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Uber, Airbnb, and Others May Soon Accept Bitcoin

http://time.com/money/3116974/uber-airbnb-and-others-may-soon-accept-bitcoin/

 

und was das für bitcoin bedeutet, hier im SPIEGEL:

Bei Airbnb zu Hause: "Es geht um Billionen Dollar"

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/airbnb-hauptquartier-und-hotels-es-geht-um-billionen-von-dollar-a-987888.html

Eine Million Übernachtungen monatlich organisiert das Portal Airbnb. Die Ambitionen der Gründer sind aber viel größer: Sie wollen die ganze Tourismusbranche umkrempeln.

Blecharczyk ist allerdings sicher, dass der Aufstieg von Airbnb nicht mehr aufzuhalten ist: "Die Menschen wollen das." Das Unternehmen wolle in den kommenden Jahren noch weitere Bereiche für sich erschließen, sagt Blecharczyk. "Essen, Transport und all die anderen Services rund ums Reisen werden künftig für uns eine Rolle spielen." Nicht nur Übernachtungen, sondern "der gesamte Tourismus" sei der Markt für das Unternehmen.

"Lokale Dienstleistungen" will man künftig anbieten, in diversen Städten seien bereits Teams mit deren Entwicklung beschäftigt. Blecharczyk lässt keinen Zweifel an den Ambitionen von Airbnb: "Der globale Markt für Übernachtungen ist ungefähr 500 bis 700 Milliarden Dollar groß." In der gesamten Tourismus-Industrie aber "geht es um "Billionen Dollar."

 

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Pantera BitFlash

Pantera Capital is excited to announce that Korbit, Korea’s leading bitcoin exchange, wallet and merchant processor, has closed a $3 million Series A funding round with Pantera Capital leading the round from the US side.

 

Korbit is comprised of professionals from leading firms such as IDEO, UBS, Samsung Electronics, Microsoft and the Korea Exchange. Korbit offers services that are localized specifically for the Korean market. Last April, Korbit launched the first bitcoin-Korean won exchange. It currently has 25,000 users for its exchange and wallet services, and 400 merchant accounts for Korbit Pay — Korbit’s merchant processing service. Korbit will use the funding to improve the quality of its products and services and make additional hires.

 

“The bitcoin exchange market is pretty healthy in Korea,” said Tony Lyu, the CEO of Korbit. “The use of bitcoin in commerce is just starting to pick up, through the introduction of merchant processing services such as Korbit Pay. Bitcoin can drastically improve the online payments experience for Korean users, because online payments are currently not user-friendly here due to antiquated regulations.”

 

Dan Morehead, CEO of Pantera Capital, remarked, “South Korea has a booming e-commerce market and was an early adopter of virtual goods. The government supports innovation and even the banking foundation is invested in Korbit. Pantera Capital is excited about the investment in Korbit and confident that Bitcoin will thrive in Korea because of its early adoption of innovative technologies and abundance of technical talent.”

 

You can find the TechCrunch coverage here.

 

You can also find the press release on our website:

 

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Pantera BitFlash

Bitcoin’s volume-weighted price on the Bitstamp exchange rose 1% over the past week, to $504 yesterday.

 

The Pantera BitIndex four-week moving average continues to set new highs.

 

Monday, August 25, 2014

A new Political Action Committee has been launched in support of Bitcoin-friendly legislation and regulation. [The Hill]

 

Opinion: Responses to comments made by Warren Buffett, Peter Schiff, and Bill Miller. [Cryptocoins News]

 

Graph of the Day: Actual Bitcoin Price vs Trendline Deviance. [/u/azop]

 

 

 

Sunday, August 24th, 2014

Counterparty, a peer-to-peer financial platform built on the Bitcoin blockchain, announced that they have added support for multi-signature addresses, enabling smart contract capabilities for transactions. Smart contracts aim to provide security superior to traditional contract law and to reduce other transaction costs associated with contracting. [CT]

 

Dell could be expanding bitcoin acceptance to Brazil. [newsBTC]

 

Opinion: despite the pending New York BitLicense proposal, New York is the "place to be" for Bitcoin. [CT]

 

 

Saturday, August 23, 2014

San Francisco-based startup Shift Payments announced a card that allows users to make bitcoin purchases with accounts from Coinbase or, in the future, their bank accounts. Users download a mobile app with the card, which they then use to switch between currencies and accounts. [CNBC]

 

Y Combinator-backed startup San Francisco Open Exchange is a new online trading platform that facilitates finding the best price among the many Bitcoin exchanges. [Tech Crunch]

 

Opinion: Six things Bitcoin has made possible for the first time. [CoinDesk]

 

 

Friday, August 22, 2014

Major Chinese exchange OKCoin has passed a Proof of Solvency/Proof of Reserves audit with a 4.86% reserve surplus. This is more than what banks in many countries, including the United States, have on hand to fulfill their legally required reserve ratios. Providing Proof of Reserves is a new industry standard for Bitcoin exchanges following the MtGox disaster. [CCN]

 

Newly-launched BitFury Capital announced Friday that they have made their first investment in what has been described as a “prominent bitcoin wallet provider”. [newsBTC]

 

The St. Petersburg Museum of History announced this week that it would become the first museum in Florida to accept bitcoin. St. Petersburg is the location of the 2014 Bitcoin Bowl, an NCAA football playoff game that Bitpay is sponsoring. [TBT]

 

Opinion: Bitcoin exchanges and trading services are still struggling with the traditional banking industry, especially in the UK. [CT]

 

Opinion: The prospect of backing Bitcoin startups. [Forbes]

 

 

Thursday, August 21, 2014

There has been a significant amount of public interest in and commentary on the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) proposed regulatory framework for virtual currency firms (the BitLicense). As such, DFS has doubled the length of the initial comment period for its proposed Virtual Currency regulatory framework to 90 days from 45 days. Comments will now be due by October 21, 2014. [DFS]

 

The Australian Taxation Office has released its anticipated guidance on virtual currencies, saying bitcoin or other digital currency payments will be taxed like a non-cash barter transaction. Many local businesses which accept bitcoin as payment for goods or services had been hoping the digital currency would be treated under tax law as the same as money or foreign exchange. [abc.au]

 

Manhattan’s first bitcoin ATM launched today in the historic West Village. [NYPost]

 

 

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Pantera Capital is excited to announce the latest addition to our portfolio, Chain. Chain is a development platform that makes building blockchain-based applications easier. Khosla Ventures led the $9.5 million Series A round. [Fortune]

 

Overstock is expanding its bitcoin business to allow international customers to pay with bitcoin. [NY Times]

 

Bitcoin Expo 2014 in Shanghai aims to tap into the dynamic Bitcoin ecosystem in China. Event manager Andrej Sebesta said of China and Bitcoin: "The country with the world’s highest user base will definitely find a way to embrace Bitcoin in a sustainable way." [Forbes]

 

Tweet of the day (Ron is Pantera's Director of Research):

 

 

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Prices recovered to some extent from yesterday's low. As we wrote in a special BitFlash last night, the introduction of margin trading may have been the cause for the recent fall in prices. One piece of evidence that leads us to believe that this was due to forced margin selling is that the lowest prices were on the two exchanges offering margin trading. [WSJ BitBeat]

 

 

Some analysts still point to New York's changing regulatory stance as underlining the price drop. [New York Times]

 

 

The chief executive of the Electronic Transactions Associate, the trade group which lobbies for companies like Visa and Master Card, said that those companies will continue to warm up to incorporating Bitcoin. “At bottom, our industry is in the business of facilitating electronic transactions, and those electronic transactions are going to take the form of whatever the customer or merchant of choice agrees is going to be the form of their electronic transaction,” he was quoted saying. [The Hill]

 

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You can subscribe to our publications by emailing ir@panteracapital.com or through our website [www.panteracapital.com]:

 

BitFlash: the day’s best Bitcoin articles, charts, and websites.

BitFlash Weekly Review: the week’s best Bitcoin articles, charts, and websites.

Bitcoin Letter: a monthly letter with our thoughts on significant market-related developments.

Investor Letter: Bitcoin Letter plus additional information for accredited investors.

Venture Letter: venture capital news for accredited investors.

White Papers: periodic original research and academic papers on Bitcoin.

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The Tactics of the Bitlicense
http://www.bitcoinnotbombs.com/
 
Schöner Vergleich mit Regulation des Internet
 


That is the nature of the BitLicense; or as I like to call it, the ban on blockchain innovation in New York. We must all remember that bitcoin is not inherently monetary, thMoat the blockchain is simply a protocol, which is language, which is speech, which is supposed to be protected under the 1st Amendment. Mostt are not yet believers, but blockchain technology is the next step in internet evolution.
 


“Imagine 20 years earlier on July 17, 1994, the IntLicense was released to the world for a 45 day review period by the public: Would the majority of Americans know how to reply? How different would our world look today? Would we still have companies like Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Google and countless other forms of technology we now take for granted. 1994 was a very critical time for the Internet as the first browser was just about to make its official press release on October 13th and people were just starting to get the feel for the AOL instant Messenger and this radical new technology called email.” –Tone Vays

 



Tone (with modest contributions from myself) has taken the liberty of rewriting the proposed BitLicense. By altering a few of the document’s definitions, such as “Virtual Currencies” to “Virtual Communication”, “Anti-Money Laundering” to “Anti-Anonymous Communication”, and “Compliance” to “Copyright”, we can get a glimpse into what may have been.

Imagine if every blogger had to hire a “copyright” agent. Imagine if every time you wanted to post a comment online, your identity had to be confirmed. Imagine you had to get copyright permissions cleared before you could write anything, or link to content. It’s easy, just think of a blank internet.

 

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Bitcoin Can Open Doors of the Global Economy for 2.5 Billion People
http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/bitcoin-bank-account-pay/2014/08/29/id/591581/

 

 

 

 

5 Signs Bitcoin Continues Its Strong Growth

http://nullstreet.com/5-signs-bitcoin-continues-its-strong-growth/

 

If you’re into trading cryptocurrencies, you’re probably familiar with “technical analysis”. Indicators like MACD, StochRSI, EMA, SAR, etc. While these technical indicators are nice if you’re a day trader, wouldn’t it be nice to “zoom out” and take a look at the fundamentals? Here are some indicators I’ve been following:

 


 

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BREAKING: UK Chancellor to Outline Bitcoin Measures in Budget 2015

http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/uk-chancellor-to-outline-bitcoin-measures-in-budget-2015/

 

 It is often held in March and is closely watched due to its potential to affect the wealth of millions of individuals and businesses.

 

The United Kingdom is seen as one of the friendliest legal jurisdiction for Bitcoin businesses. Following the New York’s highly criticized Bitlicense proposals, the Chancellor announced his support for Bitcoin, stating:

I believe we can make London the Fin Tech capital of the world. It has to be what the City becomes in the future.

The Chancellor is already part of Bitcoin history as the Genesis Block cites a Times article which states:

Chancellor on brink of second bail out for Banks.

 

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Bitcoin Implication: USA Claims it has Rightful Access to Data Stored Abroad

http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-implication-usa-claims-rightful-access-data-stored-abroad/

The U.S. Government, currently in a legal battle against Microsoft, wants the latter to turn over a customer’s emails stored overseas that is suspected to be linked to a case of narco-trafficking. While the software editor denounces a flagrant infringement of privacy rights, the U.S. Government took refuge behind the argument that although the offending mail is located abroad, it is under the control of an American company and thus U.S. laws.

A victory for the United States Government could have serious repercussions for the Bitcoin industry where large amount of private keys (and thus of bitcoins) remain stored online, through hosted wallet Providers.

 

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Compete in your favorite games.
In real-time.
For bitcoin.

 

https://www.leetcoin.com/#games

 

"Leetcoin is a startup that builds API/Solutions for Bitcoin based gambling on online games such as LoL, Counterstrike etc."

 

Ab September. Siehe auch http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2ftddn/leetcoincom_is_enabling_bitcoin_betting_on_league/

Wett- und Spielplattformen ziehen enorm viele Nutzer an - Gamer sind da eine ideale Zielgruppe, da stark Online-affin.

 

Diese Info sollte neben Paypal nicht untergehen.

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TeraExchange Unveils First U.S.-Regulated Bitcoin Swaps Exchange

http://online.wsj.com/articles/teraexchange-launches-bitcoin-derivatives-exchange-1410543989

Paywall?

 

 

 

 

 

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/teraexchange-launches-first-regulated-bitcoin-130500229.html

TeraExchange Launches First Regulated Bitcoin Derivatives Trading

Creates Tera Bitcoin Price Index as Global Benchmark

PR Newswire TeraExchange

September 12, 2014 9:05 AM

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SUMMIT, N.J., Sept. 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- TeraExchange, a swap execution facility registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC"), announced that it launched the first regulated platform for bitcoin derivatives and a spot bitcoin price index. The trading of USD/Bitcoin swaps will be subject to the rules and regulations of TeraExchange and the CFTC.

 

Related Stories

 

Meet the First CFTC Regulated Bitcoin Derivatives Trading: TeraExchange 24/7 Wall St.

Bitcoin gets boost as U.S. watchdog approves first swap Reuters

U.S. regulator would welcome delay of EU clearing rules Reuters

CFTC fines Merrill Lynch $1.2 mln for supervision failures Reuters

EU’s Barnier Seeking U.S. Swaps Deal Before December Bloomberg

The bitcoin derivative and the Tera Bitcoin Price Index were created to meet the growing demand of global merchants, payment processors, miners, and hedge funds for an efficient hedging tool. Institutional market makers have already offered to provide continuous markets over a range of tenors.

 

The demand for regulated bitcoin derivatives trading and hedging has increased considerably following the announcement in March 2014 of the first unregulated USD/Bitcoin Swap, structured by a TeraExchange affiliate. TeraExchange has worked with the CFTC for over six months to ensure that the swap and the index now meet all requirements for regulation.

 

"The structure of the Bitcoin swap marketplace reflects extensive client input, providing participants the benefits of transparent price discovery and efficient risk transfer," said Leonard T. Nuara, President and co-founder of TeraExchange. "Throughout this comprehensive process the CFTC Staff has been thoughtful, diligent and thorough in their analysis and review."

 

The Tera Bitcoin Price Index employs a dynamic algorithm that compiles and filters data on a real-time basis from a number of widely utilized global bitcoin exchanges. In order to be included in the index these exchanges are required to execute and maintain an information sharing agreement with TeraExchange, as required by the CFTC. TeraExchange is the index administrator and calculation agent.

 

"Regulated bitcoin swap trading provides institutional clients with a more efficient and confident way to hedge and trade," said Christian Martin, CEO and co-founder. "A robust price index also helps the growing bitcoin trading community to accurately mark-to-market positions while establishing trust and stability in this growing global marketplace."

 

TeraExchange is a global pioneer in the derivatives marketplace. It launched as a SEF in October 2013, providing a multi-asset class platform for trading of an array financial instruments.

 

About TeraExchange

 

TeraExchange, LLC is a Swap Execution Facility that is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and provides market participants with access to interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, non-deliverable forwards and bitcoin swaps.

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Out of the Spotlight, Bitcoin Gains Legitimacy

 

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/bitcoin-gains-legitimacy/

 

Weitsichtige Bestandsaufnahme der Bitcoin-Situation.

 

Inhalt: Der Bitcoin macht derzeit keine Schlagzeilen, sondern Fortschritte - und zwar unter dem Radar der Massenmedien.

 

Stichworte:

- PayPal (erhöht Legitimation und Glaubwürdigkeit des Bitcoin)

- Coinbase und Händlerakzeptanz (fördert Verbreitung)

- TeraExchange (Derivate, verringern Volatilität und Kursrisiken)

- ETFs (demnächst verfügbar, ziehen Kapital an und machen Bitcoins zu einem seriöseren Investment)

 

Fazit: Derzeit durchläuft die Bitcoin-Wirtschaft eine Phase langweiliger, aber wichtiger Basisarbeit.

Dies wird in einiger Zeit zu einer gründlich veränderten Wahrnehmung des Bitcoin führen - weg von Silk Road, kollabierenden Börsen und zwielichtigen Geschäften hin zu einem ernstzunehmenden Finanzinstrument.

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