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Coinprism, the company behind “colored coins” standard Open Assets, used by NASDAQ and Overstock, has announced a partnership with software giant Microsoft. “Since the launch of Openchain a couple of months ago, we have encountered a lot of interest from institutional players....

International blockchain payment platform GoCoin and mobile wallet and payment processing company Ziftr announced last week that they have completed their merger agreement. The merged company, to be known as GoCoin, will offer merchants an integrated checkout system that...

Dash lead developer Evan Duffield talked about their two-tier network and bitcoin at the Latin American Bitcoin Conference 2015 (laBITconf 2015 Mexico), which took place on December 4-5 in Mexico City, Mexico. Dash (DASH), as explained on the “What is Dash” page of its website,...

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada-based bitcoin exchange Coinizy announced last week in a press release that it has launched the world’s first bitcoin-to-PayPal exchange facility while also providing the most diversified ‘cash out’ options among all bitcoin exchanges. The...

Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Capital Region, the first charity in Upstate New York to start accepting donations in bitcoin, hopes to hit the $5,000-mark in donations from bitcoin users by Giving Tuesday this December 1, according a press release of theirs CoinReport...

Denmark-based digital currency exchange Crypto Coins Exchange Denmark ApS (CCEDK) has created a new digital currency to reward holders with a share of the exchange’s revenues. CCEDK CEO Ronny Boesing announced the launch of the new token, named OBITS, on Thursday in an email sent...

New York-based licensed bitcoin exchange Gemini’s owners, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, in a blog post, have clarified their decision to reverse the large market buy order that was placed by a customer on last Friday evening and that drove up bitcoin’s price on the exchange to...

Switzerland-headquartered First Global Credit (FGC), a company dedicated to creating a capital market for bitcoin, announced last week in an email sent to CoinReport that its 100 Bitcoin Trading Challenge competition would begin on November 23. Starting Monday (Nov. 23), the...

Banks could adopt blockchain technology as early as next year to generate new streams of revenue and enable secure transactions, reports CNBC and a study conducted by capital markets-focused financial markets’ research and strategic advisory firm TABB Group. According to...

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada-based altcoin payment processor CoinPayments announced on Sunday in a press release sent to CoinReport that it had secured more than $100,000 in investments from qualifying professional investors on the first day of its seed funding round. The...