Product NewsNov. 20, 2012
IMPORTANT: Missing reference numbers delay deposits
Dear Bitstamp clients, Since yesterday November 19th, Bitstamp is receiving a lot of bank transfers with no reference number provided. In order to prevent this from disrupting our service,...
Product NewsNov. 19, 2012
How bitcoin illustrates the idea of a liquidity premium
On November 15 @ 5:37 PM, Wordpress.com tweeted that it would be accepting bitcoin as payment. Over the next twenty-four hours, the price of bitcoin steadily rose on Mt. Gox, the major bitcoin...
Product NewsNov. 15, 2012
Bitcoin Money - Berlin Becomes Latest ‘Bitcoin Hotspot’
Product NewsNov. 14, 2012
Douglas French - Currencies of the Future
Product NewsNov. 13, 2012
Matthew Elias - Bitcoin Blackmail Plot Thickens
Bitcoin Store opens: All Your Electronics Cheaper With Bitcoins
Roger Ver, known in the Bitcoin community for operating Memory Dealers and for a number of efforts marketing Bitcoin including a billboard and a radio ad, has announced that he is starting a new...
ECB: "Roots Of Bitcoin Can Be Found In The Austrian School Of Economics"
The ECB (European Central Bank) has produced the first official central bank study of the decentralized cryptographic money known as bitcoin, Virtual Currency Schemes. Ignoring for a moment the...
Bankers Understand the Offense, But Not Defense
American Banker recently ran an interesting article about the attack patterns of many recent hacks as they apply to the banking industry. They hit the nail on the head with regard to the attack...
Bitcoin and Natural Disasters
Even under horrifically inappropriate circumstances, we humans experience a strange emotion the Germans call schadenfreude - pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. Perhaps it's the...
BTC Trader: Bitcoin Arbitrage Made Easy
Arbitrage serves an important function in the Bitcoin economy. Thanks to the individuals and automated bots that actively look for price differences between the various Bitcoin exchanges and buy...