Two weeks ago, Western Union received a patent for “Alternative value exchange systems and methods, ” which, in short, is a way for the company to use and accept “alternative currencies.” At the time of...
The UpTake: This potential lawsuit could force PayPal to play nice with bitcoin—a move that could spell trouble for existing cryptocurrency payment sites. P ayPal president David Marcus took to Twitter today to...
History is in the making. Although this is not a major announcement pertaining to Bitcoin directly, today may be one of the most historic days in the life of the crypto currency. Today, it was announced that, the...
One conclusion drawn by Kroll and his Princeton colleagues Ian Davey and Ed Felten is that those rules will have to be significantly changed if Bitcoin is to last. Their models predict that interest in “mining”...
Amazon today launched a new type of instance for its EC2 cloud computing platform that is specifically designed for applications that require 3D graphics capabilities. When you think about cloud computing, high-performance...