Constructive Reflections on Bitcoin in the Beltway

This past month was the Bitcoin in the Beltway Conference held in Washington, D.C. The event was planned by Jason King, who recently ran 3,214 miles on a tour called “Bitcoin Across America”. The Conference took place at the Marriott Renaissance in Downtown D.C. and proceeds went to King’s organization, Sean’s Outpost, a homeless outreach…

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Weekly Round Up: Butterfly Labs buys Buttcoin.org, Rakuten hints at Bitcoin and New York reveals BitLicense

Welcome to Bitcoin Examiner’s latest weekly round up with the most important news of the last seven days. Butterfly Labs anonymously buys Buttcoin.org to remove “scam article” In an unexpected marketing move, the Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer Butterfly Labs anonymously bought the well-known website Buttcoin.org. The domain is famous for its criticism and funny approach on serious cryptocurrency-related matters,…

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Online Education Meets Bitcoin with Skilljar

Skilljar (www.skilljar.com), a Seattle-based online courseware platform, announced today that instructors using its course platform are now accepting payments in Bitcoin. Skilljar is used by online education instructors to deliver classes directly from their own websites, with topics ranging from yoga to computer programming.   Bitcoin Comes to Online Courseware Instructors on Skilljar’s platform are automatically…

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Bitcoin Explained to the Retired Folks

This article is intended as an introduction to the concepts of bitcoin that might be of interest to those people that are retired. The reader is expected to have only basic internet web browsing and email knowledge.  The questions and answers are given in “layman” terms. What is Bitcoin ? Bitcoin is a new kind of…

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