Beardie Branson backs Blockchain's Bitcoin bandwagon Yorkshire-based firm ditches flat caps and whippets for digital funny money British business beardie Richard Branson has invested in Blockchain.Not the Bitcoin ledger, but a custom Bitcoin wallet that functions through an iOS app.The blockchain, in Bitcoin terms, is the master ledger of all Bitcoin transactions.For all the brouhaha about Bitcoin being anonymous, the blockchain is downloaded – and thus can be freely viewed – by anyone using the crypto-currency.The anonymity in using Bitcoin comes from the relationship between the identifier (for who owns what) and the individual.Careful analysis of the blockchain can show where money is going to and from.Blockchain (the company) is a venture based in York, UK.It was founded by CTO Ben Reeves, who is accompanied by president Peter Smith and Niicolas Cary, the CEO.It’s a Bitcoin wallet; a place to hold your digital dosh in a secure way and then transfer it from one person to another.

Founded in August 2011, Blockchain claims a total transaction volume of around $26bn.Which is, of course, verifiable by looking at the blockchain.No confusion there, then.Bloomberg interview with Blockchain president Peter Smith./eWyLMTfbOf — Richard Branson (@richardbranson) October 8, 2014 The Branson cash injection is part of a $30m investment by a bunch of venture capitalists, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Wicklow Capital, Mosaic Ventures, Prudence Holdings and a choir of various business angels.Yet really it’s Branson’s involvement that makes this more than “money companies do stuff with money.” Smith told Bloomberg that the investment will be spent on growing the company in developing markets.If you are a software developer and fancy a job working with Bitcoin, well, York's a nice enough place.You’d be well advised to ask for your salary in a fiat currency, though: the price of Bitcoin has tumbled to $367 from a high of over $1100 in the last year.

AP Sir Richard Branson announced Friday that Virgin Galactic, his commercial space flight venture, will accept the cyber currency bitcoin as payment for future rocket travel.Branson, the billionaire entrepreneur and an early bitcoin investor, teased the idea in a tweet before elaborating in a blog post and appearing on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” (below) via Skype from Necker Island, his private Caribbean enclave.bitcoin kosten 2010Labeling the digital payment option “a new exciting currency,” he said Virgin Galactic has already accepted its first bitcoin transaction from a flight attendant from Hawaii.bitcoin p2p digital currencyIt was transferred into actual dollars so there’s a fixed price, he added, and “we can actually pay her the money back if she changes her mind about going to space in a few months.” Seats on the eventual flights currently cost $250,000 each, or about 321 bitcoins.build bitcoin asic miner

As far as his reasoning goes, Branson is convinced Virgin Galactic is “driving a revolution” and that bitcoin is doing the same when it comes to reinventing society’s idea of currency.This week, a Los Angeles-based online travel agency and a private university in Cyprus became the latest businesses to begin accepting the decentralized digital payments.bitcoin qr code iphoneBitcoin was trading at $13 in January, but had just topped $600 as the Department of Justice told a Senate committee that it wasn’t illegal.bitcoin paypal transaction volumeHow do you become a billionaire?bitcoin paypal transaction volumeSure, it helps to have started investing at age 11 and already have a net worth of $1 million by age 30.Bonus points if your parents hired a private computer science tutor to teach you how to code as a child.

But being a billionaire isn’t all about being a child prodigy.Billionaires and successful CEOs also adhere to some bizarre daily habits that may contribute to their success.Richard Branson has a committed workout regime.Mark Zuckerberg is committed to his wardrobe (or lack thereof).Mbanogmat compiled a list of the daily habits of a handful of highly successful entrepreneurs.The good news: There’s no mention of this terrible, 14-point list of things you supposedly need to cram into your schedule before breakfast.These habits — albeit weird — are pretty do-able.Being a billionaire isn’t all that hard.Here are the daily routines of six of the world’s billionaires: This guy is fit.Founder of Virgin Group Richard Branson wakes up at 5 a.m.to kite, surf, swim or play tennis, claiming that regular exercise actually enables an extra four hours of productivity in his life.People who wake up early are more proactive than people who are night owls, according to a 2009 study in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

Think waking up at 5 a.m.to work out is still too early?Just remember that Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson (though he is not quite a billionaire, since his net worth is just $185 million) wakes up at 4 a.m.While you’re going to have to make time to work out, you may want to consider spending 80% of your day reading.Warren Buffett read 600 to 1,000 pages a day when starting his investment career, and now he’s worth more than $73 billion.In that same vein, Microsoft MSFT, +1.35% founder Bill Gates reads a lot, too.Gates, who is worth $85 billion, reads 50 books per year — a habit he’s had since childhood.To put that into context, 26% of Americans say that haven’t read a single book in the past year, according to the Pew Research Center.Need some book recommendations?Gates revealed his favorite books of 2016.From which book to read to what exercise to do, following these habits is going to require a lot of decision-making.Be like Mark Zuckerberg and cut one decision out: what to wear.

Facebook FB, +1.09% CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is worth more than $55 billion, wears the same t-shirt, pants and hoodie every day to reduce the number of day-to-day choices and instead focus on making more important decisions.Zuckerberg isn’t the only successful person who adheres to this logic.Fashion designer Michael Kors wears the same black, knitted crewneck every day, while Steve Jobs was known for his black turtleneck and jeans uniform.Elon Musk is a busy guy between running both SpaceX and Tesla TSLA, +0.22% So how does he manage two companies?He spends Mondays and Thursdays at SpaceX, his Tuesdays and Wednesdays at Tesla, and splits his time between the two on Fridays.But beyond that, his schedule is very precise.Musk schedules his entire day in 5-minute blocks.Make time for cardio — Mark Cuban does.The Dallas Mavericks owner, who is worth $3.3 billion, does an hour of cardio six to seven days a week.His workouts include basketball and kickboxing.Aerobic exercise has been proven to improve attention span and help make participants better at multi-tasking and ignoring distractions.