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Tokyo Court ordered liquidation of bitcoin exchange Mt Gox after the firm collapsed in February.
Many merchants and investors are taking notice of Litecoin, which is pitched by its developers as cheaper to generate, more plentiful and easier to use for small transactions than Bitcoin.
Newly launched eGifter points program provides 3% rewards on purchases made with bitcoin, litcoin and dogecoin.
Bitcoin lovers hope a new initiative from Dunvegan Space Systems and Deep Space Industries Inc. will make the digital currency more secure and easier to access after the two companies announced they will take the peer-to-peer financial system into space.
Dorian Nakamoto, who has said he suffered enormously when Newsweek claimed he is mysterious Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto, just got a 48 BTC (around $23,000) consolation prize, thanks to a fundraiser held on Reddit’s Bitcoin channel.
With the rise of wearable devices like Google Glass and Samsung Gear and the Bitcoin trend, it’s not a surprise that eventually both of their paths would cross and the result is a bracelet-like device that is being made by a startup called MEVU.
California-based seed accelerator 500 Startups has reported it is funding five startups giving each of them $100,000.
Anyone in China with a smartphone can now act as a bitcoin ATM with BTC China’s new mobile app that lets users buy and sell bitcoins in different major world currencies.
William Quigley, a managing director of Clearstone Venture Partner in Santa Monica, and a member of investors group aiming to buy and resuscitate the bankrupt exchange, recently appeared on CNBC channel to discuss the current situation. As it was announced on 10th April, the investor group offered to buy Mt. Gox for a price of […]
Mt. Gox attorneys say in a court filing that Mark Karpeles is unwilling to travel to the US to address questions regarding the exchange’s closure.