In a shocking turn of events, BitPay has partnered up with Advanced Cash, an online payment system offering virtual and physical debit cards to their customers. Thanks to this partnership, Advanced Cash users can now use Bitcoin to pay for their Mastercard debit card, and even fund their virtual or physical card with this popular …
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Since our very soft launch in December 2014, Miningpool.co.uk has had over 20,000 visitors from over 100 countries. The site which was initially purchased with the view of running a mining pool originally had only one writer, contributing stories purely about mining. Since January we have been working with an array of writers, all of whom …
Czech Republic newspaper Hospodářské noviny is reporting that the alleged former owner the dark web service Sheep Marketplace has been arrested. The marketplace shut down last year and its users lost roughly £28,000,000 worth of bitcoin. It is widely suspected that the owner of the Sheep Marketplace took the money, while he claimed that a …
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NETELLER is an online payment processor and pre-paid card issuer. Today, CoinDesk is reporting that the service will begin accepting Bitcoin as a funding method, just days after its parent company Optimal Payments announced the intent to purchase longtime rival Skrill. According to CoinDesk, Bitcoin will now be an option to fund NETELLER accounts and …
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Hashpanel.io wants to make it easy to keep track of your mining operations. Mining can get complicated quickly. With the ever increasing need for hashpower, miners need an increasing number of machines. Just because a machine is out of date as a standalone miner, doesn’t mean that hashing power can’t be put to good use with …
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Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 The UK has issued a report in response to its earlier call for information, outlining the government’s plan for digital currencies in the near future, but is by no means a comprehensive report on what they plan to do. While other cryptocurrency media outlets are praising what they …
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Bitcoin wallet security is being scrutinized more than ever in 2015, given all of the recent drama surrounding the wallets of Bitcoin exchanges. Hot wallets are being breached left and right, and users infected with a virus or keylogger see their funds being moved without any chance of recuperating their losses. AirBitz, one of the …
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Although it may not be the “killer app” for bitcoin that venture capitalists hint at on a regular basis, there are plenty of people excited about the idea of using bitcoin as a currency in virtual gaming worlds. One of the best examples of this idea in practice is a project called Bitquest. The idea …
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SFARDS, a company created through the merger of Chinese ASIC manufacturers Wiibox and Gridseed, has announced that they plan to launch a 28mm dual algorithm mining chip. The chip will be capable of mining both Scrypt and SHA256 at the same time, or switching between the two to reduce heating problems. Gridseed had previously released …
Bitcoin wallet security remains a thorn in the side of the disruptive digital currency. Hardware Bitcoin wallets are a good way to protect your digital wealth, but most of them have a software side that is not as secure as it could or should be. Ledger, one of the leading names when it comes to …
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While we were talking to Yoshi goto over at the Bitmain booth during Inside Bitcoins Berlin last week, he also unveiled another major announcement. After announcing the company would be one of the exhibitors at Inside Bitcoins Berlin a while ago, we were actually the first ones to actually see and take pictures of what …
During my stay at Inside Bitcoins Berlin last week, I had a chance to talk to Yoshi Goto, one of the Bitmain representatives. Oddly enough, Bitmain was the only mining company on the exhibitors list for this Bitcoin conference. Yoshi told me that Bitmain is launching a new Bitcoin cloud mining contract which is expected …
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One of the most popular and controversial projects in the cryptocurrency world is running a second round of funding both on the distributed crowdfunding platform Lighthouse and through manual Bitcoin donations. Already, the project has already raised two thirds of its funding goal. The Darkwallet is essentially a distributed wallet/mixing service that increases the anonymity of Bitcoin …
Users are angry after the most recent update to µTorrent (aka uTorrent) has been installing what they allege is cryptocurrencying mining malware. While BitTorrent, the company that owns µTorrent says that the software is installed in a open and transparent way, users claim that isn’t the case. BitTorrent also claims that the software is easily …
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Bitcoin has come a long way in the last two years, and investor involvement has boosted trustworthiness in the currency. But many potential bitcoin users are still put off by its reputation, which is considered shady at best, and positively criminal at worst. Links with Silk Road have not helped bitcoin to foster a squeaky …
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The Australian Bitcoin investment group digitalBTC is gearing up to release a cloud mining trading platform called DigitalX Mintsy, it will be supported by the Cryptsy platform. The system sounds a bit like CEX.IO’s cloud mining platform, only users can rent out their own equipment if they have it. Buyers can then purchase that hashrate …
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Since 2013, Barry Silbert’s Bitcoin Investment Fund (BIT) has been one of the most logical ways for institutional investors to enter the bitcoin market. Although there has been plenty of discussion around the upcoming bitcoin ETF from the Winklevoss Twins that may soon be tradeable on the NASDAQ, it seems that the BIT has beaten …
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[This article is outdated. We have an updated article for 2018. We recommend that you use that to find the best place to buy PC games with bitcoin.] Gabe Newell still stubbornly refuses to accept cryptocurrency, so until he does, we have to find alternative methods of buying games with Bitcoin. Buying Steam cards is …
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