Selection of bitcoin-news for the week

Bitcoin for the poor

In South Africa, an experiment will begin in a few weeks: local residents will have the opportunity to manage their savings with the help of SMS. The system of electronic money Stellar decided to unite with one of the most popular social networks there. Although Stellar claims that their system is inspired by Bitcoins, in reality, it seems to be just an electronic currency that is tied to fiat money. The purpose of the system is to facilitate money management for those who cannot afford a smartphone or computer.

Stripe began to support Bitcoin

Startup Stripe is designed for Internet services and mobile applications that want to accept payments from users. It accepts payments worldwide in different currencies and in different ways - and now payments in the most popular cryptocurrency.

Robbery in new york

A fireman from New York who wanted to exchange his bitcoins for cash, was wounded and robbed by an unknown person. The victim made an appointment for an exchange via the Internet. In the course of the transaction, the criminal, after receiving the bitcoins, wounded the fireman and disappeared. Until the police came on his trail.

Collapse MtGox - most likely, this is an insider job

The MtGox exchange was the most popular place to exchange cryptocurrencies until about 800,000 pieces of bitcoins disappeared from its accounts. As a result, the exchange was closed. A group of security experts from the consulting firm WizSec published a report on the results of the investigation of the incident. According to them, the theft was organized from the inside of the exchange.
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blockcast - documents in a block chain

The open source project github offers a distributed microplinting system based on a bitcoin block chain. Documents are incorporated into network blocks. Document size does not exceed 607 bytes.

Backslash - payment links

Startup Backslash seeks to make Bitcoins available to everyone, and therefore works on an application that allows you to send Bitcoins to anyone. The recipient may not have a Bitcoin address, the transfer can be made by e-mail or through social networks. This week they announced the appearance of a new service - links to receive payments. Each user can create a payment link for himself and receive cryptocurrency easily and simply.

Data storage in the block chain from Onename

Startup Onename, which offers the creation of a single user profile, which can then be used as needed elsewhere in the network, introduced a storage system in a bitcoin block chain. Data is stored in key-value arrays. The creators of technology see the meaning in the organization of an open world name registration system and secure data storage.

Telebit - wallet for Telegram users

Telebit Startup now offers users of the Telegram encryption messenger an easy way to store and exchange cryptocurrencies. More details .