February 2014

Mt. Gox Files for Bankruptcy, Claims $63.6m Debt

February 28, 2014
Mt. Gox Files for Bankruptcy, Claims $63.6m Debt

By Jon Southurst, Coindesk.com Mt. Gox is officially filing for bankruptcy protection with an outstanding debt of ¥6.5bn ($63.6m), finally admitting openly that 750,000 of […]

BTC-e Cuts Withdrawal Fees in Customer Satisfaction Bid

February 28, 2014
BTC-e Cuts Withdrawal Fees in Customer Satisfaction Bid

By Pete Rizzo, Coindesk.com BTC-e, the notoriously private bitcoin exchange rumoured to be based out of Bulgaria, has revealed that it has reduced fees across […]

TSA Detains Libertarian Blogger After ‘Seeing Bitcoin’ In His Bag

February 28, 2014
TSA Detains Libertarian Blogger After ‘Seeing Bitcoin’ In His Bag

conservativeread.com Isolated idiocy or something more sinister? A man who was traveling through Manchester, New Hampshire was stopped and harassed by the TSA after he […]

An Open Letter From Erik Voorhees

February 28, 2014

Hello friends, MtGox is gone. So let’s prepare ourselves. On Tuesday, and for the rest of the week, all hell will break lose in the […]

Bitcoin Week: MtGox Bankrupt, Bitcoin Foundation, Winkdex, Ben Lawsky

February 28, 2014

MadBitcoins Live: International Bitcoin Regulations – Mt. Gox Bankrupt – Bitcoin Believers Unfazed

February 28, 2014

Fortress May be First Public Company to Own Millions of Dollars in Bitcoins, Discloses $20m Worth

February 28, 2014
Fortress May be First Public Company to Own Millions of Dollars in Bitcoins, Discloses $20m Worth

By Nermin Hajdarbegovic, Coindesk.com Fortress Investment Group purchased $20m worth of bitcoins last year, according to a recent filing with the SEC. Back in December […]

You Can’t Beat the Numbers, Signs of the Times, and Full Marx for Bitcoin

February 28, 2014

By John Law, Coindesk.com Unthinking the thinkable As it was written, so it came to pass – Mt. Gox has finally imploded and the hunt […]

Bitcoin ‘Shopping List’ Aims to Raise High Street Awareness

February 28, 2014
Bitcoin ‘Shopping List’ Aims to Raise High Street Awareness

By Dan Palmer, Coindesk.com For many involved in the world of crytocurrencies, their use is as simple as handing over cash to pay for groceries […]

Vietnam Warns Against Bitcoin, Invokes the Ghost of Gox

February 28, 2014

By Jon Southurst, Coindesk.com Vietnam’s State Bank has issued another statement warning against bitcoin, blocking credit institutions from offering any digital currency services. Authorities had […]

BitTorrent Client Integrates Bitcoin Donations

February 28, 2014
BitTorrent Client Integrates Bitcoin Donations

By Nermin Hajdarbegovic, Coindesk.com Popular BitTorrent client Frostwire has integrated an experimental mechanism that will allow users to donate bitcoins to torrent sharers. In addition […]

CoinTerra Ships 1,000th Miner, Powers 6% of Bitcoin Network

February 28, 2014
CoinTerra Ships 1,000th Miner, Powers 6% of Bitcoin Network

By Nermin Hajdarbegovic, Coindesk.com CoinTerra has good reason to break out the champagne today. The Texas-based mining outfit has announced the shipment of its 1,000th […]

There are good reasons to buy bitcoin. Too bad they might be contradictory

February 28, 2014
There are good reasons to buy bitcoin. Too bad they might be contradictory

By Tim Fernholz, qz.com David Kinitsky controls $50 million in bitcoin. He’s a senior director at Second Market who manages the company’s Bitcoin Investment Trust […]

Bitcoin Transaction Fees To Be Slashed Tenfold

February 28, 2014
Bitcoin Transaction Fees To Be Slashed Tenfold

By Danny Bradbury, Coindesk.com The bitcoin developers are about to reduce the transaction fees on the bitcoin network tenfold, thanks to the relatively high value […]

Janet Yellen: Federal Reserve has no authority to regulate Bitcoin

February 28, 2014

By Dominic Rushe, theguardian.com The Federal Reserve has no authority to supervise or regulate Bitcoin, chair Janet Yellen told Congress on Thursday. Testifying before the […]

Big Bitcoin Exchange Files for Bankruptcy

February 28, 2014
Big Bitcoin Exchange Files for Bankruptcy

By Nate Rawlings, business.time.com A major Bitcoin exchange filed for bankruptcy protection on Friday, providing a detailed account of the estimated losses from what was […]

Mt. Gox exchange blames hackers for huge bitcoin losses, files for bankruptcy

February 28, 2014
Mt. Gox exchange blames hackers for huge bitcoin losses, files for bankruptcy

euronews.com Bad news for some bitcoin holders. Mt. Gox, once the world’s biggest exchange for the virtual currency, says it has “lost” around 350 million […]

Mt. Gox Files for Bankruptcy Protection

February 28, 2014
Mt. Gox Files for Bankruptcy Protection

By Eleanor Warnock, Takashi Mochizuki and Alexander Martin, online.wsj.com TOKYO—Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox said Friday it was filing for bankruptcy protection after losing almost 750,000 […]

EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Shrem Speaks Out About Mt. Gox, His Arrest and the Bitcoin Bromance

February 28, 2014

By Emily Spaven, Coindesk.com “I’ve known Mark Karpeles for a very long time. Mark is a very sweet guy. Very non-confrontational, but has he made […]

Unilateral Statement Regarding Mt. Gox from an Insider

February 28, 2014
Unilateral Statement Regarding Mt. Gox from an Insider

By Jesse Powell, Coindesk.com I am deeply saddened to hear of the tremendous loss suffered by the bitcoin community today. Undoubtedly, thousands of lives have […]

Coinbase Talks 1 Million Wallet Milestone, Mt. Gox and What’s Next

February 28, 2014
Coinbase Talks 1 Million Wallet Milestone, Mt. Gox and What’s Next

By Pete Rizzo, Coindesk.com San Francisco-based bitcoin wallet provider Coinbase has revealed that it officially passed 1 million wallet downloads on 27th February, a major […]

Richard Sherman accepts bitcoin, even if Amazon doesn’t

February 28, 2014
Richard Sherman accepts bitcoin, even if Amazon doesn’t

By Jay Greene, seattletimes.com You can’t use bitcoin at Amazon.com. But there are a handful of places Seattleites can spend the crypto-currency. Take, for example, […]

The Slow and Painful Death of the Mt. Gox Bitcoin Exchange

February 28, 2014

By Morgen Peck, spectrum.ieee.org I’ve always considered the death scene in Cyrano de Bergerac to be a bit too drawn out and overly wrought. But […]

Bitcoin Foundation Responds – Mt. Gox Subpoenaed – Bitcoin Regulations – Second Market

February 28, 2014

Singapore Firm Tembusu Launches Customizable Bitcoin ATM

February 28, 2014
Singapore Firm Tembusu Launches Customizable Bitcoin ATM

By Nermin Hajdarbegovic, Coindesk.com There is a new player in the world of bitcoin ATMs, Singapore-based Tembusu Terminals. The company has just installed Singapore’s first […]

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