UNOCS, the partnership designed to take several altcoins mainstream, has been dismantled following the departure of Feathercoin.
CoinMKT, a new cyrptocurrency exchange, is launching its public beta on 3rd September.
Feathercoin has announced advanced checkpointing in its block chain to protect against 51% attacks.
The Mastercoin protocol layer gains community support to create a new generation of altcurrencies on the Bitcoin block chain.
Crypto St. is a US-based exchange focusing its attention on supporting up and coming altcurrencies.
UNOCS has announced a new payment system to enable instant payments between consumers and merchants.
Two anonymous authors have published what amounts to a manifesto for preserving decentralized control in Bitcoin.
Last Saturday saw the first meetup for UK-based cryptocurrency Feathercoin at the Oxford Blue pub in Oxford.
Litecoin's creator Charles Lee speaks out about Mt. Gox, Bitcoin, and what's missing from his altcurrency.
Miners of Primecoin, a new digital currency, caused DigitalOcean, a cloud server provider, to restrict sign ups.
A Feathercoin meetup is being held in a pub in Oxford, England, this weekend.
Jeff Garzik, one of Bitcoin's core developers, shares his thoughts on alternative currencies, ASIC miners, and bitcoin usability.
CoinDesk takes a look at some of the weirdest alternative currency stories over the past few years.
Feathercoin, PhenixCoin and Worldcoin have partnered to form United Open Currency Solutions (UNOCS).
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