New Documentary “The Bitcoin Gospel” Shows Bitcoin to the Netherlands

Roger Ver stars prominently in a new documentary by Dutch TV station VPRO. He opens the show by demonstrating to people in the Netherlands how a Bitcoin transaction works, using his home entertainment system and his smart phone. Someone watching the show on the first broadcast would have had the opportunity to claim 100 Euros […]

How Prediction Markets Could Guide Bitcoin’s Future

While opinions on Bitcoin’s future differ, most agree that the current scalability debate has become a mess. Trolling, misinformation, populism, vote manipulation, vocal minorities, censorship and other distractions have made it hard to find a signal above the noise. And importantly, if protocol development is going to be driven by what seems like popular opinion […]

Microsoft Launches Ethereum Blockchain as a Service (EBaaS) at Devcon, Boosts Ethereum

Recently Bitcoin Magazine reported that Microsoft has partnered with Consensys, a blockchain startup focused on Ethereum technology. Through the partnership, customers of Azure, Microsoft’s cloud-based enterprise computing service, will be able to easily build cloud-based blockchain applications, from securities trading to cross-border payments to corporate accounting, and offer them to their own customers. As anticipated, […]

Bitcoin Price Nudging Resistance At $348

Bitcoin price scored a high of around $347 earlier today, before dropping again to $328 at the time of writing of this article. $348.14 is a strong resistance level that is preventing further increase in price as we will explain throughout our analysis. Strong Resistance on the 1 Hour Charts: By examining the 1 hour […]

100 Banks Approached Blockchain.info To Integrate Bitcoin!

In an interesting interview with CNBC’s Nancy Hulgrave, Peter Smith, the CEO of blockchain.info, claimed that around 100 banks approached his company to integrate bitcoin and the blockchain technology in their banking systems. Peter thinks that these banks believe that they can benefit and make more profits via integration of the blockchain technology.   Banks […]