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The 3rd annual Latin American Bitcoin Conference, held December 4-5, raised 25.4 BTC (over $11,000 USD) through a bitcoin collectibles auction. According to an email sent to CoinReport, the main item this year was a bitcoin comic titled “Bitcoin: The Hunt for Satoshi...

It’s not just outlawed biker gangs and other hardened criminals using digital currencies for illicit activity. “Mums and dads” are also using them to purchase illicit narcotics and synthetic drugs, according to testimony by the Australian Crime Commission at the senate inquiry on...

Last Saturday, during the D.C.-hosted “Bitcoin in the Beltway” conference, the CEO of OverStock.com, Patrick Byrne, announced during a keynote that his company, Overstock.com, in light of its booming Bitcoin sales, will be donating three percent of its profits from...

Popular Bitcoin advocate and Blockchain’s chief security officer, Andreas Antonopoulos started a “We Accept Bitcoin” campaign on Reddit. Since Yelp, a business review website, recently allowed businesses who accept Bitcoin to indicate that they do so on its website, Antonopoulos...

Last month, Andreas Antonopoulos set up a Bitcoin donation fund for Dorian Nakamoto, whom the Newsweek claimed to be Bitcoin’s creator. The fund was setup as a way to help Dorian Nakamoto with possible legal fees and for all the trouble he has gotten from the Newsweek article....

Not many people knew that Andreas Antonopoulos was Neo & Bee’s consultant. After the recent posting by Neo & Bee’s former employees, Antonopoulos released a lengthy statement on his blog regarding his role in the matter. Antonopoulos writes that he was very surprised by...

Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto is the man who Newsweek claimed to be Bitcoin’s elusive founder. However, Dorian Nakamoto denied any involvement with Bitcoin and called Newsweek’s report false. Andreas Antonopoulos Fundraiser for Dorian Whether or not Dorian Nakamoto is Satoshi, doesn’t...

On Friday, Andreas Antonopoulos announced on Twitter that he was considering starting a fundraiser for Dorian Nakamoto in order to help him and his family with legal fees. Antonopoulos received quite a few positive responses suggesting that it was a good idea to start a donation...

Cleptocracy is not Capitalism Entrepreneur and capitalist Andreas Antonopoulos says that there is a cultural misunderstanding of what bitcoin’s role in capitalism is all about. However, he believes that bitcoin will save capitalism, and that cleptocracy is a threat....