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A former Google engineer has formed a company that uses blockchain technology to create new operating system for banks, reported Reuters. Paul Taylor, whose speech recognition software is featured in more than a billion Android smartphones, is an academic at Cambridge University,...

Coin Center, a non-profit group focused on public policy related to cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, announced Monday support for the organization from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a post-trade financial services firm. In addition, Mark Wetjen,...

Today marks a major milestone in the world of bitcoin: block reward halving. According to bitcoinblockhalf.com, the bitcoin blocking mining reward halves every 210,000 blocks. Today the coin reward is slated to decrease from 25 coins to 12.5 coins. CoinReport received comments...

Steemit, a blockchain-powered decentralized social network, distributed Monday $1.3 million in cryptocurrency to users of the site, who are paid for posting and voting on content. The payout is the first for Steemit, which rewards content creators, curators and consumers with its...

Heifer International announced last Friday that it is now accepting bitcoins for donation. The Arkansas-based nonprofit organization, which provides gifts of livestock and agricultural training to combat world hunger and poverty, has partnered with bitcoin payment processor...

Global digital asset exchange Kraken announced Tuesday it has acquired CleverCoin. The Dutch bitcoin exchange is the third exchange Kraken has taken over in less than six months. It acquired Coinsetter and CAVIRTEX in January. Kraken said in a blog post CleverCoin clients will be...

Toronto-based financial technology firm nanoPay announced last week the first commercial deployment of MintChip, a digital cash platform acquired from the Royal Canadian Mint in December 2015. Now available for download, the free MintChip app serves as a digital replacement for...

Starting this fall, full- and part-time MBA students at New York University’s Stern School of Business can select FinTech as a specialization. The move follows the offering of a business school course on bitcoin in the fall of 2014. The business school said in a press release...

Gemini, the New York-based cryptocurrency exchange operated by entrepreneurial brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has set up in the U.K. “This is a significant and important part of Gemini’s international expansion and our tireless pursuit of building a world-class digital...

Coinbase, the digital bitcoin wallet company, announced Wednesday it now accepts PayPal and credit cards for bitcoin sells and bitcoin buys, respectively. The company said in a corporate blog post that through the PayPal integration, Coinbase customers are now able to sell...