Sophie Schuhmacher
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The inevitable: Digital Content and Digital Money. Sending somebody $0.10 instead of a 'like' is changing how content producers monetize online and one company is embracing bitcoin to offer Musicians a new way to earn a living online.
During a Indian TV program, the head of India’s Central Bank made several remarks about the positive and negative aspects of virtual currencies but ultimately stated bitcoin is "the future" and India’s Central Bank would have to find new ways to manage money.
Vietnam's appetite for 21st Century Financial Products is helping bring Forex-Traders into the world of Crypto-Currency. With the aid of Vietnam's first Leveraged Bitcoin Trading platform, the country is gunning to become a leader in the Bitcoin Trading space.
Leading Bitcoin companies have come together to provide a course about blockchain development, pre empting a shortage of software engineers with the knowledge to build blockchain applications.
Bitcoin has seen a lot of growth this year, and charities are jumping on board. Not only have bitcoiners started new unique charities, and donation drives, some of the worlds largest charitable organisations have started accepting bitcoin too.
Amid news of a new partnership with Microsoft; Leading payment processor, BitPay, has released this year’s Bitcoin Black Friday results, figures reveal shrunken sales compared to last year, despite a year of growing merchant adoption.
A bug caused by developers at the worlds most popular online bitcoin wallet provider compromised the private keys for addresses generated and used during a time period of several hours.
The Bitcoin Foundation has hired the Argentinian auditor to review the security of changes to the Bitcoin protocols code, and thoroughly review the existing code. Initial reports stated he was to be hired full time.
At the end of last month Blockchain.info started hosting its own Tor Exit Node, in response to a slew of thefts through a crafty Man In The Middle attack. The solution appears well endorsed and thorough.
Alternative crypto-currency (altcoin) businesses Cryptsy And Vogogo have come to together to create a competition. With a $10,000 prize, the hope is to incentivise the creation of a logo that can represent crypto-currency as a whole.
