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The Chamber of Digital Congress met with Congressional staffers today to bolster bitcoin awareness in US congress.

In a sea of cryptocurrency and altcoins, it can be incredibly difficult to pick and choose which ones to believe in. Without doing the proper research, anyone can be stuck following a hopeless coin. Sometimes people quote CoinMarketCap’s figures but there is more to the picture than that. It’s well-known that a coin cannot thrive based on the […]

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Here are some of the late Hal Finney's most memorable quotes from his years in the bitcoin community.

Air Lituanica's decision to embrace bitcoin is the latest example of how it is gaining traction in the industry.

Argentinian e-commerce website provider OmbuShop now enables its 2,000 merchants to accept bitcoin.

John Crudele has written a piece on the NY Post calling Bitcoin a “Confidence Game” while being insulting towards Bitcoin enthusiasts. His apparent lack of knowledge in the Bitcoin market has BitcoinTalk members calling him out on that. For those of you who do not know what a confidence game is, Dictionary.com defines a “Confidence […]

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DigitalBTC has released the first set of financial results for a publicly listed bitcoin company, reporting US$4m revenue.

Australian-Indian company igot has launched the UAE's first bitcoin exchange, hoping to capture some of the Indian remittance market.

Bitcoin storage firm Xapo has launched a new service that enables users to purchase bitcoins directly from the company.

HunterCoin (HUC) is a fork from Namecoin and was the brainchild of user SnailBrain and the late user thecoder who helped make Namecoin. The concept behind HUC is that mining can do more than secure a network or place votes on valid transactions. HUC mining helps people play a game. In HUC SHA256 and Scrypt miners can help users register unique names against the HUC blockchain and register the players’ position on the GUI that all users share. A user registers their name and gets 2 extra characters. The main character, or general, has its name appended with a .1, and the other characters get a .2 and .3 appended. To create characters, you must spend HUC. When you create your character, […]

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HunterCoin (HUC) is a fork from Namecoin and was the brainchild of user SnailBrain and the late user thecoder who helped make Namecoin. The concept behind HUC is that mining can do more than secure a network or place votes on valid transactions. HUC mining helps people play a game. In HUC SHA256 and Scrypt miners can help users register unique names against the HUC blockchain and register the players’ position on the GUI that all users share. A user registers their name and gets 2 extra characters. The main character, or general, has its name appended with a .1, and the other characters get a .2 and .3 appended. To create characters, you must spend HUC. When you create your character, […]

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“I think voting is great, but, if I have to choose between a douche and a turd, I just don’t see the point.” – Stan Marsh Well, great news Florida voters, you have a third option. Adrian Wyllie, Florida’s Libertarian Gubernatorial Candidate, is running on a platform to keep government out of our personal lives, reduce unnecessary regulations and cut taxes. Florida’s gubernatorial race is an interesting one; besides Wyllie, his two main competitors have an unique past. Rick Scott, the current Republican governor, has one of lowest approval ratings among governors in the country. I reached out to his office for comment but had no reply. Scott is nothing short of a controversial political figure; Florida’s Democratic Party points out […]

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Bitcoin price action has, since publication of this week’s in-depth report, provided some clues as to what the market may do next. Price returned to below $510 today with a brief dip below $500 (on the leveraged exchanges) during the European market session. Welcome, readers, to CCN’s new daily analysis update. A longer term analysis […]

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Bobby Lee is the CEO of BTC China, a three year old exchange which he purchased in 2013. Following his purchase, Mr. Lee led a brisk expansion in market share that coincided with rising Bitcoin prices in the fourth quarter of the year. December 2013 saw BTC China leading the world’s Bitcoin exchanges in volume. While trading activity has dropped off since then (BTC China is currently ranked 3rd in worldwide volume), Mr. Lee has continued to focus on growing and diversifying his company. 2014 has seen a number of impressive features rolled out including an HTML5 wallet called Picasso, the expansion of international deposits to include USD and HKD, and the debut of an official desktop client BTC China […]

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Librexcoin has been one of the most traded altcoins today, and it’s not because its surging upwards. It has declined with more than 35% losing almost 200 000 USD in market capitalization in a couple of hours. We have earlier written about Librexcoin, which is a cryptocurrency based on the X11 algorithm (pros & cons […]

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SpectroCoin has launched a new bitcoin merchant processing solution aimed at the European market.

“BitShares does for businesses what Bitcoin is doing for money,” goes the Bitshares motto, even though BitShares’ cryptocurrency asset has increased five times in value in only 13 days. Brian Page, BitShares Director of Marketing, tells us how Bitshares has gained such rapid growth in such a short period and what this means for the […]

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Xapo, a Bitcoin company based in the United States, has just announced the ability to purchase Bitcoins through wire transfer with USD and Euro. The user will have to go through an identity verification process to be eligible for the new feature due to the United States’ strict AML and KYC regulations. The user will […]

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"He’s always been optimistic about the future," says Hal Finney's wife, Fran. "Every new advance, he embraced it, every new technology. Hal relished life, and he made the most of everything."

Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney passed away this week. In memory, CoinDesk looks back at his life and legacy.

Recent bitcoin exchange funding deals reflect potential trends in that growing market.

A little before 9:00 am on the morning of August 28th, 2014, Hal Finney was declared clinically dead in the Intensive Care Unit of a Scottsdale, Arizona hospital. After a 5-year battle with ALS, Hal Finney is now in cryopreservation awaiting the advent of new technologies that might cure him. Earlier this week, Hal Finney […]

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