Reddit's dogecoin community raised 4.2m dogecoin to help India's underfunded winter Olympians attend the 2014 Olympic Games.
Dogecoin, primecoin and namecoin are among the new coins on offer at the Canadian exchange.
This week John Law delves into custom currencies, robot rulers and cannabis-related bitcoin conundrums.
Solarcoin equates 1Mw/hr of renewable power to one coin. Will it encourage people to go solar?
Cryptoledgers, like those utilized in bitcoin and litecoin, are not merely one-dimensional, one-trick ponies relegated to simple fiat exchanges.
Could company-branded altcoins be on the horizon? Humint thinks so.
Los Angeles exchange CoinMKT now trades in nine cryptocurrencies and is able to accept wires from US bank accounts.
Jamaica's bobsleigh team has received over $30,000 in dogecoins from what can only be described as meme-loving bobsleigh enthusiasts.
New altcoin NXT uses 100% proof of stake - and plans many other new features.
The creator of Ripple, Jed McCaleb, has donated $500,000 in XRP to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI).
Rapper-turned-entrepreneur Kanye West has taken legal action against the creators of altcoin 'Coinye West'.
UK company Alpha Technology says it is now taking pre-orders for the first litecoin ASIC mining devices.
Flamboyant artist Kanye West is about to get a digital currency named after him.
It appears PayPal may have designs on developing a new way to distribute monetary value within the digital realm.
Which were the top altcoins of 2013? By market capitalization, here they are.