News

Oct 21, 2014

This morning BTCX was receieved at Riksdagen by newly elected MP Mathias Sundin of Folkpartiet (right wing liberal Peoples Party), also known around the world as the “bitcoin politician” after having run his campaign on bitcoin donations only. CEO Christian Ander and Marketing manager Joakim Herlin-Ljunglöf sat down with MP Sundin for about an hour

Oct 20, 2014

It all started with a simple question “Where can we find places to use our bitcoins?”, but finding the answer wasn’t as simple. Coindero aims to answer that question by making it easy to find local bitcoin places all over the world. There are similar sites and data sources already but none of them displayed

Oct 9, 2014

As Marc Andreessen says “We can reinvent the entire thing” I agree and say, we already are reinventing the entire thing. All entrepreneurs are reinventing things and when it comes to Bitcoin startups we are reinventing finance as we know it. I also want to share some words about “Out with the old” and

Oct 9, 2014

You can now get a Master in Digital Currencies from the University of Nicosia in Cyprus. You can study online and applications are open. “The program seeks to fill an important gap that exists today between the supply of and demand for academic knowledge in the area of digital currency.?” The first course within the

Oct 3, 2014

Great insights from a man who once said: “640kb is more than anyone will ever need?” But seriously the clip is just 57 seconds and it is very good. Spread the word! https://www.bloomberg.com/video/bill-gates-bitcoin-is-exciting-because-it-s-cheap-dQ4qHV4~TLSnUIuIRfZBVA.html

Oct 1, 2014

The next Bitcoin rush might be triggered by a global Minsky moment, the Keiser report episode 660 talks about the upcoming sovereign debt crash in 2014 . Hope is Not a good policy – Saxo Bank warns the entire world is headed for a Minsky moment – zerohedge.com Half way through the report Susanne Tempelhof from Bitnation

Sep 30, 2014

He decided to see how practical it would be to mine Bitcoin with pencil and paper. It turned out that the SHA-256 algorithm used for mining is pretty simple and can in fact be done by hand. Not surprisingly, the process is extremely slow compared to hardware mining and is entirely impractical. But… Fascinating, and interesting

Sep 26, 2014

Via Mathias Sundin’s Twitter account it is confirmed that he has been elected to the Riksdag, simply stating “I’m in!”. We say congratulations!

Sep 22, 2014

Darren Allan at BetaNews shares intresting information with us. Apparently only 15 % of american executives belive that, for example, bitcoin will disrupt traditional banking. Well, 70% of their chinese colleagues believe it will… Who is right? Time will tell. From the article: Virtual currencies like Bitcoin are also likely to make a big impact,

Sep 1, 2014

I have great news! One donor (who wants to remain anonymous for now) has agreed to cover all costs for the written submission that is due in a few weeks. This made it possible for me to hire Mannheimer Swartling, a very reputable Swedish law firm with the necessary experience of the EU court as well