Bitcoin Money – “Stock Market”? It’s Time To Have A Chat:
A post on Bitcoin Money blog (@BitcoinMoney) hopes to raise awareness that the Bitcoin stock market may not really be what it first appears to be.  Excerpts:
“The reason for building such a system was described by one of GLBSE’s founders quite clearly: ’A bitcoin stock market,… Read more

Bitcoin “Stock Markets” – It’s Time To Have A Chat
Over a year ago a Bitcoin-related service named GLBSE (an acronym for GLobal Bitcoin Stock Exchange) had launched.  The reason for building this exchange system was described by one of GLBSE’s founders quite clearly:

The market, when it comes will be in an unknown location. Backed up,… Read more

Presumably you are asking how to buy bitcoins using SMS where the payment goes through the mobile provider?Carrier billing is a very expensive method to acquire bitcoins.  But if the size of the purchase is small enough the convenience using that method may outweigh the higher cost.
Btc-Direct.fr offers bitcoins using SMS billing in two dozen… Read more

Bitcoin Trader – 20Mission Tech Space, San Francisco:
GoWest (@GoWestBTC) labels the partly-finished 20Mission (@20Mission) tech space in San Francisco as “Bitcon’s Hogwarts”.  Excerpts from his post:
“Jared Kenna, formerly of TradeHill, and Jonathan Ryan Owens of RingCoin have teamed up to launch 20Mission, a huge 41-room tech space project in the heart of San Francisco.”“[It is… Read more

Free Guide – Introduction to Bitcoin Mining:
Available for download on CoinDL (@CoinDL) is a 30-page guide (eBook PDF).  Subtitled “A Guide for Gamers, Geeks and Everyone Else”, the eBook explains the background of mining, the tools used, and a few techniques that help get the most for your efforts.
Though the eBook is free, the author,… Read more

Slideshow – The Evolution of E-Money:
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Jon Matonis (@JonMatonis) presented this slideshow on E-Money and Bitcoin at ITWebSec in Johannesburg, South Africa:
- http://slidesha.re/JlbfHQ

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Bitcoin Money – SWIFT White Paper on Mobile Payments:
A post on Bitcoin Money blog (@BitcoinMoney) reviews the analysis and recommendations from SWIFT regarding global payments, and adds to it with how Bitcoin can compete.  Excerpts:
“Because Bitcoin doesn’t need to be introduced to a country by a bank or mobile network operator and needs no government… Read more

SWIFT White Paper on Mobile Payments
Interbank messaging network SWIFT put out a white paper identifying opportunity for its bank industry customers to build and deploy regional and global mobile payments technology and services.  The paper includes the photo used in this post which surveys the innovators in the mobile payments space.  Excerpts from the paper:

Out… Read more

Bitcoin Magazine – Adam Kokesh on Bitcoin and Free Market Money:
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Ryan Taylor asks Adam Kokesh (@AdamKokesh) some questions in a post on Bitcoin Magazine.  Excerpts:
“Adam: Bitcoin kind of throws a lot of people like us for a loop and we go “Wait, wait, wait a second! It’s just another fiat currency, right?” because there’s nothing… Read more

BetaBeat – FBI: Bitcoin Report Was Authentic:
A post by Adrianne Jeffries (@ADRJeffries) on BetaBeat reports that an FBI representative has confirmed that the previously leaked report did in fact come from the agency.  Excerpts:
“The report, titled ‘Bitcoin Virtual Currency: Intelligence. Unique Features Present Distinct Challenges for Deterring Illicit Activity,’ was the FBI’s first research report… Read more