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In our latest research report, out today, CoinDesk reveals who is using bitcoin, who isn't and why it matters.

An executive in Australia has been reportedly victimized by online hackers after the company they work for was pressured into paying a bitcoin ransom.

Smart contracts platform Symbiont has closed a $1.25m seed funding round.  The company – which plans to issue smart securities on bitcoin’s blockchain later this year – received funds from investors including Duncan Niederauer, former CEO at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Matt Andresen, former co-CEO of Citadel Derivatives Group. The startup grew out of the […]

Former MasterCard executive William Dennings has joined Bitreserve as the firm’s chief information security officer (CISO). Bitreserve noted Dennings’ appointment would be instrumental in the company’s mission to set anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) controls, required to safeguard users’ deposits and information. The newly appointed CISO said: “Information security extends well beyond IT […]

Two of Australia’s ‘big four’ banks, Westpac Banking Corporation and the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, are experimenting with peer-to-peer transfers on the Ripple protocol. The news, revealed by The Australian Financial Review, follows last month’s announcement that the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) – another ‘big four’ rival – is trialling the tech for transfers between […]

Blockstream has announced the release of the first open source code for sidechains, its signature project aimed at bitcoin scalability issues.

The risks presented by digital currencies far outweigh the benefits, MasterCard has claimed.

Estonia’s LHV Bank has backed a project to create a financial services platform and money-transfer app that will utilize bitcoin.

Drug sales on the dark web actually increased after the closure of bitcoin-only marketplace Silk Road, a new survey has shown.

Eric Mu, HaoBTC's chief marketing officer, speaks about life at the company's bitcoin mine in the Tibetan mountains.

Angel investor Joe Maristela explores what people in the bitcoin space can learn from regulatory developments in the Philippines surrounding Uber.

UPDATE (9th June 10:49am BST): Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has bought the company’s first cryptobond for $500,000. “I intend to demonstrate my belief not just in Overstock, but in the TØ.com platform that we built and, indeed, in the cryptorevolution itself,” he said in a statement. E-retail giant Overstock has announced it will utilize colored coins to […]

A New York City man was robbed of more than $1,100 in bitcoin at gunpoint late last month.

The BitLicense may have dominated media coverage this week, but a deeper dive show many of bitcoin's larger problems linger on.

A pioneer in internet security will discuss lessons for digital currencies in the adoption of a protocol as a technical standard.

Former Wall Street executive Blythe Masters says distributed ledgers will change the way the financial world operates. Speaking at the Exponential Finance conference in New York, Masters who joined bitcoin trading platform Digital Assets Holdings as CEO in March, said: “Distributed ledger technology does have the potential to be disruptive of certain business models. But it has […]

Intercontinental Exchange CEO and NYSE chairman Jeffrey Sprecher voiced his support for bitcoin in a CNBC interview yesterday.

Stellar has entered a legal battle over roughly $1m in disputed funds that continues between Ripple Labs and former exec Jed McCaleb.

Bitfinex has become the first bitcoin exchange to offer on-blockchain transactions.

Swedish mining hardware firm KnCMiner has deployed a new bitcoin ASIC it says will be a "game changer" for the industry.

Several Xapo executives including founder and CEO Wences Casares are being sued for alleged contract violations.

California's State Assembly has approved a bill calling for digital currency comapnies to be regulated in a similar way to banks.

San Francisco-based bitcoin company Coinbase has suspended operations in Wyoming until further notice. A company blog post cited the Wyoming Division of Banking’s recent regulatory legislation as a decisive factor for ceasing business in the western US state, noting it would render continued operations impractical. “We understand that the Wyoming Division of Banking interprets the Wyoming Money […]

With the passage of New York's final BitLicense proposal, CoinDesk seeks responses from the digital currency community on the law and its impact.

NYDFS superintendent Benjamin Lawsky released details of the final Bitlicense today, following a two-year inquiry by the New York regulator.