GigaomThis week in bitcoin: bitcoin’s price stumbles, falls and picks itself back up
Bitcoin’s price crashes aren’t surprising anymore, as we learn that many, many things can move the bitcoin market. Read more »
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Bitcoin’s price crashes aren’t surprising anymore, as we learn that many, many things can move the bitcoin market. Read more »
Sure, there the usual assortment of “X for Y” startups, but science and bitcoin companies abounded at startup accelerator Y Combinator’s Summer 2014 demo day. Read more »
The tool is being pitched at those who want deep insights into addresses and transactions, from developers to regulators. Read more »
The bitcoin community is coming to terms with regulation, but are fighting it from snuffing out the nascent technology. Read more »
Could you have a “pay with bitcoin” button for your Uber sometime soon? The WSJ reported today that eBay’s payment unit Braintree is considering accepting bitcoin. Apparently the PayPal subsidiary has… Read more »
The German peer-to-peer loans outfit is going for the emerging markets, starting with those in Latin America. Read more »
It’s kind of trendy for retailers to start accepting bitcoin. Services like Coinbase are making it easier for them to do so, and it provides good publicity, as the cryptocurrency remains… Read more »
What’s moving the market? One research paper points to Google searches as a predictor of a boom — and bust — of the bitcoin market. Read more »
The attacker redirected traffic to fool cryptocurrency miners’ systems into connecting with his “mining pool” — giving him the proceeds of their hard work. Read more »
BitPay killed off its transaction fees on its starter plan, making bitcoin payment processing free for merchants. Coinbase then followed suit for nonprofits. Read more »