Bitcoins and Gold: ‘About As Similar As A Manatee And A Peregrine Falcon’

By Brendan Conway | 8 July 2013 | Barrons.com That’s the memorable way Index Universe’s Paul Baoicchi puts it in a blog post this morning ruminating on the planned Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust. Some — including one of the Winklevi in this Financial News interview — have claimed the Bitcoin […]
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Five Corporation-Crushing Disruptive Technologies That Will Empower the Masses

by Michael Phillip on July 15, 2013 | disinfo.com Everyone knows we are at the mercy of huge corporations in multitude of ways.  Just look at Big Oil.  We are wildly dependent on them as not only individuals, but as a nation and […]
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Bex.io Plans to Let Anyone Build a Bitcoin Exchange

16 July 2013 | By Jon Matonis | Paymentsource.com Have you ever imagined starting your own bitcoin exchange? Soon, Vancouver-basedBex.io will make that possible by deploying exchange functionality under a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. By removing the technical complexity of running […]
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What Western Union’s 3Q Earnings Means For The Future Of Bitcoin

31 October 2013 | Alicia Cruz | Seekingalpha.com Western Union (NYSE:WU) reported 3rd quarter 2013 results this week beating analyst estimates, reporting earnings of $1.4B and $0.39 per share. Income decreased 20% over the prior year as margins continue to […]
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Kenya: Are Bitcoins the Future of Mobile Money?

Joris Leverink September 2, 2013 The use of the virtual currency Bitcoins could change the way money flows in Kenya. But it hasn’t caught on just yet. Want to go to the market, pay for a taxi or send money […]
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Novelists, rewrite your cyberthrillers

Edward Snowden makes the giant cybertakedown look passé. I wish I’d put him in my novel BY CHARLIE HUSTON 11 July 2013 | Salon.com As I watch the Edward Snowden story develop, the foremost thought in my mind is this: It’s just […]
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Ed & Ethan’s Daily Bitcoin Update October 28th, 20

EdandEthan Published on 29 October 2013
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Growth in mobile payments spells opportunity for Bitcoin

5 June 2013 | Alice Truong | Coindesk.com With the value of mobile payment transactions expected to reach $721 billion (US) globally by 2017, the slice of the pie for Bitcoin’s taking is growing. This year alone, the value of mobile […]
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MadBitcoins reviews…. CoinDesk

Published on Sep 3, 2013 CoinDesk http://www.coindesk.com/ The best bitcoin news site on the web. They don’t link to the news, they write it. Great graphics, well written articles, a clean layout (though sometimes they do have strange bubbles on the […]
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Follow The Bitcoins: How We Got Busted Buying Drugs On Silk Road’s Black Market

5 September 2013 | by Andy Greenberg | Forbes.com The crypto-currency Bitcoin has become the preferred payment method for much of the online underground, hailed by none other than the administrator of the booming Silk Road black market as the […]
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SEC investor alert PDF… Ponzi Schemes using Virtual Currencies

23 July 2013 | Reddit.com SEC investor alert PDF… Ponzi Schemes using Virtual Currencies READ COMMENTS
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Bitfrore – Bitcoin Cold Paper Wallet Printer

Published on Jul 23, 2013 Please support my Indiegogo campaignhttp://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bit…
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Mapping the Bitcoin Economy Could Reveal Users’ Identities

5 September 2013 | by Tom Simonite | technologyreview.com Analyzing the public traces left by every bitcoin transaction could allow law enforcement to identify many users of a currency often assumed to offer anonymity. The digital currency Bitcoin has a […]
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Crypto boffins propose replacing certification authorities with … Bitcoin?

3 November 2013 | By Richard Chirgwin | theregister.co.uk Whatever your opinion of Bitcoin, it does stand as a high-quality intellectual achievement. Now, a group of researchers from Johns Hopkins are suggesting its cryptographic implementation could help solve the “certificate […]
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A Review Of BitcoinStore.com – Bitcoin’s Mega-Retailer

16 May 2013 at Cryptojunky.com since they announced their beta late last year. So when my four year old laptop began to experience some problems last week I decided to give it a shot. Here’s my experience with one of […]
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Electronic Frontier Foundation accepts bitcoins … again

coindesk.com / By Shirley Siluk / May 17, 2013 at 19:53 BST The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) — an organization focused on global digital rights — is now accepting donations in bitcoins again after having stopped two years ago … though it’s quick to add that […]
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Bitcoin Challenging Overhead Resistance

By BrotherjohnF | 18 May 2013 | at TheBitcoinchannel.com
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New Market Opens for Bitcoin Holders as Purchases of Palladium with Bitcoin are Now Available

The Bitcoin community will not be left out of the global financial market. Agora Commodities continues to be Bitcoin users prefered bullion dealer by being the first precious metals dealer to offer palladium for bitcoin. Cheyenne, WY (PRWEB) July 12, […]
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Digital money: store of value or illusion?

By Robin Harris for Storage Bits | May 17, 2013 — 14:37 GMT (07:37 PDT) at ZDNet.com Summary: Digital coinage like Bitcoin can’t do everything a physical coin can do, but that’s not stopping people from giving up real money for them. Or are they […]
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Living On Bitcoin For A Week: The Expense Report

Kashmir Hill, Forbes Staff 17 May 2013 at Forbes.com A few readers asked if I would provide the (very convoluted) ledger from my week of living on Bitcoin. Here is the accounting, including how I spent my Bitcoin and the […]
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