Newsletter #44

27 September - 3 October 2014

# BITCOIN PRICE (BITSTAMP) 

# LATEST NEWS

• Reddit Plans Its Own Cryptocurrency To Give Back To Its Users After $50 Million Raise
• Coinify Raises Millions to Build Europe’s Complete Bitcoin Solution
• Top Bitcoin VCs Back Coinapult’s $775k Funding Round

# MARKET

• The Bitcoin Hype Cycle by Fred Wilson
• Evaluating Bitcoin as a Currency
• Ex-Goldman Trader Who Bought Bitcoins on Phone Going Mainstream

# ECOSYSTEM

• The Continued Existence of Altcoins, Appcoins and Commodity coins
• Games 4 Doge: A Contest to Promote the use of Dogecoin in Games!
• BTCJam Stats Page
• SAT solving - An alternative to brute force bitcoin mining

# LEGAL

• Davis Polk Bitcoin and Virtual Currency Regulation Resources
• Australian Senate Launches Inquiry into Bitcoin and Digital Currencies

# LEARN

• Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day
• Analyzing Trends in the Silk Road 2.0
• Building a block-chain database the right way
• HelloBitcoin. A “Hello World” of Bitcoin, Written in Go