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Day one of the CoinDesk Consensus 2015 Makeathon brought together more than 60 participants seeking to uncover new applications for blockchain tech.

A long-time White House official recently discussed the blockchain as a mechanism for a universal cashless system.

Digital currency exchange ShapeShift.io has raised $1.6m in new funding.

The CEO of Westpac Group, one of Australia's 'Big Four' banks, has claimed it is "too soon" to panic about bitcoin.

We've handpicked a few moments to look out for over the course of CoinDesk's inaugural conference, Consensus 2015.

AXA is eyeing bitcoin to help streamline the remittance market, the general partner of its VC fund has told CoinDesk.

Brazil-based bitcoin startup Rippex has announced the former founders of digital payments gateway PagSeguro have joined its team.

Blockchain, the operator of the world’s most popular bitcoin wallet service, is currently offline.

Who's said what about bitcoin and when? Check out our interactive timeline below for a refresher on the stance of central banks this year.

The story of the rise and fall of bitcoin exchange Mt Gox and its CEO, Mark Karpeles, could find its way to the silver screen.

Researchers at the London innovation lab of Swiss banking giant UBS are developing a new blockchain implementation for transaction settlement.

Bitcoin payments services startup Paymium has raised €1m in new seed funding from investors including Newfund and Kima Ventures.

Global bitcoin marketplace LocalBitcoins is operating again following over six hours of downtime it attributed to a “hardware failure”. The company announced the outage at 20:22 UTC yesterday. By 03:02 it said the service was “back up and running”, though it appears some site functionality – including user logins – is still problematic. LocalBitcoins community manager ‘Max’ told Reddit the problem […]

Beam has announced it will no longer focus on using bitcoin in an attempt to disrupt the Ghanaian remittance market.

A Goldman Sachs analyst has revealed insight into the global investment banking giant's developing thesis on bitcoin and blockchain technology.

Bitcoin users in Canada can now buy and sell bitcoin using Coinbase, a move that brings the startup closer to launching in 30 countries by 2016.

CoinDesk profiles Whit Jackson, the 15-year-old developer working to make Ethereum easier for developers.

Which companies are supporting BIP 100 or BIP 101? We've tracked down the answers.

Barclays has revealed it will be pursuing a new partnership with an unnamed bitcoin exchange to help charities accept digital currency.

Vinny Lingham, Gyft co-founder and CEO, explains how bitcoin payments on his digital card platform have decreased.

Vic Pascucci, current USAA head of corporate development, speaks to CoinDesk about his firm's interest in bitcoin and blockchain thechnology.

ChangeTip users can now withdraw bitcoin from the platform in the form of gift cards, thanks to an integration with Gyft this week.

CoinDesk profiles Blockstack, one of a new wave of blockchain firms seeking to partner with financial firms on initiatives involving the technology.

OxfordDictionaries.com, the online language resource owned by the Oxford University Press, has added new cryptocurrency-related definitions.

BTCChina has backed Jeff Garzik's block size scaling solution, giving BIP 100 a majority of the network's hashing power.