Bitcoin price printed a mediocre move during this week’s first two days of trading by reaching above $420 (Bitstamp). The move now looks to be keeling over, and we should see a small sell-off to local support. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? […]
The open-source peer-to-peer marketplace software OpenBazaar is now live, marking a major milestone for the long-running project.
Almost a full year ago, a group of Bitcoin developers, including Amir Taaki, developed an early prototype of a decentralized marketplace during the Toronto Bitcoin Expo Hackathon. The team behind the project, which also included developers from Airbitz, won the hackathon for their work on DarkMarket, but they had no intention of working on the […]
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 […]