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A bill to allow political donations denominated in bitcoin will now head to the governor of Tennessee for approval.

A New Jersey police officer has been arrested and charged with receiving stolen property after allegedly selling stolen bitcoin mining equipment.

More than 20 startups including 21 Inc, BitPay and ChangeTip vied for job seeker attention at the second annual Bitcoin Job Fair this weekend.

Interpol’s cybercrime research facility, the Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI), has created its own digital currency in a bid to combat cryptocurrency-fuelled crime. The IGCI team, which includes members from Singapore’s police force, will use its in-house virtual currency to study scenarios of cryptocurrency use and misuse in a specially designed simulation training game. Madan Mohan […]

Mt Gox operated a fractional reserve system since 2011, and had lost most of its bitcoins by mid-2013, according to a newly-released report.

21 CEO and Andreessen Horowitz partner Balaji Srinivasan hinted at his secretive company's larger mission at the second annual Bitcoin Job Fair.

CoinDesk cherry-picks some of the most surprising insights from our State of Bitcoin Q1 report.

The Rainforest Foundation has announced a new cryptocurrency aimed at furthering its goal of restoring global rainforests.

An automated shopping bot designed to make purchases on dark web marketplaces using bitcoin has been released after being confiscated.

This week, bitcoin was once again associated with nefarious transactions, though this may have interestingly deflected more usual criticisms.

Kentucky Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul is set to appear at a bitcoin-focused event in New York City this weekend.

Two weeks after closing a final round of comment, the NYDFS suggests it's moving forward to release the final BitLicense "very soon".

CoinDesk managing editor Emily Spaven interviews director Alex Winter ahead of the release of his new documentary film Deep Web.

The former digital currency trading division at SecondMarket has relaunched as the newest subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, Genesis Trading.

Ripple Labs has appointed former Yahoo and AOL executive Brad Garlinghouse as its new COO. Garlinghouse, who sits on the board of Ancestry.com, became the CEO of file-sharing firm Hightail in 2012. He departed last fall following a dispute over a potential sale of the company, as reported at the time by Re/code. In a press statement about his new […]

MIT Media Lab has announced the launch of Digital Currency Initiative, a three-pronged program aimed at increasing awareness of the technology.

Buttercoin CEO Cedric Dahl reflects on his leadership at the marketplace and lessons the wider community can learn from his fundraising experience.

The Digital Currency Council (DCC) has announced that it will join California-based 500 Startups' accelerating programme.

Bitcoin marketplace Brawker has announced that it will shut down citing competition and the increasing workload as the reasons behind the decision.

In a new interview, Stellar founder Jed McCaleb discusses the project's new consensus protocol and its plans for the developing world.

Kaspersky Lab has released a new tool to help free computer files 'held hostage' by bitcoin ransomware.

The Internet Watch Foundation is working with bitcoin companies to prevent digital currency being used to buy online child sexual abuse imagery.

Coinone has become the first bitcoin exchange in South Korea to launch a multi-signature wallet, using BitGo’s API. In a statement, Coinone CEO Myunghun Cha said it was time for exchanges to provide the “equal level of safety and control” as multi-sig wallet providers. He continued: “We decided that multi-sig technology from BitGo was the […]

Following weeks of controversy, Bruce Fenton has been named executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, the industry's oldest trade organisation.

ESPN has suggested it may be open to sponsorship opportunities with companies in the bitcon space when considering bowl game sponsors.