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A panel comprising of both bitcoin enthusiasts and sceptics discussed everything from awareness and education to regulation and entrepreneurship at a panel discussion held at London’s O2 venue on Saturday, 5th April.Titled ‘How Bitcoin Can Fight Back Against the Hackers and Recent Setbacks’, this discussion took place before the much-awaited Bitcoin Fight Night kickboxing event, and was co-organised by CoinScrum, Firestartr.co and HardBTC.org.Bitcoin-Panel-DiscussionHosted by Chris Ellis, bitcoin enthusiast and co-founder of feathercoin, the goal was to have developers, philosophers and bankers engage in a dialogue about bitcoin.Sadly, the event didn’t quite go as planned, with technical difficulties with a live stream from the US and the resulting delay shrinking the size of the panel from the original seven to four, which included the last minute enrolment of Simon Dixon from Bank to the Future.The final lineup was as follows:Bitcoin Panel Discussion: Chris-EllisChris Ellis, feathercoin co-founder, hosted the discussionAlthough the panel was smaller than expected, Ellis, Dyson, Dhillon and Dixon were able to cover a wide array of subtopics from within the cryptocurrency realm.Security concernsThe main theme of the debate was to address security concerns around bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In the shadow of the Mt. Gox fiasco, Ellis started off by mentioning that some people who had a good grasp of bitcoin and were smart investors also lost money on Mt. Gox:“I think there is a lot of awareness (about bitcoin) right now, but there isn’t an awful lot of understanding.”“I am not sure how much awareness there is,” countered Dyson. “I was reading a reddit thread of Mt. Gox horror stories and one guy lost his kids’ education fund and another borrowed his wife’s live savings to put into Mt. Gox. All this is typical bubble behaviour.”He added:“People need to understand that bitcoin is more like gold. If somebody takes cash out of your wallet, you aren’t going to get it back.”Commented Dixon: “When you are dealing with banks, the bank takes care of security. But, peer to peer, the peer has to take care of security. So, it’s a challenge because people need to be aware of how to store [their coins].”Expectations from the entrepreneursOn the topic of increasing education on the pros and cons of bitcoin, Dixon said that it was the responsibility of entrepreneurs to solve issues that consumers don’t want to engage with.He said:“Bitcoin will be a success when people don’t have to know how it works. No one looks inside their iPhone and scrutinizes how it works. No one looks inside his or her TV or credit cards; they just work. When bitcoin becomes close to adoption, it will be because entrepreneurs have invested into things that make it so that you don’t need to know how it works. That’s one of the things that is holding back adoption right now.” Bitcoin Panel Discussion: Ben DysonBen Dyson takes the micWhile some of the panellists were discussing how to increase the usability of bitcoin, Dyson was more vocal about his scepticism regarding the technology as a whole.“There are design flaws in bitcoin,” said Dyson. “It’s a prototype and when you create a prototype, you quickly learn there are problems with that, so you change those and bring something new.”He added:“Here’s what bothers me about bitcoin: the first version of the Internet was basically connecting few different universities in California. Now, we are using a better design. With bitcoin, everyone is still stuck on first design and first version.”That conversation turned into a discussion of various cryptocurrencies currently in existence. Ellis himself is the founder of an altcoin called feathercoin. He pointed out that it can take about a week for someone to study the code and create their own cryptocurrency.Said Ellis:“Asking ‘how many cryptocurrencies there would be’ is like asking how many bloggers there would be.”Towards the end of the talk, the panel engaged with the audience and took questions from the attendees. Furthermore, there was allotted time for networking after the event.Attendees of the meetup also had access to discounted tickets for the first Bitcoin Fight Night, where they could see an evening of kickboxing, as well as a stunt by broadcaster and MaxCoin founder Max Keiser who symbolically took on a fighter representing traditional currency (see the video).Chris EllisCoinScrumLondonMeetupSimon Dixon
Original author: Roop Gill

Bitcoin won't replace the euro says Dutch regulator
Bitcoin is not money, the deputy director of the Dutch Payments Association has declared.Comparing the digital currency to tulip bulbs, which famously rocketed in price during the ‘Tulip Mania’ bubble of the early 1600s, Gijs Boudewijn dismissed suggestions that bitcoin could be currency:“Bitcoin is not a claim and therefore not money … If you and I agree to pay each other in tulip bulbs then we have established a private currency and the same applies to bitcoin.”The comments, made in a wide-ranging interview with Dutch bitcoin news site deBitcoin.org, come as European regulators begin to grapple with creating a unified approach to digital currencies.Bitcoin is a limited prospectBitcoin has two almost distinct personalities. The first is the political revolutionary, destined to disempower government. The second is more prosaic; bitcoin is simply a better way of transferring money, a technology easily co-opted by a banking system seen by some bitcoiners as the enemy.For the majority of society, Boudewijn argued, bitcoin will be the latter, a useful technology for specific transactions and no more than that:“For specific purposes [bitcoin] is convenient. But eventually – and that’s why you have exchanges – you want to redeem them for something that’s state-backed, and that is central bank money … The functionality and the technology are extremely interesting. The question is, do you want that in a cryptocurrency or can you apply that with the euro as well?”The comments come weeks after the Dutch Minister for Justice and Security said bitcoin would not be banned, and echo a recent UBS report that suggests that banks can adopt “a bitcoin-like technology” to create a new foundation for payment services that would prop up, instead of pull down, the existing banking system.Boudewijn said he doubts that bitcoin can become a widely-used currency, and argued that the need for government to provide confidence in a currency means bitcoin would be a limited prospect:“The underlying fundamental discussion is what the functions are of money in society. In the end it is just a social convention that we agree on together in that we have one legal tender here, and we call it the euro. And a central authority is supervising that. They issue it and guarantee that if [a bank] goes bankrupt … savers get their money back.”Banks need to get used to bitcoinOf course, one of the core political arguments behind bitcoin is that the confidence provided by the government isn’t good enough.The banking crash in 2008 and subsequent economic crisis have shown governments’ powerlessness and even complicity in failing to protect consumers, some argue, pointing to Cyprus’ 2013 levy of up to 10% on all savings accounts.That event was attributed to a spike in popularity of bitcoin, as people looked to the digital currency as a way of controlling their money and keeping it beyond the reach of government.In the same interview, Chris Buijink, Chairman of the Dutch Association of Banks (NVB), somewhat conceded the point, saying, “Well, we do everything we can to avoid this from happening again, and that’s the reason for what we’re now discussing in Europe around the bank union.”Buijink admitted that banks need to start getting used to bitcoin:“If a concept proves to be good, then we will hear more about it the coming years, and then structures, who are not used to it, will have to think about it and adjust themselves.”Both Boudewijn’s and Buijink’s comments are not wholly unexpected. Across the world it is increasingly clear that governments and regulators are sceptical – perhaps doubtful for reasons of self-interested – about the idea that digital currencies could replace fiat currency entirely. At the same time they’re waking up to the opportunities offered by the bitcoin technology.The problem, says Boudewijn, is that payments systems will never be able to move as quickly as a rapidly emerging new technology needs it to.“In niches like bitcoin you can innovate rapidly, but if you’re in the mainstream market – in a two-sided market where customers are with different banks and you’re in a network industry – it is very difficult. It also ensures a certain slow pace in innovation because it has to work everywhere. That makes it difficult, but that’s inherent to the traditional payment market. And there we can learn from the [digital currencies] of this world.”banksEuroperegulationthe Netherlands
Original author: Kadhim Shubber

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Mining hardware manufacturer Advanced Mining Technology, Inc. (AMT) is the latest to face a class-action lawsuit from customers alleging products were not delivered on time, according to a report in the Delaware County Daily Times.There are concerns lawsuits could soon become more common in this field, in which small startup companies race to design and build cutting-edge and specialist hardware, dealing with processes that can challenge even large chip manufacturers.Just over a week ago, a Texas judge granted a court order to ‘freeze’ the bitcoin wallets of another ASIC mining manufacturer, HashFast, as part of a lawsuit claiming late delivery.Fast obsolescenceTiming is perhaps even more critical in the world of bitcoin mining, where expensive machines delivered even a month or two late are rendered obsolete with no other useful purpose once mining becomes impractical.The plaintiffs filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania last Wednesday, claiming the Haverford, Pennsylvania, startup is a “sham” company unwilling or unable to deliver its ASIC mining hardware on time.The class action brings together plaintiffs from Florida, North Carolina and Utah, all of whom claimed they purchased ASIC hardware from AMT in November and December 2013, which was never delivered. They also claim there are hundreds of other AMT customers in the same boat.They are requesting a jury trial based on claims of: “unfair, deceptive and fraudulent business practices, breach of contract, breach of express warranty, common law fraud, negligent misrepresentation, breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing, unjust enrichment, and various state consumer protection laws.”Still communicatingA quick check of online forums indeed reveals some dissatisfied customers, and hints that the small company has struggled to meet the demands of large-scale customer service. On those same forums, however, AMT claims it is shipping products and has been posting regular updates in its official company news thread.AMT, whose website slogan is ‘Coin Mining on the Level’, also sells on Amazon and has a catalogue that ranges from a compact 80 GH/s miner for $1,499 to a 3.2 TH/s beast for $14,999, with 20 units scheduled to ship on 15th April. It also sells its 28nm ‘Coin Craft A1′ chips and has said in forum posts it intends to offer a hosted mining option in future.CoinDesk has reached out to AMT for further comment on this story, and will include it in an update if/when it arrives.Advanced Mining Technology AMTASICslawsuitmining
Original author: Jon Southurst

Seven kickboxers from around Europe competed in the first Bitcoin Fight Night on Saturday, 5th April.Held at the iconic O2 Arena in London, a prize of bitcoin worth £5,000 was on offer to the tournament victor.Before the actual tournament kicked off, six fighters competed in the warm-up rounds, including two female combatants.Sweden-based Meran Zangana was the big winner of the event, scooping the digital currency prize as his reward for beating the UK’s Kevin Ward in the final fight of the night.Bitcoin Fight Night prizeWith over 700 tickets sold, the tournament was the biggest UK-based bitcoin event yet.Organiser Patrick Carroll explained that the idea for the Bitcoin Fight Night came about while attending a meetup group run by CoinScrum in central London.While the indigO2 arena in the O2 was packed on the night, not everyone was there to support cryptocurrencies – the audience was a mix of bitcoin enthusiasts and kickboxing fans.The die-hard fight crowd were there to cheer for their favourite fighters, and many bitcoiners came for a special interval act – a staged fight between broadcaster and proponent of digital currencies Max Keiser and ‘The Bankster’ represented by a trained kickboxer.Keiser’s crowdfunding venture StartJOIN was co-sponsoring the event. He explains how he got involved:“The kickboxing and bitcoin guys came to StartJOIN and they said ‘we want to put the project on StartJOIN’, which is a crowdfunding site. We immediately got involved and then they said, ‘why not have Max come along?’ So I reluctantly agreed to do this.”Prior to the fight, he told CoinDesk about his plans: “I come out and we are going to have a little match with somebody representing paper money and the banking cartel – the evil, the true evil in this world.”He added:“Unlike some of these markets, like JP Morgan’s activities or Goldman Sachs, which are entirely rigged, this is only partially rigged.”During the interval of the tournament, Keiser took to the ring and the gloves came off, literally. However, no real blows were exchanged. Some intense yelling seemed to intimidate his opponent and, as a final blow, Keiser flashed his MaxCoin T-shirt. ‘The Bankster’ immediately fell to the floor.Keiser explains why he thought this interval act was more than just a gimmick:“The fight in this arena is a good metaphor for what’s happening in the geopolitical front. Countries are now on a war footing. The battle is heating up. People are looking to preserve wealth and they will naturally go to bitcoin gold and silver.”He also had some predictions for bitcoin:“Metaphorically, bitcoin is the hero in the new currency arena and I think it will dominate the currency trading going forward. I think it will capture a significant part of the FOREX market. I think price will rebound in 2014 and hit an all-time high.”Before the Bitcoin Fight Night, a panel discussion on the topic ‘How Can Bitcoin Fight Back Against the Hackers’ took place at the venue, chaired by Chris Ellis, the co-founder of feathercoin.Both events were sponsored by Firestartr.co, which provides seed-stage capital and aids startups in their early stages.Chris ElliskickboxingLondonMax Keiser
Original author: Roop Gill

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Privacy-loving search engine DuckDuckGo has started displaying price quotes on bitcoin-related search queries.Launched in 2008, DuckDuckGo is a relatively fresh-faced search engine headed up by Gabriel Weinberg. The driving force behind the service is privacy – thus, integrating bitcoin price quotes seems like a logical move for the young outfit.The search engine is designed for people who would rather not have their personal data tracked online. Since it doesn’t store any user data, the site does not offer personalised search results – or personalised ads for that matter.In 2013 alone, DuckDuckGo had one billion search queries and is gaining traction fast.DuckDuckGo goes bitcoinThe implementation of the price listing, as first spotted by NewsBTC, appears to be rather rudimentary. The new feature only shows up when you enter specific queries like “bitcoin price” or “BTC to USD”. The price quote then links to Blockchain.info, specifically to the market page.duckduckgoHowever, if you try searching for “bitcoin quote” or even “bitcoin price quote” the quote box does not pop up. This is not the case with other price search engines that have started quoting bitcoin, so DuckDuckGo might want to polish its solution.Google still lacks bitcoin integrationSearch giant Google does not offer a bitcoin quote box and it is unclear whether it plans to do so. However, Microsoft’s Bing search engine and Yandex, the biggest search engine in Russia, have already integrated bitcoin functionality, including automatic price conversion.For example, Bing will work out the value of bitcoin on the go, provided the user enters a search that can be figured out by the engine. This basically means that you can enter a search like “1 BTC to USD” and Bing will automatically convert it.The same is true of Yandex, which displays the exchange rate using the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price index and it also allows a convenient price conversion tool. Wolfram Alpha also offers a simple bitcoin look-up tool.BingDuckDuckGogoogleYandex
Original author: Nermin Hajdarbegovic

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire gave the opening keynote address at Inside Bitcoins New York on 7th April as part of a talk entitled ‘Mainstreaming Bitcoin: The Next Phase of Digital Currency Growth & Value Creation’.The two-day conference will feature a number of notable speakers from the industry, including Blockchain’s Nicolas Cary, GoCoin’s Steve Beauregard and Kraken’s Jesse Powell, and is expected to draw roughly 1,000 attendees.Inside Bitcoins, Jeremy Allaire, CircleThe second annual Inside Bitcoins New York conference and expo kicked off on 7th April with a keynote address from Circle CEO and founder Jeremy Allaire that addressed how the industry should seek to take bitcoin and its many benefits into the mainstream.During the half-hour speech, Allaire bristled through a big-picture vision of, not only where bitcoin is today, but the steps he feels it needs to take to reach the mass-market acceptance of other technological breakthroughs like the Internet.The most notable of Allaire’s many points was perhaps his emphasis on the fact that reaching this goal is likely to require the bitcoin community to make fundamental changes, while at the same time becoming more open to involvement from stakeholders, such as governments and commercial banks, that may have traditionally been treated adversarially by the community.The future, according to Allaire, will require bitcoin to work with traditional financial institutions so that the technology can reach its full potential.Explained Allaire:“Bitcoin needs greater levels of governance around it. I do not believe this industry will grow without collaboration from governments around the world.”At the same time, Allaire also stressed that such changes will need to take time.For example, he drew notice to the fact that e-commerce makes up just 5.8% of retail sales, and that though many have been heralding the death of broadcast television, it has not yet been replaced by new technologies.‘We’re in 1994′Allaire likened the state of the bitcoin industry to the Internet of 1994, but the comparison was not entirely positive, as he stressed that “these transformations take a really long time”.The keynote speaker noted that bitcoin is still waiting for a killer app, and that bitcoin has still achieved only limited consumer adoption.“There is not yet the equivalent of a killer app for bitcoin” – Jeremy Allaire of @circlebits— CoinDesk (@coindesk) April 7, 2014Allaire estimated that 90% of bitcoin users are holding the digital currency as a speculative investment, and that few are using it for everyday payment.‘Architecture will need to scale’The Circle CEO also noted how the fundamental bitcoin technology has still not caught up with the larger ideas proliferating in the space.Specifically, he stated that, today, bitcoin can handle only about nine transactions per second.Said Allaire:“That’s not going to scale and not going to work. The fundamental aspects of the architecture will need to scale.”Further, he indicated that the companies that use the technology will need to evolve to associate identity with transactions, thus providing all governments and businesses the ability to enforce laws while the system maintains anonymity.He also discussed the future of mining, suggesting that this industry will need to evolve toward an industrial scale while incorporating hobbyists, adding: “I believe that as [...] the monetary base gets into the trillions, governments will introduce regulations for global mining.”‘We need mainstream commercial banks’Despite recognizing these shortcomings, Allaire also offered bold predictions about bitcoin’s potential should it meet these challenges.For example, he noted that he believes major online processors such as Chase Paymentech, First Data and PayPal will have adopted bitcoin within three to five years’ time.‘We need mainstream commercial banks to integrate with bitcoin in a more fundamental way.’ – J. Allaire #bitcoinconf — CoinDesk (@coindesk) April 7, 2014In his talk, Allaire stressed the need for added governance in the community. However, he notably used governance as a broad term, extending beyond government enforcement to encompass the steps the community at large will need to make to ensure consumers can use bitcoin.But, Allaire also attacked early bitcoin adopters, who he characterized as looking to capitalize on the increasing value of bitcoin, while at the same time harbouring ill will toward the institutions that would allow them to capitalize on exchanging their bitcoin for capital.Allaire indicated that these users should see the middle ground that he believes the industry will need to establish, one that balances the privacy of cash with the needs of governments and authorities, and recognizes that paper currency is not likely to go away.‘If you think that paper money is going away soon, you’re smoking something.’ J. Allaire #bitcoinconf— CoinDesk (@coindesk) April 7, 2014About Jeremy AllaireA tech entrepreneur since the mid-1990s, Allaire was notably the CEO of online video platform Brightcove until 2013, when he stepped down to start a bitcoin company, Circle Internet Financial.Allaire has been outspoken about the need for increasing regulation in the bitcoin space, and given his prior business success, has quickly assumed a leadership role in the industry.After a long tenure as bitcoin’s most notable stealth startup, Circle unveiled new details about its business model on 26th March, along with $17m in new Series-B funding.CircleInside BitcoinsJeremy Allaire
Original author: Pete Rizzo

complianceservice
The California-based company Identitymind that helps prevent fraudulent transactions is offering low-cost regulatory compliance services to bitcoin startups.Identitymind’s IGNITE allows new bitcoin businesses to get up and running with compliance quickly. Neal Reiter, product manager for Identitymind, said in a statement:“Our goal is to provide start-ups the compliance help they need to focus on growing their business, not AML [anti-money laundering]”.What IGNITE doesThe $150 monthly fee lasts the first six months. Startups using IGNITE will get monitoring for up to 5,000 transactions for compliance as part of the package.“Transaction monitoring can be three different things: it can be bank account to wallet, wallet to wallet and wallet back to bank,” Reitner told CoinDesk.IGNITE will also offer the company’s know your customer (KYC) service as well, which makes it a complete compliance-as-a-service package for startups – something the bitcoin industry needs in order to gain legitimacy with customers, banks and venture capital investors.11/ Compliance-as-a-service is a fantastic area to build a startup because it’s amenable to pure software and solves obvious, real problems.— Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) March 31, 2014Banks and bitcoin exchangesIdentitymind already has experience helping banks and bitcoin firms in compliance as customers. This gives it a lot of credibility in the cryptocurrency industry, which it desperately needs in order to get the banking industry on board with bitcoin.The majority of banks still will not accept bitcoin businesses as clients, at least not yet.Identitymind says that it already works with some of the largest bitcoin exchanges by volume right now. Said Reiter:“We reduce risk for banks. We work with banks right now, to give them visibility into their bitcoin exchanges’ clients, so they can see the transactions.”And while companies like BlockScore offer incredibly simple ID verification for a range of companies, Reiter told CoinDesk that Identitymind takes compliance further by being a complete service offering. “We do what they [BlockScore] are doing, plus about twelve other things,” he said.About IdentitymindIdentitymind has raised capital, but did not wish to disclose any specific funding for this story. The company has over 30 employees.Anti-fraud has been its core focus since it was founded in 2009. However, its premise at the time of inception was preventing gaming cheats on the social platform Zynga, not on fraud issues related to virtual currency.But trying to catch poker cheats on Zynga helped the company at its early stages. Identitymind was able to build something that it now calls a “fraud engine,” a system that scans through transactions tracking reputation and looking for suspicious events that might be illegal, such as money laundering. Money laundering is the largest financial suspicious activity the US government see. Source: FinCENThe largest suspicious financial activity reported to the US government is money laundering. Source: FinCENBitcoin startupsIdentitymind says that IGNITE’s low cost and simple signup process reduces the number of regulatory issues that startups have to deal with when getting off the ground. The company’s long-haul plan is to ease the task of building a bitcoin business. Said Reiter:“We’ve got a full team of people here. Now it’s just growing bigger and helping the [bitcoin] ecosystem grow as a whole.”Startup accelerators such as Plug and Play and 500 Startups in Silicon Valley are beginning to incubate cryptocurrency-related businesses. Boost VC, the first accelerator to accept bitcoin companies, plans to incubate 100 new bitcoin companies over the next three years.Data protection image via ShutterstockbanksBlockScorecomplianceIdentitymindIGNITElawregulationStartups
Original author: Daniel Cawrey

BitFury
DigitalBTC has inked a strategic hardware supply agreement with BitFury, one of the leading manufacturers of bitcoin mining equipment.The company is owned by Australian investment firm Macro Energy, which acquired Digital CC and its subsidiary digitalBTC last month. Thanks to the acquisition, the firm became the first bitcoin-related business to be listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).Mining plansAt the time Macro Energy said it plans to raise AU$9.1m and to invest the money in the expansion of digitalBTC operations, including bitcoin mining. Soon after digitalBTC entered a strategic partnership with CloudHashing.com.Under the terms of the agreement CloudHashing.com software will be deployed on digitalBTC hardware, which will also be managed by CloudHashing.com. The hardware will apparently be installed in CloudHashing.com data centres in Iceland and Texas.The companies pointed out that the deal is a win-win situation for all parties – digitalBTC gets valuable expertise on the technical issues of the business, while CloudHashing.com gets access to digitalBTC’s trade desk.DigitalBTC’s Executive Chairman Zhenya Tsvetnenko said the partnership will allow digitalBTC to concentrate its resources on retail-focused mobile applications and other operations.CloudHashing.com CEO Emmanuel Abiodun told CoinDesk that the relationship is mutually beneficial and that he is pleased to team up with digitalBTC, which has strong capital backing and a proven track record in bitcoin trading.Abiodun added that CloudHashing.com expects to generate $7.5m-$10m worth of bitcoins a month.Enter BitFuryDigitalBTC has not shared much detail about the BitFury deal, nor did it mention CloudHashing.com. However, the company did state that the first instalment of the new bitcoin mining hardware is already in operation and started generating revenue in March.The revenues will be used to fast-track the development of digitalBTC’s retail products. The company stressed that retail products are a key focus for its business model. There is still no word on the precise quantity and type of hardware ordered by digitalBTC, but the company did say that the first batch cost $2m.“Under this agreement, BitFury will supply a significant quantity of its most advanced bitcoin mining hardware to digitalBTC, backed by manufacture assurances. This will significantly advance digitalBTC’s bitcoin mining capacity,” the company said.DigitalBTC points out that about 40% of the bitcoins so far produced were mined with BitFury chips. Furthermore it states that the hardware it acquired has secured it a “significant proportion” of the current bitcoin mining network, thus making digitalBTC one of the largest bitcoin mining operations in the world.Big earnerThe first installation of new BitFury hardware has earned digitalBTC more than 680 bitcoins since it was deployed, earning the company $330,000 during its first 13 days of operation between March 20th and April 2nd.DigitalBTC said:“DigitalBTC has committed to two tranches of hardware – this first installation of $2m of state-of-the-art bitoin mining hardware that is currently in operation, and a second tranche planned to be delivered and operational in May 2014.”Tsvetnenko said the agreement is backed by “attractive” manufacturer guarantees and that it allowed digitalBTC to quickly expand its mining capacity. Furthermore, the company plans to continue expanding its bitcoin operations, including mining, trading and consumer focused retail applications.Said Tsvetnenko:“The bitcoin system continues to rapidly mature, evident by significant backing from very large investment firms. Bitcoin focused investment funds of approximately $150m in capacity are now being formed. In addition, there has already been in excess of $100m of investments made into the bitcoin system. This magnitude of investment is set to drive bitcoin into ever wider acceptance and use.”Tsvetnenko said the next step is to enable development of the consumer-friendly software and applications that the system needs. DigitalBTC plans to be a contributor to this retail push, he explained, through its consumer-oriented retail applications.BitfuryCloudHashing.comdigitalBTCMacro Energymining
Original author: Nermin Hajdarbegovic
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