Sunday, 5 May 2019

American Public Museum Starts Accepting Bitcoin

This just in from Reddit, an American public museum called the Museum of the Coastal Bend has started accepting Bitcoin for donations, admissions, and at their gift store.

Associated Press “Jumps the Gun” with Misleading Headline about FEC Decision

A recent article out of Washington on www.abcnews.com, Yahoo! Finance, HuffPost, among others by Jack Gillum of the Associated Press is really pushing the limits on journalistic leeway in the context of eye-catching title fabrication.

Richard Branson Supports Bitcoin, Accepts it for Space Travel

The long list of things that you can spend your Bitcoins on is growing every day.
Today the news is from Richard Branson, the eccentric billionaire of Virgin! fame.  Richard Branson revealed that he has long been a holder of Bitcoin, and his company Virgin Galactic will now accept Bitcoin for commercial space flights in the future. Check out Coindesk’s full storyhere.

Sweden and Norway to add Bitcoin VAT – Norway to implement Bitcoin tax

It has been known recently in the news that the Swedish government wants to add VAT on Bitcoin trading after receiving a request by a Swedish man trying to establish a Swedish Bitcoin exchange (you can read the story here in Norwegian). The man that contacted the Swedish government is very dissatisfied with their answer and tries to combat their views on Bitcoin trading. He believes that if Sweden enables VAT on Bitcoin trading, it will become useless as a currency.

The Majority of Dread Pirate Roberts’ Bitcoins Remain Unseized

The supposed one-fifth of Silk Road’s bitcoins that have been seized are held at this wallet by the FBI: 1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX.   It is great fun to read through all the transaction notes, angry rantings, loan requests, etc that people are sending to the publicly viewable address.  These bitcoins were seized from the Silk Road but they were not  seized from Mr. Ross Ulbricht.