Sascha Carroll

The new peer-to-peer market platform DarkMarket has been named the winner of Toronto Bitcoin Expo Hackathon, which has brought $20,000 in bitcoin to its developers.

The research “Financial cyber threats in 2013” prepared by Kaspersky Lab proves that the amount of cyber-attacks and malware targeting Bitcoin has palpably increased during the past year.

People who don’t fully understand what crypto-currencies are and see them more as some form of “imaginary money” are inclined to make unflattering comparisons between Bitcoin and ponzi schemes.

Bitcoin is a stable system full of value and potential.

Bitcore has been able to provide a 100% compatibility with Bitcoin Core test data.

Chad Ochocinco Johnson, famous former American football wide receiver, officially expressed his interest in Bitcoin, causing a buzz on his Twitter-feed and the sports world in general.

In case You are not afraid to hear the bitter truth, attentively read the book “All the Presidents Bankers“ and listen to Nomi Prins’ predictions on a possible financial collapse.

The Centre for Forensic Linguistics at UK’s Aston University has completed a comprehensive analysis to draw the conclusion that Nick Szabo’s texts show the most similarities with the original writings of the Bitcoin inventor.

Tim Draper, the famous American venture capital investor, has praised Bitcoin and called it the smartest technical investment in his recent short interview given to Bloomberg TV.

The Dogecoin logo has travelled to space, bringing itself closer to its initial goal – the moon.

Mark Karpeles, the founder and CEO of Mt.Gox exchange service has refused to come to the USA after receiving a subpoena to give evidence on the bankruptcy case, according to an announcement made by lawyers involved in the matter.

Amazon representative Tom Taylor has given an interview to Re/code, where he stated that the service is not considering the introduction of Bitcoin as an alternative payment method.

Xavier Hawk is the developer of the idea and its basic principles. He founded Colony Earth and gained sufficient experience in environmental protection and sustainability.

National Australia Bank (NAB) terminates account processing for Bitcoin operators such as exchangers, trading platforms and other units of the online economy.

Ideas populated by Kim Dotcom (Kim Schmitz) very often resemble pranks; on April 1st the doubts double. On the Internet Party the multifaceted talent voiced the necessity to create a local state-backed up cryptographic currency that will co-exist with the present fiat NZ dollars.

Don’t get confused – Virtex is an ambitious startup from Lithuania, but CaVirtex is an experienced exchange company operating on the Canadian market! There is nothing more in common apart from the similar names of the services. On the contrary – the Baltic team has global plans.

On April 8 Attorney General Eric Holder made a public address to US lawmakers stating that Bitcoin, as well as other currencies derived from it, is a provocative issue for law enforcement agencies, largely because it can be used to “conceal illegal activity”.

The situation on the cryptocurrency market seemed to be rather stable during the past week. The main competitor, Bitcoin, has not suffered any severe attacks, and has avoided any major price fluctuations.

The e-commerce director of Monoprix Patrick Oualid has openly spoken on Bitcoin – its general perspectives and its application by the French retail giant.

On April 8 Bitcoin Core version 0.9.1 was released to fix several bugs. Everyone is advised to download the new version and upgrade the existing one as it is a maintenance release to fix urgent security vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160).

The event known as CEBE 2014 or generally the Central European Bitcoin Expo 2104 is regularly adding new speakers to the list as only 52 days remain till the launch on the May 31. The recent announcement has already shaken the digital environment as Charlie Shrem has appeared among the contributors divided into two presentation days.

At last Bitcoin has started hitting the headlines of non-cryptographic media sources and received the attention it deserves from people outside the online economy. The touching story of Hal Finney, sudden “successful” investigations into the personality of Satoshi Nakamoto, price fluctuations and regular conferences have been brought to the attention of an audience that had previously never been engaged in mining or trade.

Two days ago a group of developers announced the launch of a beta version of the Bitcoin App Store for iOS and Android. The announcement was made on Reddit and gained a massive response from the community.

I am almost sure that the most users in possession of Bitcoins or other cryptographic currencies have never thought about the impact made during mining or any corresponding process. The asset exists virtually, cannot be touched or accessed by any other human sense, but as any other artificial object leaves a trace of its presence in form of a carbon footprint.

According to the most attentive followers of eBay services and virtual currencies, the customer-to-customer platform makes probably not the first attempt to add “Virtual Currency” category to its listings.

Relaunching today is the Australian platform BitFash, which aims to unite most famous and attractive online clothing stores and offer an extraordinary range of brand clothes to Bitcoin users.

The Cyprus-based Neo &Bee Company has terminated operation some time before its CEO Danny Brewster went missing. Some customers accuse him for fraudulence, but Mr. Brewster names personal reasons behind his hasty disappearance.

Dynamite is a small vintage clothing store located in Athens, GA, USA. Lori Paluck is its owner proudly announcing the acceptance of Bitcoin payments at the store to promote the business and virtual currency in general.

According to the recent tax treatment guidance issued by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Bitcoin has to be considered as property. Those who hold or use Bitcoin are attempting to read between the lines to understand the principles of taxation and the obligations of every entrepreneur, miner on investor operating in the online financial market.

Stanford University has united with educational platform Coursera to provide the Cryptography I and II courses for free. An unlimited number of students from all around the world can virtually attend the lectures given by Dan Boneh, Professor of Computer Science.