Cryptocurrency

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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