Cecile Baird

With bitcoin’s price volatility causing a lot of cryptocurrency start-ups to pivot, the world’s leading bitcoin processor BitPay has already jumped the gun ahead of its competitors and launched a new and controversial move into the bitcoin mining space.

After just 2 years, the charity Sean’s Outpost has fed its 150,000th meal to the homeless today using Bitcoin.

BitPay the Bitcoin payment processor continues building on its relationship with Ayden, the payment processor behind AirBnB, Facebook, Uber, Spotify and Facebook. Its latest integration is with 3D Hubs.

Former Bitcoin Foundation Membership Director, Kevin Beardsley, will join Elliptic where he will be in charge of growth with investment funds and trading firms that are looking to securely store bitcoin and blockchain assets.

Jon Matonis and Roger Ver on the solutions Bitcoin offers to the gaming industry, Bitreserve’s Halsey Minor announces new customer, and ‘decentralized gaming’ with Credits.

At the nexus of North America and Latin America, Miami Beach’s historic Fillmore Theatre will stage The North American Bitcoin Conference (TNABC) on January 16–18, 2015.