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Barry Silbert Shares Digital Currency Group’s Perspective on Ethereum; Announces Etherscan Investment

Digital Currency Group (DCG) is perhaps the most important company in the Bitcoin and blockchain ecosystem when it comes to early-stage investments. DCG has made over 80 investments in the digital currency and blockchain space thus far, and those investments involve startups from 25 different countries around the world. Although DCG has invested in many […]

PBOC Meets With Leading Chinese Bitcoin Exchanges Amid Price Volatility

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) initiated meetings this week with leading bitcoin exchanges in both Beijing and Shanghai. PBOC representatives in Beijing met with OKCoin and Huobi while PBOC representatives in Shanghai met with BTCC. On the evening of Friday, January 6 in China, the PBOC offices in Beijing and Shanghai both issued statements […]

ValueShuffle Brings Together the Best of Both Worlds for Privacy

In the quest for privacy and fungibility in Bitcoin, two researchers (from Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany and Indiana’s Purdue University) presented a promising privacy enhancement proposal last week. ValueShuffle, as the protocol is called, describes a method to mix bitcoins and at the same time hide the amounts involved in the mixing process. It’s a […]