Freedom Hosting, a web hosting provider specifically targeting websites in the Tor community, has been shut down, and its owner Eric Eoin Marques arrested in Ireland on charges of...
Over one year ago, the launch of Erik Voorhees’ SatoshiDice marked the moment that Bitcoin gambling took its first major step into the mainstream. The site offered a level...
One of the aspects of the modern consumer economy that Bitcoin users often miss out on is that of special deals, where customers can, whether through acquiring rewards points,...
Yesterday Room77, the original Bitcoin-accepting restaurant and now world-renowned Bitcoin hub of Berlin, had a successful monthly meetup with dozens of people coming from both Berlin and around the...
Remember FrostWire (BitTorrent client)? They’ve completely transformed their platform and are integrating Bitcoin into their system.While at a Bitcoin conference I met Angel Leon, a project lead for FrostWire....
In the past year or so, it has come to be a known fact in Bitcoin technical circles that Bitcoin, in its current form, is partially quantum-safe. The claim...
For the past three months, the Bitcoin economy has undoubtedly been in a correction phase. The number of major new adoption announcements has dissipated, companies like BitPay and Coinbase...
According to the latest news from Reuters, the government of Cyprus, the Bank of Cyprus and international lenders have come to an agreement that will recapitalize the bank and...
Even among those of us who are experienced Bitcoin users today, chances are that when we first heard of Bitcoin we did not embrace the currency wholeheartedly all at...
Image credit: http://spelunk.in/2013/07/14/los-angeles-bitcoin-meetup-2-writeup/See also: Bitcoin Self-Defense, Part 1: Wallet ProtectionThe in-person Bitcoin economy is an exciting place to be. Ever since “Satoshi Square”, an in-person Bitcoin exchange event in...
