The Bulgarian based crowd-lending platform BitLendingClub has announced a seed investment via Angel.co from Bulgarian VC fund LAUNCHub. BitLendingClub is seeking a total of USD $1.25 million to finance 24 months of operation on the basis that current revenue of $144 K/year will expand to an expected revenue of $4.42 mil/year in 2 years time. The investor presentation can be viewed here. Continue reading
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Canadian VPN Provider SurfEasy Team Up With BitPay
The Canadian privacy company SurfEasy, which markets itself as a no-log VPN provider, today announced they have teamed up with BitPay to enable customers to pay using bitcoin when purchasing the privacy based products it offers. Continue reading
Swedish Enforcement Agency To Look If Debtors Own Bitcoin
The Swedish Enforcement Authority, which is a government agency that enforces judgements both public and private, has announced it will begin investigating whether debtors have stashed away or hidden bitcoins. Continue reading
Pool's Closed For Crypto Money Expo
Crypto Money Expo, the brainchild of Eyal Abramovitch, is an online Bitcoin conference which runs December 5th through 6th, 2014. Speakers include Matthew Rosak1, Peter Todd2, Sam Onat Yilmaz3, David Johnston4, J.R Willett5, Kirk St Johns6, Ofir Beigel7, Aric Fedida8, Evan Duffield9 and Matan Guter10. Continue reading
GoCoin Gets Cozy With iGaming Operator
GoCoin today announced its agreement with Cozy Games1, a Malta based iGaming operator which provides a suite of white label products such as slots, bingo, table and networked jackpot games amongst other gambling services for online casino operators. The partnership with GoCoin will enable Cozy Games to accept Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin deposits. Continue reading
Which uses what is by far the most frustrating method of navigating a website I have ever seen. Kill me now. ↩
Breakout Gaming Fall Short In Attempt To Raise 10,000 BTC
Breakout Gaming, the gambling startup which is backed by various poker pros such as Johnny Chan, Huck Seed, Jennifer Harman plus many more, yesterday launched their "Initial Coin Offering" in the hopes of raising between 7,000 and 10,000 bitcoin. Continue reading
Julian Assange: "Bitcoin's Blockchain Most Intellectually Interesting Development In The Last Five Years
Julian Assange, the Wikileaks co-founder who continues to remain confined to the Ecuadorian embassy in London despite plans to leave, shared his thoughts on how the Bitcoin blockchain could be used to break Orwell's dictum that he who controls the past controls the future and who controls the present controls the past. Continue reading
BitPay To Assist Paydici To Enable Bitcoin Based Recurring Billing
Paydici, an all-in-one billing service provider founded by Eli Alford-Jones, believes it will be able to bring recurring billing payments to the Bitcoin space through working with BitPay. Continue reading
KnCMiner To Cease Retail Sales, Sick Of Problematic Customers
Swedish company KnCMiner, which brought to market popular ASIC mining rigs such as the Jupiter in 2013, are to cease selling hardware to retail customers and instead focus on expanding their data centres in order to scale up their own mining operations. Continue reading
I'm Gavin Andresen And Welcome To Jackass
This is a copy of the AMA held by Gavin Andresen on the 21st October, 2014 and provided for your reading in a format that is easier to do so. Continue reading