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Givecoin.info Announces Partnership with Do A Bit of Good: World's First Charitable Mining Screensaver

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Givecoin.info Announces Partnership with Do A Bit of Good: World's First Charitable Mining Screensaver

Givecoin, first cryptocurrency to distribute shares to charities, has partnered with Do A Bit of Good: a nonprofit cryptocurrency-mining screensaver which donates shares to charities and causes.

Do a Bit of Goods patent-pending technology, a personal screensaver that both mines and donates coins while active, in executive director David Duccini's words puts crowdfunding on autopilot. The system is one of the first in a wave of new technologies that sit on top of the Bitcoin protocol: tapping into new applications and uses of cryptocurrency while making it as user friendly as possible.

We first conceived the idea for Givecoin while discussing the recent flood of new altcoins in the cryptocurrency marketliterally dozens popping up per day, but very few that were more than clones of each other branded with a new name, said Givecoins co-founder Mike Paszkiewicz. This led us to consider ways in which we could use the attributes of cryptocurrency to do something both unique and beneficial for charities worldwide.

Advantages over traditional methods of giving include the ability to send micro-donations, fees several magnitudes less costly than credit/debit and wiring, and psuedoanonymity: dollar for dollar organizations receive every bit of the contribution to their bottom line. Givecoin also implements the power efficient X11 hashing suite.

When we were contacted by doabitofgood.coms Executive Director David Duccini, I was amazed at the ingenuity and simplicity of his platform. Our goal seemed one and the same: to show average people and businesses that crypto technology is nothing to be apprehensive aboutthat in fact it can be used to do a bit of good for those in need and improve the bottom line for every non-profit willing to take a few simple steps.

Lead developer Dan Korczak commented, the same skeptical sentiment existed in the early days of the internet: the average person was wary of the technology because it was clunky, confusing, and lacked user friendliness and support. The internet in fact still runs on the same TCP/IP protocol from those days, but the average web surfer knows nothing of it because interfaces and applications have been developed over the years to provide an effortless and seamless experience.

Do A Bit of Good gives hope toward a steady mainstream adoption of Bitcoin, Givecoin, and other coins as property, financial instruments, and a means of charitable giving. Six months ago I wouldnt have chalked my grandmother up as a cryptocurrency miner, but with their platform the day has arrived where she could set up the screen saver program and start donating herself, said Paszkiewicz.

In addition to the recent partnership between the two, the Givecoin Foundation is currently donating early adopter bounties to the first 20 charities who reach out interested in accepting Givecoin. Interested non-profit and charitable organizations can submit a form at givecoin.info.

All media inquiries and interested organizations can be addressed through: givecoinfoundation@gmail.com

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Cryptocurrency Round-Up: Darkcoin Rise Continues; Dogecoin Saved My Life & Bitcoin Explainer Videos

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As bitcoin prices stabilise, darkcoin continues its rapid rise while the dogecar campaign saves someone's life.

Bitcoin has had almost a week now of no significant change in value. It has been hovering around the $440 (261) mark for since last Monday, with this period of relative calm coming after a month of turmoil for world's leading cryptocurrency.

The rest of the market has also been relatively stable reflecting the major ties all other cryptocurrencies have to bitcoin despite their best efforts to move out of its shadow.

There is one however which has been bucking the trend of the last week, and that is the anonymity-focused darkcoin.

Darkcoin rise shows no sign of stopping

In the last 24 hours darkcoin has seen its price jump 53% putting its market capitalisation now over $30 million - which is up from $11 million just seven days ago.

The altcoin which promises much more anonymity than bitcoin has seen its price rocket in recent days because of the release of an updated version (release candidate 2 or RC2) of its secure and anonymous payment system called DarkSend.

Some on the darkcoin Reddit thread believe that it could soon overtake litecoin as the world's second biggest cryptocurrency, though it has a long way to go considering litecoin's market cap is almost $300 million.

Darkcoin promises to remove the ability of people to track payments through the blockchain, saying this is a huge flaw in the way bitcoin works.

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AMD cuts Radeon R9 280 price as inflation woes die down

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AMD's cryptocurrency nightmare appears to be over, as prices for the company's graphics cards have fallen back to earth.

The chipmaker is now claiming that all of its R9 series GPUs are back in stock at retailers, and at normal prices. As Forbes points out, a quick check of online retailers such as Newegg shows a wide range of AMD cards available at normal prices.

AMD has never directly explained the recent supply shortages and inflated prices for its high-end cards. Still, it's widely believed that miners of alternative cryptocurrency (such as Dogecoin and Litecoin) were gobbling up the supply in bulk, causing AMD's partners to jack up their prices.

It's unclear exactly why demand has subsided, but a recent IRS ruling that cryptocurrency counts as taxable gross income may have helped cool the mining craze, along with the rise of hyper-efficient, mining-dedicated ASIC hardware. Whatever the cause, it's ultimately good news for PC gamers, who can now have a more realistic choice between AMD and Nvidia cards. It's probably good news for AMD as well, as the company can go back to focusing on its core audience.

Along that line, AMD has just cut the price of its Radeon R9 280 graphics card from $279 to $249. The old price made sense while AMD's higher-tier R9 280X was suffering from inflation. Now that asking prices are back in the $299 range, there needs to be a bigger price gap to make the R9 280 worth considering.

As AnandTech points out, the R9 280 still falls into the Gold tier of AMD's Never Settle bundle, so it may be worth the extra $50 over an R9 270 card if any of the free games on the list sound appealing.

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