Microsoft No Longer Accepts Bitcoin Payments

If there is one trend that became evident in the year 2017, it is how some early adopters have dropped support for Bitcoin. More specifically, a lack of interest and high transaction costs have made dealing in Bitcoin unappealing for most retailers. Microsoft is perhaps the biggest company to have rethought its support for Bitcoin recently, even though it always offered … Read more

Bitcoin ≠ Eco-awareness – A bill that won’t work out in the long run Solution = Proof-of-Stake

Background: Bitcoins are created by solving highly complex computational tasks, and the computing power provided by them. This requires special computers with expensive, extremely fast processors, which have been specially installed for this purpose. To incentivize these acquisition costs, to mine bitcoins and thus to operate the network, the procedure Proof of Work (POW), better … Read more

Litigation Filed in India for Immediate Intervention of the Flow of Bitcoins

Litigation has been filed in an Indian High Court by a public prosecutor of cybercrime cases. Claiming that cryptocurrencies facilitate crime, he calls for their immediate ban or regulation. Also read: Russian Regulators Draft Law to Restrict Crypto Mining, Payments, and Token Sales Litigation Seeks Immediate Intervention A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed with the … Read more

Blockchain-Based Decentralized Advertising Marketplace Thrive Takes on Big Players

The development team behind Thrive, a decentralized Blockchain-based ad marketplace, is planning to compete against dominant service providers within the global advertising industry like Google AdSense/AdWords by automating the complex process of advertising revenue distribution. Disclosure: This is a Sponsored Article Often, revenue shares, advertisement margins, and rates (CPM, CTC, etc.) are not transparently provided … Read more

Bitfury as Big Brother: Mining Company Tracks Bitcoiners

Bitfury Group announced they’re concerned about the advent of bitcoin users having multiple wallet addresses, which the company views as leading to greater anonymity and, they also believe, facilitates crime. Also read: Nine Years Ago, Bitcoin’s Block Zero is Born Bitfury Watches Bitcoiners “Currently, bitcoin users can have multiple addresses,” Bitfury Group CEO Valery Vavilov detailed, … Read more