Pseudonymous developer Sunny King, the creator of proof-of-stake, has a new approach for the consensus mechanism – and it revolves around hardware.
How to reduce carbon emissions from bitcoin mining? CoinDesk looks at the pros and cons of the available options.
A new virus is said to be affecting more than 30 types of digital currency wallets.
Dogecoin, primecoin and namecoin are among the new coins on offer at the Canadian exchange.
Numerous altcoins are riding on bitcoin's coattails: some designed to improve upon bitcoin and others designed for specific purposes.
The McxNOW cryptoexchange has suddenly suspended trading due to overwhelming user growth and support requirements.
Litecoin caught the market’s attention earlier this year when it spiked approximately 10,000% in a few weeks.
Crypto St. is a US-based exchange focusing its attention on supporting up and coming altcurrencies.
Miners of Primecoin, a new digital currency, caused DigitalOcean, a cloud server provider, to restrict sign ups.
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