December 10, 2014
Bitcoins Reported Stolen After Blockchain.Info Security Update

The world’s most popular web-based Bitcoin wallet service, Blockchain.info, suffered a security lapse during a software update that affected hundreds of users, the service said in a blog post on...

December 10, 2014
2014 Hits And Misses – VC Style

As an end of year wrap-up, I thought I’d devote a few words to what the past year held for financial technology trends; a retrospective. Without further ado, some thoughts...

December 05, 2014
Purse – Finally A Reason To Use Bitcoin?

Bitcoin, and all blockchain-based currency, doesn’t lack for ways to be interesting. Given that it’s a technological marvel, an unceasing font of interesting headlines about the players who trade in...

December 05, 2014
Of Amazon Purses And Breaking Barriers

PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 51     Bitcoin is sitting around the same as it was before Thanksgiving at 367.21 from 357.64, according to the PYMNTS.com...

December 03, 2014
Fixing Global Payments’ $26 Trillion Problem

The global payments environment is increasingly crowded, even noisy. Next to Apple Pay, it’s a topic of conversation that’s all over the payments industry for obvious reasons – where there’s...

December 03, 2014
Beware Fraudulent Bitcoin Sites

Two websites pretending to be from the Bitcoin Foundation are trying to steal Bitcoin users’ cryptocurrency — and there may be more scammers out there, according to VentureBeat. The fraudulent...

November 21, 2014
Paying For Candy Crush And Taylor Swift’s Songs With Bitcoin

PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 50 When hype goes up, bitcoin prices go up. At least that’s what researchers at Poland’s Nicolaus Copernicus University have...

November 14, 2014
Bitcoin Wants To Get Under Your Skin

PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 49 And it’s back!!! Well, just a little bit. Bitcoin prices increased this week a smidge as innovators absorbed a...

November 07, 2014
More Bitcoin Busts

On Thursday (Nov. 6), U.S. federal officials trumpeted that they had shut down a Web site that used Bitcoin transactions to try and hide $8 million a month in illegal...