Monday, March 9, 2015

Patrick Murck: Bitcoin Foundation Turns The Corner On Operating Sustainably

Four months into his role as executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, Patrick Murck believes the organization has turned a corner. In a letter to CCN, Murck said the Foundation can meet its mission of promoting research and development of Bitcoin Core and advance the development of an open and participatory digital economy. He noted […]


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Porn Site Hump The Bundle got 25% in Bitcoin Transactions

Hump the Bundle is a porn site with a charitable twist, taking its name as a mimicry from Humble Bundle. Run by Humpy Leftnut, they have been in existence for nearly three months and have already raised over $15,000 for charity. The day after our /r/bitcoin thread, bundle #2 was at 25.91% of total transactions […]


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Spammers Net Over 1 Billion E-mail Addresses in Historically Massive Data Breach

Three men have been charged in what is being called the largest data breach in history, having breached marketing companies and garnered more than 1 billion e-mail addresses in the process.


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Financial Times: Chances of Bitcoin Making it are now Zero

Whenever I need a laugh, I read a mainstream publication’s assessment of Bitcoin, from the outside looking in. Many are merely mouthpieces, printed microphones for the current ruling global elite. They tell the masses what to believe, give them ten percent of the story, from the current ruler’s purview, and then call it a day. […]


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Sunday, March 8, 2015

Is The Bitcoin Price Correction Over?

In its usual time and place in the Bitcoin Price chart, today’s wave to the downside was the bears’ chance to show their stuff, but – much like the bulls during the prior advancing wave – they just couldn’t get out of first gear. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3 hour delay. […]


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British Lizard Squad Suspect Arrested Among 56 Hackers

Those pesky lizards who thought they were untouchable? Well, for the second time, British law enforcement has arrested one of them. Or so they suspect.


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Bitcoin Scam MyCoin Investigation Yields Multiple Arrests in Hong Kong

One of the largest stories in the Bitcoin universe in February was the bitcoin exchange that wasn’t. The MyCoin pyramid scheme in Hong Kong defrauded a small number of very high rollers; people who were investing millions of US Dollars each. This created a reported cache of almost $400 million before the computer bandits made […]


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