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Why the end of Mt. Gox won’t be the End of Bitcoins

Bitcoin News, Internet & Software, Online MarketingDecember 24, 201824Views 0Likes 0Comments

World's biggest Bitcoin exchange Platform called Mt. Gox has been shut down and since there have been absolutely no transactions made from the Address over the past couple of days, we could declare Mt. Gox officially dead as many of us don't expect the service to be around for much more longer. The problems of…

Understanding the Value of Bitcoins: 5 Factors that influence the value of a Bitcoin

Bitcoin News, Internet & Software, Online Marketing, TechnologyDecember 14, 201846Views 0Likes 0Comments

The value of the USD and other normal currencies are affected by different factors than Bitcoin, while usually, the value of $1 depends on the balance of trade, price of oil, gold, and many other things with Bitcoin it depends on different factors which are completely new to the economy. Let's take a look at…

Ebay could start accepting Bitcoins in its auction-format listing

Bitcoin News, Internet & SoftwareNovember 9, 201816Views 0Likes 0Comments

World biggest online marketplace has recently filed a patent application called "System And Method For Managing Transactions In A Digital Marketplace" which indicates that eBay has created a system for digital currency processing that could mean we will soon start to see ebay accepting Bitcoins as a payment method, the patent filing states: The currency module…

Google Wallet could get Bitcoin support soon

Bitcoin News, GoogleNovember 2, 201819Views 0Likes 0Comments

All though it isn't official we might see Google, one of worlds most innovating companies accept the latest disruptive technology since the Internet itself: Bitcoins. Reddit user JasonBored emailed Vic Gundotra ( Senior Vice President, Social for Google) to ask if Google Wallet will get support for Bitcoin any time soon, to which he got an immediate reply In the…

Coinbase security vulnerability caused huge leak in user information

Bitcoin News, Internet & SoftwareOctober 1, 201813Views 0Likes 2Comments

At the end of February Shubham Shah notified in a blog post that a bug could cause huge harm to Coinbase worlds most popular Bitcoin exchange platform and it seems like hackers have exploited this security vulnerability Shubham has warned Coinbase about 4 months ago as hundreds of users are reporting on Reddit that they are receiving phishing emails…

Dogecoin recognized as official currency by Bank of India

Bitcoin News, Internet & Software, Tech News, TechnologySeptember 28, 201837Views 0Likes 5Comments

The online currency based on the famous internet meme "Shibe" or Doge has been recognized as an official currency by the Bank of India. It has also recognized similar online currencies such as Bitcoins and Litecoins as official currency. Dogecoin started out as a joke but after getting a lot of media attention has grown to…

What is BitLicense and how does it affect Bitcoins

Bitcoin News, Internet & Software, Tech NewsSeptember 26, 201819Views 0Likes 3Comments

Over the past few days, you might have heard of this new "BitLicense" the license which started as a proposal on popular social sharing website Reddit where Ben Lawsky, Superintendent of Financial Services at the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced what is now known as the BitLicense proposal What is BitLicense The Bitlicense document…

TigerDirect could soon start accepting Alt coins as payment method

Bitcoin News, Internet & SoftwareSeptember 5, 201812Views 0Likes 0Comments

TigerDirect announced earlier this week that it from now on accepts Bitcoins as the official payment method. After seeing Graphic Card sales go up by 50% and a huge increase in overall revenue it is safe to say that accepting Bitcoins as a payment method has been a success so far, but there is more TigerDirect…

Who has the first 50 Bitcoins mined by Satoshi that were ever spent?

Bitcoin News, Internet & SoftwareAugust 8, 201828Views 0Likes 0Comments

Satoshi, the creator of Bitcoin is expected to have many millions of Bitcoins making him the richest Bitcoin millionaire in the world, but there is currently only 1 block that has been confirmed is from Satoshi. On that block (Block 9) there were 50 BTC and they were the first bitcoins ever spent making them (back when…

Zynga to test Bitcoin payment in its popular web games

Apps, Bitcoin News, Tech NewsJuly 25, 201826Views 0Likes 0Comments

Social Game service Zynga has teamed up with Bitpay to start accepting cryptocurrencies as payment methods for their web browse games it confirms in an official post on Reddit. Among these games are Farmville 2, CastleVille, ChefVille, CoasterVille, Hidden Chronicles, Hidden Shadows, and CityVille. As of now, the feature will be launched worldwide but we don't…

Bitmap App shows you near businesses accepting Bitcoin as payment

Apple, Apps, Bitcoin NewsJuly 14, 201824Views 0Likes 4Comments

All though criptocurrency is getting more and more popular it is still an issue to find places where to spend your bitcoins. With ATM's starting to appear accepting Bitcoin as payment there are also many stores that do so and we expect the number of stores to grow significantly in 2014. Bitmap App is an awesome…

Meet Coinpunk the Bitcoin wallet Apple can’t ban from its iPhone

Apps, Bitcoin News, MobileJuly 7, 201814Views 0Likes 0Comments

For some strange reason Apple has decided to distance itself from the Bitcoin community and the company has gone as far as rejecting several apps from being downloaded from the App Store, all because they have Bitcoin functionality. Many say its because of the unclear regulatory issues surrounding the currency and at the moment Apple…