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Ben Horowitz is a large and colorful figure in the venture capital world. The soft-spoken terminal hip-hop aficionado with the face of a Hollywood movie villain is one half of leading venture firm Andreesen Horowitz, and has been involved with many of the largest successes of the...

On Friday, Charlie Shrem was sentenced to two years in prison for indirectly helping to transfer $1 million in Bitcoins to the online black-market bazaar Silk Road, report several media outlets. US District Judge Jed Rakoff also ordered Shrem – a former vice chairman of the...

On December 18, Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), announced revisions to the proposed special banking license – known as BitLicense – that his department introduced in the summer to regulate cryptocurrency. In a speech...