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Thanks to bitcoin, a man was able to purchase a Kansas home completely in the digital currency. The home cost buyer Josh Zerlan more than half a million dollars worth of bitcoin. Kansas Home for Bitcoin Both Zerlan and the seller agreed that bitcoin would make the purchase much...

Andrew “weev” Auernheimer is demanding nearly 30,000 bitcoins after being put behind bars for hacking AT&T and stealing data from more than 100,000 iPad users. Hacker Demands Bitcoins Before being released last month, Auernheimer served over three years i...

During a Webchat Livestream at the Net Prophet event in Cape Town, South Africa, founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange spoke about the next great innovation in the world of finance. WikiLeaks Founder As you may have guessed by now, Assange was alluding to bitcoin, the world’s...

It was reported earlier that the San Jose Earthquakes were the first professional soccer team to accept bitcoin payments. Beginning this Sunday, the team will start taking bitcoins at their stadium as they take on the Houston Dynamo. San Jose Quakes Fans will be able to use their...

CryptX, a company that builds and designs hosted virtual currency mining platforms, announced new updates to its PetaMine project. Based in Brussels, Belgium, CryptX plans to deploy an extra 1,000 TH/s for a hosted Bitcoin mine called PetaMine, which currently has a hash rate of...

Atlanta, Georgia-based payment processing company Bitpay, works as a direct competitor to credit card providers, Visa and MasterCard. However, Bitpay’s CTO, Stephen Pair, was recently interviewed by CNBC, where he claims such credit card providers play a role in...

Brock Pierce, the newly elected board member of the Bitcoin Foundation, has written a letter to the members addressing the issue of his election. He referred to the sexual abuse allegations that date back 14 years and declared his innocence from them. In the letter obtained by...

American authorities have begun a new investigation into Bitcoin related businesses, such as exchanges, to determine if they have or had links to former online drug market, Silk Road. This analysis serves as a way to paint Bitcoin in a negative light for any association with the...

Digital wallet service Coinbase has made it easier for the bitcoin community to store and transact with their digital coins. Coinbase Feature The company has released a new feature to its operations, allowing merchants to take bitcoins and convert percentages into cash. This will...

Bitmart has just been launched a New Zealand’s first online virtual currency store. The online store has a large variety of electronics, snacks and “household consumables” that could not have previously been bought with Bitcoin in New Zealand. Bitmart offers goodies like...