Google and Square both announced yesterday that they were in the process of creating new payment systems that would be able to accept Bitcoin. With their gamble on Google wallet not doing so great (I love it honestly… talk about EASY) they are starting a new project code named “Plaso”. Plaso is looking to compete…
The Black Market. The Dark Corner of the internet. The Silk Road. The Silk Road was the most popular ‘black market website’ run by the man Ross Ulbrict, a 30 year old from San Francisco. Ulbrict was arrested in October of 2013 and has been awaiting trial with charges of money laundering, hacking, conspiracy to…
Coinbase Exchange has been live in 25 of the 50 states for the past week. Bitcoin prices at the start were very optimistic. Reaching nearly $300 and as the week has gone on settled back down near $220. The hype behind a US based Bitcoin exchange is there. I believe that Coinbase rushed to get…
Friday marked a huge milestone for Coinbase where it has secured over $75 Million in funding from notable large investors like NYSE and USAA. With this funding they have said that they will be opening the first regulated Bitcoin exchange on US soil! Coinbase already operates in 19 other countries as a legitimate exchange and…
Oh Bitcoin you fickle beast. As the last few weeks have been a roller coaster of nothing but down. It looks like Bitcoin has finally rebounded a bit. Just enough to let the dust settle. After last weeks large dive in the market reaching as low as $173 on Coindesk’s ticker to rebounding a bit…
Happy New Year to everyone! After taking a week off for the holidays I’m back in the saddle to get you all of your Bitcoin news. The last week has been pretty busy for the Bitcoin community so lets get into it! BitStamp is the 3rd largest Bitcoin exchange in the world. BitStamp took over…
Another week come and gone. As I type this up, another Bitcoin app seems to have made it into the Apple’s App Store on iTunes. Here to stay? Since the dawn of Bitcoin, Apple seems to have turned it’s back on the Bitcoin community. When they first started removing apps from the store. It was…
This week has been an overall great week for Bitcoin news around the globe. This week we will cover, Blockchain.com‘s security “oop’s”, the Bitcoin College Football Bowl, and Microsoft accepting Bitcoin as a form of online payment for all products!! We’ll kick it off first with the “bad” news first. Blockchain.com is one of the…
Welcome to Bitcoin corner (I can’t come up with a better catchy phrase right now… We’ll come up with something more official hopefully in the future for the Bitcoin news). Bitcoin (BTC). She can be such a cruel mistress.. Remembering back to a year ago when the price was nearly $1000 per BTC. It seems…
In this episode we get back up to speed and discuss the tech news of the last few weeks.
