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On Tuesday, at the TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Bitcoin startup Gem announced the launch of a Bitcoin platform for developers. The Venice, California-based company’s “full-stack API (application programming interface) now provides developers with a complete solution that...

Bitcoin mining is one of the “cool” things that every cryptocurrency newcomer hears about and immediately wants to get involved in. Sadly, the economic situation with regard to a small investment in Bitcoin mining is such that, for the vast majority of people, mining hardware is...

Bitcoin payment processor BitPay announced today that it had moved its Amsterdam office, which serves as its European headquarters, into a larger office in the Dutch capital to meet the significant rise in demand. In a news release sent to CoinReport, BitPay reports that over the...

I was in the middle of writing a very different article (that you’ll get to read tomorrow, if you follow my column) when, as sometimes occurs, an event within the Bitcoin world caught my attention. It’s a relatively minor occurrence on the grand scale of things, but it’s a good...

Yesterday the ATM Industry Association (ATMIA) released a global position paper on Bitcoin ATMs and the digital currency itself. The association, which is composed of more than 5,000 members in 65 nations, states it does not consider Bitcoin to be a threat to cash or to...

Alternet Systems, a business facilitation and investment company, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Alternet Payment Solutions, had launched its global payment processing business in partnership with one of the two largest Bitcoin payment processors, BitPay. The...

There’s an old rule of journalism that says that any article title that contains a question can be answered with “no.” I’m sad to say that this article is no exception to that rule – the scams will never end. But they will become far less frequent, and the “real” altcoins...

The Royal Canadian Mint announced Wednesday it had retained the services of The Boston Consulting Group to help sell MintChip, the Mint’s digital currency project. As the Mint notes in a news release, “MintChip can be characterized as an evolution of cash, with the benefits of...

CheapAir.com, an online travel agency with headquarters in California, announced today that it now accepts Dogecoin and Litecoin in addition to Bitcoin. The company has also launched a dedicated e-support line administered by CheapAir travel advisors for cryptocurrency travel...

It’s easy to write Dogecoin off as a joke, largely because (in a lot of ways) it is. Dogecoin is a weird little altcoin without much to recommend it technically that has somehow found itself a lasting position in the top ten cryptocurrencies, long after the meme behind it has...