of these separate systems.

Smart contracts, voting, super-fast confirmation times, and even a way for competing bitcoin versions to live side by side. Whatever the function you require from a blockchain solution, sidechains promise to make access seamless, trustless and decentralised.

Sadly, sidechains are nowhere near finished yet, despite some non-trivial VC investments.  Nonetheless, the overall concept promises access to limitless problem solving solutions, and a small collection of different teams are working on ways to implement the architecture that makes that happen.

In the original 2013 sidechain whitepaper, from Adam Back and the Blockstream development team, many ideas were explored in depth, but there was also so much missing.

At the core of any sidechain implementation is the idea that two digital currencies can be exchanged programmatically, without the need for a third party, or authorization. This ‘two-way peg' functionality was never fully explored in the 2013 paper, and many community voices openly worried that it could never work at all.

Conversations about fixing bitcoin's transaction limit, a problem that a sidechain with a working two way peg would solve, moved on to other alternatives, including the lightning network and bitcoin XT.

Paul Sztorc is one of the few developers actively exploring the concept. His latest project, dubbed "Drivechain - The Simple Two Way Peg" offers a new approach on plugging the hole in sidechains, with even more added features.

http://bravenewcoin.com/news/can-drivechain-make-bitcoin-sidechains-a-reality/

Provable market data - bitcoin liquid index now on the blockchain

The ability to offer 'provable market data’ had previously been costly, impossible or extremely difficult. A new partnership between two Australasian companies has resulted in a process they are calling “Market-Chaining,” where financial data such as market indexes, quotes and trades will be secured on the Blockchain, providing immutable receipts.

The first data stream to be offered in this format will be from BNC's very own data division. The Bitcoin Liquid Index (BNC-BLX) is a comprehensive historic and live bitcoin index, purpose built for the settlement of bitcoin derivatives. As financial service operators use blockchain technology for exciting new solutions like ‘proof of reserves,’ market appetite is also growing for ‘proof of settlement,’ which is one of the verification and auditing implications of Market-Chaining.

BNC was founded in 2013 by a trio of experts with experience in Big Data and system architecture. While most readers are aware of the news division, BNC is a privately-held data and research company, with staff in New Zealand, Australia & NYC. The company offers Market Data, Research, and Solutions for the financial services sector.

This brand new solution is the result of a partnership with Australian based Smartbit. Founded in 2013 by Jarred Spriggs and Charles Wakefield, Smartbit provides an explorer and search engine for the blockchain. Aside from collaborating with BNC, Smartbit provides search results, charts, graphs, and other quick access to bitcoin blockchain data, with an intuitive search process and filtering tools.

http://bravenewcoin.com/news/provable-market-data-bitcoin-liquid-index-now-on-the-blockchain/

Russian Gov Threatens Bitcoin Ban As 7% of Russians Use Bitcoin for Payment

As the Russian government threatens to ban bitcoin, 6.9% of Russians are using the cryptocurrency, according to a recent survey by Slovakian Internet security company ESET.

The ESET survey, which compared credit cards, PayPal, payment on delivery, bitcoin, and debit cards, also revealed that Russians 4-5 times as likely to use bitcoin as form of payment that the UK, US and Germany.

In late 2014, Russians began flocking to bitcoin as the ruble collapsed, driven down by Western economic sanctions and Russian downturn.

Kremlin officials claim that concerns about use of the cryptocurrency for money laundering and the financing terrorism have forced the government to ban bitcoin. However, they have been threatening to ban bitcoin for a year, and in reality the Putin regime’s goal is to penalize and prohibit Russian citizens for exchanging rubles for bitcoin.

Early in 2015, Russia’s media regulator, Roskomnadzor, even blacklisted various international bitcoin resource sites following a court ruling in September 2014.These sites included Bitcoin Foundation-sponsored community bitcoin.org, Russian-language forum btcsec.com, Russian bitcoin community coinspot.io, Wiki information site bitcoin.it, and exchange indacoin.com.

If the Kremlin completely bans bitcoin, it will not be the first time. Russian legal authorities forbade the use of bitcoin ahead of the Sochi Olympics in February 2014.

http://allcoinsnews.com/2015/11/30/russian-gov-threatens-bitcoin-ban-as-7-of-russians-use-bitcoin-for-payment/

BlockApps CEO Likens The Block Chain ‘Sandbox’ To Oracle’s Database Role

BlockApps, a Microsoft affiliate designed to provide an enterprise block chain toolkit to help businesses develop new functionalities, brings to mind the role that Oracle plays in the future of decentralized databases, according to Victor Wong, BlockApps CEO.


In an interview with International Business Times, Wong cited Oracle’s role as a database provider as a parallel to BlockApp’s role providing tools such as smart contracts for businesses to use to create new functionalities.

Microsoft Enters The Block Chain Arena

Microsoft partnered with an Ethereum-based startup, ConsenSys, to deliver block chain as an enterprise solution for clients of its cloud-based Azure service, as reported by CCN in the past. ConsenSys is an Ethereum-coder collective that will allow enterprise users on Azure to access Ethereum Blockchain-as-a-Service (E BaaS).

Microsoft believes the new technology will help financial institutions experiment with block chain technology on its Azure platform.

BlockApps is essentially a private block chain “sandbox” where developers can experiment with applications before releasing them into the Ethereum block chain or elsewhere.

STRATO, BlockApps’ flagship, provides a block chain ledger that runs smart contracts that can be customized for environments where scalability and privacy are critical. The STRATO toolkit is part of Microsoft’s block-chain-as-a-service for customers on the Azure cloud service.
What Will Oracle Do With Block Chains?

In reporting Wong’s comparison between BlockApps and Oracle, International Business Times noted that it has reached out in the past to Oracle to get its take on distributed ledger systems, but got no input. Oracle getting into block chains is like an oil company getting into electric cars, bitcoin hardliners have noted.

Block chain systems have to interoperate with existing ones, Wong said. This holds true for Microsoft Azure, Oracle databases or any existing infrastructure.

STRATO, for its part, is built in Haskell, the programming language that has a finance track record and is embedded in big banks’ trading operations. BlockApps has come “full circle” in a sense as Microsoft cradled Haskell for 20 years and incubated most of its compiler work.

Building block chains provided a good use case for showing off Haskell’s benefits, added James Hormuzdiar, BlockApps chief technology officer. He said the specification is executable but statistically verifiable; if it compiles, it is correct. It also scales well and has proven itself in mission critical financial applications.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/blockapps-ceo-likens-block-chain-sandbox-oracles-database-role/

Glasgow Bar To Accept Scotcoin For Beer Starting Today


According to a latest report from Herald Scotland, a Glasgow-based pub, the Arlington, is to begin accepting the digital currency Scotcoin for its beer from its customers. It is believed to be the first pub in Scotland to allow its customers pay in the cryptocurrency.


The offer which starts today is only open to its Stone of Destiny lager, the news source added. The Arlington, which first opened in 1860, claims to have the original Stone of Destiny, which officially lies in Edinburgh Castle.

The students who stole the lager from Westminster Abbey celebrated at the pub. Reports suggest they returned a fake and hid the real thing in the bar.

The pub's Kenny Low told Herald Scotland that his business would neither buy any of its supplies nor pay its workers in Scotcoin, which now uses a blockchain through another digital currency, Bitcoin, to prevent inflation.

Mr Low said, "We just want to encourage Scotcoin”, and added that the bar was not stuck in a time warp and had embraced "the ever changing world”.


http://www.econotimes.com/Glasgow-Bar-To-Accept-Scotcoin-For-Beer-Starting-Today-122479

Bitcoin Startup Bonafide To Shut Down Its Operations

Within a year of raising $850,000 from investors including Blockchain Capital, AngelList and Quest Venture Partners, New York-based Bonafide has decided to cease operations and start liquidation, CoinDesk reported. The Bitcoin reputation startup, founded in 2013, offered an API that provided reputation data to bitcoin companies offering exchange, wallet and other services.

“Bonafide allows you to create an identity within the bitcoin ecosystem that allows you to build a reputation and receive rewards for loyalty”, the website reads.

A leading bitcoin company had approached the startup for possible acquisition, according to an email sent to shareholders and obtained by CoinDesk. However, the deal was declined as it was considered "only beneficial to team members", not investors.

In the email, co-founders Karthik Balasubramanian and Brian Moyer explained that receding investor interest from consumer-facing applications for the technology was also a reason behind the decision.

"While investment and activity continues to occur it is focused on private and alternate chains rather than bitcoin or other public chains where Bonafide operates”, Balasubramanian and Moyer wrote.

Consequently, the co-founders said that there was little probability that they would be able “to generate revenue, pivot their product or secure additional funding”, CoinDesk reported.

Moyer told CoinDesk that sustained declines in bitcoin spending by consumers also factored in the shut down and why the founding team would not be rushing to commence another project.


http://www.econotimes.com/Bitcoin-Startup-Bonafide-To-Shut-Down-Its-Operations-122494

Bitcoin Price Advancing Indolently – Paralleling The 1×1 Gann Angle

Bitcoin price rose gradually earlier today to a day high of around $365. As per yesterday’s analysis, bitcoin price failed to overcome the resistance corresponding to the point of intersection between the Gann 1×1 Angle and the 23.6% Fibonacci retracement level at around 20:00 hours. According to the Gann Angles we plotted yesterday, bitcoin price is expected to face another strong resistance level at exactly 00:00 on Monday, which is a few hours away from now.
Gann Angles:

The beauty of Gann angles is that they utilize some integration concepts from the book of “Calculus” to help us estimate the rate of rise or drop of a certain asset. Gann angles relate the rate of rise or drop of a trendline to the angle the trendline forms with respect to the horizontal axis X. As we explained yesterday, points of convergence between Gann angles and key Fibonacci retracement levels represent key support and resistance levels at specific time bars on charts in the future.

Strong Resistance At 00:00 Hours, 30th of November:

Let’s take a look at the 1 hour (BTC/USD) charts from Bitstamp and keep the Gann Angles and Fibonacci retracement we plotted during yesterday’s analysis (look at the below chart). We will also execute the stochastic oscillator. We can notice the following:

    Bitcoin price failed to overcome the resistance today at 00:00 that corresponds to the point of intersection between the 23.6% Fib retracement level and the 1×1 Gann Angle (The purplish arrow on the below chart). However, later on the market’s buying volume built up and bitcoin price soared to a high of around $365.

    Bitcoin price will be facing another strong resistance level at 00:00 hours on Monday, which corresponds to the point of convergence between the zero Fib retracement level and the 1×1 Gann angle. With the current market buying volume, it is unlikely to see this key resistance level broken at this specific time bar.

    The stochastic oscillator values now around 80, which reflects that bitcoin is overbought. This also goes along the same data we concluded from the Gann Angles placement. Accordingly, we won’t likely see the resistance at $370 breached within the next few hours.


http://www.newsbtc.com/2015/11/29/bitcoin-price-advancing-indolently-paralleling-the-1x1-gann-angle/

Bitcoin Price Micro Advance or Mini Consolidation?

Bitcoin price surged higher earlier today and then stopped short of printing a new high. At the time of writing, the small advance is retracing and the question is whether it will continue higher, or fall back into sideways consolidation.

This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and receive a $29 discount using the code CCN29.

From the analysis pages of xbt.social, earlier today:

xbt.social held back on opening a buy trade today, based on the lack of larger timeframe indications in support of a continuing push higher.

The initial wave up resembles a first wave of advance and, even now (see chart above), it is retracing in a similar manner to the first wave of advance we saw earlier in the week.

For all intents and purposes the chart appears bullish, but there is some residual caution that is holding price at the current level. As we saw during the consolidation of the past 3 weeks, price sometimes surged but then pulled back to support. This same trading pattern may unfold at the present level, and here are the deciders:

The bullish scenario should see price hold above its 1-hour 20MA and also above the Fib line from which today's advance launched. A Fib extension tool shows the upside target to fall at 2455 CNY and $420. If price can hold support and then push to a new high the prospect of continuing advance is favored.

Trading across the supporting Fib line and re-establishing contact with the dashed grey trendline just below price will pull price back below its 1-hour 20MA and shift the bias to ongoing sideways consolidation. In the latter case, price may then retest the red Fib line running across the chart. A break below that will be bearish and open up $340 to the downside.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-price-micro-advance-mini-consolidation/

Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Capital Region hopes to hit $5,000 in donations from bitcoiners by December 1

Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Capital Region, the first charity in Upstate New York to start accepting donations in bitcoin, hopes to hit the $5,000-mark in donations from bitcoin users by Giving Tuesday this December 1, according a press release of theirs CoinReport received.

The local chapter of the Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) became the first charity in Upstate NY to accept bitcoins last November. It has raised more than $3,500 in less than a year, and hopes to hit the $5,000-mark on Dec.1.

“Getting to know the Bitcoin community has been a remarkable experience. The money is much needed, the PR has been fantastic, but this community means so much more to us,” said Jeff Yule, executive director of the Ronald McDonald House in the press release. “Many are so very passionate about the concept of digital currencies and the opportunities they present to the world, especially in developing or fragile traditional economies. They are deep rooted in their communities, locally and globally, and care about their neighbors in need.”
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Capital Region hopes to hit $5,000 in donations from bitcoiners by December 1

Jeff Yule & Paul Paterakis with the purchased breast pump

When, in March this year, the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Capital Region was in need of a commercial breast pump, they looked no further than the NY Bitcoin Group to help them find funding. Chris Dosch, a NY Bitcoin Group member, gave Project Lighthouse – a decentralized crowdfunding application that works in the same way as GoFundMe, but without the hefty fees – a shot.

The goal was accomplished in one month’s time.

The press release said that with just a few charities accepting bitcoin nationwide, and the Ronald McDonald House of the Capital Region being the only local chapter, Yule is happy to have his houses of love be a part of the bitcoin community.

“Since Bitcoin’s creation, one of the strongest things to grow with it is a sense of community. Being the most cutting edge method of monetary payments over the Internet, the collaboration with charity is a natural evolution. Bitcoins have allowed quick and low cost donations to local charities to open up the entire globe,” stated Lucas Clemente, another member of the NY Bitcoin Group. “The Albany Ronald McDonald House is one of the most deserving local charities, and I am enthusiastic to support them with bitcoin.”

https://coinreport.net/ronald-mcdonald-house-charities-of-the-capital-region-hopes-to-hit-5000-in-donations-from-bitcoiners-by-december-1/

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Giving Tuesday Is Coming With BitGive

Founded in 2013 by Connie Gallippi BitGive was one of the first nonprofit charities representing the grassroots Bitcoin community. The organization has helped charity partners such as Save The Children, The Water Project, Medic Mobile, and more. The nonprofit has completed campaigns that have helped people access clean water in Kenya and the Shisango Girls School in the remote African region. The BitGive Foundations video of this event shows a lot of smiling faces from the many citizens the charity has helped in Kenya. Gallippi explains in the video, “I’m so excited to share with you how bringing clean water to their school has changed their lives,” The next step is to move forward with fundraising its Bitcoin Charity 2.0. Gallippi told the Bitcoinist:

    “We are excited to participate in Giving Tuesday for the second year in a row.  This year, donations will be directed to our Donation Transparency Project, the inaugural project of our Bitcoin Charity 2.0 Initiative. We are blazing new trails to leverage Blockchain technology for the nonprofit sector. This new way of giving and providing accountability to philanthropic efforts will reward the good players and set a whole new standard.” —  Connie Gallippi, Founder and Executive Director.

http://bitcoinist.net/giving-tuesday-coming-bitgive/