NYC Based Corkket.com Launches Bitcoin Craigslist Competitor

A New York startup wants to take on Craigslist and eBay for local trading, encouraging its buyers and sellers to use bitcoin as much as possible. Corkket.com has chosen to focus on the hyper-local market, its interface directing users towards deals in their own neighborhoods first. It will also provide an escrow service for more trustworthy payments and promises full refunds to buyers who change their minds. To promote its bitcoin-focused approach, the company is launching its beta service with a 'Bitcoin Picnic' in New York City's Union Square for seven hours on Saturday 26th April. The....

Binance-backed traveling website Travala.com is gearing up for the launch of its blockchain-powered competitor to Airbnb. Named Dtravel, the service will provide hosts and guests with a decentralized platform where they can rent out homes or rooms. According to the CEO of Travala, Juan Otero, the platform will be entirely governed by its users holding […]

People are robbed all the time for all kinds of things. Their expensive watches, cell phones, wallets, you name it. It's only now and then that people are robbed of their bitcoins, and usually this happens through hacking or some other digital means. Not so in the case of a young man who, for whatever reason, decided to sell $1,100 worth (roughly four and change at current rates) via Craigslist. According to CNBC, an unidentified man showed up to the designated meeting place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and soon found himself at the wrong end of two pistols. It was a classic Craigslist....

Early in January 2015, CCN carried the decision of a Kansas judge who allowed Butterfly Labs to resume operations so that it could refund all its customers for not delivering their machines, or for delivering machines that had already been premined. It appears that Butterfly Labs' problems may not be over just yet. A series of posts (which can be seen here, here, here and here) on Craigslist would seem to indicate that Butterfly Labs is selling their assets in what appears to be a fire sale. There is a reason to believe that all of the items on the Craigslist posts come from the....

Spanish language article available here. Segundamano.es, often called the 'Spanish Craigslist', has received some flak from Spanish Bitcoiners in the last few months for not allowing payments in Bitcoin. Segundamano.es is the second largest site offering Spanish classified ads, after Milanuncios.com. Both sites receive millions of unique visitors monthly and are an integral part of Spain's economy. For awhile, Spanish Bitcoiners would find their classified ads being deleted at the mere mention of "acepto Bitcoin." Despite the rocky past, Segundamano.es recently told CCN via email that:....