Bitcoin
News and Articles About Bitcoin
Mobile Payments
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How Digital Wallets and Mobile Payments Are Evolving and What It Means for You
Digital payments are clearly the wave of the future but people will likely be using familiar folding money for awhile longer.
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Why Small Businesses Should Consider Bitcoin
Bitcoin can help cut costs by making transactions faster and easier. But there are caveats.
Startups
Billionaire Investor Draper Leads $4.2 Million Funding in Blockchain Startup
The blockchain technology startup powers the digital currency bitcoin and enables data-sharing across a network of individual computers.
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Bitcoin Is Money, U.S. Judge Says in Case Tied to JPMorgan Hack
U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan rejected a bid by Anthony Murgio to dismiss two charges related to his alleged operation of Coin.mx, which prosecutors have called an unlicensed bitcoin exchange.
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The Strange Positive Effect Political Uncertainly Has on Bitcoin
Brexit was boost for the virtual currency, which in some ways is become to the digital age what gold has always been for people worried about current affairs.
Cybersecurity
Cyber Threat Grows for Bitcoin Exchanges
When hackers penetrated a secure authentication system at a bitcoin exchange called Bitfinex earlier this month, they stole about $70 million worth of the virtual currency.
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Judge Says Bitcoin Isn't Really Money
The ruling is good news for the defendant, who was accused of money laundering via bitcoin.
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5 Ways to Participate in the Bitcoin Revolution
There are methods large and small for entrepreneurs to step into the world of crypto-currencies and blockchain technology.
Blockchain
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6 Reasons Why Blockchain is Worth Getting Excited
Blockchain is an anonymous peer-to-peer payment system that relies on secure cryptographic protocols.
Apps
Payments App Circle Raises $60 Million in China Expansion
Circle allows the sending of payments to countries where it hasn't yet launched, with the payment transferred into bitcoin, then settled within minutes via the blockchain network that validates bitcoin transactions.
Crowdfunding
Company With No CEO, Employees or Mission May Raise $200 Million
It could well be the largest investment raised for a startup in the virtual-currency space.
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Coinbase, Ripple Close to Landing New York Bitcoin Licenses, Sources Say
Once approved, the licenses would add to a nascent digital currency industry taking hold in New York.
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Craig Wright Will Not Give Further Evidence He's Bitcoin's Creator
'I do not have the courage. I cannot,' Wright wrote in a blog post.
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Banks, Tech Companies Move on From Bitcoin to Blockchain
Blockchain, the technology that underlies Bitcoin, is generating interest from investors.
Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency that can be exchanged directly from peer to peer created by an unknown person who went by the alias “Satoshi Nakamoto” who published the bitcoin payment system in 2009. Some of the advantages of using bitcoin is that purchases can be made without any middle men or transaction fees and can be made anonymously.
