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Michele Marchesi: Using an Artificial Financial Market for studying a Cryptocurrency Market 2/2
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Saxo Bank panel claims bitcoin is a "fad", while streaming service Twitch embraces dogecoin.(IBTimes UK)

The price of bitcoin has continued to slide, falling by a further 3% over the last 24 hours to take its market capitalisation below $5bn, (2.5bn).

Dogecoin and peercoin also saw their values fall by a similar margin, while litecoin, darkcoin and namecoin remained relatively stable.

The biggest mover across all markets was solarcoin, a digital currency distributed to incentivise the use of solar energy over the next four decades. Solarcoin rose in value by 65% since yesterday to take its market cap above $250,000, (156,000).

Senior vice president at Eurex Exchange Javier Tordable called bitcoin a "fad" at a panel discussion at Saxo Bank's Trading Debates this week.

Tordable did suggest that the block chain through which bitcoin transactions are processed holds potential for storing and sharing data in the future.

"We are very interested in the technology behind it, the block chain," Tordable said, according to CoinDesk, before stating that he would like to explore the idea of storing data in a "multi-channel" or distributed manner.

Online streamingservice Twitch has started accepting dogecoin as a payment option for its premium service.

Dogecoin is the second cryptocurrency to be accepted by the populargaming venue, after it began accepting bitcoin earlier this year.

Google-owned Twitch offers other unusual payment methods to its 55 millionmonthly viewers, including Burger King and Subway gift cards.

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Cryptocurrency Round-Up: Twitch Accepts Dogecoin and Saxo Bank Says Bitcoin is 'Fad'

HOME > NEWS > Daily News > GoCoin prepares Cozy Games to accept Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency payments GoCoin prepares Cozy Games to accept Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency payments 24 October 2014

BERLIN, GERMANY -- (Marketwired - Oct 23, 2014) - Today at EiG2014 GoCoin announced an agreement with Cozy Games preparing the iGaming operator to accept cryptocurrency as a more cost-effective payment method. Once integrated with GoCoin, Cozy Games will be the first regulated iGaming operator in the world to successfully adopt digital currencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin as approved payment options.

GoCoin is the first e-commerce payment solution designed to process bitcoin and emerging altcoins for gaming and international operators considered "high risk" by traditional payment networks. With recent gambling tax reform changes like the UK's impending Point of Consumption (POC) Tax, operators are actively seeking lower cost payment alternatives to improve margins.

By most accounts, gambling represents approximately half of all Bitcoin transactions. Cryptocurrencies offer a truly global payment method without third party intermediaries. By partnering with GoCoin, Cozy Games will enjoy a dramatic reduction in costs associated with credit card transactions, chargebacks, and cross-border fees -- all without having to worry about the security, volatility or complexity of handling coins directly.

"GoCoin is the frontrunner bringing deep cryptocurrency expertise to the regulated iGaming sector, which was key in our decision to integrate their platform," said Sreeram Reddy, CEO of Cozy Games. "GoCoin's solution is adaptable and compliant with Internet gaming law, allowing us to safely adopt the latest payment innovations while focusing on our core strength of delivering an excellent online experience for our players."

"By accepting cryptocurrencies through the GoCoin payment platform, regulated online gambling operators can engage new markets like the underbanked that are historically difficult to reach," said Steve Beauregard, co-founder and CEO of GoCoin.

"Our engineers are actively working with regulators to develop clear guidelines that stay within the law while also respecting a player's right to privacy."

As a licensed operator, Cozy Games subscribes to responsible gaming policies and does not allow gambling by any person under the age of 18. GoCoin's KYC procedures work seamlessly with an operator's to ensure money coming into the gateway is under the custodianship of the identified player and that the player actually owns their bitcoin wallet.

About GoCoin GoCoin is the first international payment platform for bitcoin and emerging digital currencies, making it easier than ever for online and retail merchants to accept Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Dogecoin at checkout. GoCoin insulates merchant operators from the complexities and volatility of alt-currencies by settling transactions in the currency of their choice. Founded in July 2013, GoCoin is an international group of companies with offices in Singapore, London, Douglas, Boston and Santa Monica.

About Cozy Games Founded in 2005, by a team of gaming industry veterans, Cozy Games has emerged as one of the top innovators in the industry to date. The company brings decades of experience and a global workforce to ensure that products and services advance the business requirements of every customer and meet budget requirements. Cozy Games also has a product suite of over 90+ games which include bingo, classic and video slots, table games, scratch cards and network jackpots.

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Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrency markets remain stable, as Bitnet secures Series A funding.(IBTimes UK)

The price of bitcoin has remained relatively stable over the past 24 hours, shifting by less than 1% in value since yesterday.

Most other major cryptocurrencies have followed in bitcoin's lead, with litecoin, dogecoin and peercoin all moving by between 0% and 2%.

The biggest mover across all digital currency markets is uro, the "hybrid commodity token" that pegs its value to the fertilizer urea. Uro's price jumped by 45% to take its market capitalisation up above $1.5 million for the first time since July.

The co-founder of PayPal, Peter Thiel has said that despite bitcoin being founded on the same set of ideas as PayPal, the two have developed in very different directions.

"Bitcoin is the opposite of PayPal, in the sense that it actually succeeded in creating a currency," Thiel said in a talk at the Booth School of Business in Illinois.

"However, its payment system is lacking, and it is often used to make illegal transactions, such as to buy heroin. Until bitcoin is used to make more legal transactions, I am a bit sceptical."

Thiel has previously described bitcoin as "badly lacking", saying in a Reddit AMA (ask me anything) last month that he would become "more bullish" on bitcoin when the payment volume of bitcoin significantly increases.

Bitnet secures $14.5m Series A funding

Bitcoin payments processor Bitnet has raised $14.5m in a Series A funding round that it hopes will go some way to enticing major merchants into using its payments software.

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Cryptocurrency Round-Up: PayPal Founder Sceptical of Bitcoin and Bitnet Receives $14.5m Funding

DogeBlack [DOGEBC] - Cryptocurrency
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Unobtanium Cryptocurrency One Year Birthday
The Unobtanium (UNO) cryptocurrency was 1 year old in October, 2014. This video was created to celebrate the occasion. UNO is a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, ...

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Updated OCT 16, 2014 5:56p ET

The biggest upset in NASCAR this season? Well, it wasn't AJ Allmendinger winning at Watkins Glen or Aric Almirola taking the July Daytona race. No, clearly the biggest shocker this year was Josh Wise defeating Danica Patrick to win the fan vote and make it into the Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Wise scored the upset because of one of the most unlikely partnerships in NASCAR history - the low-dollar Phil Parsons Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team joining forces with online currency Dogecoin and the huge Reddit online community.

Dogecoin first sponsored PPR at Talladega Superspeedway in the spring and they will be back on the team's No. 98 Ford Fusion again for Sunday's GEICO 500 at the mammoth 2.66-mile central Alabama track.

The genesis of the partnership is fairly remarkable.

It began when 16-year-old reddit user Denis Pavel saw the all-black, unsponsored No. 98 in a race early this season. Impressed by the tiny teams effort, Pavel rallied the reddit community to use Dogecoin to raise sponsorship funds for Wise.And, of course, they flooded the all-star race voting, which allowed Wise to make into the big show over Patrick.

"I knew the online community was powerful, but I never expected this relationship to reach this level," said team owner Parsons. "As far as I know, this is the first online fundraising effort that has been able to fund sponsorship for a NASCAR team, and to think that we've been able to raise enough money for three races is incredible. We're hopeful that we'll be able to continue this partnership for many years to come as even more people from the Dogecoin community get involved with the program."

To that end, this week a collaborative website, TheDogeCar.com, launched "to share the story of the historical crowd funding effort that brought this sponsorship to life."

The site is selling merchandise to fund the team next year.

Available items include an "official Dogecar sponsorship coin" minted by Provident Metals, 2015 DogeCrew t-shirts, hoodies, and crew shirts. Preorders will be accepted through November 15, 2014, with the proceeds being applied to the 2015 race season.

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Return of the Doge Car: Cryptocurrency back to sponsor No. 98 in Talladega

Is bitcoin the cryptocurrency of the future what other cryptocurrencies are there
Rodrigo #39;s Bitcoin start-up: http://www.blinktrade.com Apps, books courses for entrepreneurs: http://www.problemio.com In this video I ask Rodrigo whether B...

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