BitQuick Shuts Down After Security Breach; Seeks New Management
Mar 18, 2016 09:35 am UTC| Digital Currency
BitQuick, a leading P2P trading platform, recently announced that it shut down its server following an attack that gave the attacker unauthorized administrative access. However, all funds, IDs and emails remain...
Tendermint Partners With Microsoft’s Azure Blockchain As A Service Platform
Mar 18, 2016 07:51 am UTC| Digital Currency
Tendermint, a blockchain development platform, has announced that it has been added to Microsofts Azure Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) platform. We are proud to announce our partnership with Microsoft, said Jae Kwon,...
Venezuelan Media Takes Anti-Bitcoin Stance
Mar 18, 2016 07:02 am UTC| Digital Currency
Venezuelan economy has been struggling to break free from the clutches of social and economic crisis for quite some time now. International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimated that the economy contracted 10 percent last year,...
BTCS Launches Ethereum Pilot Program, Secures Ethereum-Mining Hosting Contract
Mar 18, 2016 05:59 am UTC| Digital Currency
BTCS Inc., a U.S. public company focused on blockchain technology, has announced the launch of a pilot program to begin securing Ethereums blockchain. As the first U.S. publicly-traded blockchain-focused company we want...
Coinbase Bitcoin Exchange Enables Stop Orders Feature
Mar 18, 2016 05:21 am UTC| Digital Currency
Coinbase, a leading bitcoin wallet and exchange company based in San Francisco, has announced that it has introduced stop orders on its platform. Stop orders let customers to buy or sell bitcoin at a specified price and...
Uphold On Track To Launch Litecoin And Ethereum
Mar 18, 2016 04:39 am UTC| Digital Currency
Uphold, a cloud based financial services platform, has announced that it is going to support Litecoin and Ethereum in the forthcoming months. Jorge Pereira, Executive Vice President, Chief Product Engineering Officer...
How do you mine Bitcoin – and is it still worth it?
Mar 17, 2016 23:39 pm UTC| Digital Currency Technology
Most people are bamboozled by Bitcoin. Its shrouded in jargon and geek speak. It borrows physical metaphors from all over the place adding to the confusion. It talks of coins, but there are no physical coins. Youll hear...
Gabon: post-coup dialogue has mapped out path to democracy – now military leaders must act
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects