Gliph introduced Gliph Marketplace, a new app for selling and buying items with the use of bitcoin.
Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp confirmed Monday, January 06, 2015, about $5 million in bitcoins was stolen from its hot wallets. The exchange was taken offline after the theft of 18,866 bitcoins was discovered.
GetGems messaging app received an investment of $400,000 from Magma Venture Partners.
The Yomiuri Shimbun reported that most of bitcoins dissapeared from Mt. Gox were as a result of fraud, despite the company’s claims it was due to hacker attacks.
The Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust ETF filed an amendment to its Securities and Exchange Commission prospectuson to sell 1 million shares on the Nasdaq exchange.
BitPay-sponsored Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl became the most watched program broadcasted on December 26.
UK crytpcocurrency exchange, LazyCoins, was launched in its beta version.
Coinbase is tracing the consumers’ spending with the use of cryptocurrency acquired through its service.
Bitcoin. It’s what we’ve got. So let’s use it. At the end of the day, maybe it’s really that simple.
Bitpay, the official sponsor of the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl 2014, released commercial videos highlighting the bitcoin benefits.
Barry Silbert, the founder of the Bitcoin Investment Trust, was interviewed by Mauldin Economics’ Worth Wray about the future of Bitcoin.
An API-based internet payment system provider Stripe has updated its advice on setting up its service to accept bitcoin. The feature is set to come out of beta in January 2015 with a fee of 0.5% per transaction.
When 50 Cent was asked on ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ to expand on why he accepted Bitcoin, the famous rapper stated simply: ‘All money is money.’
The adoption of cryptocurrency is held back by the governments regulation and banks, refusing to deal with bitcoin businesses.
Bitcoin professionals revealed their thoughts on how easily explain the digital currency to their mothers.