Numerous altcoins are riding on bitcoin's coattails: some designed to improve upon bitcoin and others designed for specific purposes.
The Mastercoin Foundation plans to let people create their own virtual currency using the existing Bitcoin protocol.
Bittylicious, a UK platform that supplies buyers with bitcoins at a premium price, will sell feathercoins in December.
Over the past three days, the price of cryptocurrency litecoin has skyrocketed, rising almost 400%.
As litecoin witnesses a surge in value, what needs to happen for it to gain traction?
Alpha Technologies will start developing purpose-built ASIC mining hardware for Litecoin in partnership with Indian manufacturer Dexcel Designs.
Litecoin caught the market’s attention earlier this year when it spiked approximately 10,000% in a few weeks.
Will Peercoin shine thanks to its new community development push?
Circle receives $9m, a major flaw is detected in Namecoin and a forgetful Norwegian gets rich.
A fatal flaw has been discovered in the Namecoin protocol, but a fix is on the way.
Script-based miner manufacturers are planning to ship equipment that will speed up altcoin mining.
Vault of Satoshi aims to lower the price of bitcoin exchanges in Canada.
The altcoin PhenixCoin's developer has left the project, leaving coins frozen in the associated exchange.
CoinDesk walks you through what you need to know about litecoin, the world's second largest cryptocurrency.
Ripple, OpenCoin's decentralised payment system and currency, is to be open sourced at the end of September.