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Monero, ticker XMR, is one of several altcoins attempting to overtake Darkcoin in the race to become the top anonymous coin. It’s joined in the ranks of the top 20 coins by market cap by cryptocurrencies like XCurrency, Blackcoin, and BitcoinDark – all of which have their...

Last week, the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) issued a statement advising that Bitcoin is not legal tender in Serbia and cannot be subject to sale and purchase by banks and licensed exchange dealers. In its statement, the NBS draws public attention to the value of Bitcoin in...

Reuters reported Wednesday that New York-based, Venezuelan-born brothers Kevin and Victor Charles are hoping to open this week the “SurBitcoin” exchange, which will connect Bitcoin buyers and sellers online in their native country. It would be the first Bitcoin exchange in the...

Hello everyone, and welcome to a new – and hopefully regular – piece of content here on CoinReport. Cryptomarkets are an incredibly volatile environment, with price movements of 25% in a week not at all uncommon, and while much is written about it all as it happens,...

Earlier this week, speaking at his keynote address for Inside Bitcoins Las Vegas, Overstock.com CEO and passionate Bitcoin advocate Patrick Byrne made some exciting announcements regarding his ambitious project to overthrow the stock market. To wit, Byrne announced that Overstock...

One of the nice things about Bitcoin’s founder formerly having been a frequent poster on the BitcoinTalk.org forum is that it is quite easy to quote-mine them. One of my favorites has always been this gem: “We don’t want to lead with ‘anonymous (currency)’… (or)...

KnCMiner, a Stockholm-based cryptocurrency hardware and software provider, has announced it has launched a version of its KnC Bitcoin Wallet for iOS. In a press release sent to CoinReport, the company said the wallet, which had previously only been available for Android-powered...

Most proponents of Bitcoin are at least a little libertarian-ish, and it’s not hard to see why. Bitcoin is hard to use, profoundly volatile, and not as widely accepted as cash or credit cards. Many of these things will get better in the future, but that doesn’t change the...

Ahhh, everyone loves a little click-bait on Monday afternoons, am I right? But unlike every other bit of click-bait you might see that follows the syntactic rules of the headline to this article – this one is a real rule. What is it? Let’s start off by answering that. The...

Today at the Inside Bitcoins conference in Las Vegas, San Diego-based Airbitz will launch its new mobile wallet for Bitcoin, available for both Android and iOS. According to a description on Airbitz’s website, the wallet’s features and functionality include simple account...