Bitrunner lets you find Bitcoins around the world
Simon Forgacs has high expectations for Bitrunner, a videogame app that lets you gather Bitcoins. When you ask Bitcoin enthusiasts what their main interest is right now, they will most likely answer that they want to see Bitcoin go mainstream. In order to do this, people have been going out of their way to find ways to bring Bitcoin into everyone's everyday life. We've seen Bitcoin get accepted at major retailers, found Bitcoin ATM's and even heard a Bitcoin song. Now, some programmers with a heart for the virtual currency, launched an Indiegogo campaign to gather funds for a Bitcoin....
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In the early days of Bitcoin’s infancy when the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto announced Bitcoin to the Cyperpunks world, and the likes of Hal Finney, Martti Malmi, and Gavin Andresen helped to work on improving its code, not many would have thought it possible to travel around the world using Bitcoins. That was until programmer Felix Weis wanted to find out the answer. However, the only way to find out was to undertake the experiment himself, and that’s exactly what he did. Originally from Luxembourg, but living in Berlin, Weis first discovered the digital currency in 2012 when his trust in the....
Just some of the addresses included at btcburns.cf. James Howells threw a hard drive with 7,500 bitcoins away. He had mined the coins back when they were worth very little. He has yet to find his hard drive at the dump. Dump workers say he never will. Howell is not the first person - nor the last - to lose bitcoins. According to the website btcburns.cf, 397 bitcoin addresses have burned 2,673.4075 bitcoins. There have been 15,617,100 bitcoins mined, meaning 0.018289588948355% of bitcoins created have been burned. Approximately 0.0002 are burned for each bitcoin mined. If this rate remains....
Bitcoin is intrinsically linked to the Internet. Therefore, it's rather counterintuitive that so many people opt to trade bitcoins face-to-face, out there in the real world. All around the world, there are meetups for enthusiasts and traders to get together, chat, and exchange currencies. Where can you find them and what can you expect? Why should you trade for bitcoins in person? Just as with online shopping, it's far more convenient to order something from home than to make a trip out to somewhere. However, here in the UK, the options to purchase bitcoins aren't always straight forward.....
One of the most exciting conference in this year is definitely Inside Bitcoins Las Vegas. The conference will start today with many interesting workshops such as Bitcoin and Anti-Money Laundering Regulation or e-Commerce and Bitcoin: Facilitating Online Transactions. But lets see what Sin city offers for the ones who are willing to spend some bitcoins here. If you want to buy or even sell bitcoins you would have to go to The D Casino Hotel Las Vegas. They have a Robocoin ATM installed there. Once you bought your bitcoins you can start spend it as their steak house called Andiamo accepts....
The race to produce commercial bitcoin ATMs is heating up. A group of entrepreneurs is set to showcase one this week. Robocoin Kiosk, a machine that lets people buy and sell bitcoins, will be demonstrated at the Bitcoin 2013 conference this weekend. The machine lets users insert dollars and then retrieve bitcoins by scanning a QR code with their bitcoin address. Alternatively, the Mt. Gox-linked device enables customers to redeem bitcoins for US dollars by scanning an address displayed on the kiosk's screen with their mobile wallet. They can then scan a receipt printed by the kiosk to....