Ethereum Alternative Lisk Announces ICO With ShapeShift – New Open Source Dapp & Sidechain Platform
Bitcoin Press Release: Decentralized applications and sidechain platform Lisk is pleased to announce a partnership with the well established crypto-currency exchange ShapeShift to host their ICO. Set to launch at the end of March 2016, decentralized applications and sidechain platform…
Takara: A Bitcoin Geocaching Game
Here’s another Bitcoin gem: Takara One of the things I like to do with my kids is to go geocaching, a game where you get the geolocation and a set of clues for a hidden treasure and then go looking…
Korean Bank Partners with Bitcoin Service for Remittances
For a change, it seems like a bank investigating blockchain tech might be getting it right. CoinDesk is reporting that Kookmin Bank in South Korea is linking up with Coinplug, a services company that has regularly been raising investment funds…
Apple Puts Its Money Where Its Mouth Is on Encryption
I sure that I’m no different than most of the readers of this blog in having a love-hate relationship with some of the big companies that have a huge impact on our lives: Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple but to name…
Russians Conflicted About Bitcoin and the Blockchain
At a time when the government of Russia seems to be inching closer to outright banning Bitcoin, or at least trying to do so, the Russian central bank apparently is taking a more realistic approach. According to CoinDesk, deputy chair Olga…
Adam Draper Documents Boost VC Investors’ Enthusiasm for Bitcoin
When I first got involved in Bitcoin, the talk was of adoption curve which was going to propel us to the Moon with a sudden influx of adoption. Then we had the bubble of 2013, the MT Gox debacle, and…
From CopBlock: Bitcoin helps to defund the police state
By Amanda B. Johnson. Article courtesy of CopBlock 08/10/2014 What are the teeth of a police state? What are its claws? How can an organization continually act in direct opposition to the wishes of a population that it claims to…
Bitcoin and the New Fourth Estate: An Interview with Cop Block
Since the founding of the nation, a free press has been seen as essential to keeping the people informed and the government honest. The Fourth Estate, although not an official branch of the government, has always been considered to have…
How Bitcoin is Enabling the Mainstream Press to Attack It
This morning another hit-piece on Bitcoin was published by Jason Bloomberg on Forbes. His argument essentially boils down to the current debate about how to scale Bitcoin up and the possibility of a hard fork to Bitcoin Classic, raising the…
Bitcoin Casino BetCoin Launches Tor Enabled Anonymous E-Gambling on Darknet
Bitcoin Press Release: Bitcoin gaming giant BetCoin™ announces world’s first anonymous Bitcoin gambling platform developed by a major casino players can trust, utilizing the Tor protocol. BetCoin™ Bitcoin Casino has just announced launch of a new anonymous betting service aimed…