Bitcoin Price Still Going Through The Motions

Bitcoin price formed a small declining wave in quiet trade, today, and has currently turned back up. Be cautious for now, there is not yet any confirmation in the chart that the correction is complete. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3 hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join […]

Here’s what you’ve missed in the past week (October 5 – October 11)

The post Here’s what you’ve missed in the past week (October 5 – October 11) appeared first on 99 Bitcoins. Each week we gather the top stories, memes and personal posts from around the media (traditional and social) and deliver them to you in an appealing format. To stay updated subscribe to our newsletter and […]

Entrepreneurs Plan Identabit; Identity-Based Bitcoin Alternative

An Australia-based startup has announced plans for a digital currency called Identabit that will enable regulatory acceptance by way of user association. The startup, Thinking Active, characterizes Identabit as the first identity-ensured, decentralized currency. It represents a way to liberate decentralized currencies and will be an alternative to bitcoin, according to a recent press release. […]

Russia’s Largest Search Engine Yandex Interested in Integrating Bitcoin

Russia’s largest search engine and Internet-based services provider Yandex is interested in integrating bitcoin to its financial platform Yandex.Money, to allow its merchants to accept payments in bitcoin. At the Finnopolis FinTech Forum held in Kazan, Yandex.Money CEO Maria Gracheva announced that the company is looking forward in supporting bitcoin payments. In an interview with […]

Rebit.ph Co-Founder: Bitcoin Doesn’t Make Remittances Cheaper (Yet)

Luis Buenaventure, co-founder of one of the best known bitcoin remittance companies in the space, Rebit.ph , has published a blog post on Medium claiming that the cryptographic currency does little to help cheapen remittances. Bitcoin remittances, better known as “rebittances” (a term Buenaventure claims to have popularized), allow customers to send cash to friends […]

Globalizing Digital Currency — Trends, Gaps, Opportunities

This is a guest post by Michael Haley, Operations Manager at AlphaPoint.AlphaPoint is a financial technology company that powers digital currency exchanges and provides institutions aggregate access and order routing to digital currency markets. Right now, there are active digital currency markets running 24/7 in at least 45 national currencies.1 That is, there are digital […]

Edge Security Revolutionizing Privacy and Security

Airbitz is trying to introduce a new security protocol that doesn’t rely on a central server to store sensitive data. Airbitz Edge Security presents an alternative to centralized security platforms whose nature makes them “hackable” and easy to be compromised. While the common EdgeSec protocol works on centralized devices such as routers, the Airbitz Edge Security […]

Gartner Symposium to Discuss Smart Contracts and Programmable Economy

Smart contracts are one of the biggest applications being explored for blockchain, as this could revolutionize how data is stored among institutions and how asset transfers are managed. The Gartner Symposium aims to discuss the “programmable economy” – a term it has coined in 2014 – to understand how new technologies such as the distributed […]