Heartland Payment Systems to work together with BitPay
Mar 11, 2015 06:21 am UTC| Digital Currency
Heartland Payment Systems has entered into an agreement with BitPay to identify businesses and organizations that can accept bitcoin as a payment method and will refer its customers to the BitPays platform."We currently...
Counterparty Developers launch Symbiont
Mar 11, 2015 06:04 am UTC| Digital Currency
Counterparty, in collaboration with MathMoney f(x), has unveiled a new projectSymbiont, to use their protocol for smart securities markets. At present it ranks 14th in market cap, worth $4 million.There are "severe...
21 Inc. raises $116 million in funding
Mar 11, 2015 04:48 am UTC| Digital Currency
21 Inc., a Silicon Valley startup, has recently announced that it has raised a record $116 million in funding in order to unveil its blockchain technology applications.The funding took a year and a half; however, it is not...
ShapeShift receives £525k in seed funding
Mar 11, 2015 04:12 am UTC| Digital Currency
ShapeShift, a Swiss-based instant bitcoin and altcoin exchange has raised 525,000 in seed funding from investors Barry Silbert and Roger Ver. The exchange differs from the traditional exchanges as here users can swap...
itBit reveals itself as US Marshals auction winner
Mar 11, 2015 03:59 am UTC| Digital Currency
itBit, a New York-based bitcoin exchange, has announced that it was one of the three bidders in the third US Marshals Service (USMS) bitcoin auction to a win a bid. The disclosure comes following the announcement of the...
Bitcoin Exchange itBit says it won part of bitcoin auction
Mar 11, 2015 00:20 am UTC| Digital Currency
Bitcoin exchange itBit said it had won part of the U.S. governments third auction of bitcoins seized from Ross Ulbricht, who was convicted last month of operating black market website Silk Road. The company said it won...
RedditMarket starts accepting bitcoin
Mar 10, 2015 12:13 pm UTC| Digital Currency
Reddit has recentlyannouncedthat its merchandise store, RedditMarket, has startedaccepting bitcoin as a payment method. The processing of the payments will be done by Coinbase, which sells various Reddit items. However, it...
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