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Last Minute Bitcoin Enthusiast Gift Guide for 2014
It’s been a banner year for bitcoin when it comes to new merchants adopting it as a digital currency, so it’s not difficult to figure out what to buy someone with bitcoins for the holiday, but what do you buy someone who is into Bitcoin for the holiday? Here’s a list of products that are ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 December 17: Time and Microsoft embrace Bitcoin, favorable mention by Ford Motor Company, Blockchain.info ‘hacker’ returns BTC
It’s the end of the year and Christmas is coming early: Microsoft and Time Inc. have both started accepting bitcoins. This continues a strong trend over 2014 of businesses adopting the digital currency. Although right now there’s a lot of eyes on the exchange price, which seems to be dropping, it’s never seen this level ...
Bitcoin cited in Ford’s 2015 Global Consumer Trends and Futuring report
Ford Motor Company has released a its “Looking Further with Ford” publication for 2015 [PDF link] that includes studies commissioned about the future of many different technologies as well as expected trends. Bitcoin made a debut with four mentions across the publication. The publication is compiled by Sheryl Connelly from Global Consumer Trends and Futuring ...
Microsoft’s early Christmas gift to Bitcoin is this year’s big news
In 2013, a survey of Bitcoin luminaries led to a single consensus about 2014: this would be the year of merchant adoption. Not only has 2014 lived up to this prediction, it has exceeded it in surprising ways with Overstock.com, TigerDirect, Dell, and others joining the increasing body of large businesses accepting bitcoin. It’s almost the ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 December 10: Blockchain.info discloses security issue, BitQuest Bitcoin Minecraft server, Tim Draper buys into US Marshal’s auction again
The dominant story this week is all about how security is extremely important in the Bitcoin world–not to mention the Internet in general–when money is digital, it makes sense to keep it safe. Extremely popular wallet service and blockchain explorer Blockchain.info recently experienced a security issue that lasted a mere two and a half hours. ...
This week in DDoS: Xbox Live and PlayStation Network edition
Over the past week, the online gaming services that support Microsoft’s Xbox consoles and Sony’s PlayStation consoles have faced service disruptions thought to be caused by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The hacker group Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility in multiple cases as gaming services work to mitigate the damage. In the midst of ...
Star Citizen reaches $66 million in crowdfunding through sales and Black Friday
Star Citizen continues to be an ongoing, public experiment in crowdfunding as it has reached $66 million in funds since its 2012 Kickstarter that netted the game a seed of $2.1 million. The most recent push, coinciding with the Black Friday holiday, jumped the game’s funding by $4 million in just over 13 days. The ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 December 3: Bitcoin Foundation copycat fraud sites, MasterCard speaks against BTC in Australia, ChangeTip $3.5m seed funding
This week in Bitcoin shows a growth happening in the community as well as the pains associated with it. On the grim front there’s some friction happening with that growth. Fraud continues to be an issue, as it is with any industry, with The Bitcoin Foundation warning about copycat websites attempting to defraud users out ...
Augmented reality changes the face of marketing with Aurasma | #HPDiscover
Mobile devices have put a great deal of power into the hands of consumers by simply giving them instant access to the Internet, but the next big user experience revolution focuses on cameras. Smartphones provide a window into the information world, but accessing it can be a little cumbersome—speaking aloud, typing, taking a picture of ...
Meet the NetNinja: The only anonymizing VPN box you’ll need
We live in a world where going on the Internet also means bringing the whole wild, wild west into your living room. Every week the media publishes another story about a data breach, privacy invasions, or an Internet service provider spying on your downloads and streaming video. While this is not a fear (or even ...