A few links of interest this past week:

• An architecture for the Internet of Money by Meher Roy
• Hyperledger: What are all the possible uses of the Hyperledger? on Quora
• In Introduction to Electronic Money Issues – Appendixes from Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
• Bitcoin ‘Ransomware’ Freezes Council Offices Across Italy from CoinDesk
• Bitcoin Miner Ditches Clients to Chase $2 Billion Coding Prize from Bloomberg
• Slasher Ghost, and Other Developments in Proof of Stake by Vitalik Buterin
• Bitcoin hoard no remedy for negative cashflow from ZDNet
• Bitcoin Trader Customers Face Losses After Management Disappears from CoinDesk
• Regulation of Bitcoin in Selected Jurisdictions from Library of Congress
• A look at the Bitcoin network transaction history by Andrés Guadamuz (two years old but still relevant to the discussion on “transactional volume” today)
• Retailers are disabling NFC readers to shut out Apple Pay from The Verge
• The Clearing House to Build Real-Time Payments System from American Banker
• Bitcoin Book Seeks to Debunk Myth with Math from CoinDesk (on Jeffrey Robinson’s book)
• CurrentC Is The Big Retailers’ Clunky Attempt To Kill Apple Pay And Credit Card Fees from TechCrunch

I am retiring the previous list name “Cryptocurrency in the news” because I think that fintech (financial technology) is a more accurate, all encompassing term for this space.  There are other possible names like “dapps” (decentralized applications) however I prefer fintech because decentralization may not be what the market chooses as an end game.

Some links of interest:

• FBI director on privacy, electronic surveillance from 60 Minutes
• Brisbane bitcoin ATM seized as part of drug trafficking investigation from The Guardian
• Intel preps new technology to secure credit card transactions from PC World
• Bitstamp: Unverified Bitcoin Accounts at Risk of Government Seizure from CoinDesk
• Bitcoin exchange Moolah CEO Alex Green resigns amidst theft, fraud claims from PC Magazine
• Geothermal Gold: Why Bitcoin Mines are Moving to Iceland from International Business Times
• Funding of network security with infinite block sizes by Peter Todd
• Bitcoin drug millions seized in Victoria from The Age
• Bitcoin survival relies on community ‘growing up’ from ZDNet
• Hackers Hijack Retailers’ Showroom PCs for Cryptocurrency Mining from CoinDesk

One of the most interesting story this week is commentary from Robert Sams, “Some Crypto Quibbles with Threadneedle Street,” who discusses the marginal costs of mining and addresses some of the statements from last weeks Bank of England papers.

Also, a couple of interesting emails/thread from the past from Gavin Andresen and Mike “Hearn: My first message to Satoshi…”

Below are stories and posts from over the past week that are related to digital currencies.  Linking does not constitute endorsement of service, coin or project.

[Note: creating a “Better Business Bureau” or Consumer Reports of Bitcoin is in its nascent stage via Proof-of-Developer and Coinist and Coin Source Trust Index.]

• University of Nicosia Issues Block-Chain Verified Certificates from CoinDesk
• Sound Smart at #BitcoinConf by Two Bit Idiot
• Bitcoin as Money? from Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
• Bitcoin still a risky proposition for Chinese regulators from China Economic Review (note: both Russia and Bangladesh policy makers are looking to restrict BTC and some other digital currencies)
• Thirsty For Profit, Chinese Bitcoin Exchanges Venture Beyond Familiar Waters from Forbes
• How Consensus Algorithms Solve Issues with Bitcoin’s Proof of Work from CoinDesk
• FrozenCoin (a concept) by Alex Mizrahi (“frozen” bitcoins with uses such as a recommendation system)
• API Developer Gem Aims to Streamline Bitcoin App Development from CoinDesk
• What are Inputs and Outputs? from CoinTelegraph
• All Things Alt: Anon Reviews, Backslash’s Beta and a Pink Partnership from CoinDesk
• This $50,000 Sub-Zero Lab Dominated Cryptocurrencies To Expose Their Fatal Flaws from Forbes
• Lighthouse alpha now open source by Mike Hearn
• Bitcoin gets boost as U.S. watchdog approves first swap from Reuters
• CEX.io Joins Bitcoin API Race With Launch of PlugChain from CoinDesk
• What happens if Bitcoin mining companies vertically integrate? by Richard Brown
• United States of America vs Rosario, Ricardo, et al.
• Mt. Gox Seizures Linked to Silk Road in Fed Testimonies from Trade Block (older but some interesting nuggets towards the end related to DHS/FBI documents)
• Why Bitcoins and Apple Pay Can’t Kill Off Cash from Bloomberg
• BTCChina Announced The Completion of Its Acquisition of A Mining Pool Team from Bitell
• Understanding Chargebacks
• Electronic Authentication Act from Washington State in 1997
• 2011 FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households from FDIC
• digitalBTC Partners With Cryptsy for Mining Platform Launch from CoinDesk

Closing tabs.

Got an email asking me more about the War of Spanish Succession related to gold.  My point on that panel wasn’t so much that France only used gold, but their finances were directly tied to specie (technically the French livre was in two forms: silver écu and gold Louis d’or; see also Livre tournois).  The reason I brought it up at all is because of the meme today, that Bitcoin would somehow prevent war because it neutralizes the states ability to expand its money supply, etc..  It won’t though.  Probably a better historical example are European countries from mid-19th century which adopted some form of a gold standard, yet then went on to wage a global war eventually dropping the peg altogether.  Be sure to read a new article from The Economist that discusses this, “Not floating, but flailing.”

Thanks to Izabella Kaminska (follow her on Twitter) and Zaki Manian for a couple links.

Also, be sure to check out Izabella’s thread today on Coinbase.  Based on a conversation with one lawyer I had two weeks ago it looks like a big legal challenge for Coinbase (and others in their vertical) is that they’re acting as depository institutions without having gone through the necessary “Safety & Soundness” tests which opens them up to legal action from a variety of state/federal agencies.

• Stock Returns over the FOMC Cycle by Anna Cieslak, Adair Morse and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen
• State-owned enterprises: Fixing China Inc from The Economist (155,000 SOEs, most at local/provincial level, poor performance over past 6 years compared to aggregate private industry)
• Affinity fraud (common in cryptocurrency space right now due to ideological segment, making them easier to identify)
• Crowd sales the easy way with Coinprism (note: not an endorsement); see also their new block explorer
• Mike Hearn on the fragility of bitcoin (a few interesting solutions to these challenges)
• The Lucre e-cash implementation is not secure by Andrew Miller
• Transparency for E2E encrypted messaging at a centralized service from Modern Crypto mailing list (see also KeyDistribution over at Google)
• Negotiability, Property, and Identity by James S. Miller (start reading from page 480)
• The Opportunities of Digitizing Payments — a report by the World Bank Development Research Group, the Better Than Cash Alliance, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion.
• The Short-Term View on Bitcoin Remittances from CoinDesk
• Crypto Currency Certification Consortium (this was bound to happen, even mentioned it in Chapter 7 of GCON)
• The Eurodollar Market: The Case for Disclosure by Ronald Greenberg

Closing tabs.

A few interesting stories, the first of which is from The Economist, “The dollar’s sterling work.”  One notable passage from the article is, “people exaggerate the importance of the yuan. Just $0.3 trillion of Chinese assets are open to foreign investors, compared to $56 trillion of American ones. That makes the yuan a poor candidate for a global reserve currency.”

As I explored in chapter 13, Bitcoin adopters who continue to claim bitcoin will become a reserve currency usually do not understand how or what foreign currency reserves are.  The Chinese RMB, not bitcoins, has a more probable future as a reserve currency and as discussed by The Economist and others cited in chapter 13 (such as Patrick Chovanec), this is not going to happen anytime soon for the RMB, if ever.

I also recommend reading through “Inside Visa’s Data Center” published last year to give you an idea of the quality and security of their network.  Significantly different (42 firewalls, mirrored center in Midwest) than the cartoon caricature that some vocal “decentralize the worlders” claim it as.

Thanks to Izabella Kaminska and others for a couple of the links.

• DigitalBTC Preliminary Final Report for FY14 (look at the line item: “Depreciation of segment assets”)
• BIP0064 – Not yet. from Conformal
• Freedom of choice, bitcoins and legal tender from OECD (some cogent arguments about why a cryptocurrency probably won’t become a national currency)
• Creative Cops: Why China’s Police Chiefs Are Racking Up Patents from The Wall Street Journal (clever kickback scheme; tangent: How the SATs may undermine China’s Communist Party from Washington Post and Investor Visas Soaked Up by Chinese from The Wall Street Journal)
• Bitcoin is having its moment but there are better sustainable currencies from The Guardian (from about 2 months ago; five alternatives though not sure it’s an apples-to-apples comparison as they are not really p2p)
• [ANN] Huobi Passes Proof of Solvency Audit by Stefan Thomas (he also audited OKCoin a week ago; may become an industry standard way to do so each quarter)
• These numbers will remind you that doing a startup is brutal from Tech In Asia (large amount of failures, though that’s probably expected since entrepreneurship is more of a black box and not necessarily scalable)
• Well I’ll be damned by Preston Byrne (the jump in activity started with the casual conversation with Vitalik and Daniel two weeks ago, then snowballed onto Chinese-language based forums including QQ, Wechat and even BitShares own forum where the Chinese-language section has more posts than any other subforum. getting trolled on twitter by Bitshares holders is probably not a good sign either.)
• Hal Finney being cryopreserved now from Extropy Institute (brilliant human, see also: Nakamoto’s Neighbor: My Hunt For Bitcoin’s Creator Led To A Paralyzed Crypto Genius and Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney))
• Hedgy a Boost VC startup (“eliminate bitcoin volatility”)
• The Role of Trust in the Stellar Network by Alex Browne
• FoldingCoin: Mining for Medicine at Home by Robert Ross (see also: 5 Global Problems Bitcoin’s Proof of Work Can Help Solve by Daniel Cawrey)
• BlockSign Utilises Block Chain to Verify Signed Contracts from CoinDesk
• Citigroup’s Englander: Mining Arms Race Adds Volatility to Bitcoin from Barron’s
• Proof-of-burn and Reputation Pledges from OpenBazaar
• The Ripple Protocol Consensus Algorithm by David Schwartz, Noah Youngs and Arthur Britto (they published a white paper explaining it, commentary on the forum)
• The (sizable) Role of Rehypothecation in the Shadow Banking System by Manmohan Singh and James Aitken (apropos the comments from Robert Sams)
• Ed25519: high-speed high-security signatures

Closing tabs.  Links do not constitute an endorsement of the service or coin.

• Optimal Mining Strategies: Proof of Idle (slides) by Thaddeus Dryja (be sure to see the comments below the post from yesterday)
• Bitcoin start-up Unocoin gets overseas funding from The Hindu
• BitX to Expand Further in Emerging Markets with New Funding Deal from CoinDesk
• Banks Vie for a Piece of Africa’s Mobile Banking Market from The Wall Street Journal (“Fewer than a quarter of Africans have a bank account, the World Bank says, but 40% have a mobile phone”)
• Secret Sharing and Erasure Coding: A Guide for the Aspiring Dropbox Decentralizer by Vitalik Buterin (perhaps if it is built, hard to see how it will be cheaper than competing services though and may in fact just attract “unwanted” content)
• Cloud mining should be using merkle sum trees to prove they aren’t doing fractional reserve mining by Peter Todd (a follow-up to Gavin Andresen’s recent post)
• Postal Savings Bank of China Restarts QR Code Payment from Kapronasia (see also the new feature in WeChat that allows users to send funds to one another)
• Bitcoin’s Price Falls 12%, to Lowest Value Since May from The New York Times (some interesting quotes from Steven Englander)
• Blockmeta.info (Chinese version of Blockchain.info)
• Fungibility, Privacy & Identity presentation from Adam Back in February 2014
• Notary Chains (has the guy who created Proof of Existence on the team)
• Security in the Blockchain: Past, Present and Future by Shannon Code
• ProzCoin : Proof of Action (PoA) (similar to LTBCoin)
• FoldingCoin (simultaneously mine BTC but also work with Stanford’s cancer research)
• Ribbitcoin (has built in marketplace within the network)
• Russian Tech Magnate’s First Bitcoin Project Launches in Beta from CoinDesk (Blocktrail was finally released to the public. Jop Hartog helped provide feedback with a few articles and the book)
• Re: [ANNOUNCE] Bitcoin Cooperative Proof-of-Stake – CPoS Stephen Reed updated the status of the project he announced several months ago
• Gartner’s 2014 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Maps the Journey to Digital Business from Gartner
• If you had to invest $10 million into one Bitcoin related company, and it can’t be your own, which company would you invest in? Why? from Zapchain (most answers are people just pumping their own investments, I thought Teemu Päivinen’s answer was interesting)
• The Bitcoin Service Provider: New Tenant Class for Data Centers from Data Center Knowledge (“A key requirement in a Bitcoin mining data center is high density, as racks of mining rigs can run at 20 kilowatts and higher. The 87,000-square-foot DEN2 facility, built in 2012, was designed to support higher loads”)
• Cryptofinance by Campbell Harvey (some interesting charts, especially about volatility towards the end)
• Coinmap, number of venues from Bitcoin Pulse (how many are unaccounted for; how many are venues that accept it full-time; how many venues have removed acceptance?)
• Bitcoin prices flash crash on BTC-e due to margin calls by Raffael Danielli (follow-up to the piece from last week on Bitfinex)

Closing tabs, below are some stories and links that at least tangentially intersect with this space.  Also, great post by Richard Brown: A simple explanation of fees in the payment card industry

• Should We Kill The $100 Bill? from NPR (2/3 of them are overseas, some used as a safe-haven)
• Hackers Steal $1.65 Million in NXT from BTER Exchange from CoinDesk (they’re sending extortion messages via the blockchain; and community is “voting” to hardfork/rollback the hack, removing the purpose and advantage of having a decentralized blockchain)
• Big Data Requires a New Kind of Expert: The Econinformatrician from Big Data Econometrics
• Depository Trust Corporation Company Breakdown by Taariq Lewis (see also the “Clearing” category from Richard Brown)
• The Gold Standard and Price Inflation by David Andolfatto (see also: Why Are Banks Holding So Many Excess Reserves? by Todd Keister and James McAndrews)
• For Merchants, Bitcoin Shows More Pop Than Potential from The New York Times
• The Man Who Really Built Bitcoin from Technology Review (Peter Todd says he wasn’t quoted correctly)
• The Limits of Moore’s Law Limits from EE Times (this touches on the discussion of ASICs in Andrew Poelstra’s paper which I critiqued in chapter 3)
• Ratings Firm Coinist Tackles Trust Problem with Bitcoin 2.0 Projects from The Wall Street Journal (Coinist, a ratings site for digital coins and assets)
• European Banking Authority takes hard line on regulation of Bitcoin/virtual currencies from Lexology
• Gavin Andresen Suspects Ponzis in Bitcoin Cloud Mining from Cryptocoins News
• Bitfinex: cascading margin calls resulting in flash crash from Matlab Trading
• Fun fact: Dutch banks launched a Digital Cash system in 1996 – still running – soon to be dismantled. on reddit
• On the Sovereignty of CryptoCurrencies — What Bitcoin can Learn from Somaliland by Casey Kuhlman (see also: Guess that makes me a tory by Preston Byrne)
• The Disruptive Potential of Bitcoin: Why Everyone in Financial Services Should Care by Celent (I heard that they used my 2nd book without citation, nice flattery if true)
• Digital identity cards: Estonia takes the plunge from The Economist
• Regulating Cryptocurrencies in the United States: Current Issues and Future Directions by Sarah Jane Hughes and Stephen T. Middlebrook
• Bitcoin: An Innovative Alternative Digital Currency by Reuben Grinberg (older, the first legal review paper on Bitcoin)
• SEC Rule 613 – Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) Plan — National Market System (“NMS”) Plan from Deloitte (impacts HFT)
• Safety and Soundness examination (this is something that an entity like Coinbase could have to pass and fulfill if it is deemed a depository institution)
• Replevin and bailment (I mention nemo dat in passing in the book, replevin is how this is handled)
• The Last Straw for Bitcoin by Ryan Straus (a year old but very germane, talks about irrevocability)
• Shift Is Developing A Debit Card That Lets You Spend Digital Currency, Loyalty Points And Regular Money from TechCrunch
• The Escalating Payments War from Bank Tech (see also: Amazon Unveils Mobile-Payments Service for Local Shops)
• Satoshi’s hashrate from Organ of Corti (Neighbourhood Pool Watch, really good blog)
• Annual Dijkstra prize: Alternative methods of achieving distributed consensus with computing systems
• What’s the matter with PGP? from A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
• Trust Atom: Enforceable Digital Contracts (Yurii also developed GitChain)
• Viacoin Team Implements Smart Contract Protocol Built on Altcoin Block Chain from CoinDesk (fork of Bitcoin and Counterparty with the goal of implementing Tree Chains)
• Let’s Talk Bitcoin #133 The Digital Divide (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, “bitcoin” is nowhere near the bottom echelon)
• Painting the tape (something older securities exchanges did in the past and something that could be happening in the digital currency space; tangent Watered stock)
• The Top 20 Edgy and Incisive Internet Quotes of 1990-1995 from Imagining the Internet (early ’90s predictions)
• Coinsetter brings biometric facial recognition and fingerprint scanning to Bitcoin security from Leaprate
• Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money from Harvard Business Review (I suspect the returns and performance by VCs heavily invested in the Bitcoin space will probably be poor for now due to a dearth of real revenue generating activities)
• Map of Coins a visualized history of the cryptocurrency world from the first bitcoin whitepaper up to present days (looks a little like fragmentation of Linux distros)
• O(1) Block Propagation by Gavin Andresen (talks about the issues discussed in Chapter 2 and 3 and a potential solution regarding propagating headers)
• Mnet and Mojonation from several notable people including Zooko Wilcox O’Hearn and Bram Cohen (it used digital currency)
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Closing a bunch of my tabs, I only posted a few of these links in my book.

First link must have been inspired from the picture by Mac in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Thanks to Dave Harrison and others for a couple links below:

• A top contender for best irrational exuberance in day trading: Moon from Trading View
• Hacker makes $84k hijacking Bitcoin mining pool from The Guardian (bitcoin “thought leaders” are always saying how this is either impossible, unlikely or how in order to disrupt Bitcoin rogue actors have to brute force the network.  this is untrue, lots of other ways to temporarily or permanently disrupt a pool or the network)
• Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias by Peter Garber (one bubble that doesn’t get much attention in general by most commentary today is the Rail Road bubble in the 19th century; lots of supposed “smart money” poured into it; see for instance the railroad mania in the UK)
• Risk-averse China seen pushing back plans to free yuan from Reuters (as I argue in my book, the RMB has a better chance of internationalization than any cryptocurrency, this story explains the difficulties of getting those moving pieces aligned)
• Bankers Trust controversies on Wikipedia (really interesting story, I wonder how “cryptobrokers” would fare if their comments on reddit/Twitter were accounted for like that. all the people at conventions claiming bitcoin will hit $30,000 and that you should buy, does this constitute guidance?)
• Crowdfunding and the Federal Securities Laws by C. Steven Bradford (cryptosecurities and cryptoequity are likely investment contracts under the Howey rule and the SEC has total discretion as to exemptions from its securities regulations; yet it is getting pressure from Congress to exempt crowd sharing sites; talk to a lawyer before getting involved in these)
• Don’t Know – DK (one of the biggest “DK’d” in history can be found in this exchange between Barclays and JP Morgan regarding $40 billion sent to Lehman Brothers during its collapse)
• Standards from XKCD (if there is one thing open source projects are good at, it’s fragmenting)
• GHash Mining Pool Generates $250 Million in Bitcoin in One Year from CoinDesk (and “Since launch, miners on GHash have consumed 159,519,788 kilowatt hours worth of power.”  though it is unclear if that is just with the locally hosted machines and/or the external machines that point to GHash.io)
• Report: Bitcoin Targeted in 22% of Financial Malware Attacks from CoinDesk
• Google explodes the online storage market with unlimited storage for businesses from CITE World (how can StorJ and Filecoin possibly compete against this?)
• A Tale of Two Bitcoin Presales: Swarm and Ethereum by Danno Ferrin
• Stellard compared to Rippled from Rubble Labs
• Could Crypto-finance un-silo Wall Street? from CAPCO
• BTX Trader (allows you to trade on multiple exchanges, i haven’t used it, not an endorsement)
• SoHelpful (supposedly helps build a company reputation, looks like it could work in conjunction with Clarity)
• Is BitCoin a triple entry system? from Financial Cryptography (this is an old story that a friend asked me about: there really is no such thing as “TES.” if you hear someone say this is what will enable blockchains to defeat Intuit or Quicken, they probably do not understand accounting.)
• bitcoinnerds comments on BitPay’s announcement last week (as he points out this is largely hype, BitPay has no margins and likely makes the bulk of its revenue from trading bitcoins on exchanges/OTC)
• Triennial Central Bank Survey Foreign exchange turnover in April 2013: preliminary global results from Bank for International Settlements
• I removed all but one reference to MaidSafe in my book primarily because in the months since they went “live” they have not really produced or shipped anything.  For more on that I recommend readers peruse two comments on Hacker News
• Bitcoin Features in Latest FinCEN Suspicious Activity Report from CoinDesk
• Open Crypto Review (an open source peer review platform of academic and research articles)
• Cash transfers in Africa: Bitcoin for the poor from The Economist (money quote: “But first he will have to overcome a number of hurdles. Bitcoin’s remittance pioneers face the same anti-money-laundering and cash security issues that drive ordinary transfer fees so high. Then there’s the unknown of local governments’ reactions to such little-regulated exchanges.”)
• Why are bitcoins always compared to credit cards? One is an asset instrument, the other a debt instrument. see comment from junseth
• Paying with Plastic: Maybe Not So Crazy by Tom Brown & Lacey Plache
• Liquidity Creation without a Lender of Last Resort: Clearing House Loan Certificates in the Banking Panic of 1907 by Ellis W. Tallman and Jon R. Moen
• TenderMint: Consensus without Mining by Jae Kwon
• The Shift to Safer Chip-and-PIN Credit Cards from The New York Times

There is an excellent post from Richard Gendal Brown last week, “Why the payment card system works the way it does – and why Bitcoin isn’t going to replace it any time soon.”

Below are some other interesting links I have come across or were sent to me:

• Whitecoin’s post-51% attack announcement (happened 2 months ago)
• Blockpad: Improved Proof-of-work function with descentralization incentives by Sergio Lerner
• Common Accord by Primavera De Filippi (smart contract framework)
• Address by Director of Markets Supervision Gareth Murphy at the BitFin 2014: Digital Money and the Future of Finance Conference (from Irish Central Bank; see CoinDesk coverage too)
• EU Banks Must Shun Bitcoin Until Rules in Place, EBA Says from Bloomberg (see the 70 point risk chart too)
• History nugget: Open Source FPGA Bitcoin Miner, launched on May 20, 2011 (here is the official Bitcoin Talk thread)
• I AM HODLING (the infamous Bitcoin Talk thread that spawned the meme)

• Re: Bounty for successful nothing at stake attack? (good thread on NXT about proof of stake, this comment is from Vitalik Buterin)

• Bitcoin’s Collusion Problem by Timothy Lee (old post but makes some accurate predictions as to what would happen to regulations and bitcoin)
• New Private Monies A Bit-Part Player? by Kevin Dowd (some sobering comments in pages 55-59)
• Mining Decentralisation: The Low Hanging Fruit by Mike Hearn
• Bithalo, Blackhalo, and NightTrader: Revolutionary Smart Contracts Technology Now in Beta from Cryptocoins News (see also Brandon Wilson at Ripple Labs)
• Floating Fees for 0.10 by Gavin Andresen

Several links of interest from over the past few days:

• Estimating the amount of Bitcoin users in 2013 from reddit (my own estimate in chapter 8 is no more than 10 million and likely 1-2 million)
• Bitcoin for Charities from BitPay
• Forget Bitcoin vs Fiat, Welcome the Hybrid Economy from CoinDesk
• DAOs Are Not Scary, Part 2: Reducing Barriers by Vitalik Buterin
• CryptoThrift (online marketplace like BitDazzle)
• Egora (another online marketplace)
• Bitrated (consumer protection escrow)
• South Korea Launches its First Two-Way Bitcoin ATM from CoinDesk
• Bitcoin’s so last week, accelerator launches for alt cryptocurrency Ripple from Upstart Business Journal
• Bitcoin Transaction Coordinator (an ERP)
• Coinvoice (invoice and get paid in BTC or USD)
• Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks by Nick Szabo (I cited it about 10 times in GCON, this is published over at First Monday)