Blockchain Ideas Explored at CoinDesk Makeathon Day One
Day one of the CoinDesk Consensus 2015 Makeathon brought together more than 60 participants seeking to uncover new applications for blockchain tech.
Instant Cryptocurrency Exchange ShapeShift Raises $1.6 Million
ShapeShift announced today that it had completed its fundraising of $1.6 million USD. ShapeShift is an exchange that allows users to transfer Bitcoin for dozens of other cryptocurrencies without any accounts or personal information being shared. Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group and Roger Ver were the lead investors in this round. Bitfinex, Bitcoin Capital led […]
Former US Advisor: Blockchain Systems Could Threaten Privacy
A long-time White House official recently discussed the blockchain as a mechanism for a universal cashless system.
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Is Bitcoin Scaling a Workaround to the Block Size Issue?
The block size debate has been going on for quite some time now, prompting developers Andresen and Hearn to create a new version of the bitcoin software and force the network to a hard fork. The hope is that the system can make the decision itself based on consensus, which is typically how the network […]
Altcoin Exchange ShapeShift Raises $1.6 Million in New Funding
Digital currency exchange ShapeShift.io has raised $1.6m in new funding.
Gavin Andresen on the Block Size: “It’s Hard to Find a Signal above All the Noise”
Bitcoin XT Developer and Bitcoin Foundation Chief Scientist Gavin Andresen was interviewed on Epicenter Bitcoin earlier this week, with the conversation mainly revolving around concepts related to Bitcoin governance. Development of Bitcoin Core has somewhat slowed recently due to the lack of a clear process for reaching development decisions, which is at least part of […]
Win Up To €1000 in Bitcoin By Entering bit4coin’s Bitcoin Photo Contest
When it comes to images of bitcoins, the pool content developers have to choose from is pretty limited – to the point where most readers tend to recognize photos from other stories, and that’s a problem. However, bit4coin is aiming to solve that problem by reaching out to the bitcoin community at large and offering […]
SeachTrade Uses Bitcoin to Reward People using the Search Platform
A Singapore-based startup, SearchTrade, has introduced a system to allow all parties in the Internet search engine process – the searcher, the owner of the key word being searched, the builder of the app using the search engine, and the advertisers – to profit from the process using bitcoin. Using bitcoin, the system redistributes the […]
Back to the Future: Adam Back Remembers the Cypherpunk Revolution and the Origins of Bitcoin
Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast host Trace Mayer interviewed legendary cryptographer Adam Back on his role in the creation and deployment of some of the most potent privacy software to ever affect the world of Bitcoin. A transcript of the podcast is published in We Use Coins. Trace Mayer is an entrepreneur, investor, journalist, an expert on […]