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Bitcoin Should Be About the Mission Instead of the Money, Says MIT Media Laboratory Founder Nicholas Negroponte at Scaling Bitcoin

Famous Web pioneer Nicholas Negroponte, a creator of the MIT Media Lab and the One Laptop per Youngster initiative (OLPC), gave a controversial talk at the Scaling Bitcoin workshop in Montreal. The Scaling Bitcoin workshop has been concentrated on the best ways to securely enhance the scalability and decentralized nature of the Bitcoin network, and

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Commonwealth Virtual Currencies Working Group Issues Statement about Bitcoin’s Potential

This week, the Commonwealth Virtual Currencies Working Group comprised of Australia, Barbados, Kenya, Nigeria, Singapore and Tonga, together with the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, concluded a three-day conference in London with a consensus: “Member states must think about the applicability of their existing legal frameworks to virtual currencies and where suitable they must

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Token Sale Goes beyond $1.7 M, however Augur’s ‘Reputation’ Isn’t Everything about the cash

It’s been a wild number of days for the team at Augur. Simply 48 hours into their crowdsale, which launched at midday EST on August 17, they have actually raised in extra of 4200 BTC and 549000 ETH. “Unfortunately, the ether and BTC price keep falling, so the buys cannot keep up with the (USD)

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