IKEA Iceland has taken part in a commercial transaction using ethereum smart contracts and EU-licensed blockchain e-cash to settle an order.
Ripple is acquiring its way into Iceland, adding a team of six engineers to focus on integrations with partner crypto exchanges.
In a European first, the ConsenSys-backed Monerium has received approval to run fiat over a blockchain as a regulated form of payment.
ConsenSys has joined a $2 million funding round for a blockchain startup led by a former chairman of the Central Bank of Iceland.
Icelandic police think Chinese authorities may have discovered where its 6,000 missing bitcoin mining computers have gone.
Iceland's alleged bitcoin mining computer thief Sindri Thor Stefansson, who escaped from prison last week, was arrested in Amsterdam Monday.
Sindri Thor Stefansson, the alleged thief behind the "Big Bitcoin Heist," says he was free when he escaped from prison and flew to Sweden.
Sindri Thor Stefansson, the alleged culprit behind the theft of 600 cryptomining computers, escaped from prison earlier this week.
Roughly 600 cryptomining computers were stolen from four Icelandic data centers, police report.
An Icelandic lawmaker has suggested imposing a new tax on the bitcoin miners that are flocking to the country.
Australian bitcoin company digitalBTC is expanding its mining capacity and entering a new contract with data centre provider Verne Global. The company said it is acquiring new bitcoin mining hardware from manufacturer Spondoolies-Tech, although the exact details were not revealed. DigitalBTC did say, however, that the new hardware will expand its processing capacity by approximately 40% for […]
Bitcoin firm digitalBTC has announced a multi-year hosting and power supply agreement for an Iceland-based mining centre.
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