Bitcoin Turbulance

How a Bitcoin Transaction Actually Works - Slashdot An anonymous reader writes "Michael Nielsen has written a detailed article describing the nuts and bolts of a Bitcoin transaction. He builds the concepts from the ... slashdot.org/story/.../how-a-bitcoin-transaction-actually-works Schneier on Security: Bitcoin Explanation One reason I like Bitcoin (and the idea of similar things) is that it doesn't matter if it is not a "store", so it doesn't have to be either currency or money. It is more ... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/.../bitcoin_explana.ht... Bitcoin Value Loses Its Mind As Trading Lags On The Mt.Gox ... Bitcoin is acting up at the moment. Following a steep decline that saw the currency trade at prices not seen since late November, trading of Bitcoin on the.. techcrunch.com/.../bitcoin-value-loses-its-mind-as-trading-lags... Bitcoin Comeback - Business Insider Bitcoin crashed on Friday and Saturday, falling from around $1100 to below $600 at one point, in part due to some headlines out of China. But the digital ... www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-comeback-2013-12 Bitcoin: JPMorgan jumps in | The Economist THERE is some interesting news from JPMorgan Chase today: the bank has filed for a patent for an online payment system that sounds rather like Bitcoin, the... www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2013/12/bitcoin JPMorgan Chase Building Bitcoin-Killer | Lets Talk Bitcoin Without mentioning Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies at all for that matter, Chase appears to be building a competing centralized network to Bitcoin. The application ... letstalkbitcoin.com/jpmorgan-chase-building-bitcoin-killer/ Will Dance For Bitcoin - Hack a Day It seems that Bitcoin is all over the news nowadays, but the Bitcoin Bot is probably the first robot that will dance for Bitcoins. [Ryan] at HeatSync Labs in Mesa, AZ, ... hackaday.com/2013/12/07/will-dance-for-bitcoin/ The Bitcoin Derivatives Market Has Arrived | Zero Hedge Having discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the crypto-currency and noted the extreme volatility of the last few weeks, it seemed only a matter of ... www.zerohedge.com/.../bitcoin-derivatives-market-has-arrived The shocking similarities between Tesla and Bitcoin's charts ... From the blog Talking Numbers: Bitcoin fails at doing its job as an alternative currency, says one strategist. However, another says it volatility offers trading ... finance.yahoo.com/.../shocking-similarities-between-tesla-bitc... Swiss parliamentary postulate: Bitcoin is a currency - Bitcoin Forum Bitcoin just got a big credibility boost: 45 members of the Swiss parliament signed a ... It also states that Bitcoins raises a number legal questions and that the ... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=364555.0 Bitcoin convention brings out hope for digital currency's future Detroit Free Press Gabriel Scheare uses the world's first bitcoin ATM on October 29, 2013 at Waves Coffee House in Vancouver, British Columbia. Scheare said he "just felt like ... See all stories on this topic »
Bitcoin Proves The Libertarian Idea Of Paradise Would Be Hell On ... San Francisco Chronicle They love that Bitcoin isn't taxed, so you can hide your income from the government if you want to. They love the way its value reflects pure supply and demand, ... See all stories on this topic »	Business Insider
Bitcoin fund raises $65 million after first two months, founder says Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fund established to offer investors exposure to Bitcoin is holding around $65 million in the digital currency after two months in ... See all stories on this topic »	New York Times
The Bitcoin "Consumer Price Index" Shows Massive Deflation Businessweek Mention “deflation” and the first thing people think of is the Great Depression of the 1930s. But the worst-ever deflation going on right now is in the Bitcoin world. See all stories on this topic »	Stoke Sentinel
Bitcoin Believers See a Role for Wall Street New York Times “The rising value of Bitcoin is a put option, or a bet, that Bitcoin gets adopted as a medium of exchange,” said Jeremy Allaire, the founder of Circle Internet ... See all stories on this topic »	New York Times
Are Bitcoin believers the new Apple fanboys? Los Angeles Times Watching true believers in action is always fascinating and often terrifying. Consider the mobilization of the bitcoin faithful every time someone writes an article ... See all stories on this topic »	JOSIC: News, Sports, Style, Culture & Technology
Bitcoin Clones Lurch Onto Financial Scene HispanicBusiness.com Cryptocurrency has become the currency/forex story of December 2013, with the unquestioned king bitcoin dominating the conversation. Unsurprisingly, on the ... See all stories on this topic »	HispanicBusiness.com
Bitcoin boom spreads to mobile apps The News Journal The mini-boom in Bitcoin software for smartphones is making it easier for consumers to use the virtual currency in place of cash for quick transactions, such as ... See all stories on this topic »
Bitcoin System: Some Additional Problems Wall Street Pit In my last post, I argued that the fair price of a bitcoin as a monetary instrument is zero BTC; a bitcoin contains no promise in terms of income, in terms of ... See all stories on this topic »
The future of Bitcoin: super currency or super fad? USA TODAY LAS VEGAS – Entrepreneurs flush with newly valuable Bitcoins are creating new products designed to simplify the technology ?and spread Bitcoin mania into ... See all stories on this topic »

Blogs

Fred Wilson On Bitcoin, Unbundling, Data Leakage And Health Care ... Frederic Lardinois During the 10th edition of the LeWeb conference in Paris today, New York-based investor Fred Wilson described the three "mega trends" that currently influence. TechCrunch
How Does Apple Really Feel About Bitcoin? | TechCrunch Matthew Panzarino Over the past couple of months there have been a few Bitcoin app rejections by Apple that have made some waves. First, the venture-backed startup Coinbase ... TechCrunch
Andreessen Horowitz Invests $25 Million in Bitcoin Wallet Coinbase ... Jason Del Rey Get ready for a lot more venture capital flowing into bitcoin-related startups starting ... now! AllThingsD
A Huge Chinese Bitcoin Arbitrage Has Disappeared - Business Insider Gabriel Wildau, Reuters The price gap between bitcoins trading in Chinese yuan and those sold for other currencies has evaporated in recent days, highlighting the porous nature of ... Business Insider
Coinbase Raises $25M Led By Andreessen Horowitz To Build Its ... Alex Williams Coinbase has raised $25 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz in the largest funding to date for a company focused on the Bitcoin digital.. TechCrunch
PubNub, MtGox's Real-Time Price Streaming Partner, Now Offers ... Ingrid Lunden Today it's adding a new module that focuses specifically on Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency du jour. If you go to PubNub's new site for the service, called the Bitcoin ... TechCrunch
The Problem with Bitcoin | Xconomy David Nordfors One purpose of writing this piece is a vague hope of being proven wrong by some economist who knows better than me. That would be nice. Because what I ... Xconomy
Western Union responds to Bitcoin buzz, sort of — Tech News and ... Jeff John Roberts Bitcoin watchers say the virtual currency could displace Western Union as a way to transfer money from place to place. Here's what Western Union says about ... Gigaom
My Bitcoin Bummer -- World's Virtual Currency Plummets in Price ... Kara Swisher So, I bought a bitcoin a few weeks ago — just a single one, for fun! — at around $800, after having listened to a bunch of Internet nerds wax on about it until I was ... AllThingsD
BITCOIN CRASHES TO $576 - Business Insider Sam Ro Bitcoin fell from a high of $1,085 to a low of $576 today. This is according to data from Mt. Gox. Also, this represents a breathtaking 46% crash. Currently, Bitcoin ... Tech