The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Nov 6, 2014 at 23:30 UTCUpdated Nov 7, 2014 at 11:14 UTC. UK-based cryptocurrency gift card retailer Pockio has announced its international expansion to Germany and France, with more EU countries to come in the weeks ahead. The move means that bitcoin and altcoin users in those countries can shop at retailers not yet accepting digital currencies.

The owners of the troubled digital currency exchange MintPal are moving to take legal action against former Moopay LTD CEO Alex Green.

Moopay LTD and ex-CEO Alex Green have been ordered by a UK court to hand over 750 BTC to the team that developed the syscoin cryptocurrency.

Today, the syscoin team, represented by UK-based law firm Selachii LLP, was granted an emergency injunction against Moopay, also known as Moolah, by the High Court in London following an effort to resolve the situation out of court.

Oct 21, 2014 at 22:05 UTCUpdated Oct 22, 2014 at 13:11 UTC. Bitcoin Core developer Gavin Andresen took to Reddit today to engage the community in an ask-me-anything session that tackled a variety of topics both silly and serious.

Alex Green, CEO of digital currency services startup Moopay LTD, known commonly as Moolah, has resigned following the company's withdrawal of a proposed bankruptcy plan and the release of evidence allegedly tying him to fraud and past criminal activity.

Moopay LTD, the digital currency services business better known as Moolah, has announced that it is shutting its doors and filing for bankruptcy protection.

Oct 8, 2014 at 21:00 UTCUpdated Oct 9, 2014 at 19:16 UTC. MintPal's long-awaited relaunch took place on Tuesday, but the kick-off was marred by systemic problems that left some users at least temporarily unable to access their accounts.

Given the relatively quiet altcoin market, it's easy to miss the new technologies and interesting applications that are gaining ground.

There were widespread security concerns yesterday after the discovery of an old flaw that could affect web servers and Internet-connected devices - but many in the industry are claiming it presents no immediate threat to bitcoin services.

Bittylicious now allows users to purchase all of its available altcoins with MasterCard and Visa credit and debit cards.

Sep 17, 2014 at 20:35 UTC. Mega Chill has become the first medical marijuana dispensary in Canada to accept bitcoin.

Cooperation between coins is not new, though past examples like UNOCS have demonstrated that there are limits to broad organizations formed by ostensibly competing coins.

Given the recent critiques of New York and its proposed framework for bitcoin businesses, many of the law's opponents are no doubt hoping the state and its regulators will alter the bill during its now extended comment period.

All 70,000 residents living on the Caribbean nation of Dominica will be eligible to receive bitcoin as part of 'The Bit Drop' project, an upcoming collaboration between bitcoin businesses, interest groups and local government officials.

One element of the BitLicense proposal that has proved controversial is how it could be interpreted as applying to the developers of the more than 400 alternative digital currencies currently in circulation.

Aug 22, 2014 at 15:28 UTCUpdated Aug 22, 2014 at 19:21 UTC. Decentralised cloud storage platform Storj has raised 910 BTC in a crowdsale.

There are plenty of fresh faces and seasoned coin networks taking the altcoin world by storm these days, offering plenty of excitement for those involved.

Aug 15, 2014 at 13:49 UTCUpdated Oct 23, 2015 at 13:13 UTC. UPDATE: According to reports from the NXT community and BTER, a rollback is no longer being actively considered.

Mining bitcoins chews up a lot of computing power for no other purpose than to sustain the network.

With the initiative, Dignitas hopes to reach a whole new pool of donors for whom bitcoin technology can help pass these incremental savings on to life-changing projects in the region.

The cryptocurrency markets are littered with crummy coins that add little technical merit to the coins that they cloned, and which have no clear goal or community backing.

BitHalo allows two parties to engage in a broad variety of smart contracts without having to pay any fees or overhead costs.

Lieutenant Governor and the British Queen's personal representative Adam Wood is set to headline the first annual Crypto Valley Summit on the Isle of Man next month.

Never mind the cute Shiba Inu of dogecoin, people in Japan are falling for a new Internet meme-based cryptocurrency - the locally invented and cat-logoed 'monacoin'.

CoinSummit London saw a number of notable speakers, panels and announcements during its two-day run this July, but those issued by Swarm, a crowdfunding platform that seeks to use cryptocurrency to empower industry businesses, may have passed under the radar.

Jul 28, 2014 at 17:40 UTCUpdated Jul 29, 2014 at 12:48 UTC. Moopay LTD, the digital currency service provider more commonly known as Moolah, has purchased MintPal, the altcoin exchange which recently suffered from a severe hack that compromised nearly $2m in customer funds.

Do you know where your bitcoins are right now? Hopefully they're still in your wallet where you left them, but the history of bitcoin is littered with human error, poorly implemented software and heists that would make even the most hardened of Wild West outlaws tip their hat in respect.

From new service launches to catastrophic conclusions to altcoin projects, the ups and downs of the altcoin ecosystem still show no sign of abating as we head into the final days of July.

Digital currency exchange platform MintPal has suffered a successful hack attack that resulted in the loss millions of vericoins from its hot wallet.