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Bitcoin Weekly 2014 May 21: Circle debuts consumer product, Kryptokit returned to Chrome, UK Pirate Party, and Dogecoin NASCAR
After a long time waiting, enigmatic Bitcoin company Circle has showcased a consumer product and it’s an easy-to-use wallet. KryptoKit vanished from the Chrome Extension Store for 30 minutes on Tuesday–proving to be a glitch on Google’s part. The UK Pirate Party may get a chance for another member of Parliament with the help of ...
San Jose Earthquakes will accept Bitcoin starting May 25th
The San Jose Earthquakes Major League Soccer team made a quake of their own today in the media as mainstream outlets caught onto the team’s Bitcoin news. First reported by SiliconANGLE, the San Jose Quakes intend to start accepting Bitcoin for tickets, concessions, and merchandise on May 25th. Bloomberg ran a story this morning quoting ...
Red Hat OpenShift 2.1 announcement shows dedication to DevOps paradigm
Application delivery and platform is a very important component of any DevOps-enabling infrastructure and Red Hat is looking to make their OpenShift Enterprise PaaS platform the go-to for enterprise with the release of version 2.1. Announced today during the OpenStack Summit conference, Red Hat is making OpenShift Enterprise 2.1 publicly available for developers with a ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 May 14: Doge Vault hacked, BFL and 300 FTC complaints, BitPay’s ground-breaking $30m investment
This week’s Bitcoin Weekly brings us news of Doge Vault being hacked with the bandits making away with potentially 111 million coins–the service has been offline since the heist. eBay’s CEO has shown some interest in Bitcoin’s future. Butterfly Labs is on the outs with almost 300 customers, if not more, who sent complaints to ...
Americans invade, dynamite Minecraft Demark in griefing raid
When Denmark set out to make a 1:1 map of the country in the virtual world of Minecraft, officials did not expect Americans to invade. That’s exactly what happened near the end of April when a group of players stole onto the server like an army armed with high explosives and bad taste—the group laid ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 May 7: First political party to use blockchain for e-voting is from Denmark, The Rise of Digital Currency, Bitcoin’s niche in developing economies
In this Bitcoin Weekly it’s time to explore how Bitcoin and related technologies are and could be put to use. To start, the Danish Liberal Alliance has become the first-ever political party to use blockchain technology to facilitate e-voting. Crush The Street released a short seven minute documentary of the rise of virtual currency and ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 April 30: Bloomberg adds Bitcoin to their market index, MIT to produce campus-wide ‘bitcoin economy’, the first Mexican bitcoin exchange
A day late, but not a bitcoin short, the Bitcoin community is seeing some recognition this week in the financial sector with Bloomberg adding a Bitcoin market index to their professional services. Two MIT students will be giving $100 worth of bitcoins to pupils on campus to start a small bitcoin economy and study spending ...
City of Paradigm: The business of artificial intelligence
Below is an excerpt from Kyt Dotson’s novel City of Paradigm, a science fiction tale about a fictional 21st century city situated somewhere in California. Each City of Paradigm column is two parts: an excerpt from the novel and an editorial describing the real-world context of the technologies described in the story. Readers may find ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 April 23: Vault of Satoshi proof-of-solvency audit, TEDx virtual currencies are the future, Bitcoin side-chains, and happy Easter BTC
More exchanges are hitching their wagon to the trust of the community in the wake of the insolvency of MtGox. Now Vault of Satoshi has submitted to a proof-of-solvency audit program to show users that the wallets hold what they say they hold. Financial officer for Juan Llanos Unidos Financial Services speaks in at TEDx ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 April 16: Upgrade to fix Heartbleed bug, Bitcoin value exceeds $500, Amazon not interested in BTC, Reddit’s /r/technology rejecting ‘Bitcoin’ headlines
With last week’s Heartbleed bug still bright in the minds of Internet users, if you run a Bitcoin client it is a good time for you to immediately upgrade to 0.9.1 if you have not already. As fears of a crackdown from the People’s Bank of China begin to subside, bitcoin market value has risen ...
