http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/globalbusiness/10252383/Germany-plans-tax-on-bitcoin-after-virtual-currency-recognised-as-private-money.html

The German Finance Ministry ruled that Bitcoin is a “unit of account”, and therefore 'mining' them is a form of “money creation”.

please PM  me the Link. Thanks.

http://www.coindesk.com/the-wild-world-of-bitcoins-and-gambling/

Bitcoins as chips?

When the conventional gambler walks onto a casino floor to play table games, that person has to convert their money into chips in order to play. This element of traditional casinos is a mental component that is likely constructed to make a gambler spend more since chips bear less resemblance to cash. One would think, considering the rise of bitcoin-based gambling, that the same element is in play as well.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/08/16/coinbase-now-lets-you-send-buy-or-sell-bitcoin-via-sms/

Coinbase, the one-year old Bitcoin startup that landed a $5 million investment earlier this year, is opening its virtual currency banking system up to the masses after introducing SMS-based actions.

The new feature allows anyone on any kind of mobile device to use all the features of the service. After verifying their number and setting up a PIN, users simply send a text using one of the set shortcodes. Transactions that affect account balance — send, buy and sell – are confirmed by a voice call during which the customer is prompted to key in their PIN.

http://gigaom.com/2013/08/16/the-bitcoin-machine-is-now-available-for-pre-order/

The device costs $5,000 and Lamassu CEO Zach Harvey says in an email that the preliminary production run has already been funded with orders paid in Bitcoin. Harvey told me at a recent Bitcoin event in London that he thinks the Bitcoin Machine lowers the barrier to entry to get into using Bitcoins, and that “if you’ve never bought Bitcoins, this is the fastest, easiest way to do it.”

May I know when do I get paid?
thanks.

I reply to apply for my first period payment.
Thanks.

My payment is August 10th , right?
201-400: 0.04 or 0.08 BTC / 30 days

sorry to bother you but when do I get my 0.08 BTC ?

http://www.coindesk.com/asic-bitcoin-miner-arms-race-the-definitive-coindesk-roundup/

Avalon’s strength was also its biggest drawback: it was able to get to market early because of the relative inefficiency of its chip. Its 110 nm process node is the largest on the market today, and smaller process nodes lead to better performance and power consumption. However, the company has been working on a 55 nm chip, which it says will go on sale for immediate delivery in mid-October, and is already working on third and fourth generation chip designs in parallel.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insider/2013/08/14/goodbye-switzerland-hello-bitcoins/

Bitcoins are everywhere.  Last week, a federal judge in Texas held that the virtual currency qualifies as a form of money and allowed the SEC to charge a promoter of a scheme to invest in bitcoins with violations of the federal securities laws. 

http://www.moneyweb.co.za/moneyweb-101-for-beginners/bitcoins-simplified

What is Bitcoin?

It’s similar to the U.S. dollar, the euro or the Mexican peso - except that it isn’t controlled by any country; you can’t hold one; and you can’t buy many things with it right now. Some tech-savvy companies - notably blogging-tool maker WordPress - are starting to accept payments in Bitcoin.

While some enthusiasts have issued bills and coins that serve as physical proxies for the currency, Bitcoin was designed to be purely digital. You can’t go to an ATM and take out a Bitcoin, or put one in a cash register. Bitcoins live in online wallets, which are accessed via a computer. It’s more like a MP3 than a CD.

http://www.npr.org/2013/08/13/211735430/lawmakers-banking-regulators-take-on-bitcoin

The New York Department of Financial Services has issued subpoenas to several companies using the virtual currency Bitcoin for more information on how they do business. Audie Cornish talks to Jerry Brito, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, about the complications of regulating digital money.

More infomation on the shipping Services.

May I know the Card Expiry Date ?

http://www.coindesk.com/could-mobile-payment-lemon-network-be-fruitful-for-bitcoin/

A new network designed to manage payment credentials could provide a useful backdoor to bitcoin adoption in the future. Lemon Network promises to make mobile payments easier, without tying users to a particular payment processor.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/bitcoin-startup-artabit-working-on-inexpensive-alternative-to-western-union

Every summer job I ever held before I turned twenty was in or around a kitchen. I did it all—scrubbed dishes, garnished dishes, grilled, baked, waited and frialated. And during that time, I worked closely with many Central and South Americans, all of whom shared one thing in common. Every week or every month, they all sent a fraction of their wages back to the families they had left behind. Some dared to send cash in the mail, but most passed it through a money transfer service like MoneyGram or Western Union.  Economists package all these messy human details into one clean phrase: remittance market. It's the business that makes money by moving money and, as is usually the case, the middleman walks away with a plate full of trimmings.

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/08/07/bitcoin-weekly-2013-august-7th-coinbase-offers-microtransactions-crypto-street-beta-launch-mtgox-partners-with-akamai/





In this Bitcoin Weekly we take a little look at the state of economic stability of Bitcoin itself by talking about a few things that have to do with exchanging, trading, and working directly with BTC. To start, Coinbase thinks it has a solution to the “microtransactions” problem that plagues not just fiat money over-the-Internet transactions