Bitcoin-Artikel in englischer Sprache

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Why getting paid in bitcoins is becoming more popular and more important

 

In September of last year bitcoin job site, Coinality, was attracting 20 – 25 new job posts “in a good month,” according to site founder, Dan Roseman.

Wind the clock forward eight months and that figure has gone up by more than 25 times with more than 100 new jobs advertised every week.

 

http://bitscan.com/articles/why-getting-paid-in-bitcoins-is-becoming-more-popular-and-more-important

 

Wieder einer von diesen vielen kleinen Schritten zum Aufbau von Bitcoin-Kreisläufen. Besonders wichtig: Hier werden Bitcoins regelmäßig und in signifikanter Menge in Umlauf gebracht.

Auf Coinality gibt es tatsächlich eine beeindruckende Menge von Stellenangeboten mit Bitcoin-Vergütung - ungefähr 240, die meisten davon naheliegenderweise aus der Bitcoin-Industrie.

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Why Bitcoin’s Price Has Leapt 64% in Just One Month

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoins-price-leapt-64-just-one-month/

 

 

Wedbush Analysts Remain Bullish on Bitcoin

http://www.coindesk.com/wedbush-analysts-remain-bullish-bitcoin/

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Pantera Update: Pantera is now on Twitter. Follow as @PanteraCapital. We will be tweeting breaking news as it comes in and sharing some of our insights. In order to be more timely and thorough, analysis and in-depth research previously published in the BitFlash Weekly Review will now be published in Pantera’s periodic White Papers, which will also appear on our website.

Monday, May 26, 2014

Bitstamp, the largest Bitcoin exchange outside of China, conducted a proof-of-reserves test over the weekend. The test, which was officially observed by one of the Bitcoin protocol’s core developers, entailed Bitstamp proving they had 183,497 BTC, slightly more than all the bitcoins held as deposits by customers. [bitstamp]

 

This week is the run-up to the SEC vs. Shavers case in Texas. The SEC is accusing Shavers of running a bitcoin Ponzi scheme and has imposed sanctions against him. If the SEC prevails in this case, it would establish a precedent that says anyone exchanging bitcoin could be selling securities, thus subject to SEC regulation, scrutiny, investigation, and legal action. [Forbes]

 

Jesse Powell, who recently resigned from the Ripple Labs board of directors, posted his response to recent legal action from Ripple Labs on Reddit. [Google Docs]

 

San Francisco-based startup QuickCoin plans to bring bitcoin to the masses via its web-based “social wallet” that lets connected users easily send and receive bitcoin. Initially, the company is integrating its product with Facebook in the hope that bitcoin will go viral on the social network, but it also has plans for further partnerships in the future. Marshall Hayner, co-founder of QuickCoin, said that the goal is to remove the complexities of bitcoin for users. [coindesk]

 

Sunday, May 25, 2014

By parsing the trade data from now defunct exchange MtGox, the author of the Willy Report found three specific patterns – A) a bot would buy coins in 5-10 minute intervals and in amount “stages” that ranged from 1-10 to 10-100, the bot would terminate once $2,500,000 was spent on BTC , and C) a new bot was created, thus completing the cycle. In addition, its fees paid were always zero and its fiat spending was all over the place, with seemingly completely random prices paid per bitcoin. [The Willy Report]

 

According to this report, ~$112 million was stolen by this bot – close to 270,000 BTC – the bulk of which occurred in November during bitcoin's sudden tenfold price appreciation. Chinese investors, the Silkroad bust, and United States political statements aside, the timing of this suspicious activity (necessarily by someone with root access to the MtGox mainframe) is concerning to say the least.

 

The bot’s behavior is well visualized here – http://bitcoin.stamen.com/#15

 

A nontechnical explanation of Bitcoin is essential for the layman to grasp its underpinnings. [TBG]

 

New Zealand is having its first Bitcoin conference in November. [bitcoinSouth]

 

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Steve Waterhouse of Pantera Capital spoke about what's next in the Bitcoin ecosystem, from investment opportunities to mobile apps. Waterhouse said he thinks mobile apps are a crucial next step. "I think if you look at different internet-based systems we've been building over the past 20 years, the best ones involve messaging." [Coin Desk]

 

Bitcoin gained 20% over the past week. [WSJ MarketWatch]

 

A new company, BitPesa, is trying to use Bitcoin to make international remittances faster and cheaper. The Kenyan company hopes their service will be cheaper than Western Union and other similar services and facilitate some of Kenya's $1 billion dollars of remittance income. [WSJ]

 

Friday, May 23, 2014

The German Finance Ministry said they think they will tax the sale of bitcoins. Their statement came in response to a question about Bitcoin from a member of Germany’s parliament. Taxing the sale of bitcoins would be detrimental to consumer adoption because retailers would be taxed twice in any bitcoin transaction. (They would be taxed when selling goods and when exchanging bitcoins for euros.) [Coin Desk]

 

Video: Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead talks about Bitcoin at the EuroHedge Conference in Paris. [HedgeFund Intelligence]

 

The “Maison du Bitcoin” is opening up in Paris. The space is like a co-working/start-up incubator for Bitcoin-related companies in Paris. There are already five companies launching from the space. [Venture Beat]

 

Weekend Reading: "The future of money-like things: Look at the infrastructure that makes money move to understand the future of monetary forms like Bitcoin." [The Atlantic]

 

Thursday, May 22, 2014

On this day four years ago, someone made the first purchase with bitcoins – two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins. At today’s exchange rate, that is $2.6 million for each pizza. [Tech Crunch]

 

Budweiser is planning on integrating bitcoin payments with their concert tour called Made in America. They are partnering with San Francisco start-up Coinbase to enable all vendors at their concerts to accept bitcoins. [Coin Desk] The Made in America concert series is held in Philadelphia and Los Angeles and is expected to attract over 100,000 fans.

 

Opinion: Why I’m adding bitcoins to my retirement portfolio. [WSJ Marketwatch]

 

Tweet of the day: (Edmund Moy was Director of the U.S. Mint between 2006 and 2011.)

 

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff’s recent paper “Costs and Benefits to Phasing Out Paper Currency” explores some of the issues associated with phasing out paper currency, especially large-denomination notes. [NBER] The piece, published on the National Bureau of Economic Research's website, argues that the economy would be better off without coins, dollars, and other physical forms of money. [Fortune]

 

At a Wall Street Journal fire-side chat last night, Xapo CEO Wences Casares said “Fifty years from now, we’re going to realize that whatever the government thought and did about bitcoin is about as relevant as what the postmaster general did about email.” [WSJ]

 

Video - Former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said he would not invest in bitcoin, even though he doesn't have a full grasp of how it works. “I’m the wrong person to ask,” Geithner said. “I don’t think I really understand it.” [Fusion]

 

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Recently released minutes from a Federal Reserve Advisory Council and Board of Governors meeting suggest that "banking could participate increasingly in Bitcoin fund flows, especially as multicurrency accounts proliferate and reputational concerns subside." [Federal Reserve] The Advisory Committee can't dictate policy – it's assembled to help voting Fed officials benefit from and understand the concerns of the banking industry – but the minutes can shed light on what Fed policy might look like in the future. [CNN]

 

Marc Andreessen says enterprises like Bitcoin will change the world on the scale that web browsers did. [NYTimes]

 

U.S. authorities have opened a new front in their investigation into Bitcoin exchanges and other businesses that deal in the online currency, examining possible ties between the firms and the online drug bazaar Silk Road. [WSJ]

 

Bitcoin ATMs are coming to Africa [CT]

http://cointelegraph.com/news/111491/bitcoin_atms_are_coming_to_africa

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Amazon AWS Prepares for Bitcoin, New Patent Shows

http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl?/pl/2014/5/1401323908.html

das wär`s doch !

 

And here is an extract from the Patent mentioning Bitcoin:

"... where the request is to perform a single task, the user may not even have to provide any type of identity signing a request, user credentials, or other such identifying information. As an example, a user might submit a request to obtain dedicated access to an application server instance for a period of two hours, and can provide digital cash with the request in the amount needed for the requested two hour period of time. Various types of digital cash, electronic money, or crypto-currency can be used, such as Bitcoins provided by the Bitcoin P2P Currency System…Requests received with digital cash ...can be completely anonymous donations."
 

 

 

"TrueCrypt is not secure,” official SourceForge page abruptly warns

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/05/truecrypt-is-not-secure-official-sourceforge-page-abruptly-warns/

 

 

DISH to Accept Bitcoin

http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20140529-905983.html#

 

DISH today announced that it will become the largest company to accept bitcoin. As the first subscription model pay-TV provider to make this move, DISH will begin accepting bitcoin payments from customers starting in the third quarter. DISH Network L.L.C. is a wholly owned subsidiary of DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH).

 

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[Nucoin]

Erstaunlicher Artikel für nen Mainstream-Medium:

 

Time For Bitcoin to Come Out of the Closet?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-gibson/bitcoin-coming-out-party_b_5385180.html?utm_hp_ref%3Dbusiness%26ir%3DBusiness

[ngt]

Erstaunlicher Artikel für nen Mainstream-Medium:

 

 

Time For Bitcoin to Come Out of the Closet?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-gibson/bitcoin-coming-out-party_b_5385180.html?utm_hp_ref%3Dbusiness%26ir%3DBusiness

Avalara ist DIE Software wenn es darum geht, die US-Mehrwertsteuer zu berechnen. Das ist alptraumhaft komplex, da diese nicht nur auf Bundes-, Staats-, Bezirks- und Stadtebene erhoben wird, sondern auch gemäß hunderten von Produktklassen. Aus dem Grund braucht man in den USA - anders als z.B. in Europa - spezielle Software dafür.

Wenn Avalara jetzt Bitcoin unterstützt, ist das ein ganz wichtiges Signal.

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@ngt und @Nucoin

ein wirklich sehr interessanter Artikel und sehr vielversprechend

Und nett geschrieben (als blog-Beitrag)

 

Es ist in der Tat so,dass bitcoin unglaubliche Fortschritte macht.Meine persönliche Zuversicht in bitcoin wächst

Aber von Big Money sollte man erst sprechen,wenn  >100 Millonen fließen.

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Could Bitcoin Be a Talking Point at Bilderberg 2014?

http://newsbtc.com/2014/05/29/bitcoin-talking-point-bilderberg-2014/

[ngt]

http://i.imgur.com/qdeUM8d.jpg

 

... noch jemand das Gefühl, dass man selbst gemeint ist? :-)

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_{Bitcoin Lighting Up South Africa}

_{http://newsbtc.com/2014/05/30/bitcoin-lighting-south-africa/}

 

 

_{Bitcoin has the potential to change Africa, and many people are making efforts to make this happen. Examples include BitPesa in Kenya for remittance payments and Kipochi for mobile wallets are trying to spread adoption on the continent.}

_{For people in Zimbabwe, it is said that Bitcoin would actually be a good way to avoid the country’s hyperinflation.}

 

 

 

Allerdings die Idee,Strom mit BTC zu bezahlen, wie der Artikel beschreibt ist exotisch und originell.

Allmählich glaube ich auch,dass BTC in den 3. Weltländern "der Renner" sein wird

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[Nucoin]

Regulations Are The Next Step For Bitcoin -- Montreal Economic Institute

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kitconews/2014/05/30/regulations-are-the-next-step-for-bitcoin-montreal-economic-institute/

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The Value of Bitcoin Has Increased by 30% in Past 2 Weeks

http://stixs.in/the-value-of-bitcoin-has-increased-by-30-in-past-2-weeks/

 

 

Bitcoin regains $600, Gold below $1250

http://www.cityindex.co.uk/market-analysis/market-news/29846792014/bitcoin-regains-600-gold-below-1250/

 

very interesting!

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The World Debt Bubble Is About To Burst

http://seekingalpha.com/article/2247233-the-world-debt-bubble-is-about-to-burst

 

Bitcoin Price Defies Expectations

http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/bitcoin-price-defies-expectations/2014/06/01

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TrueCrypt is still safe to use.

https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm

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Bitcoin Growing in Adoption

http://virtualmining.com/bitcoin-growing-in-adoption/

 

 

Why Bitcoin is grossly undervalued

http://jackcliu.com/post/87517311997/why-bitcoin-is-grossly-undervalued

 

 

How Digital Currency Could End Corruption in Afghanistan

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/how-digital-currency-could-end-corruption-in-afghanistan/

 

super Artikel!

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Citi: Bitcoin a Threat to Debit and Credit Card Issuers

http://www.coindesk.com/citi-bitcoin-debit-credit-card-issuers/

[Nucoin]

NASDAQ!!! 

 

Investing.com - Bitcoin extended a recent rally to trade at the $640-level on Sunday, as ongoing optimism over the outlook for the digital currency continued to boost prices.

Read more: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/bitcoin-extends-rally-to-trade-at-640-btcusd-soars-29-in-may-cm357920#ixzz33WQzXji1

[Nucoin]

Wurde zwar schon im Prognose-Thread gepostet, aber hier gehört die Meldung auf jeden Fall rein: 

 

Apple Policy Update May Open Door for Bitcoin Transactions

http://www.coindesk.com/apple-policy-update-may-open-door-bitcoin-transactions/

 

Change of Heart: Apple Changes Policy to Allow Bitcoin Transmitting Apps

http://newsbtc.com/2014/06/02/change-heart-apple-changes-policy-allow-bitcoin-transmitting-apps/

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Pantera BitFlash

Bitcoin’s volume-weighted price on the Bitstamp exchange rose 15% over the past week, to $647 yesterday.

 

With the recent sharp price increase, bitcoin is following a similar pattern as in December 2012-May 2013.

 

Pantera Update: Pantera is now on Twitter. Follow as @PanteraCapital. We will be tweeting news and sharing some of our insights.

Monday, June 2, 2014

The people trying to bring Bitcoin to Washington. [Yahoo]

 

The price increases of this past week are likely due to new money, mostly institutional investors and previous investors increasing their positions in bitcoin. This price hike began just two days after the conclusion of the Amsterdam Bitcoin conference, where many positive predictions about the future of the industry were made. [Forbes]

 

Opinion - Digital Currencies could end corruption in Afghanistan [Wired]

 

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Existing California law prohibits a corporation, association, or individual from issuing or putting in circulation, as money, anything but the lawful money of the United States. This bill would repeal that provision. [legislature.ca]

 

After a two-day hearing before a U.S. Bankruptcy judge, HashFast came to an agreement that will allow the company to continue to do business in a limited form rather than having a court-appointed trustee liquidate the company as part of an involuntary bankruptcy filing. [scribd] [ArsTech]

 

Invirohub, a South African smart meter developer, has integrated bitcoin payments into its smart meters. Each meter will have a specific wallet address and 3G SIM card for connectivity; once a user puts a deposit on the address, their account will be credited at the current exchange rate. [TechCentral]

 

Building trust in the Bitcoin economy will help to move things forward faster, and proper checks and audits will undoubtedly be a large part of that. [CoinDesk]

 

Opinion - It’s like a weight has been lifted from the shoulders of the Bitcoin community. [WSJ]

 

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Bitcoin prices crossed $600 this week as a rally that began on May 19th continued. [Tech Crunch]

 

Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer BitFury announced they just raised $20m of venture funding. The company controls large mining operations in datacenters in Finland and Georgia, and their hardware is used by other large Bitcoin mining operations. [Venture Beat]

 

Opinion: Why professional audits of Bitcoin exchanges are essential in a post-MtGox world. (Bitstamp conducted an internal review this week overseen by one of the Bitcoin core developers.) [Coin Desk]

 

Friday, May 30, 2014

The WSJ chronicles a new trend of Silicon Valley start-ups providing quasi-anonymous or ephemeral messaging services. Gliph is a company that incorporates Bitcoin into an encrypted messaging service that is similar to Snapchat. [WSJ]

 

Despite recent statements by the Central Bank of Argentina against using Bitcoin, and the country’s history of capital controls and currency interventions, a bitcoin exchange was just launched in Argentina. Bitex.la will provide a market for buying and selling BTC. The company has $2 million of venture funding. [Coin Telegraph]

 

Last weekend, an independent research report (the “Willy Report”) claimed that trading activity at MtGox, and by extension bitcoin prices, were dominated by automated trading “bots” that were seemingly operated by insiders at the now defunct Japanese exchange. Here is a summary of where that investigation stands today. [Gigaom]

 

Read about the students in the MIT Bitcoin Club, who came up with the idea to give every undergrad at the college next year $100 worth of bitcoins. [bitcoin Magazine]

 

Thursday, May 29, 2014

DISH announced today that they are the largest company and first subscription model pay-TV provider to accept bitcoins, marking a large step forward in the growing momentum of customers paying companies in bitcoin for things we do every day, like watching television. [CoinBase]

 

The Kleiner Perkins Internet Trends Report for 2014 featured Bitcoin’s explosive growth (see slide 53). [KPCB]

 

Walmart is now selling Butterfly Labs bitcoin mining rigs. [Walmart]

 

Kim Gunnink, a policy officer for innovation and cybersecurity at the Dutch central bank, said the regulator believes companies could stand to “learn something from virtual currencies” such as Bitcoin. [bloomberg]

 

Amazon filed for a patent to take bitcoin payments. [uSPO] [Ecommerce]

 

China’s many Bitcoin enthusiasts aren’t giving up. "They know that the government has not banned bitcoin itself and presumably are buying into the argument that Beijing wants to control, not kill, the growth of cryptocurrencies." [WSJ]

 

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

A new wave of Bitcoin services for consumers and merchants may not be secure or stable enough for the mass market. [FT]

 

The company overseeing bankruptcy proceedings for MtGox hopes to raise millions by selling the “Bitcoin” trademark which was registered to “oppose opportunists around the world.” [Telegraph]

 

Bitcoin technology allows, under some conditions, a large number of mutually distrusting parties to agree on a single, consistent, view of a giant ledger that records all transfers of bitcoin between users since the beginning of time. [Huffington Post]

 

BitPay has accumulated about 30,000 merchants globally and they’re hoping to bring somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 merchants aboard by the year’s end. [newsBTC]

 

Video – Andressen: bitcoin is a 20-year investment. [CNBC]

 

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Bitstamp, the largest Bitcoin exchange outside of China, conducted a proof-of-reserves test over the weekend. The test, which was officially observed by one of the Bitcoin protocol’s core developers, entailed Bitstamp proving they had 183,497 BTC, slightly more than all the bitcoins held as deposits by customers. [bitstamp]

 

Monday, May 26, 2014

This week is the run-up to the SEC vs. Shavers case in Texas. The SEC is accusing Shavers of running a bitcoin Ponzi scheme and has imposed sanctions against him. If the SEC prevails in this case, it would establish a precedent that says anyone exchanging bitcoin could be selling securities, thus subject to SEC regulation, scrutiny, investigation, and legal action. [Forbes]

 

Jesse Powell, who recently resigned from the Ripple Labs board of directors, posted his response to recent legal action from Ripple Labs on Reddit. [Google Docs]

[Nucoin]

UK Financial Regulator’s New Initiative Encourages Bitcoin Innovation

 

 

http://www.coindesk.com/uk-financial-conduct-authority-fca-launches-bitcoin-initiative/

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UK Financial Regulator’s New Initiative Encourages Bitcoin Innovation

 

 

http://www.coindesk.com/uk-financial-conduct-authority-fca-launches-bitcoin-initiative/

:-) :-) :-)

Google News 01.01.2016

London Stock Exchange und New York Stock Exchange,

Kopf an Kopf im Rennen um den größten Handelsplatz für die internationale Leitwährung Bitcoin.

[Nucoin]

Ich mag den Typen nicht und auch seine Musik nicht, aber... diesmal hoffe ich, dass sich das Album gut verkauft  

 

Ka-ching! You can buy 50 Cent's new album with Bitcoin

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/06/03/fans-can-buy-50-cents-new-album-with-bitcoin/9900037/

[Nucoin]

Bitcoin is back: Price quietly jumps 80%

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101728070

[Kutscher]

Bitcoin is back: Price quietly jumps 80%

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101728070

 

 

Die Diskussionen in den Kommentaren unter dem Artikel ist auch sehr interessant. 

[Nucoin]

CNBC hyped Bitcoin echt gut in letzter Zeit:

 

3 reasons Wall Street can't stay away from bitcoin

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101711220