Bitcoin News Summary For The Week Of October 28 To November 3 Of 2013
The Feel Of The Week
October 2013 was the craziest and more effervescent month for Bitcoin yet. Started with a flash crash and ended with a take off. Something that has continued over November so far thanks to The China Effect and renewed round of Bitcoin News Cycles reaching Mainstream in a way it had not seen before in April or even at the start of October
The Highlights:
> USD Exchange Average Value per Bitcoin started this week at 180 after reaching the highest BEA week mark last week. But quickly jumped to 190 and then 200. Stood at 200 for some days and finally bumped up to 205.
> Blockchain.info celebrated reaching 500,000 Bitcoin Wallets generated by giving $2000 USD worth of Bitcoin to the user that generated the Blockchain.info Bitcoin Wallet Number 500K
Link: Blockchain.info celebrates 500,000 wallets with free bitcoins! - Bitcoin
> Trezor, The Bitcoin Wallet Gadget got delayed until January. Promised new extra features to compensate.
Link: TREZOR Delivery Update
> A vocal minority of BitcoinTalk users accused Theymos of censorship and allowing scammy users into the forum. All points on the allegations holding truth to them.
Link: PSA on Theymos
> Australian Crowdfunding site Pozible announced they would start accepting Bitcoin. This then would put them not only in competition with IndieGoGo but also +BitcoinStarter
Link: Pozible now accepting pledges in Bitcoin
> It was pointed out that a loophole in Canadian law is what has allowed Bitcoin Startups to run fully unregulated. The Loophole being an interpretation of law technicism on how Canada defines a currency as the legal tender tied to a nation. To what Bitcoin just don´t fits into.
Link: Due To A Loophole In Canadian Law, Bitcoin Businesses Aren't Really Regulated
> Bitcoin had their second biggest high on Google Trends since April of this year. Had already happened in early October, but the spike of this week is well over that one.
Link: Google Trends Bitcoin
> +Bitpay Processed their first 1 Million Dollars transaction. Making it the highest so far . This was for BFL hardware. Which is in itself also news. As there is someone crazy enough to do such a high order to BFL. But great news to the Bitpay guise nonetheless.
Link: BitPay processes $1 million bitcoin order for Butterfly Labs - CoinDesk
> Robocoin Bitcoin Two-Ways ATM debuted in Vancouver, Canada at Bitcoiniacs to a roaring success. Generating a massive amount of live news coverage in pretty much every News Outlet in the USA and Canada even if just for a few seconds. But it also hit the news in many many more countries including China, Mexico, Australia, Russia and India.
It even caused Cavirtex, Canada Virtual Exchange and LocalBitcoin Canada prices per Bitcoin to go up a little bit.
The results of its media blitz ended with the Bitcoin ATM doing a whooping $40,000 Canadian Dollars worth of Bitcoin transactions in its first two days.
It also had a little bit of an effect in reading in numbers here in this community and a higher new member per day registrations and posts. In which I must also highlight a new community member that joined thanks to it. The very affable +Kana Yamashita
What is more incredible about it. Is that its Buying/Selling price + Their fees gave you an Exchange Price Per Bitcoin result very much in line like selling or buying it with Paypal. But its Novelty, Convenience and Wow factors were just too strong, that such a detail became insignificant.
> Norwegian Bitcoin Super Early AdopterJackpot Guy story was the second story to cause a media blitz this week for Bitcoin as it was also covered everywhere and even gave the guy his week of fame on his home country. It caused such a stir that it even generated copycats that claim to have found new acquired wealth with "previously lost by memory" Bitcoin Wallets. But without anyone of those providing solid proof.
> The China Effect on Bitcoin was still the determining force this week when it came to not only sustaining the BAEP but also continuing driving it upward. Not the News Media Blitz of the Two Bitcoin Related Viral Stories Of the Week . With the proof being in the trading as BTCchina started to dominate several days of the week versus mt.gox and Bitstamp. And as Bitcoin engagement in China can be easily seen just by seeing how the Bitcoin Clients downloads from China continued to grow larger too.
> Circle, A new Bitcoin Startup appeared on the scene with a flash of money as it raised $9M USD out of the gate from known investors. All points out it will be a Coinbase and Bitpay sort of competitor.
Link: Circle launches with $9m from Jim Breyer, Accel and General Catalyst in biggest ever bitcoin fun
> First Mexico City Bitcoin Meetup Took Place To Moderate Success.
No, I didn´t attended. But maybe next time.
Link: 1er Bitcoin Meetup México
> Trezor Had a controversial but good sale deal of 2x1 on November 1st. It was controversial because they just announced it will not ship until January 2014 and those that paid weeks ago just realized that their investment had just not only being delayed but had got effectively twice as expensive in theory.
Link: Celebrate Day of Bitcoin with TREZOR
> Bruce Sterling wrote a post about Dread Pirate Roberts and Silk Road in a way tying him to being someone that could only come from Austin, Texas. It is a great read somewhat related to Bitcoin that is just worth to highlight, even if it was posted into a Medium.com blog:
Link: Dread Pirate Nemo
> +Bitpay announced their plans to do a Public Bitcoin Merchant Directory
> UnSystem posted an IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign for DarkWallet with a goal of $50K USD. They did so with a extremely well produced and executed video narrated and starred by Cody Wilson where they show what is their stance and how they really are a group able to call themselves Crypto-Anarchists and Cypherpunks, not at all in a figurative or metaphorical way. Which I respect very much since one is talking the talk and another also walking the walk. Within 24hrs it had already reached half of the goal.
> London based Exchange CoinFloor opened for business. And with a flair that signal they could be big deal or just know how to make an entrance. Undecided.
Link: London-based Bitcoin exchange Coinfloor opens for business (Wired UK)
> Chamath Palihapitiya revealed himself as a Bitcoin Top 100 -- or Top 500 guy depending how you see things -- letting it be known he holds $5M USD worth of Bitcoin.
Link: Chamath Palihapitiya Owns $5 Million In Bitcoins, Wants To Own $10-$15 Million TechCrunch
> Bitcoin reached the news this week everywhere. Even in a prime spot of the Yahoo USA Homepage.
> Bitcoin reached spot 7 in the Top 10 of Google Search Trends on October 31
> Life On Bitcoin Couple completed their travel around the world with Bitcoin. And with that, the Documentary Chronicling their 100 days living on Bitcoin going into its post-production phase.
> Some Bitcoineers DID had a Bitcoin Halloween and Carved Pumpkins with the Bitcoin Symbol. There were easily a dozen photos around that can prove it. Here is one:
> There is now a Google Glass Bitcoin App.
Link: Google Glass Bitcoin App
> November 1st of 2013 was the Fifth Anniversary of the publication of Satoshi Nakamoto Bitcoin Paper. Now referred as Bitcon Conception Day. Which we did celebrated at the G+ Bitcoin Community.
With Bitcoin Fifth Birthday being the 3rd of January 2014 with the release of Bitcoin as Software Code and the start of the Bitcoin Blockchain with what is now known as The Genesis Block.
Link: Nov 1, 2013, 11-16-33 PM
> Bitcoin.org now got a new section called Bitcoin Innovation. Thanks to
Link: http://bitcoin.org/en/innovation
> Bitmit, went into a serious maintenance mode for what initially was going to be 6-8hrs. But that resulted in 16hrs of downtime on Sunday, November 3rd. The noticeable outcome appears to be a better site speed. Here is hoping it also translate in it going down less too.
Link: Nov 3, 2013, 3-26-37 PM (edited Nov 4, 2013, 3-02-35 AM)
> BIPS announced that they have now integrated with Shopify to bring their Bitcoin Payment Solution to the 70,000 Merchants using Shopify. This a mere week after it was known they were planning on it. As it was reported in the past BWNS.
Link: 70,000+ Merchants Using Shopify Can Now Accept Payments in Bitcoin - Help Desk
> CryptoLocker Ransomware Malware Devs released a new Hidden Decryption Website that charges 10 Bitcoins, $2250 USD at time of this writing for the service. Outrageous. This is a good time for me to remind everyone that this malware or other malware cannot affect you as long as you have a Disk Image of your PC backed up in an Offline HDD or in Not-Synced Cloud Storage. Always try to backup every week. Every month at the very minimum.
Link: CryptoLocker-Ransomware-Decryption-service-malware-keys.html
> It was known this week that a predecessor Ransomware Dev Group from Holland to what CryptoLocker is now doing was captured because they also ran a Bitcoin Exchange. Whole thing reads out of like an European Movie.
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