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Brock Pierce-led startup Realcoin has clarified its purpose with a new name as the project enters private beta.

This week, Bitmain launches a mining pool, GAWMiners announces Vaultbreaker delays and a court decides to auction HashFast's assets.

Vitalik Buterin has beaten Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to win the World Technology Network award for IT software.

Stealth startup CryptoLabs has announced it will launch a pocket-sized, multisig bitcoin hardware wallet called Case in 2015.

A Factom white paper outlines a way to prove the authenticity of records or other data on the blockchain.

Decentralised apps may create value for their users with tokens that can be traded for contributions and services.

An open letter to the people who argue that only the blockchain holds true value and can survive without bitcoin the currency.

Counterparty caused controversy yesterday when it announced it had ported open-source software from Ethereum.

The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) has published a brief article advocating the use blockchain technology.

DocuSign founder Tom Gonser believes the blockchain has the potential to change the way digital identities are managed.

In this week's roundup: a dual charity project by litecoin and dogecoin and a hard fork for feathercoin.

Bitcoin's low price is making things tough for hobbyist miners. Should they ditch the rig and buy bitcoins instead?

Japanese researchers have published a set of monetary policy proposals they say could stabilise bitcoin's volatility.

A 5-megawatt bitcoin mining farm in Thailand was destroyed in a massive fire earlier this week.

Researchers at the University of Kentucky have published a new paper examining the characteristics of US bitcoin users.

The FTC has secured court authority to begin converting Butterfly Labs’ bitcoin holdings into cash reserves.

One of the web's foundational groups is re-examining online payments, but bitcoin is only just entering the conversation.

Bitcoin wallets have become more secure thanks to multisig and hardware advancements, but there's still room for improvement.

This week's roundup examines the challenges facing Overstock's Medici project and a new way to trade gold with crypto.

The team behind the sidechains project has released an official white paper that could reshape the digital currency ecosystem.

OKCoin has added new features to its Android mobile app, including futures trading and candlestick charts.

Twenty bitcoin businesses have announced support for The Windhover Principles, which aim to reframe the debate around privacy and security.

Coinprism is brining colored coins to Android users via the industry's first Crypto 2.0 standalone wallet.

Derivatives platform BTC.sx is now offering its BTC/USD currency pair to users on itBit's bitcoin exchange platform.

Gems is seeking to disrupt the established social media business model through the power of crypto 2.0 technology.