Newsletter #28

7 - 13 June 2014

# BITCOIN PRICE (BITSTAMP) 

# LATEST NEWS

• Expedia Starts Accepting Bitcoin for Hotel Bookings
• For Sale: 29,656 BTC - US Government Selling Seized Silk Road Bitcoins
• BitPay Names VISA Veteran Tim Byun as Chief Compliance Officer
• Bitcoin Goes Mainstream With Inclusion on Yahoo! Finance

# MARKET

• Will BitUndo Have Merchants Keeping Their Bitcoin Customers Waiting?
• Visions of a Techno-Leviathan: The Politics of the Bitcoin Blockchain
• Bitcoin and Regulation: Lessons from the Early Days of Skype
• Ben Horowitz Explains Why Silicon Valley is Banking on Bitcoin

# ECOSYSTEM

• Bitbook.ie - Parimutuel Bitcoin Sports Betting
• Bitnodes  - Estimate the size of the Bitcoin network by finding all the reachable nodes in the network
• BTCJam Brings Its Bitcoin-Based Lending Service To Emerging Markets

# LEARN

• TorCoin - Proof-of-Bandwidth Altcoin for Compensating Relays
• An exhaustive look at private keys for the uninitiated
• How to Invest in Bitcoin Within a Tax Advantaged Retirement Account
• Gavin discusses on how some of Ethereum features can be incorporated into Bitcoin