How Washington State Became a Battleground for Bitcoin Mining
A long-running debate over power costs between bitcoin miners and a local power utility is escalating in Washington state.
Coinbase’s Armstrong Urges Switch To Bitcoin Classic To Fix Scaling Disaster
Brian Armstrong, co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, left the Satoshi Roundtable very concerned about bitcoin’s scaling challenge and is urging everyone to upgrade to Bitcoin Classic to buy time to address the scaling issue and prevent serious problems. Writing on Medium, Armstrong summed up the scaling divide evident at the Satoshi Roundtable. On one side are […]
Investing in Bitcoin: Smaller Funds Dominate, Institutional Investors Stay on the Sidelines
From an investment perspective, bitcoin mainly exists in funds held by smaller investors as larger investors remain a bit wary, according to Reuters. Jeremy Millar, the founder and managing partner at Ledger Partners in London, estimated 50% to 90% of bitcoin’s total $6.4 billion market is invested in “near institutional” funds held by individuals at […]
Bitcoin Prices Stable As Volatile Ethereum Draws Trader Interest
Bitcoin prices traded largely between $410 and $420 during the week as attention turned to volatility in the ether markets.
Uphold Users Will Soon Have Ethereum and Litecoin Options Available
About 24 hours ago, Uphold sent out a mailer to all its users announcing the introduction of two new cryptocurrencies on its platform. The cloud-based financial services company will now support Litecoin and Ethereum. The company aiming at creating the ‘Internet of Money’ as it calls its vision is now a step closer to making it […]
Bitcoin RBF, Bitcoin Knots and Bitcoin Addrindex: Three Core Forks That Don’t Break With Consensus
Bitcoin Core, descendant of the original Bitcoin software launched by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009, has always been Bitcoin’s reference client. The implementation, formerly known as Bitcoin QT, proposes standards for the Bitcoin protocol itself. But these standards are not binding. Based on open source software, anyone can take the code, modify it as they see […]
NeuCoin Reaches 275,000 Users After Launch of Facebook Game and Jango Radio
In early February, NeuCoin launched a series of consumer applications aiming to offer its users and digital content providers effective methods of incentivizing digital content. The NeuCoin team, led by the founder of Jango, Dash and DirectRevenue Daniel Kaufman, launched its first official digital currency wallet, introduced the NeuCoin tipping technology through online music streaming […]
21 Inc’s Bitcoin Vision Becomes Clearer With Announcement of Ping21
21 Inc has announced the launch of ping21, a service that allows users to check the uptime or latency of any given website from Bitcoin Computers on the 21 network. This is the first release in a series of projects related to the Internet of Things that the company plans to release in the coming […]
Xtrade – Start your Forex Day-Trading Activities
Forex trading is an international, financial market for trading currencies where you will find the most heavily global traded market, with over $4 trillion in daily volume. Forex, is in fact, the perfect market for Day trading. With a high volume market an intense trading activity, the forex market is the home of professional traders, […]
Microsoft adds Tendermint to Azure
Bitcoin Press Releases: San Francisco CA. — Tendermint, a next generation blockchain architecture that moves beyond limiting and monolithic token-based/bitcoin-like systems, is one of the latest added to Microsoft’s exploding suite of blockchain and related tools and applications as part of the tech giant’s Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform. “We are proud to announce our partnership […]