2/6/2015 4:00:43 AM Is the vision for bitcoin beginning to fade? By Gareth Jones Has bitcoin been a gigantic waste of electricity or is it still just early days for a technology that is trying to redefining how we...
10/14/2014 3:42:36 AM Big Banks Are Confident in the Face of the Bitcoin Threat By Gareth Jones This article provides a good counterpoint to Marc Andreessen's position on Bitcoin. With the IRS suggesting that Bitcoin miners, who add...
10/14/2014 3:15:42 AM Why Bitcoin’s Price is Irrelevant to Its Success By Gareth Jones Perhaps we need to see less headlines about Bitcoin’s price, and more headlines about Bitcoin-based innovations and applications.
10/11/2014 7:14:35 PM Which Countries Will Buy Into Bitcoin? By Gareth Jones We continue to be interested in how emerging markets and the blockchain might provide the most interesting use case for Bitcoin.
9/15/2014 9:59:31 PM Bitcoin gets boost as U.S. watchdog approves first swap By Gareth Jones TeraExchange launched a swap based on the bitcoin virtual currency late last week and became the first to receive approval from a U.S....
8/19/2014 3:24:12 AM Introducing Stellar - a new cryptocurrency to challenge bitcoin? By Gareth Jones Big names got behind Stellar, a decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money in any pair of currencies. Interestingly Stellar...
8/19/2014 3:24:04 AM Inside a Chinese Bitcoin Mine By Gareth Jones Just two years the author of this article knew guys mining tons of bitcoins per day with just a couple dozen GPU units in their...
7/17/2014 2:54:18 AM TradeBlock Raises $2.8 Million From Andreessen Horowitz, FinTech Collective and others By Gareth Jones We are extremely thrilled to be joining a16z, our friends at Devonshire, Barry Silbert and others in helping Greg and Jeff build the gold...
6/19/2014 2:05:03 AM BTCJam - A p2p Bitcoin Lending Network By Gareth Jones San Francisco-based startup BTCJam is taking peer-to-peer lending to a global audience, and is using bitcoin to achieve its vision. ...
6/17/2014 3:44:42 AM 51%’ Fears Rattle The Bitcoin Community By Gareth Jones In January, there was worry in the bitcoin community that GHash, a mining pool. controlled a rising share (even greater than 50%) of the...
6/10/2014 7:03:27 PM Xapo's Bitcoin Card Adds Debit Interchange to Digital Currency By Gareth Jones Xapo says its Bitcoin debit card will start rolling out by the end of June, and it will be accepted anywhere by using the rails of a card...
5/23/2014 2:09:05 PM HOW RIPPLE LABS SIMPLIFIES B2B PAYMENTS By Gareth Jones More conversation in this podcast around the "internet for value exchange". The CEO of Ripple, another math based currency...
5/18/2014 12:13:41 PM Circle Emerges From Stealth To Bring Bitcoin To The Masses By Gareth Jones Circle has now raised a total of $26M from an impressive group of investors. They are Boston based and are focused on making online tools...
5/10/2014 12:39:43 AM Building usefull stuff ontop of the Block Chain By Gareth Jones Here is a really interesting example of a tool that has been built on top of the bitcoin "rails". Monegraph allows digital artists to fix...
5/2/2014 9:56:07 PM MasterCard lobbying on digital currency bitcoin By Gareth Jones Nothing earth shattering here, but interesting to see the big players starting to get themselves educated.
4/28/2014 1:06:54 AM How The Creator Of Bitcoin May Have Stumbled Onto Something Much, Much Bigger By Gareth Jones An easy and engaging read that helps you get past the "bitcoin is just a currency that will probably disappear" conversation... Like I...