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Blockchain technology company BTCS, Inc. announced last week that it had increased its ethereum-mining hosting business from approximately 50 kilowatts announced in March, 2016 to approximately 150kw. Charles Allen, CEO of BTCS, Inc. explained in a press release sent to...

In a Medium blog post titled Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency, Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam endorses the digital currency and discusses the possibility that it could surpass bitcoin in every way. Ehrsam explains his theory that bitcoin is to...

An organization called The DAO, running on the Ethereum platform, has raised more than $118 million USD in ether, as of Monday afternoon, in a crowdfunding campaign that is just over two weeks old. As its name entails – DAO stands for Decentralized Autonomous Organization –...

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...

Coinbase said Monday it had opened the first regulated Bitcoin exchange in several US states, including New York. But a spokesman for New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Superintendent Benjamin Lawsky said Coinbase did not have the licenses necessary to...

Coinbase announced today that it has raised $75 million in Series C financing, which represents the largest venture capital round to date for a Bitcoin firm. Coinbase said the round brings its total capital raised to $106 million. The Series C round was led by DFJ Growth, with...

Bitcoin payment processor and wallet provider Coinbase announced today it has recruited John G. Collins as its Head of Government Affairs. Collins’ US Capitol experience includes serving as a senior adviser to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee,...