Czech police seize $345,000 property in connection with bitcoin hack
Apr 02, 2015 03:49 am UTC| Digital Currency
Czech police have seized a luxury property, reportedly worth around $345,000, bought with bitcoin by Tomáš Jiřikovský and his partner Eva Bartošová, who were earlier linked to the hack of...
Bitcoin businesses back petition for easing of BitLicense proposal
Apr 02, 2015 03:28 am UTC| Digital Currency
Over 70 cryptocurrency industry businesses, executives and advocates are backing a petition that puts a case forward for the easing of allegedly arduous features of New Yorks BitLicense proposal.The petition has been...
Coinbase Seeks operational information from US Bitcoin companies
Apr 02, 2015 03:12 am UTC| Digital Currency
Coinbases compliance office is putting efforts to obtain operational information from bitcoin mining companies, which is being framed as an infringement on their trade secrets.MegaBigPower (MBP) and Bitmain have reported...
Factom raises $140k in first day of crowdsale
Apr 02, 2015 02:59 am UTC| Digital Currency
Factom, the blockchain-based record-keeping network, began its crowdsale yesterday and has raised 579 BTC, or roughly $140,000, through the first day. The crowdsale was carried out on decentralized application platform...
ESPN: BitPay not to sponsor St Petersburg Bowl in 2015
Apr 02, 2015 02:49 am UTC| Digital Currency
The St Petersburg Bowl to be held this year will not be known as Bitcoin St Petersburg Bowl, according to a TV news source, ESPN.The ESPN representative did not comment as to whether the decision suggests a change in...
Apr 01, 2015 08:01 am UTC| Digital Currency
BTC/USD is struggling to break above 200 day 4HMA ($246) and any trend reversal can happen only above that level. On upside major resistance is around $246 (200 day HMA) and any break above could pave way for next target...
Overstock invests $5 million in blockchain technology specialist
Apr 01, 2015 03:47 am UTC| Digital Currency
Overstock, the US-based retail giant, has invested $5 million in blockchain technology specialist Peernova. The latter was formed as a result of merger between cloud mining contract provider CloudHashing and ASIC hardware...
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