Prominent bitcoin exchange and platform Coinbase has revealed new features that it says will make it “even easier for merchants to accept bitcoin.” Digital currency exchange and bitcoin services provider Coinbase has rolled out a handful of new features that it hopes will help fu … | Continue reading
Bitcoiners enjoy celebrating their so-called Bitcoin community. But, in the years since Bitcoin increased in price from $60 to $1,300, a lot has changed. Although still called the Bitcoin community by many today, the current state of Bitcoin resembles more closely an industry. Of … | Continue reading
Will blockchain technology make “smart guns” more acceptable? Kevin Barnes, chairman and CEO of Blocksafe, thinks he has a good chance. The blockchain brings improved security and privacy to “smart gun” technology, which could appease critics. Smart guns have embedded computers t … | Continue reading
Russian banks and financial services firms have come together to form the country’s first financial blockchain consortium, a coalition that will seek to explore and implement blockchain solutions in the banking and financial services industries. Announced at the beginning of the … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price is simmering just above $670 as the market waits for the Bitcoin network starter gun. Where to and what may happen in the chart before the block reward actually halves? This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a m … | Continue reading
Ryan Taylor, head of finance at Dash, claims the bitcoin blockchain’s practice of paying the entire blockchain reward to miners is faulty, in a piece on EconoTimes. He claims Dash, which allocates less than half its rewards to the miners, offers a more promising future. Taylor sa … | Continue reading
Some Bitcoin miners have been busted for stealing electricity according to a public statement by police in Ma’anshan, a mining town in China. Very few details are provided except to state that 74 bitcoin mining units have been seized, coinciding with a small fall in difficulty of … | Continue reading
Non-profit organization the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and blockchain start-up Elliptic have teamed up to tackle those using the cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, to buy child sex abuse images online, the two announced today. London-based blockchain startup Elliptic has created a uni … | Continue reading
Counterparty is set to launch Ethereum’s Virtual Machine (EVM) on a testnet in two weeks with Counterparty developer Ruben de Vries making solid progress toward the end result, which will eventually bring Ethereum’s smart contract to Bitcoin. In late 2014, Counterparty carried ou … | Continue reading
In a proposal today, the European Commission – the executive arm of the European Union – sought stricter rules on the use of virtual currencies like bitcoin. Citing reasons of terrorism and money laundering, the European Commission has proposed stricter rules for the use of virtu … | Continue reading
The Litecoin Association, which advocates on behalf of Litecoin, the third largest cryptocurrency in market capitalization, has teamed with the Litecoin Core development team on a Road Map 2016 outlining its plans for the future. The team is committed to improving the Litecoin ex … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price is being rejected by the prevailing $680 support and resistance level. The outlook remains that a consolidation is underway – prior to lift-off, but we keep a weary bearish eye on critical support just below price. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-ho … | Continue reading
The U.K. government needs to provide a ‘Brexit Blueprint,’ according to London’s FinTech community, that embraces the single market access and financial services passporting, as dread mounts in light of the Brexit vote. Innovate Finance recently conducted the survey of 100 member … | Continue reading
Abra, a non-custodial bitcoin wallet app that allows people to send money for free from their bank accounts, is now available in the U.S. and the Philippines, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company announced on its website. Abra is available on iPhone and Android in the U.S. The … | Continue reading
Zurich-based private and investment banking firm Vontobel has become the first Swiss issuer to offer a tracker certificate on bitcoin. Global private and investment banking institution Vontobel will become the first Swiss issuer to offer a bitcoin tracker certificate for subscrip … | Continue reading
China is turning its attention to Bitcoin and generating massive amounts of Bitcoin as concerns grow over the vulnerability of the global financial sector says Chairman of China Smartpay Group. A recently published article of Joe Zhang’s in the South China Morning Post highlights … | Continue reading
A market study conducted by research and analysis firm Juniper speculates that bitcoin valuation will spike this year, citing the prospect of a Trump presidency in the US. Furthermore, the study finds that bitcoin transactions are speculated to exceed $92 billion in valuations th … | Continue reading
Citi Research released a 56-page report on bitcoin saying that it is not going to disrupt banks or credit card networks. It says there will be increased transaction costs for bitcoin to provide increased volume. As for the use of bitcoin in remittance payments, it says bitcoin’s … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price, that old rascal, had shook out a lot of longs to $650 and is now building base waves, to $650, for a pending launch toward the June top. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and receive a $ … | Continue reading
Netherlands will the unveiling of a blockchain “campus” in September wherein banks and financial companies will work together for the development of blockchain applications for payments and the wider financial industry. Willem Vermeend, the Secretary of Finance and Minister of So … | Continue reading
Microsoft and the U.S. government are in an ongoing battle over an Irishman allegedly involved in Silk Road wanted by the FBI on darknet drug charges, as reported by Deep Dot Web. The 27-year-old Irishman, Gary Davis, from Wicklow, is currently fighting an extradition case led by … | Continue reading
Banking giant JP Morgan has recently announced that they will be launching an In-Residence program in a bid to get FinTech startup companies to tackle challenges within the industry. JP Morgan is aiming to get financial technology startups to come together with its company so tha … | Continue reading
The BIP 75 proposal to improve bitcoin’s ease of use has drawn a lot of criticism among bitcoiners on account of the option for a receiver to identify himself to the sender, according to an article by Bitcoin Magazine’s Kyle Torpey disseminated by Nasdaq. Bitcoin Core contributo … | Continue reading
Another day and another wave of advance. Bitcoin price has broken through $680 and the market is currently with $700 which had caused deep correction a month ago. Technical analysis looks for up- and downside targets. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. R … | Continue reading
One of the biggest blockchain event of the year is to be held in Shanghai from the 19th to the 24th of September in a week long International Blockchain conference merging DevCon’s developer focused conference with Shanghai’s more business focused Second Global Blockchain Summit. … | Continue reading
MGT Capital Investments, which is seeking to diversify its portfolio of cyber technologies, has secured a location in central Washington to launch a bitcoin mining operation. The company has secured a location with low-cost hydro power to establish a facility to generate more tha … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price continued advancing through today and has reached a resistance layer dating back to 2013 at $680. Will the market progress beyond this strong barrier? This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now an … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price continued on Sunday as it had done on Saturday: quiet trade in a $4 range. Today’s price action seems to be coiling up for a larger move. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and receive a $ … | Continue reading
Peter Todd, backed by Matt Corallo, has proposed hard-fork changes to the bitcoin network to make “useless” patent pending algorithmic improvements which give mining an Asicboost of 20%, leading to increased profits of some $30 million if used by one of the biggest mining pools. … | Continue reading
Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of Coinbase, noted in a Yahoo video interview that while the present period is a great time for bitcoin, controversy also surrounds bitcoin and blockchain technology. Asked by Yahoo finance reporter Dan Roberts about the interest in blockchain technology t … | Continue reading
Bitcoin has matured as an asset and it will eventually be disrupting gold, according to brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, who operate the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange. The brothers gave their views about digital currency’s future during an interview with Liz Claman on Fox … | Continue reading
Developers, bankers, regulators, investors, businessmen, thought leaders and visionaries from around the globe descended on New York for a three-day event to discuss what has taken the world by storm, blockchain technology and its applications. Consensus 2016, the biggest event s … | Continue reading
With the re-emergence of the third iteration of Silk Road it appears that this iconic darknet market brand is here to stay. What is to be expected this time around? A Brief History When the Silk Road first launched in February of 2011 it did so to little fanfare. But as media co … | Continue reading
Palantir Technologies, a global data analytics company co-founded by Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, denies any connection to a Hong Kong bitcoin mining company that claims to be owned by Palantir Technologies, according to International Business Times. The mining company, Coi … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price has spent the day above $450 (Bitstamp) but the market has not made progress either way. We take a look at the most significant boundaries for this years price action – and the levels that will confirm that a trending move has broken out. This analysis is provided b … | Continue reading
In a report coming out of Taiwan, an individual who founded and ran a bitcoin company has been arrested on charges of fraud, breach of trust and document forgery after allegedly causing losses to 49 customers in a month. The chairman of Taipei-based Digital Bitcoin Company, a man … | Continue reading
Nick Szabo, a cryptographer who worked on an early bitcoin prototype, played a key role in developing smart contracts and has been suspected of being Satoshi Nakamoto, is now raising money for a bitcoin/blockchain startup, according to Quartz. Szabo is trying to raise $3 million … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price has returned to $450 after retesting this week’s low. Local support is holding and the market has, so far, avoided additional lows. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and receive a $29 dis … | Continue reading
Alavara, a Seattle, Wash.-based provider of tax compliance automation for businesses that has already embraced bitcoin in its tax compliance engine, announced plans to explore blockchain technology during its conference in New Orleans Wednesday, according to Accounting Today. Pet … | Continue reading
The private consortium led by R3, partnered by 42 of the world’s biggest banks is reportedly looking to raise up to $200 million from members in return for equity on a new product that will run blockchain-enabled solutions for the financial industry. In a report by Financial News … | Continue reading
Secured messaging has become crucially important. Blackberry used to be known for it, but the user needed their hardware. WhatsApp is more functional, but still requires a centralized, fallible infrastructure. Enter blockchain and DARPA… If you were to look up Topic # SB162-004 S … | Continue reading
Kraken has introduced Ether (ETH) Dark Pool trading in its platform, chalking a milestone as the first ever digital currency exchange to do so with the currency powering Ethereum. In a nod to ether’s rapid rise, both in popularity and value, Kraken has become the first virtual cu … | Continue reading
OpenBazaar, a decentralized, unregulated and open-source marketplace that uses bitcoin, has released a roadmap to its second version following a better-than-expected response to its first version in April, according to Medium. OpenBazaar, which opened for business last month, has … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price has drawn sideways around $450 (Bitstamp) for most of the day before making a rounded push higher. The decline may be over but additional price action is needed so soon after the strong upside reversal. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Re … | Continue reading
The AKASHA Project hopes to deliver an Internet where privacy and freedom of expression are embedded into the code, using the Ethereum and the Inter-Planetary File System (IPFS). Mihai Alisie, founder and CEO of AKASHA, recently celebrated World Press Freedom Day by inviting peop … | Continue reading
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here. – Quentin Tarantino Frustrated, The Man sat there and looked at the effervescence of his computer screen from within a desert of red. Outside of his window, the kangaroo which … | Continue reading
Citing security concerns with the possibility of endangering personal information and the privacy of users in relation to the planned release of the list of bitcoin addresses controlled by now-defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, the trustee has suspended the release. Nobuaki Kobaya … | Continue reading
The changes considered by the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) to its listing regulations could potentially lead to early-stage technology startups including bitcoin and Fintech companies being blocked from listing on Australia’s primary securities exchange. The ASX is notabl … | Continue reading