Aug 28, 2015 06:34 am UTC| Digital Currency
Mark Karpeles was the accidental emperor of bitcoin, a hapless geek who, as much to his own surprise as others, became the most powerful lord of digital cash. During his reign, bitcoin, the leading form of virtual...
Legal threats for budding fintech companies
Aug 28, 2015 05:37 am UTC| Digital Currency
Financial technology or Fintech companies are taking the financial services sector by storm and are expect to revolutionize the traditional banking system. They have simplified the payment processes and promote financial...
Bitcoin’s reputation badly hit in Japan
Aug 27, 2015 12:05 pm UTC| Digital Currency
While different countries took different stance on bitcoin, Japan dealt with it quite differently. Last year in March, Japan ruled the digital currency would not be officially treated as a bond or a currency. Moreover, any...
Dark Web marketplace Agora pauses trading due to Tor vulnerability
Aug 27, 2015 10:35 am UTC| Digital Currency
Dark Web marketplace Agora has announced the temporary ceasing of its operations due to vulnerability in the Tor protocol which could result in the identification of the IP addresses of the users. Recently research had...
Litecoin network’s mining reward falls for the first time
Aug 27, 2015 09:52 am UTC| Digital Currency
As F2Pool, one of the biggest Chinese bitcoin mining pool, mined the 840,000thblock on Litecoin network, the mining reward declined from 50LTC per block to 25 per block, for the first time since the alternative digital...
Symbiont CEO calls private securities market "the only future"
Aug 27, 2015 09:01 am UTC| Digital Currency
A recent report by CoinDesk sheds light on rising interest in blockchain applications in the capital markets spurred by private conferences and high-profile investments from leading Wall Street firms in 2015. Drawing...
Support for BIP 100 Bitcoin Block rises
Aug 27, 2015 07:29 am UTC| Digital Currency
The bitcoin community is confronted with one of the most historic decisions. The problem at hand is that the bitcoin network is running out of spare capacity, which has created two increasingly divided camps with one...