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21 Bitcoin Community Holds First Hackathon; Develops Bounty Project Git Money

When 21 Inc. introduced its first product, the 21 Bitcoin Computer, it was targeted at developers who could use the company’s hardware and software...

Healthcare: Can the Blockchain Optimize and Secure It?

This is a guest post from the Distributed Ledger.The disruptive nature of blockchain technology is easy for people to conceptualize in the field of...

Bitcoin in South America: Why Venezuela Has an Active Bitcoin Mining Community

Bitcoin use in Venezuela and Brazil is increasing, but the populations use the currency in different ways.According to Rodrigo Souza, core developer at Blinktrade,...

Overstock CEO Confirms Company’s Form S-3 Is Approved

Patrick M. Byrne, the Chairman and CEO of Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK), confirmed in a phone interview withBitcoin Magazine that the SEC had declared...

Inside Bitcoins to Hold Startup Competition at South Korean Bitcoin Conference

In what has become a staple of the Inside Bitcoins conferences, leading Bitcoin experts will be judging the demos of five companies from...

Scaling Bitcoin Gears up for Hong Kong

The Scaling Bitcoin workshops are gearing up for their second phase. After the initial conference in Montreal in September, Bitcoin's engineering and academic community...

Bitcoin Researcher Has Bitcoins Stolen From Private Key on Shirt

The rising trend of bitcoin and substantial growth of investments in the digital currency space has increased the awareness of bitcoin across major cities...

How Prediction Markets Could Guide Bitcoin’s Future

While opinions on Bitcoin's future differ, most agree that the current scalability debate has become a mess. Trolling, misinformation, populism, vote manipulation, vocal minorities,...

Bitcoin Doesn’t Waste Electricity, It’s Used for Security

A common criticism often thrown at Bitcoin is its heavy use of computing power, which in turn requires a large amount of energy. Some...

Bitcoin Must Be About the Mission Rather than the Money, Says MIT Media Lab Founder Nicholas Negroponte at Scaling Bitcoin

Legendary Internet pioneer Nicholas Negroponte, a founder of the MIT Media Laband the One Laptop per Child initiative (OLPC), gave a controversial talk at theScaling Bitcoin workshop in Montreal.The Scaling Bitcoin workshop has...