Netsolus Mines on Your Hardware for Fun and Profit : Bitcoin

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Bitcoin prices plunged again today, this time as much as 10%, as more Chinese banks confirmed rumors and sent out official deposit shutdown notices to bitcoin businesses, including exchanges BTCTrade, BTC100.org and Huobi. The People’s Bank of China, however, continues to offer no official statement. And BTC China CEO Bobby Lee confirms that they still haven’t received any official word, maintaining their promise to operate in full until they do. Lee reiterates that this is not the end, but rather “a cooling off period,” and that they “are still very excited.”
April 15th is also a big day for the US. Tyson Cross of Bitcoin Tax Solutions is partnering with BitcoinTaxes, to create the first specialized preparation service for cryptocurrency users and help them navigate the recent IRS tax ruling. The new service will automatically monitor purchases and mining income through the blockchain, then calculate short-term and long-term capital gains, and prepare your tax files, all while offering expert tax advice and planning throughout the process.
Bitcoin startup Libra is also building a user-friendly tax solution, which can automatically track your transaction history and calculate your capital gains in accordance with the new IRS regulations. Libra won’t be ready to launch until the third quarter, but founder and CEO Jake Benson promises it will at least be ready quote “in time for the extended tax deadline, so we advise everyone to file for an extension this year.”
Brazil digital currency exchange BitInvest is introducing a new pre-paid MasterCard called the Coincard which actually holds bitcoins, and can be used at any location that accepts MasterCard. This launch date hasn’t been announced yet, but will be timed nicely with the upcoming World Cup, allowing visitors coming into the country for the games to buy things during their stay without the hassle of exchange rates.
Netsolus announced at Inside Bitcoins NY this week that it has begun creating a custom data center for industrial mining customers, which will “be bringing close to 20 megawatts online.” 1 megawatt alone would be enough to power 1,000 homes. The hosting and data center provider already earns 75% of its profits from bitcoin customers, and offers a total of about 3 megawatts of power capacity across its existing five data centers and various custom bitcoin mining sites.
Law and Business school professors at NYU are designing a new course for this coming Fall term called “The Law and Business of Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies” which would join similar programs such as Khan Academy’s online course “Bitcoin: What is it?” and in Cyprus, the University of Nicosia’s digital currency master’s program.
This year, annual tech startup award show The Europas is adding a brand new category for the “Best Virtual Currency Startup”. The event’s founder, Mike Butcher, who is also TechCrunch’s “Editor At Large,” is very confident about this new category, saying “you’d have to live under a rock not to realise that digital currency is potentially one of the biggest tech trends in the last 20 years.”
In our effort to bring you regulatory updates and insights this week, we interviewed CoinApex CEO and co-founder Alex Waters about his newest startup CoinValidation. Find that video here shortly.