RLabs, a Cape Town-based social impact incubator has launched a bitcoin crowdfunding platform, mToto, to allow users to fund projects using bitcoin. mToto, which translates to “child” in Swahili, is a bitcoin initiative between Uusi and RLabs which aims to help underserved education and health centers in under-resourced communities in South Africa and to develop […]
Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who resigned after the Greek referendum on July 5 in a surprising move interpreted as a conciliatory move toward Greece’s creditors, gave his first interview after his resignation, and before the announcement of the deal between Greece and European Union (EU) leaders. Speaking to The New Statesman, Varoufakis expressed […]
According to a report from Ars Technica, the Italian company Hacking Team developed a piece of software called Money Module that specifically targeted cryptocurrency wallets in addition to other financial files. It looked for the wallet.dat file on the hard drive and if it found it, relayed it back to the owner of the license […]
The Bitcoin price advance is curving upward above $300 and 1900 CNY. The advance is so persistent that the technical indicators in the intra-day charts have become somewhat meaningless due to compounding divergence. Technical analysis considers the likelihood of a surprise reversal, as opposed to non-stop advance. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a […]
Coin Cafe is meant to be an easy way to buy and hold bitcoins, but they apparently do not like people attempting to use bitcoins at the free classifieds provider Backpage.com. After the problems that the website had in the last several weeks, with all of its other merchant processing accounts closed, Bitcoin has garnered […]
It is time for Bitcoin exchanges serving the Indian market to up their game or lose out on the little quorum of existing customer base. India is forecasted to be one of the largest Bitcoin markets in terms of potential. The country is still waking up to the Bitcoin revolution with a small percentage of […]
Recently in one of the previous articles we have covered about bitcoin trading bots and how useful they are when it comes to automating your bitcoin trading process. In the same article we also mentioned that a trading bot is only as powerful or intelligent as its owner. Whether you trade manually or use a […]
What impact, if any, would a UK encryption ban have on bitcoin businesses? A few company representatives have spoken out about the government’s plans.
The first naughty scenes are streaming to virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift right now. Naughty America debuted two videos that allow you to participate in a threesome. The scenes are available for free and the company plans on releasing more in the coming weeks. Eventually, the scenes will only be included with a […]
Ripple Labs, the company that was expected to offer a stiff competition to Bitcoin with its Ripple (XRP) digital currency and Ripple Protocol seems to have fallen behind. Thanks to the recent crackdown by US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) where Ripple was slapped with a $700,000 fine for non-compliance of regulations while operating as […]