Investment

Venture Capital

Bitcoin Loan Platform BitLendingClub Receives €200K Seed Investment

Bitcoin crowd-lending platform BitLendingClub has closed a €200,000 funding round from European seed fund LAUNCHub.

Business  ·  24 October 2014
Bitcoin

BitFury Invests in GoCoin for Payments Processing Push

BitFury Capital has announced an undisclosed strategic investment in digital currency merchant processor GoCoin.

Business  ·  22 October 2014
Markets

Predicting Bitcoin’s Next Price Rise

Most explanations of the falling price of bitcoin fail to stand up to scrutiny, so what's really going on?

Markets  ·  29 September 2014
Exchanges

Huobi’s Fixed-Return Financial Product Sells Out in One Hour

Huobi has sold all subscriptions to 'Dig-VC', a 60-day fixed-term product designed to fund its new mining platform.

Business  ·  2 September 2014
Venture Capital

Tim Draper Leads CrowdCurity’s $1 Million Seed Funding

CrowdCurity has raised $1 million in a round of seed funding led by Tim Draper and Kima Ventures.

Business  ·  28 July 2014
Security

Investor Fred Wilson: Security and Hoarding Are Holding Back Bitcoin

In a recent speech, the venture capitalist discussed the issues preventing bitcoin from reaching widespread adoption.

Markets  ·  21 July 2014
Venture Capital

Andreessen Horowitz Leads Bitcoin Startup TradeBlock’s $2.8 Million Funding

Big data analytics firm TradeBlock has raised $2.8m in new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and Barry Silbert.

Business  ·  16 July 2014
UK

Elliptic Raises $2 Million in Funding for Bitcoin Vault Services

The UK-based bitcoin storage firm has announced $2m in new funding led by Octopus Investments.

Business  ·  16 July 2014
Bitcoin

CoinDesk Mining Roundup: BitFury’s Latest Venture and a Global Scrypt Network

In this week's roundup: PeerNova gets new funding while BitFury enters the investment game with a new venture fund.

Tech  ·  11 July 2014
Regulation

First Regulated Bitcoin Investment Fund to Launch on Island of Jersey

What is claimed to be the world's first regulated bitcoin fund will launch on the island in August.

Policy & regulation  ·  10 July 2014
Regulation

How One Law Firm is Helping Bitcoin Startups Find Success

CoinDesk speaks to Perkins Coie about its role in helping over 40 fledgling cryptocurrency businesses get up and running.

Policy & regulation  ·  8 July 2014
Bitcoin

Israeli VC Fund Offers $50k Bounty for Cost-Cutting AppCoin

Venture capital fund Aleph announced the developer bounty for code to reduce transaction costs on its new Karma platform.

Tech  ·  19 June 2014
History

Why Bitcoin is the Petroleum of Our Time

Crypto-entrepreneurs are making waves in heavily-regulated territory, just like in the early days of petroleum, argues economist Tuur Demeester.

Markets  ·  16 June 2014
BitGo

Multi-Sig Bitcoin Wallet Provider BitGo Raises $12 Million

BitGo has secured funding from several venture capitalists and bitcoin investors, including Hollywood A-lister Ashton Kutcher.

Business  ·  16 June 2014
Regulation

Delta Financial Offers Interest-Bearing Bitcoin Accounts

A new service called BTCDelta aims to provide a 5% guaranteed interest rate on bitcoin deposits.

Policy & regulation  ·  16 June 2014