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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.
BitPay-sponsored Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl became the most watched program broadcasted on December 26.
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.
The adoption of cryptocurrency is held back by the governments regulation and banks, refusing to deal with bitcoin businesses.
“Bitcoin is gold for nerds. It is something that a whole new generation of people believe in. The online nature of their lives and their economy, and so bitcoin, resonates with them.” — Nicholas Colas, Convergex
Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem was sentenced for two years in prison after being accused of illegal activities on Silk Road marketplace.
The Russian rouble is doing very badly. The country’s Central Bank is trying to stem the damage with a huge interest-rate hike. And now the currency is performing worse than bitcoin.
Although bitcoin attracted a lot of attention last year, the cryptocurrency is in its stagnancy now.
Microsoft Inc. has just added bitcoin as a payment option for a variety of its content, including games and mobile content.
The hacker, who had stolen money from Blockchain.info, has returned all the funds back to the company, claiming the bitcoins were taken to protect the users.
The U.S. Marshals Service has announced that a syndicate of investors organized by the trading division of SecondMarket and its Bitcoin Investment Trust won 48,000 of the 50,000 bitcoins recently auctioned by the service.
Bitcoin developers believe Sidechains that allows creating new currency within the bitcoin network could turn bitcoin in the main Internet reserve currency.
American venture capital investor Tim Draper won a part of 50,000 bitcoins, put out to tender by the US government on December 4th.