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The Wall Street Journal reports that, in a closed meeting with creditors in Tokyo, a Mt. Gox trustee responsible for the dispensation of the failed exchange’s remaining resources disclosed that he was considering paying creditors out of the remaining resources in the form...

A large number of people enthusiastic about the Bitcoin space are heavily invested in cryptocurrencies – and often in more than one, since swapping one cryptocurrency for another to exploit arbitrage opportunities is easier than swapping between cryptocurrency and USD. This...

Update: As of July 24, airBaltic has removed their €5.99 (about $8.06) transaction fee for Bitcoin purchases. The move comes after the company garnered much criticism from the Bitcoin community for the institution of the transaction fee in the first place.   On July 22nd,...

We’ve done the basics: Litecoin, Dogecoin, Namecoin, Peercoin. It’s time to move on into some of the higher market capitalization coins that are demonstrably different from Bitcoin. Ripple (and NXT… which will be our… next… topic) is profoundly different. So...

The Winklevoss Index (referred to as the WinkDex), which launched back in February, is a blended Bitcoin index that they hope will become the canonical Bitcoin price for Bitcoin companies all over the world. The index is run by the Winklevoss twins: investors who were involved in...

Princeton CS and CITP professor Arvind Narayanan was issued a grant by the National Science Foundation late last month, for the purpose of finding ways to “[Address] the challenges of cryptocurrencies: Security, anonymity, stability.” The $500,000 grant is the smallest...

BitPay, the world’s largest Bitcoin payment processor, announced via a news release sent to CoinReport today that it would sponsor the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Athletic Association, the sports program of the company founders’ alma mater. The deal will...

On July 19th, US-based cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex announced that it will be adding the jl777hodl asset (ticker symbol JLH) to its exchange platform. The listing of this fund, which “represents a basket of high-performance crypto initiatives,” would mark the first...

Blockchain announced today at The North American Bitcoin Conference that it’s releasing a new version of its open source wallet. Blockchain provides one of the most popular Bitcoin wallets, as well as a series of tools to explore the blockchain and get statistics about the...

Peercoin is the last coin left for me to cover of what I’d refer to as the “early” successful altcoins. Litecoin, Namecoin, and Peercoin are the three you consistently would hear referred to when people talked about alts. It probably helped that BTC-e, one of the early altcoin...