An information technology affiliate of Samsung announced today that it has invested in a blockchain startup. | Continue reading
OpenBazaar is becoming more than an illicit market. New upgrades are being designed to attract more users and larger merchants. | Continue reading
A Japanese media report suggests Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles has been released on bail. | Continue reading
IBM has launched a new blockchain service that uses hardware to protect valuable data, with provenance startup Everledger as its first customer. | Continue reading
Reports from Russia indicate that a minor political party is moving to accept bitcoin donations. | Continue reading
A report to be released by NRI argues Japan needs to do more to bring clarity to the innovators working with digital currencies. | Continue reading
The DTCC has revealed it hosted a group of regulators and financial industry execs in Washington, DC, last month for a conversation on blockchain | Continue reading
A Dutch asset management service that oversees the largest pension fund for government and education workers in the Netherlands has begun exploring possible blockchain applications. APG announced earlier this week it is partnering with Maastricht University and the Netherlands Or … | Continue reading
CoinDesk profiles ongoing efforts to return funds to investors whose holdings were compromised in the demise of The DAO. | Continue reading
The federal agency that oversees national banks in the US has named virtual currencies as an operational risk. | Continue reading
Smart contract startup Legalese has won a great to help better secure the future of smart contracts. | Continue reading
The central bank of the Netherlands is preparing an ambitious experiment aimed at discerning if a financial market can be built on a blockchain. | Continue reading
A senior trade finance executive for JPMorgan Chase has offered details on the bank’s work with blockchain technology. | Continue reading
IBM expanded its blockchain efforts today with news it will open a blockchain center in partnership with the Singapore government. | Continue reading
Banco Santander has named Digital Asset Holdings (DAH) CEO Blythe Masters to a new role as senior blockchain advisor. | Continue reading
One of South Africa’s largest banks has joined the global blockchain consortium led by R3CEV. | Continue reading
Blockchain firm SolidX has filed with the SEC in a bid to launch a public investment vehicle that would offer exposure to bitcoin. | Continue reading
The SEC has settled with the Bitcoin Investment Trust and its original issuer following an investigation into a repurchase program. | Continue reading
A soon-to-be-released study has found evidence that bitcoin’s market is now a venue for "legitimate" commerce. | Continue reading
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss take another step closer to SEC approval with a request submitted by their new listing exchange, BATS. | Continue reading
A top finance regulator Belgium has issued a warning about OneCoin. | Continue reading
CoinDesk analyzes activities in the bitcoin and ether markets over the first six months of 2016. | Continue reading
A conference series started in the wake of bitcoin's ongoing block size debate will see a third installment in 2016. | Continue reading
In a new interview, members of the US Department of Homeland Security discuss their increasing interest in blockchain tech. | Continue reading
The bitcoin block reward is set to fall from 25 bitcoins to 12.5 bitcoins in just a few hours. The event, which happens roughly every four years, represents a major shift in the mining landscape, and speculation has swirled about what impact the reward drop will have on the bitco … | Continue reading
Bitcoin prices experienced moderate volatility during the week ending 8th July, as market participants took action ahead of the upcoming halving. | Continue reading
Regulators, legislators and entrepreneurs will decamp to New Hampshire this week for a gathering aimed at formalizing industry principles. | Continue reading
Bitcoin groups around the world are gathering to celebrate the halving of the bitcoin mining reward this weekend. | Continue reading
Members of the bitcoin industry, including major players in the mining space, as set to meet in California this month, sources say. | Continue reading
What will happen when bitcoin's mining reward declines this weekend? CoinDesk surveys market experts for their predictions. | Continue reading
An organization tasked with regulating brokerages and exchanges is seeking to obtain information about how its members are using bitcoin. | Continue reading
A recent note from the University College London’s blockchain research center explores the fair cost of bitcoin mining. | Continue reading
Bitcoin services startup Vogogo is closing its payment processing service next month after it failed to gain traction or generate money. | Continue reading
Bitcoin remittance startup Freemit is officially closing down, two years after the effort to build the service began. | Continue reading
The UK government’s Department of Work and Pensions is spearheading an experiment in which a blockchain system is used to distribute welfare payments. | Continue reading
Coinbase has reportedly raised more than $10m from Japan's largest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. | Continue reading
Software development firm Infoteria has revealed it is working with Myanmar microfinance firm BC Finance to streamline its financial transactions using blockchain technology. The Japan-based company conducted the tests on BC’s computer system to see if a low-cost alternative to t … | Continue reading
2016 has become a year of revival for the bitcoin price, but will this continue after the upcoming halving? | Continue reading
Bitfury Group, in collaboration with the open-source Lightning Network community, has released a white paper on lightning routing. | Continue reading
Is immutability becoming the next overhyped blockchain buzzword? Bitcoin pundit Chris DeRose discusses in his latest op-ed. | Continue reading
The US Department of Health and Human Services is soliciting research papers related to blockchain applications in healthcare and health research. | Continue reading
North Carolina today expanded its Money Transmitters Act to cover activities related to bitcoin and digital currencies. | Continue reading
McKinsey & Company reports on how insurance companies might be able to capitalize on blockchain. | Continue reading
Jacek Czarnecki is an attorney at Warsaw-based law firm Wardynski & Partners, where he specializes in areas including FinTech, digital currencies and blockchain. In this opinion piece, Czarnecki discusses a new proposal in the European Union aimed at terrorist financing, and its … | Continue reading
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has announced a partnership with a blockchain industry startup aimed at fighting online child sex abuse. With the news, the UK-based charity has provided a database of bitcoin addresses associated with sexual abuse to the startup. Elliptic, in … | Continue reading
Upcoming changes to how bitcoin incentivizes key participants have stoked fears a 51% attack could again become viable. | Continue reading
The Argentinian subsidiary of ridesharing giant Uber is turning to a bitcoin payment option amid a crackdown by local authorities. | Continue reading
The executive branch of the European Union today adopted new AML rules that will impact digital currency businesses. | Continue reading