18 Feb 2014 / PR Web – Enchanted Bitcoins is operating what is believed to be the first Bitcoin vending machine available to the public in the United States. The Bitcoin Machine, manufactured by Lamassu, Inc., is permanently installed at Imbibe, an upscale cigar bar and lounge
Read more →18 Feb 2014 / Stanford News – Bitcoin is a stateless, digital currency that allows people to make transactions with no middlemen – no banks, no transaction fees and no governments. Instead of printing banknotes or minting coins, a list of the registration numbers of each of
Read more →18 Feb 2014 / CNN FORTUNE — In the last year, and with increasing intensity following the early December price spike that briefly put Bitcoin above $1,200, critics have sounded the alarm that the price is a bubble. Some, like Felix Salmon, have recognized the value of
Read more →18 Feb 2014 / Entrepreneur – Bitcoins are yet another step closer to going mainstream. Robocoin today announced that it will roll out the first-ever Bitcoin ATM machines in the U.S. later this month, starting with Seattle and Austin, Texas. Exactly where in the cities the machines
Read more →17 Feb 2014 / Venture Beat – Drama, greed, controversy, conspiracy, crime, risk, theft, speculation, wealth — such was the world of Bitcoin in 2013. The crypto-currency captivated us with its soaring highs and plunging lows in 2013, rising from $10 to $1,200 in the course of
Read more →17 Feb 2014 / Multichannel Merchant – Is Bitcoin about to change the way we pay for goods and services on the Internet? Or is Bitcoin just another alternative payment method that comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb? To quote its website,
Read more →17 Feb 2014 / Forbes – Two of the country’s biggest names in e-commerce, Overstock.com and TigerDirect.com, earned themselves some press (and perhaps goodwill from the tech crowd) with their recent decisions to start accepting Bitcoin as payment. Now, though, users of the controversial peer-to-peer digital system
Read more →17 Feb 2014 / Localbitcoins.com Blog – We are happy to announce the first production batch of LocalBitcoins ATM’s. The ATM allows both buying and selling BTC, and the cost is about half of that the cheapest model currently on the market. It also doesn’t require internet
Read more →16 Feb 2014 / Arabian Business – The Pizza Guys is believed to have become the first UAE outlet to accept peer-to-peer payment system bitcoin. The Business Bay shop in Dubai has carried out two transactions with the digital currency since adding it along side credit card
Read more →16 Feb 2014 / Global News – CoinFest 2014 kicked off Saturday with the debut of Winnipeg’s first Bitcoin ATM and the fourth of its kind in Canada. Bitcoin is a cyber currency that exists online that isn’t regulated by any government or bank. Anyone can create
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