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ExpressCoin, which we’ve covered in the past, is a Bitcoin commerce startup that’s aiming to make Bitcoin transactions accessible to people without technical expertise or conventional bank accounts. The creators of the platform hope to achieve this by offering a variety of...

The race is on in New York for the future of Bitcoin trading. The NY Post reports that both NASDAQ, the stock exchange with a specialty in tech stocks, and Marc Andreessen, the venture capitalist who helped fund Netscape, Facebook, Twitter, and Oculus, are interested in...

Want to help preserve the future of the Bitcoin network? We have the charity for you. First, though, let’s talk briefly about the structure of the Bitcoin network. When you make a transaction (maybe booking a hotel or filling an invoice), you make a statement to the...

CoinBase announced today that it will be partnering with QuickBooks, a company that manufactures accounting software for small businesses, to offer Bitcoin-invoice services (called “PayByCoin”) to small businesses. QuickBooks, a company owned by Intuit, makes payroll,...

According to a recent study, drug customers on Silk Road were responsible for reducing rates of drug violence and making the drug trade a gentler (if nerdier) industry. But how many people did Silk Road really save? It’s impossible to know for certain, of course, but in the...

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are, in many ways, the backbone of the modern internet. APIs are simple interfaces for allowing programmers to write code that talks to various services and applications and extracts useful information from them. However, the modern world...

Early last month, the central bank of Bolivia El Banco Central de Bolivia released a resolution officially banning the use of any currencies not endorsed by the government, including cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, which it called out by name, along with Namecoin, Ixcoin, Devcoin,...

Once a key tactical point in the brutal wars between the French and the English, the Isle of Jersey (a tiny, five-by-nine-mile island located in the channel off the coast of France) has found a new role in recent years as a tax haven for Europe’s wealthy. The semi-sovereign...

Last Saturday, during the D.C.-hosted “Bitcoin in the Beltway” conference, the CEO of OverStock.com, Patrick Byrne, announced during a keynote that his company, Overstock.com, in light of its booming Bitcoin sales, will be donating three percent of its profits from...

Online gambling is, in many ways, a natural fit for Bitcoin. It’s a relatively harmless, consensual kind of gaming which has been hounded so aggressively by regulators that it’s either impractically hard to use or actually illegal in many jurisdictions. Bitcoin...