For workers, anything received as payment for goods or services, including Bitcoin or other digital currencies, is taxable income unless it is specifically exempted. If you earn income in Bitcoin in the exchange of services with another person, this will be included in gross income and would be subject to income tax. These bitcoins could […]
Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam recently appeared on the 1776 Podcast, where he was asked about the adoption of Bitcoin in the United States and international markets. While there has been a lot of noise related to merchant acceptance and use cases in developing countries, the reality is there still aren’t as many people using Bitcoin […]
CoinDesk recaps the DTCC’s first Blockchain Symposium, an all-day event held in New York last week.
With an announcement today, decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace OpenBazaar is open for business, in its first full version released and available for downloads. It has been nearly two years since initial chatter arose, with word of a decentralized marketplace being developed in time for a public beta in 2014. In the following years, the decentralized, unregulated […]
The developers of OpenBazaar, the decentralized marketplace protocol, have released the first live version of the software.
A Florida court has frozen the assets of the digital currency exchange Cryptsy and placed it under the control of a receiver.
The New York-based private banking blockchain consortium led by R3 has now added a new “strategic’ partner, in global software giant Microsoft. In a new announcement made today, Microsoft is now in a partnership with R3CEV, a consortium of the leading banking institutions of the world that is looking to develop real-world blockchain solutions for […]
An Italian restaurant now offers patrons the chance to buy bitcoin and pay for meals with bitcoin, having introduced the first bitcoin ATM in Bournemouth, U.K., a resort on the southern coast of England, according to Daily Echo, a local newspaper. The ATM was installed by Heliopay, a supplier of digital technology solutions that operates bitcoin ATMs […]
The post How the US poker scene is landscaping a Bitcoin revolution appeared first on 99 Bitcoins. Online poker could finally be making its way back to the US, with New Jersey gaining access to PokerStars following a successful five-day soft launch. After almost five years of a poker blackout across the states, the New […]
Anthony Di Iorio was one of the original founders of the Ethereum project, which received ample attention in 2016 as it passed a billion dollar market cap for the first time. Technology firms both inside and outside the Bitcoin industry are exploring the ways in which non-financial applications and Ethereum-based projects could change our world. […]