Apple, Google bet on walletless future, but are shoppers ready to pay with phone?
• http://phys.orgSome pay for deli sandwiches with a flick of their Internet-enabled wristwatches. Osama Bedier waves his phone.
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Cyberspace and the New Economy
Canadian Senate Says No to Regulating Digital Currencies
• https://bitcoinmagazine.comThe Canadian Senate's Banking, Trade and Commerce (BTC) committee released its final report Friday asking the federal government to use a "light touch" in dealing with digital currencies.
The US defense industry is reeling after the latest massive cyber attack
• http://www.businessinsider.comU.S. weapons industry executives say they are disappointed and frustrated about a massive U.S. cyber breach that exposed sensitive information about millions of Americans, including many thousands who work on high-security arms projects.
BitPay Shifts Focus from Payments and Merchants to Large Banks
• http://cointelegraph.comBitcoin payment processor BitPay has announced at the Money Conf Belfast that the startup will shift its focus from merchant payment platforms and services to working with large financial institutions and banks.
The White House Steps Up as GOP Tries to Undo Net Neutrality Rules
• http://motherboard.vice.comRepublicans on Capitol Hill want to use the 2016 federal budget to blow up the US government's new open internet policy--and now the White House is pushing back.
Will Bytecoin Eventually be the Peferred Currency for DarkNet?
• https://www.cryptocoinsnews.comAn Interview with Harry Ullman of Bytecoin. Unfortunately, I can't tell you that I'm one of the first people who discovered Bitcoin from Satoshi's whitepaper. But I might as well be seen as an early adopter.
Net Neutrality Activists Believe the 'Internet Voter' Is a New Political Force
• http://motherboard.vice.comNow that the US government's historic open internet protections have taken effect, many of the activists who pushed for the landmark rules are aiming to turn their victory into a new political force.
Quantopian: Giving Individuals the Tools to 'Compete with Wall Street's Best'
• http://cointelegraph.comOne Boston FinTech startup, Quantopian, is open-sourcing its application to coders interested in researching and testing financial investment data. The company provides tools that allow anyone, if they have the ability, to "write market-beating alg
Twitter's Dick Costolo to step down as CEO in yet another shake-up
• http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/12/us-twittTwitter Inc Chief Executive Officer Dick Costolo abruptly announced he was stepping down on Thursday amid increasing scrutiny of the company's slow user growth and inability to attract advertisers at the same rate as its competitors
ShapeShift.IO takes "moral and ethical stand" against BitLicense and suspends service in N
• http://99bitcoins.comShapeShift.IO, the Bitcoin startup founded by CEO Erik Voorhees, has decided to suspend its services in the state of New York, saying the company is "not comfortable" with the new state law regulating cryptocurrency.
OpenBazaar Receives $1 Million in Funding from Top Investors to Launch Decentralized Marketplace
• https://bitcoinmagazine.comOpenBazaar announced that it received $1 million in seed funding from Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and angel investor William Mougayar to develop the OpenBazaar protocol and client.
Exclusive Interview with Mike Belshe: BitGo and Multi-Sig
• http://bitcoinist.netBitGo is a company known for its industry-leading security practices, such as its mult-signature technology. BitGo has made several partnerships due to their reputation of being able to easily secure holdings of Bitcoin, thanks to their technology. I
UK Gov't Report Backs Mass 'Extra-Territorial' Data Collection Mentions Bitcoin,
• http://cointelegraph.comToday, the UK government has published a report on digital privacy supporting the compulsory mass collection of data for both domestic and "extra-territorial" web traffic.
How 400,000 People Are Gradually Adopting Bitcoin in Tel Aviv
• https://bitcoinmagazine.comTel Aviv, a city of about 400,000 residents in the heart of Israel, is considered one of the leading cities in the world in Bitcoin adoption. For new bitcoiners, Tel Aviv is like a dream come true; it has everything you need to get started with the d
ShapeShift.io Launches First Ever Digital Currency Exchange App for iOS
• https://bitcoinmagazine.comShapeShift.io, a well-known digital currency exchange, has just announced that the trading platform is available on the IOS app store, making it the first mobile exchange app ever permitted on the app store.
Lawskys' Farewell
• http://bravenewcoin.comBen Lawsky, Superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services, recently gave his final speech at the BITS Emerging Payments Forum on the regulation of Bitcoin and other crypto currencies.
JUN 9 DIGEST: Blockstream Unveils Sidechain Prototype; Overstock Sells its First Cryptobond
• http://cointelegraph.comOverstock has become the first company to solicit qualified institutional buyers in a digital corporate bond which will trade using blockchain technology
Exclusive: U.S. tech industry appeals to Obama to keep hands off encryption
• http://www.reuters.comTop U.S. tech companies are warning the Obama administration against imposing new policies that the companies say would weaken increasingly sophisticated encryption systems designed to protect consumers' privacy.
Max Keiser's Investment fund Bitcoin Capital Raises Over $1 Million Through Crowdfunding
• https://bitcoinmagazine.comBitcoin investment fund Bitcoin Capital has raised more than $1 million on the equity crowdfunding platform Bnk To The Future, SiliconANGLE reports.
Man Robbed at Gunpoint for Bitcoin in Brooklyn
• https://www.cryptocoinsnews.comPeople are robbed all the time for all kinds of things. Their expensive watches, cell phones, wallets, you name it. It's only now and then that people are robbed of their bitcoins
Bitcoin Scam Alert -BTCFlap.com
• https://www.cryptocoinsnews.comThere are good ways to sell your bitcoins when you need cash, and there are bad ways. CCN has documented numerous bad ways over the years, sometimes with victims writing in to us.
NXT Releases Voting System and Escrowed Transactions
• http://cointelegraph.comNXT, the 2.0 blockchain platform, has released a bundle of new features in their latest 1.5.10 release which include: Decentralized Voting, escrowed transactions (Phasing), Prunable Messages of up to 42 kilobytes (4,000- 5,000 words), and more.
How to 'Avoid Fiat Entirely' When Buying Gold, Altcoins
• http://cointelegraph.comUsers of Vaultoro are now able to purchase physical gold with Bitcoin and 35+ altcoins, including Dogecoin, Litecoin, Namecoin, Monero and others.
Crowdfunding Can Launch Kids' Futures, Not Just Gadgets
• http://www.wired.comBack in 2007, Beth Schmidt was a Teach for America corp member teaching English class to 165 10th graders in South Central Los Angeles.
Financial Blockchain Applications will be Measured in the Trillions, says Blythe Masters
• https://bitcoinmagazine.comat Exponential Finance 2015. The Singularity University and CNBC are hosting the Exponential Finance 2015 conference n New York, on June 2-3.
Moneytis Launches Open Beta of Global Bitcoin Remittance Service
• https://bitcoinmagazine.comA new consumer remittance startup is on the block, and it's bringing bitcoin to new corridors in Europe, China and Mexico.
Company Plans To Build $50 Billion Supercomputer In New Mexico, Boosting Block Chain Processing
• https://www.cryptocoinsnews.comExascale Power Co., a Portland, Ore.-based company, plans to build a supercomputer in New Mexico that will boost the power of the block chain processing infrastructure.
E-Coin Bitcoin Visa Card Now Secured By BitGo
• http://bravenewcoin.comE-Coin is a recent addition to the Bitcoin Industry, having been started in late 2014. The London based company provides a debit card linked to a cloud wallet, which gives users access to Fiat and Digital currencies across the Visa network.
Crypto Public Notary Uses Bitcoin Block Chain To Notarize Digital Content
• https://www.cryptocoinsnews.comCrypto Public Notary, a free notary service using the bitcoin block chain to provide digital document provenance, recently launched.
THE NEXT GENERATION OF CURRENCY-THE FUTURE OF MONEY
• Wired.comNot since the arrival of the almighty dollar has currency been poised for a more dramatic leap forward.
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