The founders of bitcoin alternative LEOCoin have been previously linked to a suspected pyramid scheme, raising questions about their latest venture.
This week media coverage galvanized around positive stories reflecting the increasing interest of Wall Street in bitcoin technology.
Futures trading platform BitVC has announced it will no longer offer litecoin futures to its users, as it shifts its focus to bitcoin. The platform, a subsidiary of Chinese exchange Huobi, said that the decision was taken “due to a lack of user demand”, and the “growing consensus that the world will only have one […]
Australian firm digitalBTC has launched digitalX Mintsy, a service that allows users to lease and trade processing power for cryptocurrency mining.
Micropayments startup NeuCoin has raised $2.25m in angel funding from investors including King co-founder Patrik Stymne and Uber SVP Emil Michael.
GoCoin has added three new fiat currencies as payout options for merchants – euros, pounds sterling and Singapore dollars.
Here's a look back at just a few of the many bizzare altcoins that emerged in 2014.
Ziftr, a US-based e-commerce company, is hosting a month-long crowdsale for its new altcoin, ziftrcoin.
As the bitcoin world hopes for the best in 2015, we look back at pundits' predictions for this year.
Viacoin integrates Peter Todd's 'checklocktimeverify', Amagi Metals adds altcoins and the archcoin team launches a crowdfunding platform.
American cloud mining company GAW Miners has launched its new altcoin, paycoin.
Five individuals have been named in a Florida lawsuit that involves an altcoin pump-and-dump and the fraudulent presale of scrypt mining ASICs.
SmartContract is harnessing blockchain technology to create customisable contractual agreements that can be used by experts and newcomers alike.
The development team behind alternative digital currency digibyte has raised $250,000 as part of a new strategic partnership.
Online gambling platform Breakout Gaming held its first initial coin offering (ICO) this week but the demand for its native cryptocurrency fell short.