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Bitcoin Weekly 2013 April 17: Bitcoin Bubble, Coinsetter Funding, MtGox Speaks, OKCupid Joins the Crowd Among Others
Last week, just as Bitcoin value exceeded $200 it also swelled to almost $266 only to see a crash over the next few days that brought it back down to near $50. It’s been a very volatile week since the last Bitcoin Weekly–but this hasn’t stopped even greater popularity from reaching into the bitcoin market, ...
OKCupid Partners with Coinbase to Accept Bitcoin for Online Dating
With over 4 million active users (and 7 million registered), OKCupid is a very popular Internet dating site that includes those annoying quizzes that everyone seems to love so much—and now Coinbase has announced a partnership with the dating site to enable acceptance of Bitcoin. This has been a big few months for the cryptocurrency ...
Reddit Becomes News Corkboard for Aftermath of Boston, Massachusetts Marathon Explosions
Often self-dubbed “the front page of the Internet,” social media news aggregator is making its bones today for that subtitle as users are using the service as a news corkboard for updates, information and developments after two bombs exploded in Boston, Mass. killing and injuring runners and spectators at the Patriots’ Day marathon. The corkboard ...
Mark Jacobs of Camelot Unchained Speaks on the Coming Free-to-Play MMO Apocalypse
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) are currently in the throws of a highly disruptive market niche change: one that shifts publishers and developers attention from gathering money from users via subscriptions to one that monetizes free games much like how mobile survives. The standard for subscription seems to be dwindling with towering giants like World ...
Bitcoin Exchange MtGox CEO Mark Karpeles Responds to Questions About What Happened This Week
After reaching a euphoric high in value of $266 USD per on Wednesday, Bitcoin suffered a massive tumble from that airy perch and MtGox seemed to be at the center of the troubles. Wednesday day and evening the exchange suffered massive bouts of lag and then finally went offline, the company behind the exchange announced ...
Coinsetter the Newest Bitcoin Forex Seeks a Niche in the Wild Market
Yesterday, Coinsetter, a brand new forex for Bitcoin announced that it had raised $500,000 in seed capital. The New-York based startup seeks to bring to market advanced trading options that don’t exist in the current BTC market. The Bitcoin exchange market is already fairly well fitted with numerous exchanges including the extremely popular MtGox, which ...
The Social Failure of Syfy Channel and Trion Worlds MMO Defiance
It’s been a week since Syfy Channel and Trion Worlds released the much-hyped massively multiplayer online game Defiance for Xbox, PS3, and PC. As an MMO, it’s nothing new to the sphere of shooters that are also role playing games, what makes it different is that the game is connected to a Syfy Channel exclusive ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 April 10: Bitcoin Value Reaches $250 USD; SimpliSafe Home Security Accepts Bitcoins; and Heyzap Adds Bitcoin for Game Devs
Bitcoin has seen a surprising amount of attention lately between talking heads appearing on economics shows, Bloomberg, and Financial Times, but what’s really going to drive bitcoin’s attachment in the marketplace isn’t what analysts say about it: it’s how people use it. So this Bitcoin Weekly is dedicated to news about how people intend to ...
Bitcoin Value Exceeds $200: Who is a BTC Millionaire Now?
The market for bitcoins has been seeing a surprising amount of attention lately and it is now in the throes of a meteoric rise—as a result, popular media talking heads have come out of the woodwork and none too few who bought into the currency when it was young can now reap amazing rewards. Today, ...
Fortumo Brings Mobile Payments to Mobile Game Developers to Broaden Audience to China, Brazil
Mobile phones have become ubiquitous for the on-the-go-user as well as the on-the-go gamer, and as a result developers have been aiming for iOS and Android to give them an “in” to the market of all these people with computers in their pockets. When it comes to monetizing apps, developers want to be able to ...
