Altcoins

Altcoins

UNOCS altcoin partnership dismantled following Feathercoin pullout

UNOCS, the partnership designed to take several altcoins mainstream, has been dismantled following the departure of Feathercoin.

Tech  ·  16 September 2013
Exchanges

CoinMKT altcurrency exchange to launch public beta next week

CoinMKT, a new cyrptocurrency exchange, is launching its public beta on 3rd September.

Business  ·  29 August 2013
Altcoins

Feathercoin secures its block chain with advanced checkpointing

Feathercoin has announced advanced checkpointing in its block chain to protect against 51% attacks.

Tech  ·  28 August 2013
Altcoins

MasterCoin to create new altcoins in Bitcoin’s block chain

The Mastercoin protocol layer gains community support to create a new generation of altcurrencies on the Bitcoin block chain.

Tech  ·  25 August 2013
Exchanges

Altcurrency exchange Crypto Street converts bitcoin, litecoin and feathercoin

Crypto St. is a US-based exchange focusing its attention on supporting up and coming altcurrencies.

Business  ·  2 August 2013
Altcoins

Altcoin partnership UNOCS launches Bridge service for instant merchant payments

UNOCS has announced a new payment system to enable instant payments between consumers and merchants.

Business  ·  30 July 2013
Bitcoin

Bitcoin activists propose hard fork to Bitcoin to keep it anonymous and regulation-free

Two anonymous authors have published what amounts to a manifesto for preserving decentralized control in Bitcoin.

Policy & regulation  ·  25 July 2013
Altcoins

Feathercoin enthusiasts celebrate pub meetup by testing merchant interface

Last Saturday saw the first meetup for UK-based cryptocurrency Feathercoin at the Oxford Blue pub in Oxford.

Business  ·  24 July 2013
Litecoin

Litecoin founder Charles Lee on the origins and potential of the world’s second largest cryptocurrency

Litecoin's creator Charles Lee speaks out about Mt. Gox, Bitcoin, and what's missing from his altcurrency.

Tech  ·  23 July 2013
Bitcoin

Discount code and Primecoin mining enthusiasm cause cloud server overload

Miners of Primecoin, a new digital currency, caused DigitalOcean, a cloud server provider, to restrict sign ups.

Tech  ·  18 July 2013
Altcoins

Altcoins to take centre stage at Feathercoin meetup in Oxford

A Feathercoin meetup is being held in a pub in Oxford, England, this weekend.

Business  ·  17 July 2013
Bitcoin

Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik on altcoins, ASICs and bitcoin usability

Jeff Garzik, one of Bitcoin's core developers, shares his thoughts on alternative currencies, ASIC miners, and bitcoin usability.

Tech  ·  15 July 2013
Scams

The 6 weirdest alternative currency stories ever

CoinDesk takes a look at some of the weirdest alternative currency stories over the past few years.

Tech  ·  13 July 2013
Altcoins

Feathercoin, PhenixCoin and Worldcoin partner to form UNOCS, the United Open Currencies Solutions group

Feathercoin, PhenixCoin and Worldcoin have partnered to form United Open Currency Solutions (UNOCS).

Business  ·  12 July 2013
Altcoins

New currency Primecoin searches for prime numbers as proof of work

Primecoin is a new digital currency that uses methods to find prime numbers as a way of providing a useful by-product from its proof-of-work calculations

Tech  ·  10 July 2013