Bitcoin, Dollars and Pot-Banging Protests in Argentina
This post is a peep into the underground exchange markets for dollars and bitcoins in Argentina. For the last couple of weeks, I have experienced the informal exchange of bitcoin and dollars on...
Low-risk international payments for your Limo and Taxi business
Limo and Taxi drivers have unique challenges to collect electronic payments. Drivers don't always collect identification or a contact number from their passengers. So if a credit card sale is...
78 percent of Bitcoin currency stashed under digital mattress, study finds
More than three-quarters of the digital coins in the Bitcoin digital currency scheme aren't circulating because they remain dormant in user accounts that have never participated in outgoing...
16.10.2012 service outage report
Yesterday at 11am access to Bitstamp was disrupted due to a DDoS attack. Bitstamp responded by upgrading its DDoS mitigation capabilities and recovered full accessibility at 8pm. Service has been...
Bitstamp Under DDoS
Bitstamp website and service came under DDoS attack on October 15, 2012, completely disabling the services as of around 11:00 PM GMT.