Bitcoin has a polar opposite in the digital currency world: Zen.
One of the most popular Bitcoin alternatives by trading volume has been Litecoin.
A service to track profits earned for virtual currencies provides what you might call a "Google Finance" for alternative currency portfolios.
Google Ventures and China-based IDG Capital Partners place a bet on OpenCoin, the company behind Bitcoin exchange Ripple.
Amazon has handed 500 "Amazon Coins" to each of its US-based Kindle Fire customers.
Bitcoin isn't the only form of electronic money being mined, traded and spent these days.
A CoinDesk Q&A with Stan Stalnaker, founder of Hub Culture and the Ven digital currency.
Amazon is set to launch its own in-house currency -- Amazon Coin -- this month.
Bitcoin's long-term chances of success are better if there are many other alternative, digital currencies, with many businesses investing in them.
Amazon is launching its own currency later this month. Amazon Coins will only be exchangeable for Kindle applications and games and initially US only.
Giant bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has delayed plans to support the litecoin cryptocurrency, following another DDoS attack last month.
The feathercoin cryptocurrency, which uses a mining technique similar to litecoin's, is enjoying a rapid adoption among Ecoin fans.
Take it as a sign of bitcoin’s growing mainstream visibility: other alternative currencies are being branded with the label the “anti-bitcoin.” Writing in FT Alphaville, Joseph Cotterill last week featured a link to a post by Barnard College economics professor Rajiv Sethi about a local currency project in the US called Macon Money. Along with […]
Bitcoin isn’t the only alternative currency enjoying some momentum and buzz these days. BizX, an 11-year-old company that provides a trading mechanism for its BizX dollars, just scored $700,000 in Series A funding from angel investors … its first outside investment ever. Based in Bellevue, Washington, the company is different from bitcoin in that its […]
At first glance, especially to a digital currency neophyte, OpenCoin might not look that different from Bitcoin. Look beyond the superficial similarities, though, and the two ventures in virtual money couldn’t be less alike. That’s especially true in terms of the people – and money – behind the currencies. Bitcoin, after all, was birthed in […]