The Bitcoin news of the week: Lukoil, Skype, White House, Soundcloud
A university discovers the Bitcoin mining, the White House calls a Bitcoin professor in an influential position, accept petrol stations in the Baltic States and a service enables you to distribute tips at Soundcloud tip. The course is busy sideways.
Sometimes the question does not arise how to get money, but how to get rid of it. For example, you would like to pay your favorite DJ or your favorite band on Soundcloud for being allowed to listen to their music for free. But it doesn’t really work. Or? Since yesterday, bitcoiners can progress in this regard and show that it pays off to provide music free of charge. Changeip, the hyperactive bitcoin tipping service that eats one social network after the other, has now chopped into Soundcloud. If you have an account with SoundCloud and ChangeTip, you can now throw around in the music network with Satoshis.
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Sideways, sideways, sideways
However, much more often arises for bitcoiners how much money they actually have. 200 euros? 220 euros? At the end of this week you can say that a Bitcoin is worth around 208 euros. It was around 215 euros until last night, but then a concerted sale on all Bitcoin exchanges brought the price to collapse. However, the week connects with a small plus and thus starts one month of sideways activity. You could call it a new stability.
Mass new acceptance points in the Baltic States
… or something like that. The British Bitcoin Service Spectrocoin has been cooperating with Worapay. The Lithuanian payment service provider specializes in on-site payments with any mobile wallet and serves the Lukoil petrol stations throughout the Baltic States, a taxiette in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, football stadiums and fast food restaurants in especially Lithuania, but also Latvia, Poland and Spain. So if you are planning a trip to the Baltic States, you should definitely charge your Bitcoin wallet beforehand.
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Bitcoin professor advises Obama
In the United States, the Bitcoin movement seems to be working bit by bit to the top of the company. The White House has announced that dr. Ed Felton, professor at the renowned Princeton University, the office for science and technology as a deputy US Chief Technology Officer Entry. The man who now takes one of the most influential positions for the design of technological politics in the United States is no stranger to the Bitcoin scene. Felton offered a Bitcoin MooC at the University of Princeton. If you don’t know yet: MOOC is a distance learning course on the Internet. After the University of Cyprus, Princeton was the second university that offered such a course for Bitcoin. According to the Felton, the MOOC Rasiner popularity was pleased. Felton also took part in the hearing of the bit license and represented a moderate perspective there.
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University of Luxembourg discovers Bitcoin mining
“Researchers at the University of Luxembourg find safe, anonymous and simple payment method for online content”-according to the heading of a press release from the University of Luxembourg. Readers of this blog probably do not need scientists to get this funnel. The researchers have investigated the question of how users can pay for it, anonymous and feeless, to read news, watch videos, play in the browser or to network via social media. They came up with the idea that the users of online services simply put 10-20 percent of their computing power into mining. “Every transaction would then only be a micro payment of a fraction of a cent, but this process could be an important source of income for very popular providers of content,” says Professor Alex Biryukov, an expert in cryptology and security of information systems at the university, “This new process has a revolutionary potential, since it can be used absolutely and confidentially without the conventional, annoying transfer procedure.“Loyal from us.
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Finally: charge the Skype account with Bitcoin
At the end of this news review we have a new, practical acceptance point: 12Charge.Com wants to become a global headquarters for charging accounts and mobile phones. For the German market, the startup offers the charge of game account, a Travelsim, some unknown social networks as well as, tamtamtam: Skype,. Class. Just give it a try.
