Bitcoin start-up E-Coin has launched a virtual bitcoin debit card that works where VISA is accepted. The virtual bitcoin debit card has until now existed in the realm of possibilities largely due to the idiosyncrasies of the global financial system. E-Coin solves a problem that has affected bitcoin users worldwide. Bitcoin users have had to cope with limited spending opportunities. By combining bitcoin with VISA, users of the virtual prepaid card will now be able to perform all the normal transactions that ordinary cardholders are able to do such as load funds, withdraw, and shop online. The most exciting aspect about E-Coin is its merging of the traditional financial architecture with the new reality of digital currencies. E-Coin currently has about 20,000…
Saffron Bacchus made Bitcoiners very happy internet participants lately when she launched her new membership site, (NSFW) Bacchus Entertainment. As she told Redditors: I think 2015 is going to be huge for bitcoin so I think it’s time to stop getting screwed over by credit companies and just go 100% on bitcoin! You can check her out on Twitter here. Interview with Saffron Bacchus What made you interested in making videos? SB: We realized that there are lot of niche fetishes out there that don’t get a lot of new, high quality content, and we thought it would be fun to make videos for those communities! We love being creative and exploring the different fetishes and aspects of sexuality, and videos are a great way for us to express ourselves! What’s the most…
Have you ever thought to yourself, “I really wish I could ship a large inflatable middle finger to my best friend”? Well, now you can…and you can do so for Bitcoin! “The idea came from a friend,” Kurt Zoe, co-founder of Ship The Finger tells me. “After hearing of the Ship Your Enemies glitter service, he wanted to send something different.” So the idea for Ship The Finger was born. “He told me that he wanted to send the finger to his dad as a joke after a football game. He told me his idea then we built the Ship The Finger website.” To be sure, the site does not want to be used to spread hate. “It is supposed to be a joke. It’s not meant to be a threat or a way to bully,” Zoe tells me. “The main reason behind the site is…
Buttcoin is a peer-to-peer butt. That’s what a Buttcoiner will tell you. When asked what the state of the Buttcoin Community is, “Texas” they’ll insist. When I let the Buttcoin community (mostly at the subreddit /R/Buttcoin) know my intention to write an article on them, nobody would talk to me. I thought I had stumbled onto some luck when I found the Buttcoin Foundation website, which clearly mocks the Bitcoin Foundation, a non-profit that claims to represent Bitcoin to regulators. Barry Oners, the man who responded to me from the website’s contact form, agreed to an interview. He then goatsed me. It was shocking and disturbing. I made this post on r/Buttcoin, where after the moderators on Reddit stickied it to the top of the subreddit. In that post, I included…
CCN reached out to the Bitcoin Community via various sources, including Reddit, BitcoinTalk, and our own contacts, in order to gauge the sentiment of the Bitcoin Community in survey form. Included are our answers. Of the more than 130 people who took our survey, 56.3% believed that Bitcoin should use Bitcoin-XT. 81.6% believe the block size limit should be increased, assuming nobody believes it should be decreased. As far as the amount of influence Bitcoin developers have over the Bitcoin software, many showed signs of uneasiness. More than 50% claim the debate and divisiveness over Bitcoin-XT has damaged their trust in Bitcoin and/or the Bitcoin Community. Some of the most notable comments are as follows: “Bitcoin needs bigger blocks. It’s an…