A bitcoin startup that’s gotten press for its ability to convert bitcoin to fiat currency has made some more big news: It’s going out of beta and into market with the launch of its digital currency exchange services. Coinizy, a Canada-based startup, announced the launch...
President Barack Obama and his administration get a lot of demands, to say the least. Stop ISIS, bring peace to the Middle East, clean up the economy, create more jobs, fix the education system, lower taxes, etc., etc. Of course, that’s just what comes with...
While plenty of government officials aren’t ready to jump to support bitcoin as a legitimate payment option, there is one small town in Switzerland that has caught the bitcoin bug. Zug, a northern Switzerland town, has announced it is accepting bitcoin payments for specific services as...
Get your popcorn ready. News broke earlier in the week that Craig Wright, the 45-year-old Australian computer scientist/engineer, would finally come out from behind the shadows as the official creator of bitcoin. If you recall, there were rumblings a few months back that he was...
Craig Steven Wright, an Australian entrepreneur, has officially laid claim to the “creator of bitcoin” mantle. Now, the question is: Can that claim stand up to the scrutiny of skeptics? Wright claims that stepping out now — as opposed to a little over a year...
After a few years of speculation — and a couple of fairly notable wrong guesses — the real creator of bitcoin has been identified — mostly because he identified himself. Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright has stepped forward and admitted to being the real “Satoshi Nakamoto.”...
Western Union just put its toe in the bitcoin/blockchain waters. It announced an investment in Digital Currency Group, a bitcoin/blockchain startup-focused investment firm, which includes former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who is serving as an advisor and also put money up. This comes at a...
Bitstamp has stamped its name in the record books in the EU for being the first company of its kind to secure a national license to operate as a bitcoin exchange. The company was awarded a license by the Luxembourg government, which recognizes it as...
Generally, when court documents are unsealed, you can discover some pretty juicy details. When the case involves a global hacking, those details can be borderline salacious. In this case, they were that, and at the end of that trail, we even found a few bitcoin. According...
