31 July 2014 / Fundraising.co.uk – The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is to test accepting donations by Bitcoin, the digital currency. It claims to be “the first major charity in the UK or Ireland to accept Bitcoin”. The test involves creating a dedicated Bitcoin online donation page.
Read more →31 July 2014 / New York Times – Bitcoin has found another taker. On Wednesday, the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia, announced that it would allow people to make donations using Bitcoin, becoming the latest adopter of the virtual currency as a payment option.
Read more →30 July 2014 / The Globe and Mail: By Geoff Gordon – The media’s insatiable desire to sensationalize stories has resulted in a lot of misinformation around bitcoin. For business owners who aren’t properly educated, this misinformation – understandably – leaves them with inaccurate opinions, and the
Read more →29 July 2014 / BetaBeat – Rep. Jared Polis, the “Gamer Congressman,” has been a big advocate for Bitcoin on Capitol Hill. He’s taken BTC for campaign donation, lampooned his colleagues for speaking out against Bitcoin, and invited fellow congressmen to give Bitcoin a shot. Now, he’s helping
Read more →29 July 2014 / dnaInfo – LAKEVIEW — The city’s first bitcoin ATM debuted in Lakeview over the weekend at Cassava Bread. Bitcoin is a type of currency and online payment system that’s been around since 2009. People and businesses can make transactions directly to one another
Read more →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.
Read more →28 July 2014 / BRW Financial Review “……. Australia is starting to live up the hopes of having its own “Silicon Beach” to go with Silicon Valley in California and Silicon Alley in New York. But are the likes of Tsvetnenko building actual business, or will they be wiped out if – some would say when – the bubble bursts?
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
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