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Bitcoin Weekly 2014 September 24: Enter the dragon—PayPal partners with BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin
This week, PayPal signing on with BitPay, Coinbase, and GoCoin really takes the cake as it paints an interesting future for the mass adoption of Bitcoin. While the PayPal partnership does not mean that PayPal users will receive or store bitcoins, it does mean that merchants who use PayPal can allow their customers to pay ...
BitPay announces groundbreaking Bitcoin payment partnership with PayPal
BitPay just sealed community rumors and speculation today with an announcement that the Bitcoin processing company is partnering with PayPal. BitPay posted about the first step of the partnership on its blog, and that step has been to integrate with PayPal’s Payments Hub. Merchants using the PayPal Payments Hub can now create a BitPay merchant account and ...
Puppet Labs gives the reins to DevOps with enhanced server and tools
This morning Puppet Labs unveiled a new features its DevOps automation software and a constellation of new company initiatives during PuppetConf 2014. The major updates to the Puppet open source and commercial platforms includes an all-new Puppet Apps platform, new management and reporting capabilities, and a major update to the Puppet language. Puppet Labs CEO ...
Is the Alibaba IPO why Bitcoin’s market price is dropping?
Today Alibaba Group Holding Limited went public with an IPO in the United States priced at $68, raising $21.8 billion for the company and investors. According to The Wall Street Journal, this makes Alibaba the biggest U.S. IPO in history. How is Alibaba related to Bitcoin? As a holding group, the Alibaba Group represents a ...
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 ...