Bitcoin-Artikel in englischer Sprache

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Bitcoin bugs? Gold losing face to cryptocurrency

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101750703

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The Future of the Financial Market and Digital Money Comes To NYC

http://cryptocrimson.com/2014/06/future-financial-market-digital-money-comes-nyc/

[howi53]

Auch wenn es nur die Isle of Man ist.

Government/Behörden unterstützen jetzt aktiv Cryptocurrencies.

 

http://www.coindesk.com/isle-man-launches-digital-currency-startup-incubator/

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First Bitcoin ATM in Africa Arrives Friday

http://cointelegraph.com/news/111781/june_13_first_bitcoin_atm_in_africa_arrives_friday

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Bitcoin mining is a problem and needs to be fixed for bitcoin to be successful.

http://blog.davidsilvasmith.com/2014/06/bitcoin-mining-needs-to-be-fixed.html

[azu393]

It's Time For a Hard Bitcoin Fork

hackingdistributed.com/2014/06/13/time-for-a-hard-bitcoin-fork/

 

EDIT: vorhin ging der link,

naja hier der funktionstüchtige:

http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/06/13/time-for-a-hard-bitcoin-fork/

 

 

danke segel für den tipp

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für azu393 link dazu http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/06/13/time-for-a-hard-bitcoin-fork/

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First bitcoin ATMs coming to Los Angeles

http://www.tradersnetwork.biz/first-bitcoin-atms-coming-to-los-angeles/

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Prices Fall As Bitcoin Confronts Doomsday Scenario

http://www.businessinsider.com/today-bitcoins-doomsday-scenario-arrived-2014-6#ixzz34amw9VI2

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Q&A: Halsey Minor of Bitreserve

http://www.coindesk.com/qa-halsey-minor-bitreserve/

[Norisknofun]

Barry Silbert, founder and CEO of Second Market and founder of Bitcoin Investment Trust,

announced on twitter that the two companies will bid in the coming US Marshall auction of 29,000 bitcoins.

 

http://www.forexnews.com/blog/2014/06/15/bitcoin-bounces-50-fib-next-move-uncertain/

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Fork now and fork hard

http://lorddoig.svbtle.com/fork-now-and-fork-hard

[Nucoin]

Fork now and fork hard

http://lorddoig.svbtle.com/fork-now-and-fork-hard

 

DAS ist wirklich gut! Hätte ich son Ding verfasst hätte ich vieles genauso geschrieben. Vor allem den Part:

 

 

The technologically astute have latched on and spread it to laymen across the world: “no one controls it”, “it’s completely decentralised”,“it’s moving parts are equations, not bankers”. The problem with the 51% business - whether an attack is carried out or not - is that the purity of the system, the provability of the system, is completely tainted.

Just like traditional fiat, Bitcoin is now reliant on people behaving in a certain way. We are now in the realm of “if"s, "should"s, and ”(un)likely"s instead of “read the source/paper”.

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Six months on... the crypto reshuffle

 

TL;DR. 2014 is the year crypto got serious. Bitcoin remains king, quite possibly forever. Litecoin is on the wane. Anonymity is big but can’t win (DRK). A coin needs more than a meme to keep it going (DOGE). Devs, community and marketing matter (NXT). Get organisational relationships wrong and you’re dead (RIPple).

 

http://bitscan.com/articles/analysis/six-months-on...-the-crypto-reshuffle

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DigitalBTC Makes History With Australian Stock Market Debut

http://www.coindesk.com/digitalbtc-makes-history-australian-stock-market-debut/

 

 

Australian multi-service bitcoin company digitalBTC will make history today as the first bitcoin-focused company to trade on a major mainstream stock Exchange.

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Bitcoin – Does it have a Future?

http://thetechizens.com/2014/06/bitcoin-future/

 

Will we all be using Bitcoin in a few years’ time? Who knows.. But now more than ever it seems that bit more likely

Hier was für Dich ,maxmuster:

‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Calls Rich to Tax-Free Tropical Paradise

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-15/-bitcoin-jesus-calls-rich-to-tax-free-tropical-paradise.html

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E-Commerce Payment Processor Digital River to Accept Bitcoin

 

http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/BL-MBB-22688

 

Hier zur Abwechslung mal wieder eine sehr gute Nachricht.

Digital River ist DER B2B-Dienstleister für Software-Download. Wenn man z.B. Kaspersky-Antiviren-Software herunterlädt, steckt Digital River dahinter. Von dieser Sorte Kunden haben sie hunderte.

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[ngt]

ghash.io signalisiert Gesprächsbereitschaft:

 

http://de.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/28aldt/ghashio_is_open_for_discussion/

 

Immerhin, ein runder Tisch wäre ein erster Schritt.

Vielleicht lässt sich so eine Lösung im allgemeinen Interesse herbeiführen.

[ngt]

‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Calls Rich to Tax-Free Tropical Paradise

 

Pah, Bitcoin-Jesus ...

Wir haben segeln!  

 

http://imgur.com/PxgOnW1

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E-Commerce Payment Processor Digital River to Accept Bitcoinhttp://m.us.wsj.com/articles/BL-MBB-22688

Hier zur Abwechslung mal wieder eine sehr gute Nachricht.

Digital River ist DER B2B-Dienstleister für Software-Download. Wenn man z.B. Kaspersky-Antiviren-Software herunterlädt, steckt Digital River dahinter. Von dieser Sorte Kunden haben sie hunderte.

http://www.digitalriverpayments.com

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_River

Danke ngt.

Die Welt ist voll von Firmen dieser Größenordnung,

und die machen die Masse aus.

Die sind es auch, die am Markt dem größten Wettbewerb ausgesetzt sind, flexibel sind und die Innovation bringen.

Wir brauchen unseren Fokus nicht auf alte schwerfällige Wale setzen.

Die kommen von selbst, wenn es gar nicht mehr anders geht.

Amazon ist bei mir beliebt, weil ich mit einem klick auf kaufen fertig bin.

Bezahlung mit Bitcoin ist genau so einfach, ermöglicht mir aber aus dem gesamten Pool der Wettbewerber zu wählen.

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Nachtrag zu Digital River: 

$386M in 2012 revenue
$27B annual online transactions (ttm)  (ttm = trailing twelve months)
100+ countries where we do business
180 payment methods

 

Zahlen stammen aus Investoren-Präsentation: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9MjAyNzQ4fENoaWxkSUQ9LTF8VHlwZT0z&t=1

 

Wichtig:

 

27 Mrd. Umsatz wickelt Digital River jährlich für seine Kunden ab. Das ist das Potenzial für Bitcoin.

180 Zahlungsmethoden sind bisher verfügbar. Das ist die Konkurrenz.

[maxmuster]

Hier was für Dich ,maxmuster:‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Calls Rich to Tax-Free Tropical Paradisehttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-15/-bitcoin-jesus-calls-rich-to-tax-free-tropical-paradise.html

Rrrr, meine "gefällt mir" müssen schon wieder alle sein:-)

Wenn ich nichts über lesen labe, ist das mit der Steuerfreiheit ein alter Hut.

Du musst dein Schutzgeld in Deutschland weiter zahlen. Da nutzt kein zweitpass.

Und gegen die gesetzeskonforme Nutzung von Steueroasen wird auch was unternommen.

Zum Glück brauche ich mir als Hodler keine Gedanken machen.

Und mein Steuerberater passt im Hauptberuf auch auf mich auf :-)

[ngt]

How A Mining Monopoly Can Attack Bitcoin

 

Hier das 51%-Problem nochmal im vollen Ausmaß beschrieben - eigentlich ist es sogar ein 25%-Problem:

 

http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/06/16/how-a-mining-monopoly-can-attack-bitcoin/

 

 

Available Strategies

 

0-25%

• Selfish mining will yield profits above fair share if Bitcoin remains unpatched and pool is well-connected to the network. Patching Bitcoin's block propagation protocol will rule out selfish mining by 0-25%ers.

25-33%

• Selfish mining will yield profits above fair share even if Bitcoin is patched. If it is not patched, the profits can be higher. No fix known now, but a fix may be possible some day.

33-50%

• Selfish mining will yield profits above fair share even if Bitcoin is patched. Selfish miner need not be well-connected to the network to win; it can unilaterally earn more Bitcoins with selfish mining. No fix possible, ever.

• Double-spends against 6-confirmed transactions are feasible but not guaranteed to succeed. N-confirmations for large N will mitigate merchants' risk.

>=50%

• Loss of decentralized trust narrative, inability to differentiate Bitcoin from competing technologies.

• Double-spends against 6-confirmed transactions are certain to succeed.

• Selected miner targeting: Pool can reject any selected block found by any competing miner.

• Selected transaction targeting: Pool can reject any selected transaction and keep it out of the blockchain.

• Selected address blocking: Pool can block Bitcoin flows in or out of selected addresses.

• Transaction Differentiation: Pool can deprioritize certain transactions and rely on other miners to mine them unless a (hefty) fee is attached.

• Fee Extortion: Pool can deny transactions from a particular address unless a (hefty) fee is attached to those transactions.

• Complete denial of service: Pool can ignore and orphan every single block found by competitors, thus stop all Bitcoin transactions.

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GHASH.IO statement about the 51 % Problem

Rapid growth of GHash.IO mining pool, seen over the past few months, has been driven by our determination to offer innovative solutions within the Bitcoin ecosystem combined with significant investment in resource. Our investment, participation and highly motivated staff confirm it is our intention to help protect and grow the broad acceptance of Bitcoin and categorically in no way harm or damage it. We never have and never will participate in any 51% attack or double spend against Bitcoin. Still, we are against temporary solutions, which could repel a 51% threat.

In any market, competition and innovation drives growth and that is particularly true in an emerging and disruptive environment such as Bitcoin. Successful and innovative companies cannot be expected to limit their growth or competitiveness as a direct result of their success. However, this is the situation we find ourselves in when faced with the community perception of the threat of a 51% attack on Bitcoin. Asking our users to not use our services or to use competing solutions is not conducive to fostering innovation. Implementing a pool fee to our pool contradicts principles of our operation from the very launch of GHash.IO. It also does not address the core issue only pushing the problem a few weeks or months down the road when another pool or perhaps GHash.IO again grows towards 51%.

We do fully recognise the concerns and possible threat posed by an entity with malicious intent taking control of enough mining power to exploit the 51% scenario, but we also have confidence and agree with the views expressed by the Bitcoin Foundation that any such exploitation or attack ”would be obvious it was happening, and pretty easy to defend against. The transparent nature of the blockchain provides unprecedented insight for all to investigate and report such behaviours.

We also recognise however that a long term preventative solution to the threat of a 51% attack does have to be found, the current situation we find ourselves in (essentially being punished for our success) is damaging not only to us, but to the growth and acceptance of Bitcoin long term, which is something we are all striving for.

To that effect we are in the process of arranging contact to the leading mining pools and Bitcoin Foundation to propose a ‘round table’ meeting of the key players with the aim of discussing and negotiating collectively ways to address the decentralisation of mining as an industry. Our aim is to do this quickly with a possible date coinciding with the CoinSummit Conference in London.

 

http://de.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/28aldt/ghashio_is_open_for_discussion/

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Pah, Bitcoin-Jesus ...

Wir haben segeln!  

 

This cracked me up    

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