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Ripple Labs, an international leader in distributed payments technology and supporters of the Ripple protocol, announced Tuesday it has closed a $28-million Series A funding round that included IDG Capital Partners and the venture arms of CME Group and global data storage company...

New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Superintendent Benjamin Lawsky announced Thursday his department has granted a charter under the New York Banking Law to itBit Trust Company, LLC – a commercial Bitcoin exchange based in New York City. The company is the...

Bitcoin startup Circle Internet Financial Ltd. announced last week that it closed a new $50-million strategic investment round that was co-led by Goldman Sachs and China-based IDG Capital Partners. Goldman Sachs and IDG were joined by all of the Boston-based Circle’s existing...

On April 25, 2015 in Beijing, Tsinghua University Wudaokou School of Finance and Huobi held an official signing ceremony. Their joint creation: the Digital Assets Research Initiative (DARI). Wudaokou School of Finance Dean Liao Li, Vice President and Deputy Party Secretary Zhao...

Coinbase announced Tuesday the expansion of its services to the UK, including the ability to trade Bitcoin on Coinbase Exchange and to buy and sell Bitcoin with British Pounds using the Coinbase Wallet. The company also announced the addition of Bitcoin/Pounds and Bitcoin/Euro...

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) launched a call for evidence last week on investments using digital currency – ESMA uses the term “virtual currency” – or distributed ledger technology. ESMA is soliciting information and views from stakeholders on new...

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Taringa!, an Argentine-owned social network, will begin paying its content-providing members in Bitcoin. The newspaper said the project combines an advertising revenue-sharing model similar to YouTube’s with Taringa!’s unique...

Customers of the defunct Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange can now attempt to reclaim their lost coins. TechCrunch reported that a notice issued last week instructs clients to log into their Mt. Gox account at claims.mtgox.com, where they can try their hand at reclamation. An offline...

Lawnmower is the name of a new mobile app that tracks users’ credit cards and banking transactions and rounds each transaction up to the next dollar, and then invests that spare change into Bitcoin, reported Fortune magazine. For example, if a user buys a $3.25 cup of coffee,...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab recently announced the launch of the Digital Currency Initiative. The project is designed to bring together international experts in disciplines such as cryptography, economics, privacy, and distributed systems to take on this...