Google’s Gmail will soon let you email money
Google's not launching its own currency (not yet, anyway), but it does plan to soon let people send each other money as easily as sending an email.
Google's not launching its own currency (not yet, anyway), but it does plan to soon let people send each other money as easily as sending an email.
Fed up with waiting for ASIC mining rigs from suppliers who can’t deliver? Welcome to the world of Mining as a Service (Maas).
Today -- May 15 -- is the deadline for bitcoin miners and merchants to upgrade their bitcoin client or be left out of sync with the rest of the network.
Californian firm TerraHash is promising customers huge mining rigs using Avalon ASIC chips from designer BitSuncom.
Is the bitcoin network the most powerful distributed computing system -- hence, the most powerful computer, period -- on Earth?
A team of software developers is releasing a new bitcoin client, designed as an alternative to the original software that implemented the Bitcoin protocol.
An aggrieved user has started a petition to force Apple to approve bitcoin wallet applications for its shiny iPhones.
Bitcoin isn't the only form of electronic money being mined, traded and spent these days.
Neither Dropbox nor bitcoin has been around for even a decade yet, but fans of the cloud-based storage site and the digital currency are eagerly pushing for the young twosome to get together.
A CoinDesk Q&A with Stan Stalnaker, founder of Hub Culture and the Ven digital currency.
A new bitcoin wallet service, CarbonWallet, uses passphrases to store bitcoins "deterministically."
Amazon is set to launch its own in-house currency -- Amazon Coin -- this month.
Bitcoin's long-term chances of success are better if there are many other alternative, digital currencies, with many businesses investing in them.
Giant bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has delayed plans to support the litecoin cryptocurrency, following another DDoS attack last month.
Bits launches pay-by-text sms offering for bitcoins.
The feathercoin cryptocurrency, which uses a mining technique similar to litecoin's, is enjoying a rapid adoption among Ecoin fans.
Take it as a sign of bitcoin’s growing mainstream visibility: other alternative currencies are being branded with the label the “anti-bitcoin.” Writing in FT Alphaville, Joseph Cotterill last week featured a link to a post by Barnard College economics professor Rajiv Sethi about a local currency project in the US called Macon Money. Along with […]
The ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) wars are heating up. Butterfly Labs — the US-based company that has been promising a low-powered, low-cost ASIC mining rig for months now — has finally shipped one to a US blogger and bitcoin specialist. David Perry, who owns the technology blog Coding in My Sleep, took delivery of a […]
Remember how, a few years ago, we were briefly made to believe that all our Google searches were helping to melt the planet? If you recall how that claim was quickly debunked, it should come as no surprise that mining bitcoins might not be as much of an environmental disaster as a few sources have […]
At first glance, especially to a digital currency neophyte, OpenCoin might not look that different from Bitcoin. Look beyond the superficial similarities, though, and the two ventures in virtual money couldn’t be less alike. That’s especially true in terms of the people – and money – behind the currencies. Bitcoin, after all, was birthed in […]
Digital currency promises to solve some problems of the “real money” world, among them the difficulty of making quick, secure global payments without having to pay a middleman steep fees to exchange one currency for another. While bitcoins have proven they can do the trick, the currency comes with its own problems. Bitcoin can take […]
A lot of attention has been focused in recent years on the energy and carbon footprint of the internet. The giant server farms that drive the world’s web activities need to get their power from somewhere and – as environmental groups frequently point out – that power still tends to come from sources like coal-fired […]
New bitcoins are added to the system about every 10 minutes through a process called “mining.” This involves using computing power to verify bitcoin transactions across the network by solving cryptographic problems called “hash puzzles.” Bitcoin Mining 101 Here’s how it works: Every bitcoin holder’s balance is designated by a unique bitcoin address, which is […]
