London cab driver: all taxis to accept cryptocurrencies soon
Last year the Mayor of London announced that plastic card acceptance will be compulsory for all taxi drivers in the city, starting from October 2016. For bitcoin users this will mean that they will be able to pay with a bitcoin plastic card in any London cab.
Roger Ver: Everybody who says that bitcoin is bad, is wrong
Media hype around the letter of Mike Hearn caused some panic in the bitcoin community. But Roger Ver thinks that the panic provides good opportunity for buying bitcoin.
Former MI5 expert: Bitcoin could be behind cyberattack on Turkey
Bitcoin could easily be involved in the hacker DDoS attack on 400,000 Turkish websites, Dave Palmer, former British intelligence GCHQ and MI5 cybersecurity expert, told The Telegraph.
Putin's new internet advisor: Tech innovation is the “new oil”
German Klimenko was appointed Advisor on the Internet to the President of Russia on 4 January. In his first interview for the Russian media he expressed a positive view on the new internet technologies and their integration with the country’s economics and financial system.
McAfee does not believe in bitcoin
John McAfee, who recently announced his candidacy for the US presidential election in 2016, said in an interview that digital currency will be massively adopted but he is not sure if it will be bitcoin.
Xapo President: Visa, MasterCard, Discover to change bitcoin market
Ted Rogers, President of Xapo, the first company in the world to issue bitcoin debit card, thinks the participation of the major card networks is necessary to propagate the use of bitcoin.
Kaspersky: cryptocurrency is our future, but we are not yet ready for it
The most famous anti-virus software tycoon believes humanity must be unified to use bitcoins. Today’s governments would ban cryptocurrency as soon as it becomes strong enough to compete with national currencies.
