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Bitcoin Category Added To Ebay
Bitcoin has now has a legitamte place on eBay.   The new category for digital items has recently been added to eBay.  This is making some waves because of the trading potential that it will bring to the marketplace.  This new category called ‘Virtual Currency’ will make selling Bitcoins,... Read more
More Revelations Over The Bitcoin Bankruptcy
Following the news that one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges filed for bankruptcy, MtGox released a statement on its website giving more details about what happened. The company had closed down after losing approximately 750,000 bitcoins much to the fury of customers. In the statement the firm  claim that... Read more
Bitcoin Price Index Created By Winklevoss Brothers
There is a new financial index on the block and it’s called, the Winkdex.  Yes, you’ve guessed it, it comes from the minds of the Winklevoss brothers.  The Winkdex was released publicly Wednesday 19 February and it provides a regularly updated figure for the price of the virtual currency,... Read more
CrowdtiltOpen : Crowdfund On Your Own Site
CrowdtiltOpen has just launched, it provides an open source crowdfunding solution that can enable anyone to crowd fund anything on their own website.  You may have heard of something like this before now and that’s because it is the refined version of Crowdhoster, the Y Combinator startup that was... Read more
India Latest Country Concerned Over Bitcoin
Trader in the virtual currency Bitcoin are having a bit of a tough time of things of late. India is the latest in a line of countries becoming increasingly concerned with Bitcoin. After some initial momentum that saw numerous Bitcoin exchanges emerge in India, the Reserve Bank of India has issued... Read more
Bitcoin Prices Plummet

Bitcoin Prices Plummet

Internet December 20, 2013

The price of bitcoin has plummeted in the wake of an announcement from China’s largest bitcoin exchange that it would no longer be accepting new Yuan deposits. BTC China said, that due to action by a third-party payment provider, YeePay, it could no longer accept deposits in the Chinese... Read more
Pay For Virgin Galactic Space Flights With Bitcoins
Sir Richard Branson has got his fingers in almost all the pies, so to speak.  His Virgin Media company provides people all over the UK with award winning, superfast fibre optic broadband, capable of lightening speeds. The Virgin train and aircraft network can commute people all over the globe... Read more
Bitcoin ATMs Go Live In Canada
Bitcoin is making its way from the ether of cyberspace into your physical wallet soon. Well, if you happen live in Canada anyways.  As you know Bitcoins are usually stored in the virtual world, but, Bitcoin ATMs will soon be here. The ATM’s are built in the US by Nevada... Read more
FBI Seized $28.5 Million in Bitcoins From Silk Road Owner Ross Ulbricht
The Silk Road made a small fortune during its two and a half years as the web’s biggest anonymous black market for illegal drugs, but at least a $28.5 million chunk of that money now belongs to the FBI. The bureau has located and seized a collection of 144,000... Read more
Hackers Fail in Plot to Frame Security Expert
A cyber security expert has been the target of cyber criminals after suffering a number of attacks over the past year. Brian Krebs, who formerly worked for The Washington Post outing online scammers, now blogs about security on Krebs on Security. Back in March he described how his website... Read more
Bitcoin Suffers Cyber Attacks
The confidence in some Bitcoin users has been shaken following a series of cyberattacks against the digital currency.  The platforms that support Bitcoin were hit by cyberattacks, in what some experts believe is an attempt to lower the value of Bitcoins.  For those who may be unfamiliar with Bitcoins,... Read more