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XCurrency, ticker XC, is a coin that showed up around five months ago with some pretty startling claims about itself. Since then, the creators have gone on to make it into one of the top coins priding itself on anonymity, while also making a name for themselves by running code...

CoinJar, a Melbourne-based Bitcoin exchange, aims to bring the virtual currency into the Australian mainstream next month with the offer of Australia’s first EFTPOS (electronic funds transfer at point of sale) cards connected to Bitcoin accounts, reports the Sydney Morning...

The Georgia Straight, a Vancouver-based weekly newspaper, reports that Nola Western, the deputy chief electoral officer for funding and disclosure for Elections BC, has confirmed that candidates and parties in November’s municipal elections in the Canadian province can legally...

Bitfinex made a big announcement early Tuesday morning (and by early I mean before the sun rose on the east coast) that they were suddenly adding a new mining contract onto their site, to launch at 9 AM. Despite the fact that they haven’t yet added Darkcoin as a margin trading...

Newly available to Apple’s App Store, breadwallet is an iOS Bitcoin wallet application. It is touted as the first standalone Bitcoin wallet for iOS, meaning it offers a direct connection between users and their Bitcoins, with no servers that could be hacked or go offline....

DigitalTangible, a company which offers gold and cryptocurrency brokering services via blockchain-based promissory notes, has successfully launched its gold-Bitcoin exchange, and, at the time of publication, broken $190,000 worth of precious metal in sales. The exchange exists in...

Back a few weeks ago, I made a post on my blog announcing that I would be demoing and reviewing a set of new mining ASICs designed for SHA256 and Scrypt by an as-yet-unheard-of company called Turing Stations that suddenly popped onto the scene. I was skeptical at the time, as one...

Many of the so-called “Altcoins” that have followed in the footsteps of Bitcoin have differentiated themselves through the use of shorter block times. Bitcoin, which has historically used a block time of ten minutes, self-regulates the network to ensure that, on average, a new...

One commonly hears from promoters of cryptocurrency lines like: “Currency is only the first use-case!” or “Satoshi’s great gift is the blockchain, the foundation which allows Bitcoin to exist at all.” More recently, we just heard from the Bank of England that: “The key innovation...

RT, an English-language news outlet in Russia, reports that a top official with the Russian government has announced that a law will be passed banning Bitcoin’s exchange into real money by next spring because of Bitcoin’s use by criminals and terrorists. Deputy Finance Minister...