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Novelty Lab is a San Francisco Bay Area Bitcoin startup that was accepted  into the Plug and Play Bitcoin program on April 1st.  The program is run by the Plug and Play Tech Center.  PnP Bitcoin will be able to provide seed-funding, technical, and legal assistance: Our global network of advisors & mentors help startups further their product development & prepare ...

This article was originally published April 7th, 2014 — Updated April 29th, 2014 Peercover began in May 2013 and was founded by Jared Mimms.  It is one of many businesses that Jared is currently involved in building.  After looking at his impressive resume, we wonder when he finds time to sleep.  Jared’s other businesses include Omega Genomics, Dycomb, Omega Hedge, ...

XNF, XAU, XAG, XPT What do these currencies have in common, other than an X? They are some of the first currencies traded on the Ripple network that are backed by precious metals bullion reserves. Ripple Singapore and XNFTrading are both full fledged Ripple gateways that are offering digital currencies backed by precious metals that you can hold in your ...

David Andolfatto, Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis released a PDF presentation that discusses Bitcoin in depth.  In it, he covers the positives and the negatives related to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. The presentation is suprisingly in-depth coming from an official so high up within the Federal Reserve. Even more surprising is his favorable outlook of Ripple within the ...

Gecko Coin is a currency created by Devon Weller using the Ripple platform. It is currently an experiment in issuing currencies and market making.  Devon’s goal is to learn more about the Ripple platform and educate others through giveaways and auctions with Gecko Coin.  Devon plans to issue a total of 2 million GKO. How do coins work in the ...

New Zealand Coinex Ripple Gateway to offer BTC (XBT), NZD, AUD, USD exchange services April 2nd Caniluk Limited is an incorporated company in New Zealand that will soon be offering the first Ripple gateway in New Zealand.  Customers will be able to make deposits and withdrawals in Bitcoin, New Zealand Dollars, Australian Dollars, and US Dollars.  Thereby functioning as an effective Bitcoin ...

Multipool mining essentially mines the most profitable coins and then sells those coins to pay miners out in a currency of their choice.  This was the primary goal for many miners of altcoins in the beginning when ASICs made it nearly impossible for average people to mine Bitcoin.  So instead of directly mining Bitcoin, people could mine Scrypt based Proof-of-Work coins ...

Fluttercoin is a recently released PoW/PoS/PoT coin released March 10th by Fluttercoin developer “thekidcoin” on Bitcointalk. Proof-of-Transaction is also known as Proof-of-Block.  What it means is that just by sending Fluttercoins, you have the possibility of discovering a block and being rewarded with Fluttercoins. That means there is currently three ways to discover new Fluttercoins; you can mine them, you ...

Blackcoin (BC) is a PoW/PoS hybrid that was PoW mined up to about 74 million coins, and is now a purely PoS coin. The Blackcoin community continues to grow and multipools are springing up when others close down. UK-based Moolah.io has added Blackcoin recently to his the of supported payment methods, which is encouraging as they build their FIAT to crypto gateway, as well ...

Enthusiasts are watching Auroracoin as the debut of the first nationwide cryptocurrency distribution nears. Auroracoin developer “Baldur Friggjar Odinsson” plans to give Auroracoins to the population of Iceland: The Airdrop will start to take place on March 25th 2014. A national ID database, created by the government will be used for this purpose…. About 330,000 Icelanders will be made able to ...