Cryptocurrency

Mike Hearn announced his exit from Bitcoin this week, declaring the technology a failure. The longtime developer and champion of the project said he was stepping away. We spoke with Blockstream CEO Au

Crowdaura, a startup developing blockchain solutions for financial services, joined Accenture's Innovation Lab in London. It's the only fintech blockchain startup in the program and also participates

Earthport, the London-based payments network, launched a new platform that gives banks direct access to the Ripple blockchain through a single API connection. The Blockchain Hub, or DLH, lets

Snapcard's CEO Michael Dunworth flew down to Brazil to present Bitcoin and blockchain technology to government officials and central bankers. The biggest surprise during his visit came from how much k

Consulting giant Accenture has named 15 companies selected to participate in its prestigious London-based Fintech Innovation Lab, a three-month intensive program designed to accelerate technology deve

Joshua Garza, the cryptocurrency entrepreneur who previously led GAW Miners, faces a significant legal setback after failing to respond to federal regulators. Kathleen Shields, an SEC prosecutor, has

Banx.io has offloaded less than 1% of its total token supply in the three months since this publication first examined the project. Six months prior, creator Mark Lyford told readers that half the Ban

France's academic landscape is about to be transformed by a Paris-based engineering institute committed to pioneering blockchain-based diploma verification. The Leonardo da Vinci Engineering School, c

Bitcoin regulation divides audiences at industry conferences. Some entrepreneurs embrace compliance requirements. Others reject any government oversight. Disagreements over regulation have intensified

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

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