Bitcoin & the Blockchain is the first of a series of O’Reilly Radar Summits, one-day events on disruptive technologies that are on the cusp of commercial viability. This first …
Cointerra, a Bitcoin mining company, based in Utah, is shutting down operations as they work with lenders on a potential restructuring of it financing, according to CEO Ravi Iyengar. …
The prestigious magazine The Economist has an article titled “The magic of mining.” Mining Bitcoin has become a big, ruthlessly competitive business. Bitcoins, The Economist says, have three useful …
Bitstamp, one of the largest exchanges for the digital Bitcoin currency, said it would resume trading later on Friday after suspending operations because of a security breach on Sunday, …
German bank Sparkasse is blocking any incoming and outgoing bank transfers related to cryptocurrency since a few days, Cryptoarticles reports. The Anycoin Direct exchange in The Netherlands is unable …
Yesterday Bitstamp co-founder Damijan Merlak said that the Bitstamp is testing a duplicate of their entire infrastructure in San Francisco and plans to resume its operations in the next …
Bitstamp co-founder Damijan Merlak said that Bitstamp plans to resume its operations in the next 24 hours. Bitstamp service was temporarily suspended service as a result of a Bitcoin …
So, it happened. After some time moving in a narrow range in the low $300s, Bitcoin price has plunged below $300. This new Bitcoin price crash at the beginning …
On January 2 Counterparty, the peer-to-peer financial platform built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain, announced the celebration of its 1st Year Anniversary. On January 2, 2014, Counterparty emerged …
When Wendell Davis started building Vizor.io three years ago it was merely a tool for creating high-end web graphics. Then, three months ago on a trip to Helsinki with …
Bacchus Entertainment, produced by Saffron and Dennis Bacchus, who love to make high-quality niche fetish porn, is according to its creators the world’s first Bitcoin-only porn membership site. Also …
The Financial Times is running a story titled “FT Predictions: the world in 2015” where Financial Times writers offer their forecasts for the year ahead, from the oil price …
Ukraine’s political problems and de-facto war with Russia hit the value of the national currency badly in 2014. But the hryvnia, so Ukraine’s national currency is called, wasn’t the …
New Delhi Television Limited, one of India’s largest TV networks, aired a show featuring an interview with the Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Raghuram Rajan. The show, …
Two months ago we reported that crypto-anarchist Cody Wilson disclosed that he would run for a board seat on the Bitcoin Foundation for no other reason than to disband …
European shares and periphery Eurozone bonds tumbled on Monday after the Greek parliament rejected the government’s presidential candidate, setting the stage for an election that anti-austerity party Syriza could …
The world’s second-worst currency this year is Ukraine’s hryvnia. Being at war with a nuclear-endowed superpower is an expensive business, and Ukraine’s economy is crippled even after an international …
The Decentralized Application (DApp) basicincome.co will be hosted on the Bitnation core platform – Bitnation Pangea – after its release in 2015. Basicincome.co will be a first experimental attempt …
Spanish Bitcoin startup Coinffeine has presented the Trial version of their innovative P2P application in Madrid (Spain). The open-source software allows you to buy and sell bitcoins anonymously and …
Three weeks ago we wrote about the first supermarket where you can pay in Bitcoin in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Spar Arnhem Centraal, opened in March 2014, is a relatively …
Bitcoin advocate and entrepreneur Charlie Shrem was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday for indirectly helping to send $1 million in the digital currency to the Internet …
The Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean Sea and a major world offshore financial center, are betting on new financial technologies based on the Bitcoin …
Compared to other investments Bitcoin has been a bad performer of 2014, losing 52 percent against the US dollar, The Verge reports. But that’s good news, because the less …
In November MIT undergraduates who signed up for the MIT Bitcoin Project each received the equivalent of $100 in the cryptocurrency. Now that they have it, they are beginning …