Bitcoin

One big retailer is about the conquer the next Bitcoin frontier.Since the beginning of the year, a number of well-known retailers, including Overstock, Expedia and Dell, have started accepting Bitcoin…

After postponing the Tel Aviv event this past July, Inside Bitcoins announces the new conference dates: October 20-21, 2014.Inside Bitcoins Conference and Expo will be making its debut in Israel…

As a global movement, from day one Bitcoin arrived in the scene, the digital currency has been an example of true international cooperation, attracting a community across the globe unified…

Social entrepreneurs in developing countries are using mobile phones and the controversial digital currency bitcoin to increase the speed, and slash the price, of international money transfers, raising the prospect…

Jesse Powell knew Mt. Gox was not long for this world more than two years before the once-dominant bitcoin exchange went bankrupt in February.In June 2011, Powell took a last-minute…

Three months after raising a staggering $30 million Series A round of capital, BitPay has staffed up its San Francisco contingent with a few hires that are worth noting. Currently,…

Midsummer is a time for young love, lightning storms and states sticking their nose into cryptocurrency regulation.Last July, as the price of bitcoin hovered around $70, California subpoenaed the Bitcoin…

United Kingdom, August 11th, 2014 – Blockchain Reaches Milestone with 2 Million Wallet UsersBlockchain announced that their popular bitcoin wallet surpassed two million users, making them the first company in…

Bitcoin is gradually making progress as a medium of exchange in developing countries. While it can be volatile as an investment asset, it has real utility as an instrument for…

A hacker generated $84,000 worth of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency by gaining access to a Canadian internet provider and diverting the computing power of private Bitcoin “mines”.The malicious activity was discovered…

The year of 2008 is remembered as the year of the global financial crisis, a crisis, fair or not, is often attributed to financial derivatives.Derivatives allow for phony accounting; they…

Last 9th July, Flynt gave the green-light for Hustler to embrace yet another sometimes controversial idea – digital currency – when it partnered with digital payments processor GoCoin to accept…

Since it was founded in 2001, Wikipedia has provided tremendous value to the world by making it easy and free for anyone with an Internet connection to consume information.Coinbase was…

To Bitcoin purists, this must feel all wrong: this week George Osborne announced a review into uses for the cryptocurrency as part of plans to make the UK a world…

After promising the official release of Bitcoin-based debit cards, Xapo became a crypto-currency darling. Sadly, however, the bloom went off the rose once users received word that their debit cards,…

Two years ago Sam Shrauger worked for PayPal.Today he’s senior vice-president of digital solutions at Visa and presiding over its newly launched digital laboratory where the company is developing a…

The collapse of digital currency exchange Mt Gox earlier this year may have cast major doubts over the future of bitcoin, but the industry has continued to evolve at pace,…

Overstock Wants To Pay Its Employees in Bitcoin and to Issue Stock Via Bitcoin TechnologiesOverstock is again leading innovation in the bitcoin space. The company lead the push for bitcoin…

Russia’s Ministry of Finance has proposed to ban Bitcoin and all other cryptocurrencies, according to Russian news outlets, Interfax and RBC are reporting.The bill, which has yet to be published,…

The Bitcoin Foundation’s executive director, Jon Matonis, travels the world to promote the virtual currency as a replacement for traditional money.Some of his members want him to focus on a…