2015

Uphold wrapped 2015 with several major moves. The cloud financial platform rebranded this year, hired Antony Watson as chief information officer—he previously held that position at Nike—and completed

As the holidays fade, a different kind of conflict emerges—one with far higher stakes than retail debates over seasonal greetings. The government wants to weaken encryption, and this marks a return to

Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority, Standard Chartered Bank, and DBS Bank have completed a six-month project to build a blockchain-based invoice trading platform for banking institutions. Gaut

[Update: Bitcoin Foundation Director Bruce Fenton has launched a statement and responded to our request for comment. The new statement reads that the Board will create new seats, which they need to do

Purse.io announced a $1 million seed round and revealed early details on a new project called Tritium. The bitcoin platform, which helps users buy Amazon products at discounts, plans to build Tritium

Juan Galt, who previously worked at CoinTelegraph, published a report at NewsBTC on Sunday claiming that Pontinha had officially adopted Bitcoin as its national currency. The piece included an intervi

Andy Greenberg at Wired and Andy Crush and Sam Biddle at Gizmodo each published articles on Tuesday. The three journalists conducted separate investigations that reached similar ground: Craig Wright,

Melbourne-based Brighton Peak has announced today the public launch of its bitcoin exchange, the...

A 1995 internal NSA newsletter sits on the agency's public website, unread and overlooked. The document was declassified in 2008, years before Bitcoin existed, and it's been available this whole time.

Austin Hill has lived through boom and bust cycles in digital currency that predate Bitcoin by years. In the 1990s, he founded Zero Knowledge Systems and brought together many of the Cypherpunks who b

The growing roster of Bitcoin developers and community figures now includes Gavin Andresen among those backing Segregated Witness. Andresen, the former chief developer and arguably the most pivotal pe

R3 CEV plans to launch an open-source blockchain within a year, according to Tim Swanson, the firm's research head. The London-based development team is building a generic ledger that member banks wan

Uphold closed its funding round on BnkToTheFuture.com over the weekend with $3.1 million in capital, clearing the platform's $2.5 million minimum target. The company issued 2.36% equity to investors,

Devcon1 centered on a straightforward challenge: reaching people who have no interest in understanding how blockchain technology works. The software needed to bridge developers and regular users. Ale

Serica is shutting down its digital asset operations. The company announced today that it will stop offering blockchain-based versions of precious metals and hard assets. The shift represents a sharp

Axlacor, a London-based specialist in compliance infrastructure and financial analytics, unveiled NEON this week—a blockchain-enabled platform engineered to streamline banking operations and unlock wh

A scam that preyed on bitcoin newcomers under the name BTCFlap.com has resurfaced with fresh branding. The operation now calls itself Minerscenter.com and hawks the identical scheme: claiming to buy b

Coinizy, a Bitcoin startup headquartered in Canada, has officially launched in beta a service...

Visa Europe Collab and Epiphyte are building a working Bitcoin payment system. In a conversation with MiningPool, Jon Downing and Edan Yago explained what they've learned from their 100-day proof of

Vitalik Buterin announced last week on Reddit that developers have begun work on ring signatures for Ethereum, potentially bringing anonymous transactions similar to those available on Monero. The Eth

Commonwealth Bank of Australia will host the Sydney Blockchain Workshops alongside the Coalition of Automated Legal Applications, assembling regulators, policy makers and technologists to assess block

Bitcoin has been around since 2009, and for years regulators, economists, and technologists have debated what to call it. Some rejected the currency label entirely. Others pointed to it as digital cas

Shift Payments and Coinbase have launched a Bitcoin debit card for US customers. The card carries no annual fee and charges nothing for domestic transactions. It works at 38 million VISA merchants and

Halsey Minor, the force behind both Voxelus and Uphold, quickly corrected a fundamental misconception I held about his game-building platform. My previous coverage had drawn parallels to established g

Gibson Hall, once the base for the National Provincial Bank, hosted Devcon1—Ethereum's second major conference. Every seat filled. The baroque ceilings and chandeliers overhead framed something that w

Filipino bitcoin startup Satoshi Citadel Industries (SCI) has revealed a new blockchain-powered product that allows people to send and receive money digitally without an Internet connectivity. Called

Greg Maxwell took the stage at the Bitcoin Foundation's DevCore Workshop held at Draper University with encouraging news about a forthcoming standard for sidechain technology. The Bitcoin Core develop

Tuesday marked a significant milestone as Microsoft brought its blockchain infrastructure offering into the public sphere. Partnering with Brooklyn-based Consensus Systems (ConsenSys), the software be

Purse stands out among Bitcoin companies because it builds something people without crypto interest want. While most Bitcoin startups chase trading platforms or wallet software, Purse gave ordinary sh

VPro Backlight, a Dutch documentary series with multiple awards to its name, recently released \"The Bitcoin Gospel\" under a Creative Commons license on BitTorrent. Free bitcoin documentaries remain sc

Talib Kweli released his album \"Indie 500\" on ZapChain, a Bitcoin-focused community platform. The DRM-free MP3 album costs $12 in Bitcoin or $1.29 per track. The collaboration with producer 9th Wonder

The Economist recently featured Bitcoin and blockchain technology on the cover of their October...

Major Australian banks are increasingly viewing blockchain systems as a path toward streamlining their operations rather than a disruptive risk, according to Westpac Banking Corp.'s chief exec

I receive my entire paycheck in Bitcoin. No middleman takes a cut, and the money lands in my wallet whenever I need it. Converting it back to dollars is the catch. Selling through Circle or Coinbase m

Ryan X. Charles left his role as a cryptocurrency engineer at Reddit with a single goal: build a social network powered by blockchain and Bitcoin. The project he's launched, called Datt, represents on

BitFinex and Blade Payments have announced a partnership to issue debit cards backed by cryptocurrency holdings. The cards don't require customers to pre-fund them—a feature claimed by some existing c

Qtum is an upcoming ICO that has gathered attention for its high profile backers. An investigation has revealed its founder has a questionable past.

The Ethereum Foundation has a $9 million shortfall. The decline in ether and bitcoin prices created the gap. Vitalik Buterin, the Foundation's leader, discussed the situation with Ian DeMartino in an

The past summer for Bitcoin was a bit of a roller coaster. Significant investments poured in and massive financial institutions admitted that they are finally taking this Blockchain thing seriously, b

Bitcoin scalability conversations often invoke Visa's 150 million daily transactions as a benchmark. Reaching that volume would be ambitious enough for a blockchain network. Bitcoin, though, will need

Barclays closed deals with eight companies that came through its New York fintech accelerator, two of them blockchain-focused: Chainalysis and Wave. In July, Barclays hosted accelerator sessions in Lo

Volante Technologies wired its payments software to Ripple's network, opening a direct channel for banks to settle transactions across borders in real time. The software company built the Ripple inter

BanxShares will vanish from Coinmarketcap tomorrow. The cryptocurrency's reported valuation bears no resemblance to what people actually pay for it. The problem starts with how the market cap gets ca

Two developers working on Streamium are calling out media coverage of Bitcoin in Argentina as misleading. Manuel Aráoz and Esteban Ordano, based in Buenos Aires, spoke about their experience with Bitc

At TechCrunch Disrupt in September, a panel brought together three voices to examine Bitcoin's future. Xapo CEO Wences Casares, BTCC head Bobby Lee, and New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper sat do

Bitcoin Pacifica 2015 hosted a governance discussion that brought together some of the most influential voices in the Bitcoin development community. The panel included Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist

notwithstanding many bitcoiners see Bitcoin XT as nothing more than a BIP 101 enabled software client, the implications of Mike Hearn’s creation go much deeper than that. whereas the alternative imple

The creator of Bitcoin vanished from public discourse in 2010, and that absence should remain permanent—not just from our forums and mailing lists, but from every argument we make about the technology

BitPay's security problems proved what the industry had long suspected: we're not mature and we're not professional. Even the biggest companies cut corners on security. Mt. Gox should have been a rec

State Street, the centuries-old financial giant, has launched an innovation lab dedicated to blockchain technology experiments. Hu Liang, senior managing director at the company's new emerging technol

KeepKey Launches New Hardware Wallet: CoinDesk Shrem Doing AMA from Prison: Bitcoin.com via CoinDesk...

Australia's competition watchdog has moved to open a probe into whether the nation's major lenders are coordinating the termination of accounts belonging to cryptocurrency firms and participants, as c

The internet upended film distribution. Video rental stores vanished. Now movies stream into homes through digital pipes. Yet studios still control theatrical release. The MPAA gates the system, decid

21 Inc unveiled the Bitcoin Computer, a Raspberry Pi-based device with an integrated mining chip, priced at $399 and designed to let developers earn bitcoin while selling digital services.

Hello Markets, which builds trading platforms for financial companies, has entered into a partnership with Coinify, a Copenhagen-based bitcoin payment processor. The deal follows a separate announceme

Most people hate ads. Advertisers have found their way into everything—television broadcasts, movies, news coverage—and that has shaped media in ways we don't stop to examine. MiningPool exists becau

Bitcoin followers treat Satoshi Nakamoto with near-religious reverence. When protocol disputes erupt, they turn to his old statements as evidence for their preferred outcome. Satoshi's vanishing leave

Ahmed Mohamed was 14 when he built a digital clock and brought it to his teacher. The school called the police. Officers placed him in handcuffs. A photo of the scene circulated online. The image spa

NeuCoin, a cryptocurrency focused on tipping, gaming, and social features, released its source code this month ahead of a scheduled late-September launch. The team ran a successful crowdfunding campai

Researchers earn credibility by surviving peer review. When scientists submit papers to journals, experts read them and hunt for mistakes. If the work withstands that scrutiny, the journal publishes i

Brave New Coin polled Bitcoin users today about the block size question that's consumed the community for months. The survey tilted toward American respondents, and most bought Bitcoin as an investmen

Blockstream President and co-founder Adam Back recently appeared on the Epicenter Bitcoin podcast to tackle Bitcoin's centralization challenges. Whereas many in the Bitcoin ecosystem focus their conce

Bitcoin has not gained traction in Africa. Francois Harris, who runs Bitcoinzar, a South African site for bitcoin enthusiasts, puts the number of real users in stark terms. \"Real bitcoin users, who ar

CardCash.com now lets users buy discounted gift cards using bitcoin, with BitPay handling the transactions. The company describes itself as the web's largest secondary gift card marketplace. It buys a

Venture capital flowing into bitcoin this year has matched the previous record, set in 2014. When investors of this caliber concentrate capital in an emerging sector, it signals conviction. These firm

Adam Back proposed privacy enhancements to Bitcoin, but Bitcoin Core developers wouldn't implement them. Back responded with a different idea: sidechains. Back discussed his thinking during an interv

Bitcoin's most cited vulnerability centers on the 51% attack, a scenario where one miner or pool controls enough of the network's hashing power to manipulate the blockchain. While mining power consoli

Last weekend Barclays worked the press circuit on Bitcoin and blockchain. The Sunday Times broke the story first, then the Daily Mail, Arstechnica and outlets across the web picked it up. Through mult

Sync, a Canadian cloud storage company, started accepting Bitcoin payments this week through BitPay. The move addresses growing customer concerns about storing sensitive files online. Cloud storage s

Last week, executives from major Bitcoin firms put their names on a document backing larger block sizes and Gavin Andresen's BIP 101 proposal. BitPay's top payment officer Stephen Pair was among the s

Bitcoin's lead developer Wladimir van der Laan offered new insights into the block size debate when speaking with MiningPool, clarifying his position as the scaling dispute continues to fracture the

Gavin Andresen, the Bitcoin Foundation's Chief Scientist and a leading Bitcoin Core developer, recently explored the merits of centralized leadership during an appearance on Epicenter Bitcoin. Co-host

Coinbase expanded operations into Canada on August 31, making the exchange accessible to Canadian citizens and enabling them to trade CAD/BTC pairs. As part of the launch, Coinbase is waiving retail c

After leaving CoinTelegraph, I disclosed information about the publication's practices. The current CEO and co-founder, who arrived after the site's founding, attacked me on ZapChain. She characterize

CoinDesk has partnered with the MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative to make their Consensus conference more inclusive. The initiative distributes 50 complimentary passes to women and underrepr

Entrepreneurs have built some substantial companies around Bitcoin, yet the network itself remains too fragile for widespread adoption. If the world's population tried to use Bitcoin tomorrow, the sys

Augur's fundraising push exceeded three million dollars, despite Bitcoin's sliding price. The decentralized prediction market struck a chord across the cryptocurrency world, drawing far more attention

UnPassport is the first creations coming from the iNation team. whereas they share members with the Blockchain Factory, unPassport is set to be the first launched under the iNation banner. I have talk

Bitcoin has been around for six-and-a-half years, but questions still remain when it comes...

PayPal has expanded its mobile commerce arsenal through the acquisition of Modest, a startup dedicated to bringing frictionless shopping experiences to smartphones and tablets. The company will integr

Bitcoin's ten-minute block confirmation time surfaces whenever someone first learns about the system. Transactions travel across the network instantly, yet the chain only adds blocks every ten minutes

Erik Voorhees spent years as a Bitcoin maximalist. His argument was straightforward: money works like measurement. You don't build a hundred different systems to measure distance when two is one too m

Federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security arrested Burt Wagner at his client's office. Wagner, a consultant, had no idea why. The agents seized his laptops and cell phones. When they ask

The pace of technological transformation seems almost incomprehensible these days. Institutions designed for previous eras are crumbling while information becomes accessible to populations in unpreced

Ross Ulbricht's legal team is preparing an appeal. Supporters have launched an auction to cover mounting legal costs, featuring donations from Bitcoin community figures and an in-person fundraiser in

Sidechains have generated growing enthusiasm within Bitcoin's developer ranks throughout the past year. The underlying promise is compelling: they could unlock new functionality for Bitcoin without re

Ledger, a company known for its hardware wallets, is moving Bitcoin security to your phone. The Ledger Trustlet runs inside a trusted execution environment (TEE) on smartphones, a protected zone withi

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is building a case against Mt. Gox’s former founder...

During a recent appearance on Epicenter Bitcoin, Bitnet's CEO John McDonnell identified airline bookings as an immediate frontier for cryptocurrency adoption. With prior tenure as Visa's Senior Vice P

Funderbeam, a startup intelligence firm, has unveiled an ambitious new initiative: a blockchain-backed marketplace designed to enable the syndication and trading of early-stage investment stakes. The

Brian Hoffman leads OpenBazaar development. During his appearance on Jason Calacanis's This Week in Startups podcast, he fielded questions about how governments might respond to his decentralized comm

Bitcoin payments processor Bitnet has attracted tens of millions in capital investments throughout the preceding year. The organization was founded by professionals with deep roots in the traditional

Silicon Valley's venture capital firms hunt for Bitcoin's killer app with the intensity of prospectors searching for gold. These investors believe some breakthrough use case will drive Bitcoin into th

People hear OpenBazaar and picture Silk Road. The developers building it have something different in mind. OpenBazaar aims to create an open marketplace without censorship. That doesn't mean it exist

Bitcoin's transition into everyday commerce has stalled at a practical bottleneck: merchants struggle with the inherent delays of blockchain confirmation. While a typical clearing takes around ten min

Bitcoin has seen a resurgence. whereas things have come off their USD $315+ heights, after Greece delayed the seemingly inevitable at least one more time, Bitcoin has shown its first positive signs of

BBVA, Spain's second-largest bank, released a report this month arguing that blockchain technology represents the most disruptive force the financial sector has encountered. Titled \"Blockchain Technol

Bitcoin never took off with mainstream users despite years of media attention. Entrepreneurs haven't built the applications that would drive mass adoption. Silk Road and Wikileaks demonstrated that bi

Deloitte, one of the world's largest accounting and consulting firms, has unveiled plans for a government-issued digital currency that marries blockchain technology with traditional monetary p

Reddit's first cryptocurrency engineer burned out fast. Ryan X Charles arrived with what most people here would call the ultimate gig: breaking new ground at one of the web's biggest communities, pion

Throughout the Ross Ulbricht prosecution, his legal counsel Joshua Dratel repeatedly emphasized a fundamental truth about digital spaces: the internet fundamentally obscures identity. Dratel articulat

An imgur user posted what appeared to be a screenshot of an Uber representative confirming Bitcoin integration. Bitcoinist picked it up and other outlets followed, all declaring that Bitcoin adoption

Bitcoin's most important feature is censorship resistance. Before it, people moving money online had to use intermediaries like PayPal, who could prevent transactions. The network proved its worth in

Greece missed a 1.7 billion dollar payment to the International Monetary Fund this week. The country's residents are exploring bitcoin as a hedge against a possible eurozone exit. Major cryptocurrency

Singapore stands apart from its neighbors in how it treats cryptocurrency companies. The city-state has avoided the heavy regulations that both Japan and Hong Kong have imposed. Jarrod Luo runs Tembu

A Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis official has signaled confidence in bitcoin's potential to hold value over the long haul. David Andolfatto, vice president of research at the regional Fed, discusse

ShapeShift.io blocks access from New York residents, placing the cryptocurrency exchange in rare company. Only North Korea prevents users from reaching the platform. ShapeShift made this move after Ne

CIBC, a top Canadian lender, is examining blockchain and peer-to-peer lending platforms as financial technology companies push to reshape the banking industry. Victor Dodig, who heads CIBC, told the E

Block26, a venture capital initiative headquartered in Los Angeles, has opened its doors with an ambitious mandate: channeling significant capital into early-stage blockchain companies. The firm, esta

The Bitcoin Foundation deleted a blog post responding to allegations that it was broke. The post came down sometime between April 7, when it was published, and May 10, 2015, according to Archive.org r

Greg Maxwell recently presented Blockstream's Sidechain Elements while laying out a technical case against altcoins as a solution for Bitcoin's continued evolution. The Bitcoin Core developer and Bloc

In Australia, Bitcoin remains a polarizing subject. Relations between the technology and authorities have been contentious, especially following early 2015 when the government declared digital currenc

Bitcoin researcher Tim Swanson traced Bitcoin's 2013 surge to wealthy speculators accumulating coins. His reading of Nathaniel Popper's Digital Gold identified large purchases of bitcoin as the source

A recent development from Bitreserve is poised to reshape the landscape of global finance. The company has unveiled Bitreserve Connect, a platform designed to fundamentally alter how financial transac

The European Commission has awarded €1.905 million to D-CENT, a project building blockchain tools for citizens to engage in democratic decision-making. The initiative, which launched in October 2013,

The question of how to handle growing transaction volume remains central to bitcoin's future, and developers across the community are exploring various strategies to address this challenge. While the

Cryptocurrency exchange platform Bitreserve has made a significant move by announcing the elimination of conversion charges for its newly launched membership tier. Members can now transition between B

A hacking blog written in Chinese and hosted on the dark web has posted technical instructions for stealing mining rewards using trojaned machines and man-in-the-middle attacks to redirect mining pool

Citi named GetGems and Billon as the top prize winners from its Mobile Challenge spanning Europe, the Middle East and Africa. GetGems, a mobile bitcoin wallet paired with messaging capabilities, captu

A survey of UK bitcoin users produced three findings that stood out: spending was more common than expected, LocalBitcoins beat larger platforms in popularity, and most respondents felt little concern

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Bitcoin exchanges and wallet services have been vulnerable since the start. The protocol's decentralized design removes intermediaries from money storage, yet merchants and traders still need to buy a

A poll in the United Kingdom about bitcoin usage found the main barriers to adoption. Price swings and technical barriers stand out. Nearly 60 percent of non-users pointed to one of these two issues.

Hedgy, a bitcoin startup, launched its derivatives platform in early June, shifting an operation that had run largely under the radar into public view. Unlike traditional exchanges that act as counter

Arvind Narayanan closed out Princeton's online course on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies with an unexpected comparison. The computer science professor drew a parallel between governments and b

Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton, wrapped up his Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies course with a warning: not everything that can be decentralized should

Bitcoin's real innovation lies not in its underlying mathematics or programming, but rather in the elegant game theory that encourages participants to play honestly. The breakthrough wasn't technologi

Ever since bitcoin captured the hearts and minds of the mainstream press in 2013,......

ChangeTip has woven itself into nearly every social platform that matters. The bitcoin tipping app already works on Slack, GitHub, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, and Tumblr. SoundCloud is the lat

While the bitcoin community obsesses over 51% attacks, Cornell Professor Emin Gün Sirer and post-doc Ittay Eyal have spent years examining a different threat to the network's security. They called it

Chip Chap operates a mobile app for converting cash to Bitcoin across several countries, focusing on Europe. The company recently partnered with Paynet to extend those services to Mexico, targeting 5,

Paycoin's implosion stands without parallel in crypto. I don't say that lightly—Mt. Gox, Silk Road, Sheep Marketplace, each involved sums that dwarf what vanished from Paycoin. But Paycoin is somethin

Rand Paul formed a technology advisory board for his 2016 campaign that reads like a startup's founding team. The Kentucky Republican recruited Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com and Bitcoin's most p

Fold wants to put bitcoin in your pocket at Starbucks, Whole Foods, and Target. The startup rolled out a web version of its app for Starbucks purchases today, offering customers a 20% discount when th

ItBit raised $25 million in seed funding and won approval from New York's Department of Financial Services to operate as an exchange, becoming the first virtual currency company to earn a charter for

Activity in the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust has surged dramatically on its fourth day of trading, with investors showing considerably more appetite for the investment vehicle after a sluggish launch perio

Josh Garza posted an alleged chat log to the Hashtalk forum last night that he believed would vindicate him in a dispute with Phil Vadala. What it revealed was far more damaging. The May 1 exchange sh

SFARD revealed pricing and technical specifications for its 28nm dual-algorithm chip, the SF3301, in a Twitter announcement yesterday. The company outlined two purchase options: sample pairs of the ch

Ripple Labs reached a settlement with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, agreeing to pay $700,000 for operating as a money services business without registration and failing to maintain adequat

Bitcoin's biggest scaling debate appears headed toward resolution, at least according to one of the protocol's lead developers. Gavin Andresen plans to submit a pull request for Bitcoin Core 0.11 that

Melotic, a Hong Kong-based exchange, is closing. The company determined it couldn't generate sufficient revenue to cover the maintenance and security costs of running a crypto exchange. Low liquidity

Circle's $50 million round in April 2015, led by Goldman Sachs, ranks among the three largest Bitcoin investments ever. Circle bumped Blockchain.info's $30 million raise down the list and added anothe

Judge Katherine B. Forrest postponed Ross Ulbricht's sentencing from May 15 to May 29, granting the defense time to prepare for new testimony. Families of people who died from drug overdoses allegedly

Ripple Labs CEO Chris Larsen announced on Twitter this week that his company had entered into a pilot program with Western Union. Ripple Labs confirmed the deal to CoinDesk but declined to provide spe

Nepal's earthquake, which struck last weekend, left tens of thousands of people in need of relief assistance. The Bitcoin community moved to support the response, as multiple platforms launched initia

Shapeshift.io and Purse.io announced a partnership that lets altcoin holders spend their digital currency on Amazon at a 10-20% discount. Shapeshift.io converts between cryptocurrencies. The platform

Circle is raising $40 million for a $200 million valuation, Fortune reports. The company hasn't confirmed the funding round, but Fortune verified the details through multiple sources. Circle offers we

Wired broke the story Monday morning: Overstock plans to issue stock on a blockchain system with cryptographic security through an alternative trading system. In the securities industry, this

Bitcoin development funding concentrates in Western Europe, the United States, and Canada. The regions that stand to gain most from the technology are underbanked and unbanked areas worldwide. Meanwhi

A community gathering organized by the Paycoin Foundation revealed an unexpected development: Cryptsy, a digital currency exchange, now holds one Prime Controller. The announcement spread through the

The cryptocurrency exchange ItBit submitted an application for a New York State banking license. If approved, ItBit would become the first Bitcoin company to gain legal recognition as a bank. Reuters

OpenBazaar released version 0.4.0, called Portobello. The decentralized marketplace is widely seen in cryptocurrency circles as the Silk Road's spiritual successor. The update went to Linux and Mac us

Bitcoin proponents have long promoted cryptocurrency as a remittance solution, but traditional payment networks control the market. Most people don't understand Bitcoin. Converting cryptocurrency back

Three Bitcoin Core developers will move to MIT's new Digital Currency Initiative. Gavin Andresen, Wladimir van der Laan, and Cory Fields are joining the program as the Bitcoin Foundation runs out of m

TradeBlock and BitGo announced plans to develop shared \"modular infrastructure\" that would connect TradeBlock's trading and analysis platform with BitGo's multi-signature security systems. BitGo has o

Saturday brought together Bitcoin enthusiasts and curious onlookers alike at the Ghent Bitcoincity initiative, a coordinated effort showcasing digital currency acceptance across a single city. With tw

ShapeShift has added Tether USD₮ to its exchange platform, following recent integrations of Counterparty and Monero. The token represents the first blockchain-based form of fiat currency, joining over

Andrew Vegetabile, director of the Litecoin Association and CEO of the forthcoming Koinyx exchange, released a statement Wednesday attacking GAW, Paycoin, and founder Josh Garza. He describes Garza as

The Paycoin project has devolved into chaos. As the cryptocurrency's value plummets and the ecosystem crumbles, fingers are pointing everywhere—though notably toward individuals who are no longer dire

An upcoming Ghent Bitcoin initiative has been generating significant buzz in local media circles, with a coalition of nearly 30 brick-and-mortar establishments signing on to accept the digital currenc

The FBI, NSA, and Justice Department want access to encrypted communications. James Comey told Congress the bureau needs backdoors into Americans' phones. The DOJ claimed Apple's default encryption wo

CoinPayments becomes the first platform to integrate TREZOR Connect for user authentication, offering customers a hardware wallet-based login option. SatoshiLabs, the firm behind the TREZOR hardware

Gavin Andresen identified two former board members as the primary source of the Bitcoin Foundation's damaged reputation: Charlie Shrem and Mark Karpeles. Speaking with IBTimes, the Bitcoin core develo

GAW Being Sued By Their Electric Company, Power Bill demonstrates $72,000 Consumed In January Print this article Font Size -16+ Ian Demartino April 10, 2015 Share <!-- wpa2a.script_load(); //--> GAWMi

Bitcoin payment processors have been fighting hard for merchant adoption. Igot, the world's fastest growing Bitcoin exchange, is making a major move into that battlefield. The company is launching mer

Olivier Janssens dropped a bombshell on Reddit. A newly elected Bitcoin Foundation board member, he disclosed that the organization faced severe financial trouble and that Executive Director Patrick M

Olivier Janssens, a newly elected member of the Bitcoin Foundation's board, posted a lengthy message on Reddit late Thursday night describing the organization's collapse. The Foundation, he claimed, h

Josh Garza's latest maneuver defies logic. One week after burying Paybase, the exchange he presented as Paycoin's foundation, he unveiled Mineral—another trading platform designed to retain the invest

Twenty-One Inc's Silent Capital Raise Points Toward Internet of Things Strategy The startup behind 21 Inc managed to quietly amass more than $118 million in venture backing over the past year—marking

Since bitcoin emerged, there's been tension between the world's first cryptocurrency and Ripple. Bitcoin advocates dismiss Ripple as a centralized altcoin. Ripple's promoters view bitcoin as fundament

Bitcoin can now fund NETELLER accounts and purchase prepaid debit cards. The announcement from the Isle of Man–based payments platform could go live as soon as today, with one significant caveat: U.S.

Operating a mining farm has become increasingly complex as the industry has matured. When you're juggling multiple rigs across different locations, the administrative overhead turns into a genuine hea

Mobile Bitcoin wallet provider AirBitz rolled out a streamlined authentication system for both Android and iOS devices as of today, marking a significant step forward in protecting user assets on smar

SFARDS, formed through the merger of Chinese ASIC manufacturers Wiibox and Gridseed, announced plans to release a new 28nm chip for dual-algorithm mining. The SF3301 can operate on both Scrypt and SHA

Bitcoin wallet security remains a persistent headache for the cryptocurrency market. Hardware-based wallets offer better protection than software alternatives, but many manufacturers cut corners on th

Bitmain showed off a new upgrade kit for its Antminer S2 mining rig at Inside Bitcoins Berlin last week. The company's Yoshi Goto presented the product to reporters at the Bitmain booth, and we were t

At Inside Bitcoins Berlin last week, Bitmain was the sole mining company on the exhibitor list. Yoshi Goto, representing Bitmain, detailed the company's new cloud mining contract and explained how it

A prominent but polarizing initiative in the digital currency ecosystem is launching a second capital-raising campaign, accepting contributions through Lighthouse's decentralized funding mechanism and

Users are angry after UTorrent's latest update bundles software that mines Litecoin. The application, called Epic Scale, claims to use idle processing power for cryptocurrency mining and other mathema

DigitalBTC, the Australian investment group, is preparing to launch DigitalX Mintsy, a cloud mining platform where people can lease computing power to others. The Cryptsy exchange will handle the tran

Steam doesn't take Bitcoin, and Gabe Newell shows no sign of changing that policy. So cryptocurrency holders shopping for PC games need alternative retailers. Five major platforms accept Bitcoin paym

Pegging cryptocurrencies to traditional assets sounds appealing in theory—offering the security of blockchain with the predictability of fiat. Yet skeptics abound, questioning whether such instruments

Accepting Bitcoin payments is quick these days. BitPay and Coinbase both offer integrations that require only a code snippet pasted into a website. A merchant is ready to accept payments in minutes.

Creating new cryptocurrency assets through smart contracts has been a goal for years, but finding the right approach has proven difficult. Bitshares and NuBits lead the current platforms in this space

BTCjam, the Bitcoin-based peer-to-peer lending site, has begun offering refinancing options for borrowers who face difficulty repaying their loans. Cryptocurrency networks operate without the credit

Bitcoin mining has always attracted ambitious entrepreneurs and questionable operators in equal measure. Few companies in the space have managed to disappoint customers quite like Butterfly Labs, a co

The crypto community erupted today following Josh Garza's announcement on the Hashtalk discussion board, where the GAW leader signaled an upcoming partnership centered on a Paycoin debit card in colla

Mining Bitcoin at home has become uneconomical for most people. You need cheap electricity and floor space to break even with ASIC rigs. Graphics cards present a different opportunity. WePayBTC offers

Sealswithclubs.eu goes dark for good. The Bitcoin poker platform, which vanished from the internet more than a week ago, won't return, according to an announcement the site made today. Players have a

The Bitcoin Foundation's Chair election delivered no majority winner. The bylaws required majority support, and no candidate crossed the 50% threshold. This triggers a runoff vote featuring the four f

Ledger closed a €1.3 million seed funding round led by XAnge Capital. The hardware wallet company's raise marks one of the few major venture investments in physical Bitcoin storage devices. Hardware

The mobile Bitcoin wallet landscape remains fiercely contested, with countless applications vying for users' attention in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Given that most smartphone owners carry j

Kipcoin, a Chinese Bitcoin exchange overshadowed by competitors like Huobi and OKcoin, has shut down operations after losing more than 3,000 bitcoins in a hack. The exchange posted the announcement on

Five cryptocurrency exchanges are grappling with security breaches or operational failures. Bter, HitBTC, and Exco.in have acknowledged hacks or halted customer withdrawals. CCDEK and ShapeShift.io ar

Netagio, the London-based Bitcoin exchange, shut down its trading platform on Monday after less than a year of operations. The company moves toward a wealth storage business, a striking reversal for a

Paycoin's leadership has destroyed a batch of coins to address mounting questions about a mysterious \"test wallet,\" but the destruction raises as many questions as it answers. Josh Garza, CEO of GAW

A Paycoin address slated for testing and marked for destruction has instead been quietly transferring funds to trading platforms, raising questions about the cryptocurrency's management and supply int

Adyen, the well-known payment processor, has announced a new partnership with BitPay that could...

Economist Robert Shiller, a Nobel laureate, calls bitcoin an \"interesting experiment\" but argues it lacks intrinsic value and has no place in financial markets. His enthusiasm for blockchain, the tech

Spondoolies Tech provides bitcoin mining services for customers who don't want equipment at home. The Israeli company announced a partnership with Genesis Mining, a Bermuda-based operation, to expand

KnC Miner secured $15 million in new funding and is introducing a 16-nanometer chip created in partnership with Alchip. The company expects the processor to rank among the fastest ASIC chips moving in

Blockchain Technology Solutions plans to fill an 83,000 square foot facility with mining equipment capable of processing 550 terahashes per second. The hardware comes from Spondoolies, a hardware manu

Mining operations face a constant battle against heat. As mining difficulty climbs, cooling becomes more critical. Mining farms have relocated to arctic regions to manage the thermal load. BitFury's

Cointerra, a Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer in Texas, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on January 24 after accumulating debts between $10 million and $50 million. C7 Data Centers sued the company

New York is building a regulatory framework for bitcoin companies, and a new exchange backed by the Winklevoss twins wants to sit at the center of this push. Gemini launches as a fully regulated bitco

Bitcoin earned formal programming at SXSW 2015, with at least four confirmed conference sessions, representing a marked shift from 2014 when mentions were limited to hallway conversations and informal parties.

Zeushash, the cloud mining service operated by Chinese hardware manufacturer Zeusminer, negotiated new terms with suppliers that save the operation from shutdown. Bitcoin's price collapse reduced dail

Bitcoin security remains a problem, but the solutions are arriving. Bitstamp's recent hot wallet theft shows that even experienced operators struggle to protect their funds. The good news: multisig ad

Filip Roose runs Orillia, a Belgian startup that places Bitcoin ATMs across the country. The company installed Belgium's first Bitcoin ATM last year and now eyes expansion into the rest of Europe, Lat

ChangeTip, a service for sending bitcoin tips, launched on Facebook this week. The platform now lets the social network's billions of members transfer bitcoins to each other in tiny amounts, a capabil

On January 14, 2015, Matt O'Brien published a column in the Washington Post's Wonkblog attacking Bitcoin as a Ponzi scheme. O'Brien argued that venture capitalists pouring millions into the protocol w

Bitcoin mining had quite a year in 2014. The industry faced a serious centralization scare when Ghash.io threatened a 51% attack on the network at the start of 2014. Near the year's end, mining diffic

SendChat, a messaging application, will debut cryptocurrency support in coming weeks. The service lets users send and receive Bitcoin, Sendcoin, Dogecoin, and Darkcoin, exchange cryptocurrencies for f

CEX.IO, a London-based exchange and cloud mining provider, shut down mining operations this week. Bitcoin prices had fallen and mining difficulty had risen, making the service unprofitable, the compan

Cash dominates payments across Europe. In most of the EU, consumers pull out bills and coins at checkout, and store owners welcome the practice because banks charge them steep fees to process cards. A

A leading Bitcoin marketplace Bitstamp reopened for trading on Friday night, concluding a four-day closure stemming from an intrusion into the platform's online storage systems that resulted in the lo

Bitstamp's wallet breach in January cost its customers nearly 19,000 bitcoins and likely sparked the sharp price decline that followed. Investigators from both the company and law enforcement are stil

Bitcoin's price swings have become legendary since the asset first entered markets in 2010 at fractions of a penny. Fast forward to today and those wild price movements persist, creating real headache

BTCJam, a peer-to-peer Bitcoin lending platform, moved into developing nations throughout 2014 by striking deals with local cryptocurrency exchanges. The company targeted Brazil, Mexico, the Philippin

Trading operations have come to a halt at Bitstamp after criminals gained unauthorized access to the platform's operational funds storage system. As a venue for cryptocurrency transactions alongside c

California's legislature cleared the way for bitcoin to function as a payment method for goods and services starting January 1st. The state had operated under Section 107 of the Corporations Code, a p

The St. Petersburg Bowl switched sponsors before the 2015 season. BitPay, which processes Bitcoin payments, took over naming rights from Beef O Brady's restaurants and renamed it \"The Bitcoin Bowl.\"