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2 San Diego Companies Paying Employees in Bitcoin

Imagine reporting to work and not receiving an actual physical paycheck. This situation isn’t too weird for employees in a San Diego company that pays its workers in bitcoin. 3D printing company SD3D Printing in Miramar accepts bitcoin payments from its customers and uses the cryptocurrency to give salaries as well. These are stored in […]

Bitcoin Gaming Platform CryptoGames.io Crosses 2.5 Million Wins, Launches Wheel of Fortune Game

Bitcoin Press Release: Having reached a significant milestone of over 2.5 million wins, custom developed Bitcoin gaming platform CryptoGames is pleased to announce the launch of its new Wheel of Fortune Game. Having launched in May 2015, CryptoGames.io developed an entirely original online Bitcoin casino with 4 provably fair games, presented in outstanding design. In […]

Bitcoin Price Errant, Comes Back Home

Bitcoin price declined to the vicinity of its 1-hour 200MA, today, without making a direct challenge on it. Price revisits the 200MA periodically but, during September, has crisscrossed it several times. Combined with the choppy wave patterns evident in the chart we conclude that price is in a corrective phase and prefer to stay out […]

How Disruptive Will the Block Chain Really Be For Financial Institutions?

Why are so many financial institutions investing in block chain innovation labs? Will the block chain, with its promise of rapid, secure and inexpensive transactions, really make many existing financial institutions obsolete as some have claimed? Thomas F. Dapp and Alexander Karollus examined the block chain’s impact on traditional financial institutions in a “talking point” […]

Bank of America Files Patent Application for Cryptocurrency-Mediated Wire Transfers

Bank of America (BoA) has filed a patent application titled “System and Method for Wire Transfers Using Cryptocurrency .” The application was filed in March and published on September 17 by the U.S. Patents and Trademarks Office. The BoA filing describes an alternative to traditional wire transfers. The funds are first transferred to a cryptocurrency […]

Bitcoin Tracker One ETN Offers Liquidity to European Investors

Financial disruption from the inside Regulation makes it impossible today for most institutional investors to invest in Bitcoin. However, there are many new players trying to circumvent regulatory boundaries, or innovate from inside, instead of trying to change the regulations altogether. Innovation, instead of regulatory change, is a faster, cheaper and easier approach to change […]

NeuCoin Launches a New Digital Currency for Online and Mobile Gaming

NeuCoin, the international digital currencies project supported by three nonprofit foundations, has launched its digital currency for online games, videos and music and has already listed the coin on two exchanges with more to come. NeuCoin is designed for use cases such as playing freemium games online or on mobile phones without needing a wallet […]

Step by step guide: Two methods to building a Bitcoin faucet

The post Step by step guide: Two methods to building a Bitcoin faucet appeared first on 99 Bitcoins. If you’re a cryptocurrency fan, you probably already encountered many Bitcoin faucets. Bitcoin faucets are websites that supply you with free BTC, usually in exchange for solving a captcha or visiting another site every few hours. In the […]