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Anycoin Direct has raised €500,000 as part of its seed funding round to expand its bitcoin brokerage service.

Citi's head of digital strategy doesn't think bitcoin is ready for mass adoption, speaking at a panel organised by his bank in London.

Colored coins startup Colu has raised $2.5m from former Twitter and Tumblr investor Spark Capital, VC firm Aleph and more.

California's top money transmitter regulator has released a statement saying that Coinbase's new exchange is not licensed to operate in the state.

London-based green activist Gulnar Hasnain has become the first mainstream political candidate to accept bitcoin in the UK.

CoinTerra has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, naming hundreds of creditors in court documents filed on 24th January.

A torrent site has announced plans to hand out $100,000-worth of rewards in bitcoin for those assisting its development.

Six hundred students at Canada’s McGill University are set to receive 30 mBTC ($7) each as part of a joint initiative to promote bitcoin adoption. The event, launched by the McGill Cryptocurrency Club and Montreal’s Bitcoin Embassy, is due to take place in the spring and is seeking donations from the public that will be held in a […]

Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange ANX has commenced a push into the US market with its acquisition of the domain name and brand rights to CoinMKT.com. The CoinMKT exchange, founded by Travis Skweres and Ola Ajayi in Santa Monica, California, will continue to operate as usual, under the ANX umbrella and using ANX technology. The founders will be helping […]

Criticisms from bitcoin pundits in the press almost always boil down to a few common misconceptions, argues Jon Matonis.

Security firms McAfee and Symantec have issued warnings on CTB-Locker – bitcoin-demanding ransomware that is now being propagated via spam.

Only six weeks after bitcoin exchange Safello announced local deposit options for UK customers, the firm's banking partner is closing its accounts.

Coinbase's much-anticipated US exchange is now live to consumers in 24 US states.

While the bitcoin price may have taken a beating recently, it appears to be bouncing back, having crossed the $250 and $300 mark in quick succession.

Coinbase is set to launch a US bitcoin exchange already approved by 50% of state regulators on Monday.

The latest bitcoin price crash has started a new debate on the long-term viability of many aspects of the mining industry.

Bitcoin, less private than credit or debit transactions, is generally anonymous. Here are some distinctions between privacy and anonymity in bitcoin.

Bitcoin companies continue to take a hammering from hackers. Where should they look for better security practices?

CoinDesk speaks to USV principal Fred Wilson about his firm's recent investment in Coinbase and larger investment philosophy for the industry.

Bitcoin is great for business-to-business transactions, if both sides know how to use it. What happens if they don't?

The North American Bitcoin Conference, held in Miami last week in, remains a biannual staple of the bitcoin conference calendar year.

Australian bitcoin company digitalBTC is expanding its mining capacity and entering a new contract with data centre provider Verne Global. The company said it is acquiring new bitcoin mining hardware from manufacturer Spondoolies-Tech, although the exact details were not revealed. DigitalBTC did say, however, that the new hardware will expand its processing capacity by approximately 40% for […]

Third-party payment processor EgoPay suffered a hack in late December, the company has confirmed in a blog post.

The Winklevoss twins have announced Gemini, a planned bitcoin exchange designed to appeal to US investors with a focus on compliance and security.

CoinDesk speaks to OKCoin CEO Star Xu about his leading BTC/CNY exchange's new push to promote "real bitcoin use" in China and abroad.