John Biggs of Tech Crunch reported that the U.S. government is starting to convert the Bitcoins from the Silk Road raid to cash. From the article: As I noted in January, the…
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Xapo Looks To Bring Bitcoin Debit Card to Market
Robert MCMillan of Wired wrote an article on the upcoming Bitcoin debit card from Xapo. The article points out that there are some other prepaid Bitcoin cards out there, the author noted…
Tokyo Court Rejects Bankruptcy Protection for Mt.Gox
Yuri Kagema a writer for the AP, reported that Mt. Gox will not received bankruptcy protection in Japan and will be liquidated. The Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange in Tokyo is headed…
Blockchain Acquires 5 Year Lease for Bitcoin.com
Paul Vigna reported on The Wall StreetJournal that Blockchain has acquired a five year lease for the domain name Bitcoin.com. as of today, essentially that’s Blockchain. The online wallet company acquired a…
BitCoin Mining Maybe Slowing Down and the First BitCoin ATM Comes To Capitol Hill
According to an article on Business Insider, BitCoin mining is slowing down. From the article: Dan Murtha, co-founder of MinerSource.net, a bulk buyer and distributor of mining hardware, KnC’s announcement is a…
Ebay to Create A Place For Virtual Currencies
Ebay has created a new category for Virtual Currency. People will be able to list crpyto currencies for sale along with mining related activities. It looks like the listings for actual currencies…
Mark Karpeles Ordered to come to the US to discuss Mt. Gox Bankruptcy
Reuters reported that the Mark Karpeles has to come to the US to discuss the Mt.Gox Chapter 15 bankruptcy. The company filed bankruptcy in Japan but are also dealing with a class…