March 30, 2015
Bitcoin Goes Mainstream
With falling prices, the Silk Road trial and various miners going bankrupt, it would be hard to say that so far 2015 has been a banner year for bitcoin. Then...
March 30, 2015
Researchers Find Blockchain Threat
The blockchain, with its attachment to the volatile bitcoin, has had its share of negative and positive press. But a new report from a team of cybersecurity researchers at INTERPOL...
March 27, 2015
How Bitreserve Serves The Money Market
Bitcoin itself was an innovation in the payments ecosystem — even if some doubt whether it is, in fact, a good one. But despite the negative rhetoric, there’s still plenty...
March 19, 2015
UK Government Pushes Digital Currency Regulation
The U.K. government plans to impose anti-money laundering (AML) regulations on bitcoin exchanges, beef up law-enforcement capabilities for spotting criminal use of digital currencies, and work with the digital currency...
March 18, 2015
Intel Joins Blockchain Technology Race
Intel has joined IBM in the blockchain technology race. While IBM may be looking into using the blockchain to create its own digital currency payment system, chipmaker Intel is reportedly looking to...
March 16, 2015
IBM Eyes Bitcoin’s Blockchain Tech
Bitcoin may soon have a new competitor in the digital currency space wanting to capitalize on the technology driving the currency — the blockchain. IBM is looking into using the...
March 13, 2015
Women Helping Women Help Bitcoin
“For most of history, Anonymous was a women.” Author Virginia Woolf likely never imagined concepts like Twitter or bitcoin, but that’s exactly whose words were used to promote Bitcoin Women’s...
March 11, 2015
Startup 21 Inc. Nabs $112 Million To Help Bitcoin Go...
The price of bitcoin may have declined dramatically from its $1,800 per unit price in late 2013, but Silicon Valley’s most respected investors are still feeling the love for the...
March 10, 2015
Convicted Silk Road Leader Wants Retrial
Ross Ulbricht, the convicted creator of the Silk Road online drug bazaar, is set to be sentenced in May, but his lawyer has filed a motion in New York federal...
Nine in 10 of the world’s central banks are pursuing digital currency projects, but private sector expertise and buy-in will be pivotal to their success. In this month’s “Blockchain Payments Tracker®,” a collaboration with Algorand, Anish Jain, CEO of WadzPay, explains how blockchain’s interoperability with legacy banking systems is the key to its adoption.
