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Bitcoin Weekly 2014 September 17: Mark Karpeles interview, Gem $2M funding, CNN Money BTC index, IBM IoT block chain technology
It’s another morning and another Bitcoin Weekly. This day opens up with an exclusive interview with CEO of Mt. Gox Mark Karpeles giving an exclusive interview to The Daily Beast, the first interview he’s given since the police investigation of the $500 million bankruptcy that hit his Bitcoin exchange. Bitcoin API vendor Gem just finished ...
Docker’s explosive expansion fueled by $40M Series C funding round
Docker, Inc. announced today that it partnered with Sequoia and raised $40 million in Series C funding. The company is behind the Docker platform, a virtual containerization system that is rapidly growing in popularity. There have now been 21 million downloads of the Docker platform, up from just 3 million in June. With Docker’s accelerating ...
Quick Guide to the OpenStack Silicon Valley 2014 conference
The OpenStack Silicon Valley conference will be bringing numerous presenters to a sold-out venue on Tuesday, September 16th in Mountain View, CA. The event will bring together numerous OpenStack luminaries under one roof for a single day of keynotes, talks, and presentations from 8am to 5pm. As the event is currently sold out it is ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 September 10: eBay’s Braintree partners with Coinbase, Satoshi Nakamoto email hack, and Gem.co API early access
This week the stand-out news for Bitcoin is still eBay Inc. subsidiary Braintree opening up its service to allow merchants to take BTC payments via Coinbase. The move presents a significant new milestone in Bitcoin mainstream adoption and a great deal of favorable press. However, this week also has the odd celebrity-centric hacking of Satoshi ...
EBay payments unit will drive mainstream acceptance for Bitcoin
EBay Inc., owner of famous payment processing platform PayPal, is finally getting into Bitcoin. Monday at TechCrunch Disrupt, eBay announced that Braintree, the company’s developer-centric payment processing subsidiary, would be experimenting with accepting the digital currency over the “coming months.” According to Braintree CEO Bill Ready, the company has partnered with bitcoin processor Coinbase in ...
Chef 12 goes freemium with single open source codebase and premium enterprise features
Chef, the company behind the powerful IT automation software for DevOps with the same name, has announced a new freemium business model that merges the software’s existing open source codebase with premium services built for enterprise clients. This change comes in conjunction with the release of Chef 12, which delivers a constellation of new features ...
BitPay partners with Alternet Payment Systems for global reach of payment processing
BitPay today announced a strategic partnership with Alternet Payment Systems, Inc. to facilitate worldwide business processing of bitcoin. Alternet Payment Solutions, a subsidiary of APS, Inc., will be working with BitPay to launch its global payment processing business. As Alternet has a great deal of experience with digital currencies and mobile markets, the company is ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 September 3: Coin Academy launches, Apache Foundation accepts Bitcoin donations, Charlie Shrem pleads guilty, Celebgate, and more
Bitcoin news this week has taken a turn for the strange with connections to a high profile leak of nude photos of celebrities (albeit obliquely). Charlie Shrem, former CEO of BitInstant, will be pleading guilty to a lesser charge on Thursday stemming from his alleged connection to now defunct Silk Road. Also, The Apache Software ...
Meet the new HTML5 browser for Raspberry Pi: Epiphany
The hobbyist small-factor computer Raspberry Pi is getting a new web browser based on Epiphany (aka GNOME Web.) This development delivers a modern HTML5-capable browser and it is already available and easily installed. The Raspberry Pi is a hobby-board useful for rapidly prototyping projects for the Internet of Things and small computing appliances. The units ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 28: Bitcoin trade group forms digital currency PAC, Coinbase gets insured, and merchants see promise in Bitcoin’s future
This week, the Chamber of Digital Commerce, a relative newcomer on the scene, announced registration to form a PAC to increase the lobbying power of Bitcoin-related interests in the US political space. Reuters is running an article talking about big merchants such as Expedia, Overstock, and others and what they see in the future of ...