Can Wearable Tech and Bitcoin Revamp Mobile Payments?
Wearable technology and bitcoin could reinvigorate the mobile payments industry, but a number of challenges need to be addressed.
Wearable technology and bitcoin could reinvigorate the mobile payments industry, but a number of challenges need to be addressed.
LocalBitcoins users are reporting that their wallets have been emptied and that transactions via the service have been delayed.
Compliance software developer Strevus has added support for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to its existing compliance software service.
A former US government consumer finance watchdog has come out in support of bitcoin.
Blockchain and the Bitcoin Foundation will co-present the Blockchain Awards at the Bitcoin 2014 Conference in Amsterdam next month.
The first customer-facing marijuana vending machine to debut in the US will accept bitcoins as a form of payment.
A group of forensic linguistics experts believe the real creator of bitcoin is former law professor Nick Szabo.
Cryptocurrency exchange CoinMKT has announced that it has launched an API to provide advanced access to its platform.
Mining hardware specialist CoinTerra has managed to ship its 5,000th TerraMiner just ten weeks after launching full-scale production.
Alpha Technology has a new development update and its Viper scrypt board seems to be making headway.
New local trading platform lets any individual or shopkeeper become a bitcoin ATM anywhere, says BTC China.
The exchange was down briefly on Sunday, following a powerful distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against its servers.
A new white paper provides an in-depth look at the cooling challenges experienced by large-scale bitcoin mines.
Ever wanted to buy a cup of Starbucks coffee with your bitcoins? With Coin For Coffee, now you can. As its co-founder and CEO Matt Luongo explained to CoinDesk, Card For Coin leverages Starbucks’ existing gift card infrastructure to process payments using digital currency. He put it simply: “We want people to be able to […]
AMD has launched its fastest graphics card to date, but scrypt miners are unlikely to care, argues Nermin Hajdarbegovic.
Private keys, the Bitcoin-Qt wallet and faster blockchain downloads are on the mind of Bitcoin's incoming lead developer.
In this week of closures, crashes and Heartbleed, here are three of the biggest stories we covered on CoinDesk.
Would bitcoin benefit from having multiple extra blockchains? Two influential figures think so.
Bill Miller reiterated his support for bitcoin today, taking aim at past statements by famed investor Warren Buffett.
Customers waiting for Neptune mining rigs can now take advantage of a new, short-term deal from KnCMiner.
A user of popular bitcoin wallet MultiBit has claimed that his wallet lost his private key.
How to reduce carbon emissions from bitcoin mining? CoinDesk looks at the pros and cons of the available options.
Bitcoin Core Version 0.9.1 is out and it has addressed the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability, also known as CVE-2014-0160.
The success of dogecoin has changed the way that miners view scrypt. And that's bad, according to Charlie Lee.
Bitcoin miner maker Butterfly Labs (BFL) is facing a class action suit, brought by customers from across the US.
A major security flaw affecting over half the internet could have a disproportionate impact on vulnerable bitcoin services.
Andresen will focus on his Bitcoin Foundation work, leaving the lead developer role to Wladimir van der Laan.
Privacy loving search engine DuckDuckGo has started displaying bitcoin price quotes on bitcoin-related search queries.
The agreement means DigitalBTC is now one of the biggest players in bitcoin mining.
Figures suggest that mining a bitcoin is equivalent to burning around 16 gallons of gasoline.
