News On July 27 the world’s largest bitcoin payment processor, Bitpay, announced its plans for August 1st. According to the company, there...

News The issuer of bitcoin exchange traded notes was found to be in several violations of Nasdaq’s listing rules and subsequently fined,...

In recent months, major financial institutions have warmed to Bitcoin, increasing coverage and providing increasingly positive...

Mining Information recently surfaced that someone in North Korea has started mining bitcoin. According to Recorded Future, a threat...

The ethereum virtual machine (EVM) now has what appears to be its first ever decompiler designed to revert smart contracts into source...

News As the possibility of an August 1 user-activated hard fork (UAHF) approaches, a few well-known bitcoin exchanges have issued...

News This week’s the U.S. regulatory agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), announced in a report the organization...

 by Stan Higgins The US government has unsealed an indictment against BTC-e and one of its alleged operators, levying a $110 million...

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News A survey released on Wednesday by a leading Indian trade and industry body found that 97% of respondents across multiple industries...

The number of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related patent applications being submitted and published in the US has nearly doubled in...

Image: Australia, Map, via PixabayBlockchain Global, an Australian blockchain company, has announced today that it will be powering the...

News According to a report revealed by the U.S. Department of Justice, formal charges against Alexander Vinnik are waiting for him on...

Silicon Valley-based startup BitClave is going after the US$550 billion ads markets with a new blockchain-enabled search engine that...

Emerging Markets Philippine business press, Businessmirror, has reported that the government has been yet to approve a single virtual...

Regulation The story of how a Brazilian man was able to use bitcoin to evade a corrupt judge’s extortionate demands has been published by...

News Suspected BTC-e mastermind, Alexander Vinnik, was arrested on Wednesday whilst vacationing with his partner in Northern Greece. The...

Finance As global regulatory watchdogs eye cryptocurrency with increasing suspicion, bankers continue retreating from legacy finance. They...

Conferences This week Sir Richard Branson and the Bitfury Group are hosting another ‘exclusive’ bitcoin and blockchain retreat on...

Altcoins The number of litecoin ATMs more than doubled during June, making Litecoin the clear market leader in altcoin-supporting...

News The bitcoin wallet with its own network of human tellers around the world, Abra, has just integrated a new way of buying...

It’s taken the Bitcoin industry years to reach an agreement on how to best scale Bitcoin and begin the process of activating Segregated...

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Reversing a bearish outlook for the price of bitcoin, Goldman Sachs chief technician Sheba Jafari told clients in a new report this week...

News On July 24 the operator of the website and bitcoin mixing service Bitmixer.io announced the operation is now ending its mixing...

Finance A major mainstream investment company, Rothschild Investment Corporation, has embraced cryptocurrency by investing in bitcoin. The...

Wallets The bitcoin-based startup Bitpay has announced the company’s Bitpay wallet will now feature in-app exchange services so users can...

Promoted Post On September 25 & 26, 2017 the world’s leading blockchain conference organizer Moe Levin from Keynote Events has announced...

Beginning today, a select group of Abra users and new customers will see the option to buy bitcoin with their American Express card. The...

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News In a few days the notorious August 1st is approaching, and it’s likely this day will be remembered for a long time. This week...

During a panel discussion on Bitcoin scaling at the recent State of Digital Money event in Los Angeles, the idea that a larger block size...

News New Hampshire House Bill 436 is slated to take effect next week on August 1st. The bill exempts bitcoin from regulatory action and...

Image credit: A perfect neighborhood by karamysh, via Shutterstock.comCalifornia-based blockchain startup Propy is building a global...

News The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has approved institutional bitcoin derivatives platform Ledgerx LLC as the first...

News Japanese exchanges have resumed bitcoin deposits and withdrawals after suspending them on July 23. These exchanges are members of the...

Markets and Prices South Africa has already witnessed a surge of bitcoin interest and activity as the digital currency has taken a...

News Bitcoin’s popularity in India is steadily growing, particularly in the country’s third most populous city, Bangalore. Leading Indian...

News The number of bitcoin ATMs in service worldwide has continued to grow at an exponential rate. During June, the total number of...

Emerging Markets Bollywood news recently reported celebrities are going bonkers for bitcoin. Famous Indian entertainers have been tweeting...

Technology On July 22, 2017, at approximately 04:46:31 UTC at block height 477120 — BIP91 was activated on the Bitcoin network. As of this...

News The Japan Cryptocurrency Business Association has issued an announcement regarding Bitcoin Cash (BCC), which it expects to result...

Initial coin offerings (ICOs), which have become an emergent phenomenon of blockchain technology and digital communities, have garnered...

Regulation As the Indian government discusses the regulatory framework for digital currencies such as bitcoin, a disagreement over which...

News In recent statements addressing contemporary cyber threats, including those pertaining to cryptocurrency cyber crime such as...

News This week we reported on the takedown of the two largest darknet markets on the deep web — Alphabay, and Hansa. Now reports further...

Technology This week Bitcoin.com reported on the recent demo of the Lightning Network being tested by Bitfury on Bitcoin’s mainnet. Now...

News The Japan Cryptocurrency Business Association has announced its plans in response to the BIP91 lock-in. Thirteen Japanese bitcoin...

During this week’s Bitcoin.com podcast our host, Richard Jacobs, sits down with Tim Swanson, Director of Market Research of R3 consortium....

Featured There’s been a lot going on as far as development goes with the latest alternative clients and the Segwit2x plan also known as...

News Over 5,000 retail stores and restaurants across Japan that currently accept bitcoin payments may suspend bitcoin use in their stores...

News Over the past week, many bitcoin exchanges have revealed plans for the possibility of a network fork on August 1, 2017. Also read:...

Markets and Prices July 20 was an exciting day for bitcoin proponents as markets suddenly switched from a bear crawl to a full fledged...

Emerging Markets The South African Reserve Bank has announced that it will trial cryptocurrency regulations. Loerien Gamaroff, CEO of...

Coinbase, the world’s largest bitcoin wallet service provider with 28.9 million wallets and 8.7 million active users, and GDAX, its...

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Technology The firm Bitfury Group published a video which shows a successful demonstration of the Lightning Network on the Bitcoin...

News A federal judge has ruled in favor of an anonymous customer of the bitcoin exchange Coinbase against the Internal Revenue Service,...

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News Educational initiatives aimed at minimizing Bitcoin adoption resistance are on the way. For example, RSK is developing a specific...

Op-Ed There has been a lot of fear, doubt, and panic sweeping through the cryptocurrency world the last few days. Many people made doom...

News At approximately 00:06:48 UTC today, July 20, at block height #476768 the bitcoin network finished the BIP91 lock in period and...

Bitcoin.com’s mining services continue to grow exponentially as pool.bitcoin.com commands roughly 3 percent of the Bitcoin network’s...

News A major operation orchestrated by the FBI, DEA, Dutch National Police, and Europol managed to infiltrate and undermine the...

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After dropping to a low of $1,836 this weekend, the bitcoin price is once again climbing back toward all-time highs. According to...

News Soon after the central bank issued a warning about digital currencies including bitcoin, Kosovo sees several signs of rising bitcoin...

In a press briefing at the Department of Justice today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and other...

Polish blockchain startup Billon has received a €2 million grant from Horizon 2020, the European Union’s largest Research and Innovation...

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News The bitcoin photo bomber that recently appeared waving a big note reading ‘buy bitcoin’ behind US Federal Reserve Board Chairwoman,...

News On July 19 the ethereum community was warned that the Parity client version 1.5 and above contained a critical vulnerability in the...

News On July 8 the Financial Services Committee for the U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing concerning digital currencies. The...

Emerging Markets The monetary ecosystem is changing drastically in India. The country is bracing for demonetization of their local...

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Russia is currently working on a regulatory framework to legalize Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), local publications reported on Wednesday....

Below is a detailed flow chart graphic that depicts the possible outcomes to the upcoming scaling proposals that may be implemented in the...

Counterparty recently experienced its millionth transaction. This is good news for the bitcoin-based smart contracting platform. It...

The Global Money Transfer Summit, one of the most recognized conferences in the remittance industry, will take place on October 10 and 11,...

Prospective investors are still sending ether to an ethereum address compromised in an initial coin offering (ICO) held by a startup...

Kraken’s CEO, Jesse Powell, has stated the cryptocurrency exchange’s volume during the second quarter of 2017 comprised 10x more trade...

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) or token sales are a surging trend to raise funds quickly. In May, for example, the Monaco Visa ICO raised...

The Japan Cryptocurrency Business Association has officially announced its plan on how to deal with the possibility of a Bitcoin protocol...