This Week in Bitcoin
December 10, 2014
News
Second Tranche of Bitcoins Auctioned Off By US Marshalls The US Marshals who were handed the responsibility of auctioning off the bitcoins seized from the last year’s crack down …
Poorly generated addresses cause Blockchain.info customer’s BTC loss
December 9, 2014
News
What happened? Blockchain.info seems to be under much heat lately from all the recent attacks. Ranging from https redirection by rogue Tor nodes to phishing attempts. During a scheduled update …
Why GAW Miners is a scam
December 9, 2014
Fraud
What is GAW miners? In simple terms GAW miners is a cloud mining company. It offers “hashlets” which are digital cloud miners. They are available in 1 MH/s (Scrypt) or 10 …
$111,000 raised by Gems social network
December 8, 2014
Uncategorized
What is Gems? GEMS is an altcoin of its own which runs on a separate blockchain. It differs because it is backed by the GEMS social messaging app. Furthermore, …
Anecdotes of Lethargy: Secure Your Bitcoins
December 7, 2014
Education
With more power comes more responsibility As your own bank, you are responsible for your bitcoins. A reddit user came out on the popular social media platform, claiming to …
MasterCard Comments on Bitcoin and Regulation
December 7, 2014
News
MasterCard, the US multi-national financial services corporation has recently come out against Bitcoin. The company demands regulators to create a so-called “level playing field” within the payments industry. The …
BitLicense: An Overview
December 6, 2014
Education
An Overview of BitLicense From It’s Inception The year 2014 has turned out to be the year where almost everyone has hopped on the Bitcoin bandwagon. Bitcoin start ups …
CoinJar – bringing bitcoin into the mainstream world
December 6, 2014
Reviews
CoinJar CoinJar is a startup based out of Melbourne, Australia. The company was incorporated in 2013 and soon caught the attention of a Melbourne based startup accelerator, AngelCube. CoinJar …
How multisig transactions can fix the current Credit Cards’ broken consumer protection system
December 5, 2014
Education
Why is the current credit card’s conflict resolution system is broken Credit Cards were invented in the 1950s and were first used as plastic traveler’s cheques. They were designed on …