A Canadian insurance industry magazine reports that at the Annual Engineering Insurance Conference Ethereum Developer Ethan Wilding offered statements including: "If you are working in the insurance industry, this is something you might want to consider, get some actuarial scientists on it and see if it's not something you can get involved in and make a big name for yourself as a premier Bitcoin underwriting company." The conference was hosted by The Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company of Canada which the magazine notes presented on their electrical transformer oil and gas inspection program.
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Dell Sells Excess Capacity To Bitcoin ASIC Miners
Contracts that are short and cheap, provide huge capacity and room to grow quickly are just some of the requirements that bitcoin miners demand from data centres. But these needs are not met by the type of product that your typical colocation company provides. On the other hand, it's nothing new that some companies find themselves with more space than required but what is new is that now, that excess capacity is being used for bitcoin ASIC hosting. Continue reading
Bitfilm Festival's Fundraiser Coins Now Available To Supporters
As part of a fundraising campaign, The Bitfilm Festival has launched a coin that allows participants to show their support and pocket some extras for doing so. The coins, capped at 2100, can be purchased for 50 mBTC each and to date, 33 have been sold while a further 2,067 remain. Continue reading
CryptosNews Join The Shenanigans At StartJOIN
CryptosNews, a news website project by the Europe Crypto Group has received a small amount of backing1 from none other than Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert. Continue reading
11 backers, raised £265 so far ↩
Gamer Currency HYPER Goes Where Bitcoin Can't (Into The Bin)
Heavily promoted by David Seaman, HYPER, a PoS altcoin marketed at gamers which claims it can go where Bitcoin cannot, has released details of upcoming developments. Continue reading
Judge Forrest Rejects Illegal Search Defense In Ulbricht Case
Ulbricht's lawyers defense that the FBI illegally collected evidence in the case against him has been rejected by Judge Katherine Forrest on the grounds that Ulbricht insufficiently established that the server searched was his. Wired describes the ruling as based on a technicality. Some reactions to the ruling: Continue reading
Andreas Antonopolous Testifies Before Canadian Senate Committee
On Wednesday, October 8, Bitcoin advocate Andreas Antonopolous testified before the Canadian Senate Committee on Banking, Trade, and Commerce on the subject of digital currencies and regulation. The meeting was the one in a series of eleven scheduled by the Senate Committee on the subject of the “Study on the use of digital currency.” Previous meetings featured presentations by representatives from Visa and Mastercard; the Bitcoin Embassy, the Bitcoin Alliance of Canada, and the Bitcoin Foundation; BitPay and PayPal; the Canada Revenue Agency; CAVirtEx, the Bitcoin Strategy Group and Bit Access; and the Bank of Canada, among others. Continue reading
Wix.com Integration With snapCard Allows Sites To Accept Bitcoin
All Wix members can now accept bitcoin on their websites or blogs with the snapCard widget. Wix.com is an online based website builder that includes simple drag n' drop features as well as free hosting for their members. In conjunction with Boost.vc, Snapcard was founded on Black Friday in 2013. Their goal is to "help bring liquidity to the Bitcoin currency" by giving users the ability to purchase items from online retailers such as Amazon and Staples. Continue reading
BitcoinEzy Claims Ezy Bit Is A One Stop Shop For New Users
BitcoinEzy, an Australian company has released details of its Ezy Bit product, which it claims is an all in one solution for users that are new to Bitcoin and wish to purchase and invest in it. Continue reading
Internet Watch Foundation Claims Bitcoin Increasingly Used To Purchase CP
The Internet Watch Foundation, a charity based in the UK which aims to remove child pornography from the Internet claims it has seen an up tick in child pornography websites that accept Bitcoin as payment. Continue reading