Bitcoin’s Price Plummets as 125k Bitcoins May Have Been Stolen from Bitfinex

Update: The theft of 119,756 bitcoins has now been conclusively confirmed. Bitcoin’s price crashed today as bitfinex dramatically announced a “security breach” that led to the theft of an unconfirmed number of bitcoins. The biggest USD bitcoin exchange further announced a shutting down of its website and trading in ominous signs reminiscent of MT Gox. […]

Bitcoin to Hardfork? Proposal Sees Grassroots Beginnings

After a year and a half of debate with no compromise reached, supporters of on-chain scaling, have, seemingly, decided to unilaterally hardfork. A new subreddit, r/btcfork, was announced earlier today, quickly gaining attention and momentum with numerous threads published in just hours after the announcement was made and many bitcoiners joining in the lively debate. […]

Bitcoin Payments Service Bitwage Opens Shop in Brazil

Bitwage has announced that they are launching their global payroll processing and invoicing services in Brazil after the positive progress the bitcoin payments service made over the last year, according to a recent blog post. In January 2015, Bitwage started processing international wage payments for workers in the Philippines, which has since grown to other […]

How the Great Schism Can End Badly for Both Ethereum Chains (Part 3 of 3)

Ethereum Classic is dominating the cryptocurrency news cycle. After a slumber of some days following the Ethereum hard fork that refunded investors of the raided DAO, the unforked and re-named Ethereum blockchain and its native token classic ether (ETC) surged. Exchanges enabled trade in the digital currency, investors bought in, miners pointed their hardware to it, […]

How the Great Schism Can End Well for Ethereum Classic (Part 2 of 3)

Ethereum Classic is dominating the cryptocurrency news cycle. After a slumber of some days following the Ethereum hard fork that refunded investors of the hacked DAO, the unforked and re-named Ethereum blockchain and its native token classic ether (ETC) surged. Exchanges enabled trade in the digital currency, investors bought in, miners pointed their hardware to […]

How the Great Schism Can End Well for Ethereum One (Part 1 of 3)

Ethereum Classic is dominating the cryptocurrency news cycle. After a slumber of some days following the Ethereum hard fork that refunded investors of the hacked DAO, the unforked and re-named Ethereum blockchain and its native token classic ether (ETC) surged. Exchanges enabled trade in the digital currency, investors bought in, miners pointed their hardware to […]