Bitcoin Protocol

Exchanges

Startup Accelerator Boost VC Hosting Silicon Valley Bitcoin Hackathon

Hosting a bitcoin hackathon is a way for Boost VC to encourage new business ideas within the cryptocurrency industry.

Business  ·  10 April 2014
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Bitcoin Core Developers Weigh in on Side Chain Proposal

Would bitcoin benefit from having multiple extra blockchains? Two influential figures think so.

Tech  ·  10 April 2014
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Bitcoin Core Version 0.9.1 Fixes Heartbleed Vulnerability

Bitcoin Core Version 0.9.1 is out and it has addressed the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability, also known as CVE-2014-0160.

Tech  ·  9 April 2014
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Gavin Andresen Steps Down as Bitcoin’s Lead Developer

Andresen will focus on his Bitcoin Foundation work, leaving the lead developer role to Wladimir van der Laan.

Tech  ·  8 April 2014
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CrowdCurity ‘Capture the Coin’ Contest Rewards Bug Finders With Bitcoin

The novel bug-finding scheme rewards security researchers for locating private bitcoin keys hidden within a website.

Policy & regulation  ·  3 April 2014
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Cloud Hashing CEO on Hardware, Network Growth and the Threat of Pools

Emmanuel Abiodun describes his flexible attitude to mining hardware and says big pools are nothing to worry about.

Business  ·  2 April 2014
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Professor Susan Athey: ‘If People Use It, Bitcoin Has Intrinsic Value’

The economist explains what gives bitcoin value, its worth as an investment and the purity of the protocol.

Tech  ·  1 April 2014
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Why Goldman Sachs Got it Wrong on Bitcoin

The company says bitcoin is just a promising payments technology. It is that, and much more, says Ariel Deschapell.

Tech  ·  1 April 2014
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UBS: Banks Could ‘Absorb the Benefits’ of Bitcoin

In a new report, UBS indicated it sees bitcoin's technology as capable of reducing financial costs while improving security.

Business  ·  28 March 2014
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Study: Mt. Gox May Have Lost Just 386 BTC Due to Transaction Malleability

Researchers at ETH Zurich University question whether transaction malleability played an extensive role in Mt. Gox's bitcoin losses.

Markets  ·  27 March 2014
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New Binary Options Trading Service Takes Bitcoin-Only Payments

Binary options offer an easy way to hedge bitcoin volatility and several operators stand poised to fill the demand.

Tech  ·  26 March 2014
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Developers Battle Over Bitcoin Block Chain

Third-party service developers want bitcoin's developers to open up the blockchain.

Tech  ·  25 March 2014
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Inside New York’s Bitcoin Centre

A stone's throw from the stock exchange, New York's bitcoin community is educating, trading and planning for the future.

Business  ·  22 March 2014
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Bitcoin Version 0.9.0 Brings Transaction Malleability Fixes, Branding Change

Core developers have renamed the bitcoin reference client Bitcoin Core to reduce confusion between the network and the software.

Tech  ·  19 March 2014
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A Taxonomy of Bitcoin Mixing Services for Policymakers

As policymakers come to terms with bitcoin, privacy-enhancing protocols seek to maintain fungibility and user-defined privacy.

Tech  ·  17 March 2014