Some relevant news of interest as I close some tabs:
- The Roads to Innovation in Cryptocurrencies by Sergio Lerner
- Cryptolocker: Police take further action on ransomware that hit 50,000 in UK from The Guardian
- Bit-thereum from Gavin Andresen
- Orisi White Paper – a Distributed oracles system for cryptocurrency contracts
- An Exclusive Q&A with Sidechains’ Austin Hill from Crypto Biz Magazine
- M-PESA tariffs (is it a money substitute?)
- Ten Days in Kenya With No Cash, Only a Phone from BusinessWeek
- Probability of a successful attack by Gregory Maxwell
- Think Fees On Normal ATMs Are Expensive? Check Out What It Costs To Use A Bitcoin ATM from Business Insider
- Bitcoin ATM Disappointment and Huge Bank Like Fees for Using Them from Cryptocoins News
- Financial Economist Myron Scholes Joins Mobile Wallet Kuapay as Chairman of Advisory Board from PRWeb (see also Kuapay)
- ShareXcoin exchange goes offline, owner disappears and hundreds of Bitcoins appear to be stolen from The Cryptocurrency Times
- US researcher banned for mining Bitcoin using university supercomputers from PC World
- Is the Bitcoin Network Sustainable? by Hass McCook (I disagree with his conclusions, but is good food for thought)
- Coindoe moving value and payments via social media networks (several others out there like Fortune Harbor and Quickcoin)
- Purse.io spend bitcoins on Amazon (still a complicated process for most people)
- The Ballad of Doug the DAO, Part II: Project Ðouglas by Preston Byrne (they’re working on a DAO for NGOs)
- Ye Olde Bit coines from Something Awful
I used purse.io and lost 10 dollars trying to return an item to Amazon. The buyer did a charged back on the order and amazon kept the return. I contacted purse.io about it and they have not responded in three days. Another guy on the net had a similar issue. https://imgur.com/hKJtYOq.