2015 October

Chain Games launches a Bitcoin gambling platform with 70% commission

Bitcoin Press Release: San Jose, Costa Rica – October 15th 2015 Chain Games has today launched first two game titles: Fancy Roulette and Fancy Slots. Chain Games enables casino operators to offer new high definition HTML5 games to their players by adding just one line of HTML code to their site. Either embedding the games […]

Bitwala Stakes Claim as the Cheapest Bill Payment Service, Anywhere

Bitwala has announced that it will begin process all Euro transfers via payment processor BitPay and with it – provide the best exchange rate in the market. Netherlands-based Bitwala, a crypto-to-SEPA service that uses its own bank account to make fiat-currency transfers to settle payments for its users who pay in bitcoin; has claimed to […]

UK to spend £10m on cryptocurrency research

Harriet Baldwin, Economic Secretary to the Treasury of UK, in a speech, that she delivered at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science, has declared a £10million funding for cryptocurrency research. Baldwin also mentioned that the country was working hard to create the right regime for cryptocurrency businesses and to attract overseas investors to the […]

Bitcoin Price Ranges; Awaiting Breakout

In this morning’s bitcoin price watch piece, we focused on the volatility we had seen throughout the Asian session last night. We noted that we would trade the range formed in the bitcoin price initially, but do so in anticipation of a larger, more pronounced move a little later on this evening. Action has now […]

PAINFUL: Two Cryptocurrency Exchanges Shut Down in 48 Hours!

In what could be termed as a major setback for the virtual currency industry, two cryptocurrency exchanges, namely Bitstake and Yacuna, have pulled down their shutters in the last two days. In its last press note, Yacuna said that while Bitcoin remained a wonderful technology and that they were proud to be one of the […]

Blockstream to Launch First, Instant-Settlement Sidechain for Bitcoin Exchanges

Blockstream has announced it will launch its first commercial Bitcoin sidechain by early 2016. The sidechain, codenamed “Liquid,” offers instant transactions, providing a fast settlement layer for bitcoin exchanges, brokerages and other industry members. As its main advantage, Liquid provides instant and secure transactions among all users of the sidechain. While Bitcoin transactions can typically […]

Should Bitcoin Have Regularly Scheduled Hard Forks?

Hard forks are a rather contentious issue in Bitcoin. The controversy surrounding hard forks can be seen most prominently in the context of Bitcoin XT ’s implementation of BIP 101. While there have been successful Bitcoin hard forks in the past, the problem with hard forks of the Bitcoin blockchain is that they’re, well, hard. […]