Archive for the finance Category

29 July 2014 / Payment Source – For most of the digital currency’s existence, the price of a bitcoin has swung wildly. Coinapult is looking to remove this risk with the launch of Coinapult Locks, which pins the value of a user’s bitcoin balance to a stable asset.

28 July 2014 / BUCHAREST (Reuters) – In a well-lit office with red window frames in downtown Bucharest, Romania’s first bitcoin ATM attracts many who until it opened in May had to buy or sell the digital currency face-to-face or through wire transfers. The interest in bitcoin

25 July 2014 / e27.co – Yuzo Kano, Founder of Bitflyer, has announced the seed funding of US$1.6 million, designed to power a new Bitcoin exchange called BitFlyer. The new Japan-based Bitcoin exchange has ambitious goals, aiming to capture the market position formerly occupied by the now defunct Mt

25 July 2014 Beta Beat – My introduction to Bitcoin came from the smartest living man. Balaji Srinivasan is the youngest General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Currently he is building a development wing for Andreessen—a project that, to my knowledge, no VC has ever undertaken. Ben Horowitz

24 July 2014 / Institutional Investor – By Mark Pey: “By now I think we can agree that the absence of an official, rules-based, cooperatively managed monetary system has not been a great success. In fact, international financial crises seem at least as frequent and more destructive

24 July 2014 / Money Morning – A tsunami of disruption – courtesy of Bitcoin – is headed directly for several sectors of the financial services industry. Some of these companies may adapt to a world in which the digital currency plays a major role, but most

23 July 2014 / Payment Source – Zuman, a cloud-based human resource outsourcer, has partnered with BitPay to allow its business clients to pay their employees in bitcoin. Human resources “is frankly kind of broken, especially for the changing demographics of the workforce of tomorrow,” said Doug

23 July 2014 / siliconANGLE – Near the end of 2013, Apple decided it was going to have nothing to do with Bitcoin, and immediately yanked various Bitcoin-related apps from its App Store. Because of this, many apps were stripped of their Bitcoin functionality so they could