Bitcoin often gets a bad rap and, by association, so can the organizations and companies looking to use digital currency platforms to power financial innovation. Many believe that bitcoin is just for two types of people: techies or criminals. The latter is what has smeared...
Here’s a headline that could stop everyone in the payments ecosystem in their tracks: “Japan considers making bitcoin a legal currency.” And then, there are the countries that have outlawed, or want to outlaw, bitcoin. And so, the big global debate about bitcoin continues on....
Here we go again. When the words “bitcoin ransom” and “malware attack” show up in headlines together, is anyone really surprised anymore? How about the words “FTC charges” and “bitcoin mining operation?” Yep, here we go again. So, let’s begin with the first one. If...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has cleared Australian banks from the accusations related to claims over blocking bitcoin services. More specifically, the ACCC has ruled that Australian banks involved in the case didn’t commit any wrongdoing when it came to local bitcoin companies’...
Bitcoin always brings out some wacky headlines, and this week served as yet another reminder that there’s never a dull moment in the bitcoin world. Remember Martin Shkreli? He’s well-known as the ex-CEO of a pharmaceutical company, who has been more recently known for his...
In a move that will potentially come as something of a shock this morning, it seems that International Business Machines (IBM) will soon be among the biggest backers of the blockchain, the technological innovation that makes bitcoin possible. The firm has announced that, in the...
The bitcoin community seems to be in between a rock and a hard place. Or, a fork in the road. What’s been happening over the past couple weeks in the bitcoin community has centered on the debate about if bitcoin’s blockchain block size should get...
As talks about bitcoin and the technology underpinning the digital currency (the blockchain) continue to heat up, both in the public and private sectors, everyone who is anyone in those two spaces seems to want to give a perspective on the issue. Now, Ed Felten —...
The old saying “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” became particularly relevant in the bitcoin community this week. That was the case of what PayPal thinks about a new parody video that rips off its “New Money” commercial that was created to run during Super Bowl...