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It’s almost the New Year and 2016 is just a few days away. A good time to look back at where Bitcoin has been and where it’s still going. To that end, read below to see predictions on the Bitcoin market from …
21, Inc. releases comprehensive 21 Bitcoin Library for developers
Today 21, Inc. producer of the 21 Bitcoin Computer, a tiny programmable Linux machine with a Bitcoin miner attached, announced the release of a comprehensive library for use with the machine. This is expected to be the first step on a roadmap …
Japanese researchers have made almost-touchable holograms
Researchers and engineers at University of Tokyo’s Department of Complexity Science and Engineering have produced a prototype that uses holographic imaging and touch feedback to produce “touchable” holograms. The system is called Haptoclone and allows people to interact over a distance by sending 3D …
Last Minute Bitcoin Enthusiast Christmas Gift Guide for 2015
It may be a bit too late to get gifts quite in time for Christmas Day, but that doesn’t mean that people aren’t looking for a way to show their giving spirit. For anyone bitten by the bitcoin bug, or simply interested …
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 23: Linux Foundation and the blockchain fintech revolution, BTCS $1.45m round, Factom and Microsoft Azure, MIT Enigma beta
The end of the year is coming up fast for the Bitcoin community and blockchain technology dominates the news. Financial technology, or fintech, is fertile territory for an innovation such as Bitcoin or the infrastructure that powers it to disrupt–both as money …
Amazon.com brings Christmas spirit with festive shipment tracking bars
It’s the Christmas season and everyone is getting into the spirit including Amazon.com, Inc. which has brought the holiday spirit even to its shipment tracking user interface. Starting recently, users who want to check where their package is will see an animated …
Twitter suspends account of mayhem crew Phantom Squad after Xbox Live outage
Last year during Christmas Day the infamous Lizard Squad attacked and knocked Xbox Live and PlayStation Network offline. This year a threat from a copycat group calling itself “Phantom Squad” appeared on Twitter (Twitter, Inc.) alongside a promise to repeat last year’s …
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 16: Microsoft Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service, SWIFT and blockchain technology, GASH Point bitcoin payments and more
Technologies related to the blockchain, the distributed-ledger technology that underlies Bitcoin infrastructure, has seen a great deal of attention the past year and many more ventures involved continue to appear. This week, Microsoft’s Azure cloud service is adding several more partners to …
A tiny island off the coast of Portugal just became the first country with Bitcoin as its official currency
Pontinha, a tiny micronation island off the coast of Portugal, just became the first country in the world to officially adopt Bitcoin as its national currency. Prime Minister Joby Weeks announced Bitcoin as the nation’s official money earlier this week as the …
MIT researchers develop Vuvuzela privacy network to guarantee untraceable communication
Researchers at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a prototype privacy network to rival Tor, an anonymizing network that uses special routing to protect privacy, and named it after one of the most annoying musical instruments in …