E&E Bitcoin 'Cast

Donate bitcoins at: 12CEuFuAXLPQLe679ZHEsXqYgMfzT1p9qn Peter Thiel, the wealthy libertarian investor who was partly behind the founding of PayPal and has invested in Bitcoin startups has seemingly said that Bitcoin has just a 20% chance of being successful. Ethan disagrees.http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=autoandamp;tl=enandamp;js=nandamp;prev=_tandamp;hl=nlandamp;ie=UTF-8andamp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gruenderszene.de%2Fallgemein%2Fpeter-thiel-bitcoin

Donate bitcoins at: 12CEuFuAXLPQLe679ZHEsXqYgMfzT1p9qn People have been talking about eBay, PayPal and Bitcoin. Will Bitcoin users be able to integrate easily with PayPal in the future? Ethan thinks its a certainty and explains why.http://www.techhive.com/article/2048236/is-ebay-warming-up-to-bitcoin.html

Donate bitcoins at: 12CEuFuAXLPQLe679ZHEsXqYgMfzT1p9qn Cyprus, the country that confiscated bank deposits to make up for mounting public debt obligations and imposed a myriad of capital controls is thought to be fertile ground for a Bitcoin integrated bank. Enter Bitcoin startup NEO and the BEE payment network. The worlds first Bitcoin bank is just around the corner and its no small project. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=289730.0 http://lmb-holdings.com/

Donate bitcoins at: 12CEuFuAXLPQLe679ZHEsXqYgMfzT1p9qn Pushing for easier adoption in Canada, Bitcoiniacs is bringing Bitcoin ATMs to Canada this fall!http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/09/08/bitcoins-canada-kiosks.html

Donate bitcoins at: 12CEuFuAXLPQLe679ZHEsXqYgMfzT1p9qn PayPal froze the accounts of crowdfunded startup, mailpile. While Bitcoin is a fledgling currency, this demonstrates one more functional advantage of bitcoin over legacy payment processors that will become more and more relevant as the network grows.http://www.mailpile.is/blog/2013-09-05_PayPal_Freezes_Campaign_Funds.html

Donate bitcoins at: 12CEuFuAXLPQLe679ZHEsXqYgMfzT1p9qn Gift card sellers have started to serve as popular intermediaries in facilitating purchases of common goods with Bitcoin. A discount gift card seller has recently joined the list of companies participating in this market phenomenon. https://giftcardzen.com/buy

Donate bitcoins at: 12CEuFuAXLPQLe679ZHEsXqYgMfzT1p9qn Bitcoin mining difficulty has been on an incredble rise lately. Should you buy bitcoin mining equipment to get bitcoin?http://bitcoindifficulty.com/

Donate bitcoins at: 12CEuFuAXLPQLe679ZHEsXqYgMfzT1p9qn Someone recently submitted a Bitcoin transaction that included a 200 BTC fee. The transaction was processed by ASICminer run by FriedCat who promptly refunded the 200 BTC fee.https://blockchain.info/block-index/411390

Donate bitcoins at: 12CEuFuAXLPQLe679ZHEsXqYgMfzT1p9qn Bitcoin exchange TradeHill (an exchange for large net wealth Bitcoin holders) temporarily suspends operations.  Will this have an impact on the Bitcoin Economy?  Ethan gives an update from in studio today as Ed is away. http://www.coindesk.com/tradehill-halts-trading-due-to-iafcu-operational-and-regulatory-issues/

Donate bitcoins at: 12CEuFuAXLPQLe679ZHEsXqYgMfzT1p9qn Is Bitcoin really all that volatile? Ethan doesnt think it is and worse, that comparisons to larger markets arent honest comparisons.http://edandethan.com/how-volatile-is-bitcoin/

Donate bitcoins at: 12CEuFuAXLPQLe679ZHEsXqYgMfzT1p9qn While Bitcoin boosters go to washington to educate regulators, free market crypto-geek developers are making it easier to launder Bitcoins.Check out the program developers page here: http://sx.dyne.org/anontx/Story here: http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6630/trustless-bitcoin-anonymity-here-at-last/

Donate bitcoins at: 12CEuFuAXLPQLe679ZHEsXqYgMfzT1p9qn Bitcoin proponents head out to Washington DC to educate regulators on the Bitcoin business world. http://www.coindesk.com/what-happened-at-the-bitcoin-foundations-meeting-with-us-regulators/

Donate bitcoins at: 12CEuFuAXLPQLe679ZHEsXqYgMfzT1p9qn Payment processor Coinbase eliminates overhead risk for merchants thinking about accepting bitcoin by making a merchants first $Million USD equvilant in transactions free! $1 Million dollars in payment processing with NO FEES! http://blog.coinbase.com/post/59417545262/your-first-1-000-000-usd-in-merchant-processing-is-now

Donate bitcoins at: 12CEuFuAXLPQLe679ZHEsXqYgMfzT1p9qn Today Ed and Ethan discuss a great listener comment from Sergei77 via youtube - If the state tries to ban Bitcoin what would happen?

Donate bitcoins at: 12CEuFuAXLPQLe679ZHEsXqYgMfzT1p9qn An update from the worlds largest Bitcoin mining company makes mention of using intellectual property laws as a profit vector? What could this mean for the Bitcoin mining space?https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.msg2984489#msg2984489 http://www.cointap.ca/media/08212013