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Bitcoin has been making surprisingly deep and substantial inroads into the music business over the last few months, with everyone from anti-war activist indie musicians to 50 Cent embracing Bitcoin and its related technologies to support their music.  Now, another band, Warner...

Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency, and the one that’s achieved the most widespread success. However, in the five years since the introduction of Bitcoin in 2009, a number of new ideas have emerged about how to implement cryptocurrencies, and what features can be implemented on...

Bitcoin has inspired a gold rush of interest in decentralized technologies: ways of developing platforms that operate in a demonstrably trustworthy, decentralized and robust fashion. One such platform is called CounterParty, which implements a second protocol layer on top of the...

A major building block in the widespread adoption of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is making the technology accessible to both consumers and merchants. BitPay, a Bitcoin payment processor founded in 2011, has been widely successful in tackling the merchant half of that...

As Bitcoin eases gently into the mainstream, surprising figures emerge as vision-havers and trendsetters. 50 Cent put himself firmly in that category this week, by beginning to accept Bitcoin for his new album titled Animal Ambition, via his Shopify store. Shopify, an e-commerce...

BlackCoin, a cryptocurrency operating on the experimental proof-of-stake system, has broken into the top ten currencies by market cap.  BlackCoin currently sits in the tenth slot, with a market cap of $12,742,404, and a trading price of just over seventeen cents.  For reference,...