VIDEO — LIVE Announcement of ProTip – Peer to Peer Tipping for the Web
World Crypto Network
Mar 12, 2015
The much anticipated soon to be live crowd funding campaign will be here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pr…
You can also donate to the project in Bitcoin: 1ProTip9x3uoqKDJeMQJdQUCQawDLauNiF
http://my.protip.is
ProTip is by artists for artists. An Open Source project written by a small team of developers in London with support from volunteers across the globe.
The internet lacks the tools to help people reward one another for the effort and time that goes in to making their art, we want to change that.
We believe that people should be rewarded for their work online.
Andreas Antonopoulos Makes Case for Bitcoin Before Australian Senate — video included
Andreas Antonopoulus
by
CoinDesk
Mar 4, 2015
Bitcoin evangelist Andreas M Antonopoulos has appeared before the Australian Senate as part of an inquiry into the local treatment of digital currencies.
The prominent bitcoin ‘guru’ made the case for bitcoin, saying that its unique architecture and payment mechanism had important implications for network access, innovation, privacy, individual empowerment, consumer protection and regulation.
Claiming that bitcoin represented a “unique opportunity in two areas for Australia”, Antonopoulos said:
“Bitcoin can introduce much needed competition in the retail payments industry, undercutting the expensive systems offered by credit and debit cards, whilst significantly improving security and privacy for consumers.”
“Secondly, the bitcoin industry can establish Australia at the forefront of the next wave of innovation of financial services. A wave that can extend financial services to more than two billion people throughout Southeast Asia, who are currently unbanked,” he continued.
Decentral Announces 2015 Canadian Blockchain and Fintech Expo
by Wanda Carruthers
Bitcoin Magazine
Feb 24, 2015
Decentral, Toronto’s home to tech start-ups, announced it’s organizing the 2015 Canadian Blockchain and Fintech Expo for the second week of September as a follow up to last year’s successful Bitcoin Expo.
Toronto will again play host to Bitcoin enthusiasts as event organizers assemble a growing list of all-star speakers for the Expo, including Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood and Anthony Di Iorio of Ethereum, David Johnston of DApps Fund, Matthew Roszak of Tally Capital, Brock Pierce of ChangeTip, Tether, and the Bitcoin Foundation, David Bailey of BTC Media, Joel Dietz of Swarm, Paul Snow of Factum, Shawn Wilkinson of Storj, Jason King of Sean’s Outpost, Jamie Robinson of QuickBT, Jeff Coleman of Kryptokit, William Mougayar of Start-Up Management, Michael Terpin of Social Radius, and Gerald Cotten of QuadrigaCX.
Event organizer Anthony Di Iorio explained that response from last year’s Expo prompted the follow-up conference for this fall, adding September was chosen to avoid conflicts with summer holiday schedules.
Bitcoin Voucher Scheme Bitupcard Expands to 300 Shops in Turkey
By Yessi Bello Perez (@yessi_kbello)
CoinDesk
February 26, 2015 at 15:00 GMT
Prepaid bitcoin voucher service Bitupcard is now available at an additional 270 retail locations across Turkey.
The announcement, which follows on from the launch of a pilot scheme that saw $25,000-worth of bitcoin sold in 10 weeks, raises the number of retail locations offering over-the-counter bitcoin purchases in the country to 300.
The scheme is run by Amsterdam-based bitcoin seller Bit4coin in conjunction with Berlin-based firm MK Payment.
Dolf Diederichsen, CEO at Bit4coin said:
“We are excited with the early success we are seeing in the market. The launch has exceeded our expectations, and we are very happy to quickly expand the reach and make Bitupcard even more accessible to more customers.”
Ibrahim Tarlig, CEO of MK Payment, added: “The market reception has been very positive and many customers told us that they would like to buy Bitupcard e-vouchers, but that the stores were simply too far away from where they lived or worked.”
VIDEO — Bitcoin Rush-36 w/ AndreasAntonopoulos, FibreCoin, BitcoinGarden, LaraCelenza, ProofOfWork
World Crypto Network
Feb 20, 2015
Fibre:
http://fibre.com
http://twitter@fibrecoin
Bitcoin Garden:
Blog: http://bitcoingarden.tk/
Forum: http://bitcoingarden.tk/forum/
http://twitter@BitcoinGarden
Lara Celenza:
http://www.kalifilmproductions.com
http://www.laracelenza.com
http://twitter@LaraCelenza
Proof Of Work:
http://proofofwork.media/project/iams…
http://www.ProofofWork.media
http://twitter@ProofOfWork
BREAKING — Dell Expands Bitcoin Payments to UK and Canada
CoinDesk
Published on February 19, 2015 at 15:35 GMT
UPDATE (19th February, 2015 17:00 GMT): Updated with comment from Dell CIO Paul Walsh.
Dell has announced it has expanded its bitcoin payments program to consumers in the UK and Canada.
The announcement was revealed today at eTail West, an annual e-commerce conference, during a keynote address by CIO Paul Walsh.
In remarks, Walsh suggested that the decision was prompted by customer demand and the positive feedback the company had so far received for its US offering.
Walsh said:
“We’re hearing from our customers around the world that they want the option to use bitcoin when buying Dell products, so we are excited to deliver bitcoin as a payment method on Dell.com to our customers in Canada and the UK.”
Dell has been accepting bitcoin for purchases via its US store since July 2014. The company will continue to receive local currency from Coinbase in exchange for bitcoin orders, in this case GBP and the Canadian dollar.
Earning $56.9bn in revenue in 2013, Dell remained the largest merchant in the bitcoin space until December when it was replaced by tech giant Microsoft.
The news also follows the decision by e-commerce leader Overstock to expand its bitcoin payment option to global consumers, though it has since reported struggles encouraging international customers to use bitcoin.
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VIDEO — Andreas Antonopoulos: The Future Of Crypto-Currency
Terry Wilson
Apr 16, 2014
Andreas Antonopoulos shares what he believes will be the evolution of Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies and what it could mean for the future.
Presented at the 2014 Bitcoin Expo in Toronto.
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