Kraken, which runs an exchange for trading bitcoin and other digital assets, has acquired Cryptowatch, a charting and trading platform. With the acquisition, Kraken released an upgraded trading interface on Wednesday, too. Cryptowatch is used by thousands of traders to chart more than 150 markets in real time and trade as many as 22 digital assets. Terms were…
I decided to create this tutorial on how to make a Bitcoin Price Ticker. Well, this is only a prototype and I will make a smaller edition with a more pleasant design and some other features at a later time. However, this serves as a nice proof of concept and hopefully it will give you some ideas for your own improvements. This Bitcoin Price Ticker will show the…
We re excited to announce that precious metals dealer JM Bullion is now accepting bitcoin with the BitPay platform. After a period of testing with its customers, the company is opening its bitcoin payment option to all precious metal buyers. One of the largest dealers in its industry, JM Bullion is also one of the most trusted providers of gold and silver in…
Data stored in blockchains cannot be changed, which means that personal data they contain cannot be removed. Jeni Tennison, the ODI’s Technical Director, explains why it’s really important that we design blockchains to protect people’s privacy Blockchains are currently getting a lot of attention as a distributed way of storing data. But the irreversibility and…
The Fast Money traders weighed Bitcoin after the Securities and Exchange Commissionblocked the listing of the first exchange-traded fund for the digital currency on Friday. Trader Brian Kelly said he still likes bitcoin because the currency has tremendous utility. He said the SEC rejected the ETF because the bitcoin exchange system could not handle the volume…
Make a Fortune with ASRock s Latest Mining Machines: H81 Pro BTC & H61 Pro BTC TAIPEI, Taiwan, November 15, 2013 – Dig the fact that there s probably no way you re ever going to end up dirty rich overnight, not unless you hit the jackpot or discover Davy Jones treasure. Or maybe what you could try is to mine for the legendary peer-to-peer digital currency…
–Blockchain has announced a major update to their popular open source Bitcoin Blockchain Wallet at The North American Bitcoin Conference. In addition to a more streamlined UI, the new features implemented have been designed to make Bitcoin more accessible and easier to use than ever for consumers. “This product launch is the first of several core updates to our…
Bitcoin Address: A unique identifier for sending, receiving, and storing bitcoins. Also known as a “public key, ” each Bitcoin address is paired with a unique “private key” which functions like a secret account password. Both are needed to access coins held at an address. The number of possible Bitcoin addresses is effectively infinite, allowing users to create…
One of the major criticisms on Bitcoin and crypto currencies is the ability for the blockchain to scale and compete with volume offered by traditional money systems. The Bitcoin network handles a transaction once every two to three seconds, which when compared to established money transmission networks at between a hundred to two thousand transactions per second…
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The Bitcoin Digital Currency was created and is held electronically. No one controls it. Bitcoins aren’t printed, like dollars or euros – they’re produced by people, and increasingly businesses, running computers all around the world, using software that solves mathematical problems and many servers to support the bitcoin payment system. It means that people…
In their recent SEC filing, eBay and PayPal confirmed plans to allow merchants with a standard account to accept bitcoin payments through third-party processor Braintree. This company was acquired by eBay for $800 million in September 2013 and will now be part of PayPal Holdings. In the same SEC filing, eBay and PayPal have announced the formation of a new corporation…
If, like me, you are a major Bitcoin advocate, you are probably sick and tired of Bitcoin crime sound bites dominating the mainstream news since 2013. If the mainstream gets exposed to Bitcoin at all, it is the underworld of Bitcoin which is exposed, not its industry and innovation. The world of digital currency is getting a makeover this fall as a new television…
Bitcoin interest has been growing lately, and with that comes volatility. Bitcoin is currently much more volatile than any other currency, making it a prime candidate for arbitrage. Before I get into details of Bitcoin arbitrage, lets get this out of the way: What is arbitrage? Currency arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of price differences between…
We promised another article about peer-to-peer trading, but given the events of yesterday, when the Winklevoss Twins had their Bitcoin ETF denied and panic selling ensued, it’s a good time to talk about what to do when the prices drop sharply in a short period of time. Bitcoin was at a high of almost $1300 and within hours had dropped below $1. It appears to…
Does the South American country s chaotic economy make it fertile ground for radical financial experiments? In the village of El Chaltén in Argentine Patagonia, a small absurdist ritual takes place each day. Every morning, at the deli counter of the general store, its owner Felipe cuts two or three large salamis into dozens of smaller sections. He wraps each…
Ajit Varma Sellers should never miss a sale. We’re building tools so sellers can accept any form of payment their customers want to use. Making commerce easy means creating easy ways to exchange value for everything from a massage to a DODOcase for your iPad. In that spirit, starting today, buyers can purchase goods and services on Square Market with Bitcoin…
We encourage users to try our in-app buy/sell feature but since this feature isn’t available in all states or some people want same day services here are some places we recommend. Buying bitcoin with cash: Bitcoin ATMs, , LibertyX, and Paxful. Paxful allows you to buy with multiple payment methods including trading gift cards for bitcoin. When you use theses…
Development To run Insight UI locally in development mode: Install bower dependencies: $ bower install To compile and minify the web application s assets: $ grunt compile There is a convenient Gruntfile.js for automation during editing the code $ grunt Multilanguage support To enable a text to be translated, add the translate directive to html tags. See more…
That’s a decision you’ll have to make on your own, but what you should consider are the fact that Bitcoin still remains one of the most watched and speculated currencies of all time. Here are a few very interesting fact regarding bitcoin, and something to think about when pondering if this coin will rise to astronomic heights, or shrivel and fade away. Bitcoin…
Bitcoin, and its fundamental technology blockchain , have been popping up in the news plenty over the past few years. However, discussion about them is typically a bit high level — or, OK, gibberish — leaving the average person with the vague impression that something cool is happening with currency, but very little in the way of actual knowledge or understanding…
Alex Waters is a developer in New York who has been working on Bitcoin for five years. He’s currently the CEO of Coin.co, a company that gives entrepreneurs the ability to reach global markets through the use of Bitcoin. In this interview we talk to Alex about Bitcoin basics and then dive into how Bitcoin is set to change the banking industry. What is Bitcoin…
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Blockchain Global Limited (BGL) recently announced that DigitalX will onboard all of its existing platform customers to BGL’s Bitcoin exchange platform, ACX.io. Customers will be introduced to Blockchain Global Limited as the DigitalX Direct platform winds down its operations. ACX is already the largest Bitcoin exchange in Australia by volume. “The agreement…
The Italian traders who founded Western capitalism started with books of lists: ledgers, tracking the cargoes they sent out and the gold they brought in. Reuters , Dow Jones, Bloomberg, our global financial-news services, all started with price lists - more ledgers - sharing information, exposing the world s assets to public scrutiny, linking markets so investors…
“Even in the fast-moving world of virtual currencies like bitcoin, companies can’t deceive people about their products. Butterfly Labs was once a rising star in the world of bitcoin, selling pre-orders for some of the fastest computer equipment around for mining,or generating, the cryptocurrency in its early days. But tens of thousands of those units never…
Bitcoin wallet startup Blockchain has added former Barclays Bank group chief executive Antony Jenkins to its board of directors. The appointment is notable as Jenkins served as Barclay’s chief executive from 2012 until mid-2015. There, he was promoted to the top spot in the wake of the Libor scandal, a plot involving numerous banks aimed at manipulating interbank…
