Vitalik Buterin beat Mark Zuckerberg for the 2014 World Technology Network award in IT software. The award is presented for Buterin's role as co-creator and inventor of Ethereum which has yet to exist and co-founding Bitcoin Magazine. The event was held at the Time & Life building which no longer houses Time Inc. Time was of course spun off Warner Communications earlier this summer to a chilly reception by investors.
BitPay Begins Promoting Bitcoin Black Friday 2014
In anticipation of Bitcoin Black Friday, BitPay has begun to ramp the November 28th event by sharing some statistics from last year's event while promising that this year's sale is going to be bigger and better than ever before, for the following reasons: Continue reading
KnCMiner: Moving To 16nm, Plan To Offer Cloud Mining
KnCMiner has announced that their plans to move from 20nm to 16nm are well under way, having finalised what they say are the most important contracts in the process. The 16nm chips are expected to be deployed in early 2015 as part of KnC's new mining platform called Solar. Continue reading
Jim Robinson, Tim Draper Confirmed Bidders On Next USMS Bitcoin Auction
Jim Robinson, a co-founder and managing partner at RRE Ventures stated in an interview with Bloomberg his intention to bid on the next USMS auction. Tim Draper also confirmed his intention to bid via an email sent to Bloomberg News earlier today. Both men are investors in the exchange "Mirror" which recently re-branded from the name Vaurum. Continue reading
Vessenes' Bitcoin Foundation Publishes Telling Survey Results.
According to the latest survey results from the USG's Bitcoin Foundation,1 only half of the 225 individual members surveyed even like USGavin et al.2 No report on whether this has anything to do with their insertion of Heartbleed into Bitcoin Core or their continued attempts to increase the block size and thereby compromise the Bitcoin network's security. Continue reading
Not to be confused with the Bitcoin Foundation incorporated on #bitcoin-assets. ↩
50.44% "like" or "strongly like." The rest either "strongly dislike," "dislike," or are "neutral." ↩
Barry Silbert to Form USMS Auction Bidding Syndicate Again…
Fresh off of Twitter:
1/ Announcement: @BitcoinTrust and our bitcoin trading desk will be forming a syndicate to bid in the US Marshals #bitcoin auction…
— Barry Silbert (@barrysilbert) November 18, 2014
2/ Details to come shortly. Stay tuned!
— Barry Silbert (@barrysilbert) November 18, 2014
St Petersburg Bitcoin Conference December 4th
On December 4th a Bitcoin conference will be taking place in St Petersburg, Russia that features a slate of speakers that includes Pirate Party of Russia founder Paul Rassudov. The conference will take place at the Ambassador hotel on Rimsky-Korsakov drive. According to the conferences website they are still soliciting speakers. Registration for the conference is 10,000 rubles.
mcxNow Says it is Becoming mtMOX
Alleged cryptocurrency exchange mcxNOW has shuttered again for a second consecutive winter, and purports to be reopening eventually under the new name mtMOX. The first winter shuttering occurred one month after conducting a public offering for "Fee Shares" on the platform. The announcement: Continue reading
Melanie Shapiro's CryptoLabs Launches GSM Enabled Hardware Wallet With Camera
CryptoLabs, a startup founded by Melanie Shapiro, today announced via TechCrunch the launch of their bitcoin hardware wallet named Case. In the introductory video, Shapiro describes Case as the easiest and most secure wallet, telling TechCrunch: Continue reading
Lamassu: 100th Bitcoin ATM Operational
The Bitcoin ATM vendor Lamassu has announced the successful launch of its 100th Bitcoin ATM thanks to installations in Finland and Indonesia.
Lamassu first began taking pre-orders for the machines in August of 2013 and in April of this year, Lamassu CEO Zach Harvey told the Coin Summit conference held in San Francisco that more than 220 orders had been placed for the machines. This month's announcement that the 100th machine is now operational represents less than 50% of pre-orders having made it to market despite more than a year passing since pre-orders first began. Pre-order sales are often used to conflate the success of a product. Continue reading