Bitcoin users looking for a place to stay while traveling now have a whole bunch of new options. Expedia says it will now start accepting Bitcoin payments for hotel reservations, so… Read More
Users of Apple’s mobile devices may have an easier way to use Bitcoin soon. Amid all the hoopla from its keynote announcements yesterday, Apple quietly changed the rules for apps… Read More
B.J. Guillot, a Republican running for Congress in Washington’s 2nd Congressional District, announced today that his campaign will accept donations in Bitcoin. Because the Federal Elections Commission has offered unclear… Read More
Avalara has added Bitcoin to the roster of currencies it can handle with its cloud-based AvaTax suite of sales tax compliance software. The new Bitcoin features will help companies calculate and… Read More
Seattleites have a new and easy way to buy and sell Bitcoin. The city’s first-ever Bitcoin ATM went live today at the Spitfire Grill in Belltown, allowing people to make secure transactions… Read More
Overstock.com has made a big fuss about accepting the digital currency to the point where you’d expect other major online retailers to follow suit, but Amazon says it won’t be one… Read More
Did the bitcoin party just end in the U.S.? If you were using the digital currency to avoid paying Uncle Sam capital gains on investments, then you bet. In its… Read More
Overstock.com recently announced that it has done more than $1 million in Bitcoin sales since the company started offering customers the ability to use the digital currency to purchase items.… Read More
Watch out: Bitcoin is volatile, unregulated and you could lose it all! Yes, this warning might seem obvious to anyone savvy enough about the virtual currency to consider putting any… Read More
Overstock.com has sold more than $1 million in products to Bitcoin owners over the past two months despite the virtual currency operating on some fairly shaky ground. The Salt Lake… Read More
What is it like to run an independent bookstore in the age of Amazon? Our guest on this week’s GeekWire radio show is Danielle Hulton, the co-owner of Ada’s Technical… Read More
There’s no way a university was going to turn down a $10,000 donation. The fact that it came in the form of Bitcoins was a small technical hurdle. Yesterday, the… Read More
Seattleites will soon have easy access to a Bitcoin exchange ATM, but the exact location of the machine is still a mystery. Las Vegas-based Robocoin, which built and installed the world’s… Read More
Microsoft announced today that Bing is now capable of currency conversions with Bitcoin. To figure out how much a Bitcoin is worth in a particular currency or how much of… Read More
The Bitcoin craze continues to reach businesses all over the world, and now sports franchises are catching on, too. The Sacramento Kings — yes, the team that nearly moved to… Read More
Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne said in a recent interview with CNN International that Amazon will soon have no choice but to start accepting Bitcoin, now that Overstock has already started… Read More
While it’s possible to go out and pay for an education with Bitcoin, some Americans think it’s something that involves a game controller. According to a new Bloomberg National Poll,… Read More
In yet another reminder of the digital currency’s massive growth over the past several weeks, Bitcoin transactions reached record highs during Black Friday weekend. According to Coinometrics, which measures the… Read More
Whoa, we thought it was supposed to be a short holiday month with folks taking a bit of a breather in the tech industry. But that wasn’t the case. We… Read More
The popularity of Bitcoin just keeps on growing, as the digital currency today surpassed $1,000 in value for the first time ever on the Mt. Gox Exchange. It reached a… Read More
So far, so good for the world’s first Bitcoin ATM. On its 29th day of operation at the Waves Coffee House in Vancouver B.C., Robocoin’s Bitcoin ATM exceeded $1,000,000 CAD in volume… Read More
The Bitcoin craze has made its way to the educational system. The University of Nicosia in Cyprus announced today that it will allow students to pay for tuition fees with Bitcoin,… Read More
It’s Bitcoin-madness today. On the same day the U.S. government began discussions about Bitcoin, the value of the digital currency is skyrocketing. Bitcoin’s value hit $900 on Mt. Gox exchange around… Read More
While game developers like GameHouse are looking for new tweaks to the free-to-play business model that will help increase revenue for their offerings, it looks like there might be a… Read More
History was made in Bitcoin world on Tuesday when the world’s first Bitcoin ATM opened in Vancouver, B.C. At the Waves Coffee House in downtown Vancouver, 81 people made Bitcoin… Read More
When thinking about what the next big technological advancement that takes the world by storm will be, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian tends to rely on an unexpected source: his father. Yep,… Read More
You may have noticed a yellow truck parked around Seattle recently, handing out tasty grilled cheese sandwiches and warm tomato soup. Barely on the streets for one year, Cheese Wizards… Read More
Your computer’s graphics processor might be more charitable than you think. CoinLab, a Seattle-based tech startup that focuses on the Bitcoin digital currency, has come up with a way for… Read More
A new foundation will seek to rally support for Bitcoin, aiming to overcome the challenges faced by the digital currency and boost its use in the long run. Peter Vessenes,… Read More
Drop the word “cyborg,” and most casual conversations will take a jarring turn toward Star Trek, Terminator, or Battlestar Galactica, where beastly human-machine hybrids threaten to take over the world. But that’s not… Read More