All Articles

In order to start Bitcoin mining, people must first scale up their hardware and computing power. But have you ever thought about some of the lengths some people go to increase their Bitcoin mining capcity?

Good news, if you use the online resource, Cryptonator, for all of your conversion needs or if you simply need to quickly convert any amount of fiat money to Bitcoin or just about any other crypto-currency and vice versa based on live rates.

On Tuesday night, the Vice President of the St. Louis Fed, David Andolfatto, presented a report titled BitCoin and Beyond: The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Virtual Currencies, referring to the crypto-currency as a “stroke of genius”.

Stanford University has united with educational platform Coursera to provide the Cryptography I and II courses for free. An unlimited number of students from all around the world can virtually attend the lectures given by Dan Boneh, Professor of Computer Science.

While Julian Assange was living under house arrest at Ellingham Hall in Norfolk, England back in June of 2011 awaiting word on his possible extradition to Sweden on rape charges, he received an unexpected guest, Eric Scmidt, the Chairman and co-founder of Google.

We have written about Bitcoin ATM launching and operation for such a long time – starting with an article about the first Bitcoin kiosk in Canada, and now our latest reports about vending machines in New Zealand and Dubai. But we had never shown our readers how exactly the process of using a Bitcoin ATM goes.

This week Square Market announced that from now on buyers can purchase goods and services with Bitcoin. The official announcement was published on Monday 1 April, but Square Market developers assure that this isn’t an April Fool’s joke.

Unlike his congressional counterparts, Colorado Democrat, Jared Polis, is not scrambling or scratching his head in an attempt to figure out how to deal with nascent cryptocurrencies.

BitPay is continuing to impress with its unprecedented growth as it has announced that they have opened its European Headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This appears to be just the latest move by BitPay as part of an aggressive growth strategy to bolster its presence on the European continent where it is currently serving over 7,000 merchants with the goal to raise that number to 30,000 by the end of 2014.

On April 1st, Cointelegraph reported on the investigation performed by Forbes’ Andy Greenberg. While he was searching for links leading to Satoshi Nakamoto, he found Hal Finney – another cryptographic genius, whose works and research results have created the strong foundation of the IT crypto-branch.

Auckland, the largest city of New Zealand, received its first network of Bitcoin vending machines on Monday. It really is a network, as two units manufactured by Lamassu were installed and launched on 1 April.

Cyprus was long used as an offshore haven for fiat currencies, but the financial crisis of 2012-2013 culminated in massive levies on uninsured bank accounts in Cyprus with deposits of at least 100,000 euro.

The Cypriot Bitcoin community has been talking about this for some time, and now it’s finally here: The University of Nicosia in Cyprus has opened up registration for its massive free online open course, “Introduction to Digital Currencies.”

April 2014 brings interesting news to the cryptographic environment. If you doubt Bitcoin and ask how long it will last on the market, switch to Overkillcoin – the most promising virtual currency.

Using money while abroad has been a major problem for travelers since, well, the inception of money although I haven’t had the chance to try Bitcoin...

The investigations and detective games are currently focusing on two main matters in the cryptographic world – the Bitcoins lost by Mt.Gox and the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of the most successful virtual currency. The former succeeded in putting the brakes on the search for the father of the praised technology for some time, but the most ambitious researchers among journalists, developers and users have certainly not abandoned the idea.

Today, Bitcoin’s price has hit $700! But don’t check your e-wallets just yet. Take some time to get into the spirit of “April Fool’s Day” with Cointelegraph.com and check out some equally light-hearted stories below

Learn the development history of Bitcoin! A new video by David Perry.

The Clean Water Coin Initiative is the first ever coin designed and developed to be a nonprofit organization. What does that mean? We are a registered Nonprofit Organization and we’ve created a Crypto Charity and coin that lets a community actively participate in helping provide clean water. To do that we’ve teamed up with CharityWater.org so that we can create campaigns and raise funds for clean water projects.

On the 5th of April, the O2 also known as the North Greenwich Arena in London will host the first Bitcoin Fight Night in history.

Two fresh altcoins have arrived at the scene. While being related in wider terms, PotCoin and DopeCoin are different technologically and, what is more important, ideologically.

Next Thursday, April 3rd, the CAC card academy will hold a conference dedicated to the first crypto-currency. The event will take place in Stockholm at Finlandshuset (Finland House Conference).

Need to catch up on what’s been going on in cryptocurrencies? From clumsy authoritarianism to Bitcoin user research, here are the top five stories that made news this week.

Stripe, the online payments processor that graduated from Y Combinator in 2010, announced last week that it was testing Bitcoin support and would be opening up to beta testing in the near future.

As Max Keiser stated at the beginning of the interview, the name “Mellon” for decades has been associated with traditional banks and financial systems. However, Matthew Mellon does not subscribe to this supposed legacy as he works hard to reign in the Bitcoin future that many people now await.

American journalist and podcaster David Seaman posted a scathing critique of the IRS’s newly announced stance on Bitcoin earlier this week. The IRS has said it will be taxing Bitcoins, and any other digital currencies, as property.

I was in Brussels this week for a “private sector consultative forum” organized by FATF, the Financial Action Task Force. FATF is an inter-governmental body established in 1989 “to set standards and promote effective implementation of legal, regulatory and operational measures for combating money laundering, terrorist financing and other related threats to the integrity of the international financial system.”

Chinese news outlets reported that the government would penalize any banks dealing in Bitcoin after April 15, and the news spread like wildfire.

If you happen to be living in San Francisco, USA, you may have recently noticed some particular graffiti popping up all over the streets of the city. More specifically, the images can be seen mostly on ATMs and Apple buses.

Mt.Gox has presented the necessary documentation to Tokyo’s police to help with the investigation of the colossal Bitcoin loss on behalf of the exchange. Mt.Gox has already recovered almost 200,000 Bitcoins from a forgotten wallet. But how much more is out there?