Lamassu machine placed in Room 77 Berlin

a new alternative way to transfer money from Berlin to your friends/family some where else in the world. since Feb 7 you can go to: Graefestr. 77 10967 Berlin Kreuzberg you put money into this only ATM in the city currently. you download a bitcoin wallet app for iphone or android you get bitcoins to your digital wallet and you can send them to anyone in seconds with virtually zero commission. *this machine works one way it will not convert your bitcoins back into money buying or selling bitcoins without the machine is more complex because you need to sign up with a bitcoin exchange and give details such as bank account, address, passport, etc.

Maybe the best Bitcoin Miner In The World KnCMiner Neptune Mining Rig

Sweden-based KnCMiner is offering the Neptune mining rig for $12,995 (£8,000), and while that may sound like a lot for a computer with barely any components, bitcoin miners understand the machine's potential. Spokesman Ian Chaffee told IBTimes UK: "By KnCMiner's own estimate, the Neptune can mine up to 2.1 bitcoins per day. This is about a 3.5x improvement on the old mining rig] Jupiter, which could mine up to 0.6 bitcoins."

Cloud Hassing is one of the best way to mine Bitcoins

some links to companies offering cloud hashing today: https://cloudhashing.com/ https://products.butterflylabs.com/1-gh-cloud-hosted-bitcoin-hashing-power.html cloudhashing works with KnCMiner and Buttrflylabs work with their own mining hardware. here is also link to Hashing calculator, to see how much profit you actually cut: http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator

thoughts about the crypto experiment so far

it's seems the bitcoin experiment has reached the stage where everybody heard about it. and also the price has hit incredibly high price. but now that everybody knows about it, jumping into an exchange like mt gox and buying some bitcoin just to hold and hope price will rise doesn't make sense anymore. has to be aid also Japanese customer service is not something to fun to deal with and alternative big exchange should come. what needs to be done now is adoption of bitcoin people offering jobs and willing to accept bitcoin a real voluntary economy. one that will push the regulators and the big companies such as google facebook ebay amazon to give acceptance as the idea of a crypto coin is finishing the presentation stage.

The fall of MtGox: MtGox down for hours may herald the end of an era

Reports are flooding in that MtGox has been down for several hours. This comes on the heels of an announcement by the Bitcoin exchange that bitcoin transfers out of the exchange had been frozen. As this news hit the market, BTC market price began to plummet, falling from $810 and down to $684. People unable to move BTC off MtGox and unable to easily turn it into local currency means that the service itself is non-functional. Now it looks as it MtGox has gone dark. On a normal day MtGox represents 30% to 40% of exchange volume across the market, with BTC-e and Bitstamp taking up much of the slack Bter is also and up and coming comfortable player in the market. Changes are good if MtGox becomes non-operational the market will shift to them.

Pipeline Winter 2013

it's not all about Bitcoin only this guy from Hawaii, Haleiwa made a really awesome video with go pro cam and quadcopter

Pipeline Winter 2013 from Eric Sterman on Vimeo.

Apple removes Blockchain, last Bitcoin wallet app, from iOS App Store

Apple on Wednesday removed Blockchain, the last remaining application in its mobile store for transmitting bitcoins, signaling the continuing uncertainty around the virtual currency. U.K.-based Blockchain wrote Thursday on its website that Apple told it the application, which is a “wallet” that can be used to store and send bitcoins, was removed due to an “unresolved issue.” Blockchain said it received no prior warning of a problem. Apple, which could not be immediately reached for comment, has also removed other Bitcoin-related applications, including Coinbase and Gliph, Blockchain said. “These actions by Apple once again demonstrate the anti-competitive and capricious nature of the App Store policies,” Blockchain wrote. A growing number of retailers have adopted bitcoin as a payment option, but it faces scrutiny around the world as countries debate how it fits into existing legal and regulatory schemes. A handful of other bitcoin-related mobile applications for iOS, such as market share tickers, are still available in the App Store, but none that can transfer bitcoins. Blockchain’s desktop application for OS X could still be downloaded on Thursday afternoon from Apple’s Australian App Store, but it was not clear if that would also be removed soon. Blockchain said its application was in Apple’s App Store for two years and was downloaded 120,000 times. The company launched an online petition to convince Apple to allow bitcoin wallets. In contrast, Google does not restrict developers from creating bitcoin wallets for its Android mobile platform, which could drive bitcoin users away from Apple.