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Cryptocurrency Exchange Gatecoin confirms that lost $2 Mln in Hot Wallet Breach
May 16th, 2016
Gatecoin, the Hong Kong-based regulated and secure financial institution for blockchain assets has issued an official statement regarding the breach the firm experienced and lost 15% of our crypto-asset deposits. Below is the Gatecoin statement as it was published: ...
A beginner’s guide to bitcoin: What you need to know
May 12th, 2016
When Craig Wright claimed he invented bitcoin, it put the mysterious currency back in the spotlight. But while it’s generated a furore in the community of underground hackers and crypto-anarchists, most people are bemused by all the fuss. What is ...
Bitcoin operators await regulation in Japan
May 11th, 2016
Bitcoin operators await regulation in Japan amid push for legitimacy and widespread use Bitcoin operators are keenly watching the Diet as it deliberates bills to regulate the currency, believing the legislation is key to regaining the public trust’s in ...
21 Inc Unveils Plan to Make Every Computer a Bitcoin Computer
May 5th, 2016
Balaji Srinivasan, co-founder and CEO of 21 Inc, announced the launch of the 21 software package at the Consensus 2016 blockchain conference, allowing anyone with a computer to receive bitcoin. Freely available, the software allows any connected device to join the ...
5 reasons Why someone would use Bitcoin
April 28th, 2016
It has now been eight years since Satoshi Nakamoto released his peer-to-peer digital cash system to the world, and the debate over whether or not the payment network and currency have any real, long-term value is still undecided. Having said that, ...
Bitcoin becoming regulated currency in the European Union
April 27th, 2016
Slovenian startup Bitstamp just did something that no other digital currency startup was able to do – launch the first nationally licensed Bitcoin exchange (BitEx). As it usually goes, the startup could not receive a license in its home country, so ...
How bitcoin’s sister technology could change the future of healthcare
April 22nd, 2016
The larger world didn’t start paying much attention to bitcoin until 2013. That was the year mainstream companies like Microsoft, Expedia and Dell, among others, began to accept the alternative, electronic payment method. That was also the year the ...
‘Bitcoin is dead,’ says prominent fintech exec
April 21st, 2016
Exactly three months ago, a well-known bitcoin developer, Mike Hearn, wrote a post on Medium that rocked the community of people who believe in the future of the digital currency and its technology. Bitcoin, he wrote, has failed. “It has failed ...
Bitcoin trading platform raises $ 1.2 mn
April 18th, 2016
The Bitcoin trading platform Coinsecure has raised $1.2 million as part of its ongoing ‘Series A’ investment round. The company opened the fund-raising round earlier in January and expects to close the round soon, an official statement said. Coinsecure, ...
Estonian Supreme Court Rules Against Bitcoin Trader
April 13th, 2016
The Estonian Supreme Court has ruled in favor of restrictions on bitcoin trading activity in the wake of a lawsuit filed by a digital currency broker. The ruling, which came in the wake of a long-running lawsuit that began as a inquiry into ...
