A recently launched service called Composed could boost the fight against spam by charging bitcoin micropayments for emails. Composed users are assigned an email address with a getcomposed.com domain name and can decide how much they wish to charge senders for an email. Anyone wanting their message to arrive at that address will have to respond to an automated reply and pay […]

Four bitcoin exchanges was too many, according to Dave Bradley, the operator of Calgary-based over-the-counter (OTC) bitcoin brokerage Bitcoin Brains. Bradley is referring to CAVIRTEX, Cointrader, Quadriga CX and Vault of Satoshi, what had been the four exchanges serving the Canadian market at the start of 2015. In the last two months, however, both CAVIRTEX […]

“This whole thing is so bananas.” So says American documentary maker Morgan Spurlock in an early scene from an upcoming episode of CNN’s Inside Man that focuses on bitcoin. During the show, Spurlock buys bitcoin at the New York City Bitcoin Center, helps set up new machines at a bitcoin mine and visits now-defunct Silk Road 2.0 […]

The US Marshals service has announced it will auction off 50,000 BTC, worth $11.85m at press time, to the public on 5th March. The auction will take place from 8:00 EST to 14:00 EST, with bids being accepted only by pre-registered participants. Bidders must complete the registration process by 2nd March to be eligible, while […]

Two bitcoin ATMs in the Dutch city of Amsterdam have been stolen, according to reports. The news first broke over the weekend, as Coin ATM Radar picked up on the lack of activity from both machines and published the news on Twitter. Two bitcoin ATMs have been stolen from @MrBitc0in in #Amsterdam @generalbytes @BitAccess So against […]