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The Rundown Live #372 Will Coley (CryptoCurrency,Agorism,Food)
The Rundown Live #372 Will Coley (CryptoCurrency,Agorism,Food) (11/10/14) On this Monday edition of The Rundown Live, Kristan and I go over the sponsors, and the site before we are joined...

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The price of bitcoin has continued to see signs of improvements over the weekend(IBTimes UK)

Bitcoin has seen a significant surge in price over the weekend, rising a further $20 to take its value above $360 for the first time since October.

Other major cryptocurrencies have followed bitcoin's lead, with litecoin, dogecoin, peercoin, darkcoin and namecoin all rising since Friday.

One of the biggest movers across all markets was checkcoin, which saw a 25% price increase over the last 24 hours. The "first digital currency that focusses on real world experiences" now has a market cap of around $80,000.

Litecoin and dogecoin communities have joined forces to create a campaign to raise money for impoverished children in the Philippines to receive gifts this Christmas.

The LiteShibes 4 Christmasfundraising effort follows previous charitable endeavours from the world of cryptocurrency, including Doge4Waterand a campaign to send Jamaican and Indian athletes to the Sochi Winter Olympics.

"I am happy to announce that for the first time ever, Litecoin and Dogecoin will be partnering up for our next charitable event, Liteshibes4Christmas,"a poster by the name of TheLobstrosity announced on Reddit.

"This is a milestone in crypto history, to show that we can bridge the gap between communities to really make a difference and help those less fortunate."

A bitcoin exhibition has opened at the Money Museum in Zurich, Switzerland, aiming to educate people on crypotcurrency and provide information about the history of bitcoin.

The exhibit comprises three main sections: The Birth of Bitcoin; Mining Equipment and Storage; and Where Can I Spend Bitcoins?

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SwarmCorp, the worlds first distributed incubator that uses an innovative funding-by-cryptocurrency design, just finished its first-ever Decentralized Demo Day and has announced Techstars as yet another first-ever institutional investor using the native Swarm Coin.

Swarm represents an innovative way for projects and startups to gather funding with a democratized, decentralized crowdfunding platform. New ventures produce their own cryptocurrency on the Swarm platform and then use that to provide equity to backers.

The investment by Techstars will likely give SwarmCorp a boost towards getting the ball rolling to kickstart more startups.

We believe that Swarms innovative fundraising model has the possibility to completely transform the venture capital industry, said David Cohen, CEO of Techstars, and we want to help make this happen. Thats why we are making the worlds first fund investment via cryptoequity.

SiliconANGLE first reported on Swarm during the platforms launch in June 2014 and today represents the first five companies to emerge from the incubator.

The five companies launching from Swarm

The first, Manna, seeks to provide the public with personal-level drones that can be controlled via smartphone.

Next is Swarmops, a project that hopes to become a decentralized platform for swarm activism, providing difficult-to-stop communications, marshalling, and organization for civil liberties resistance to oppressive regimes. The Swarmops system provides a decentralized, democratized bureaucracy platform by driving decentralized authority via management of volunteers, activists, budgets, mass communication, expenses, payroll, invoices, and bookkeeping.

Judobaby has a decentralized gaming platform. Currently, the prominent game released by Judobaby involves dog footballavailable for the Nintendo Wii and PC platforms.

Coinspace seeks to build a co-working space for cryptocurrency developers, inventors, and business interests in New York City. Interested parties can use Swarm, through Space Coins, to back the space and receive membership and thus access. The planned launch of the workspace is in about six months. View this interview with Sol Lederer of Coinspace [YouTube] for more details.

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"One more thing.." -- Now earn interest on your cryptocurrency
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Bitcoin sees its price rise for the first time in over a week amid a market-wide upturn(IBTimes UK)

Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies have seen some respite from the recently tumbling prices, as all 10 of the most valuable altcoins saw positive market movement.

Bitcoin, dogecoin, peercoin and namecoin all rose in value by around 3.5%, while the largest gains from any of the big players came from darkcoin.

The anonymity-focussed altcoin saw a 9% price rise to take its market capitalisation above $8 million once again.

The Bitcoin Checkout app was announced at Money2020 and is available immediately on Android and "soon" on iOS.

"For retailers, accepting mobile payments is a growing trend, but none of today's industry offerings can provide a lower risk or lower cost than swiping a credit card," said Tony Gallippi, co-founder and executive chairman of BitPay.

"Accepting bitcoin can offer tremendous savings to merchants, especially merchants with a large international customer base, and BitPay's service combined with the new mobile app is a fantastic value for merchants."

A new study has found that more than 1% of consumers use bitcoin as a payment method, half of which use it as their primary payment method.

The survey of 1,000 online consumers, commissioned by digital commerce solution provider Avangate, looked at the evolution of mobile technology and how it is spawning the next generation of software and online services.

The study did not take into account transactions through online black marketplaces like Silk Road 2.0, which generally see cryptocurrencies used as the main form of payment.

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UK government asks bitcoin community for cryptocurrency advice and Circle releases platform as app(IBTimes UK)

Bitcoin has continued its recent downward trend by falling in price by a further 1.5% over the last 24 hours.

All other major cryptocurrencies have also seen negative movement since yesterday, with litecoin, dogecoin, peercoin, namecoin and darkcoin all falling by between 1% and 5%.

The biggest mover across all markets was pesetacoin, the unofficial national cryptocurrency of Spain. A 40% rise in value pushed its market capitalisation back up towards $50,000 for the first time since September.

The Treasury is requesting information and advice from those within the bitcoin community in order to understand how best to regulate cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin advocates from fintech (financial technology) firms, together with law enforcement agencies and financial regulators, will be approached by the government in the hope that better regulation will improve the UK's fintech sector.

"Digital currencies and digital currency exchanges are currently unregulated in the UK," said a Treasury spokesman. "We're considering the potential benefits of digital currencies to customers and the technology that underpins them, and whether we should take action to support innovation in this area.

"We're also looking at the potential risks, and assessing whether action is required to address any concerns."

Bitcoin-to-fiat currency exchange Circle has launched its own mobile app for iOS and Android platforms.

The integration of credit card payments into the app will allow users to withdraw and deposit money into their bitcoin wallets, while Touch ID compatibility with iOS devices will add a level of biometric security.

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The price of bitcoin continues to languish around the $330 mark as cryptocurrency markets stabilise(IBTimes UK)

After a turbulent weekend that saw bitcoin's price fluctuate between $350 and $320, the world's most valuable cryptocurrency has settled back to its late-October levels.

All other major altcoins saw little market movement over the last 24 hours, with litecoin, dogecoin, peercoin, namecoin and darkcoin all shifting by less than 2%.

Cannacoin, the digital currency dedicated to developing and creating innovative new technology for the cannabis industry, saw the biggest movement of any cryptocurrency, surging by 46% since yesterday to take its market capitalisation above $50,000.

Bitcoin mining manufacturer Bitcoin Brothers is launching a cloud-based mining service that it claims uses supercomputers with processing capabilities of over 6 petahash.

It is hoped that the advanced processing power will help reduce mining costs and increase profit margins.

Recent bitcoin price falls have meant that mining the cryptocurrency has become an increasingly cost inefficient process for many mining firms.

"To put our machines in perspective, on the common LINPACK Rpeak and Rmax benchmarks each of our MSEMs outperform the world's fastest supercomputers," Thomas Ackermann, chief technology officer at Bitcoin Brothers, said in a statement.

"We basically have a business model in different stages. The first stage is selling people services for bitcoin mining. People can rent portions of the machines starting at gigahashes, terahashes up to petahashes."

Customers unfamiliar with cryptocurrencies who wish to frequent the caf will be shown how to operate a bitcoin ATM or paper wallet printer that have been installed in the space.

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