In this week’s Bitcoin Weekly, a kerfuffle caught the Bitcoin community by surprise when Kraken started to have connectivity problems and then a Twitter exchange with CloudFlare, Inc. arose. Keep reading for the blow-by-blow of information traded — which appears to revolve around an expired credit card and then an unexpectedly changed SSL certificate.
BitPay, Inc. is taking advantage of Microsoft Azure’s Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) cloud platform to allow developers to open up full nodes on the Bitcoin network.
The European Union has been watching virtual currencies such as Bitcoin for a while now (along with the rest of the world), but it appears that the EU intends to stay out of the way for the moment. No regulation is expected to come down right now, but it will cautiously observe the digital money.
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