Breaking news coverage from cryptocurrency world about key figures, exchanges, startups, investment, applications, regulation and more.
BTC China, the country’s largest bitcoin trading platform, has halted deposits to accounts at China Merchants Bank, as lenders close tie-ups with bitcoin exchanges amid rising government regulations.
Coinality, a job board for digital currency, in cooperation with Andreas M. Antonopoulos will be hosting the world’s first ‘Bitcoin Job Fair’ on Saturday, May 3rd at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, California.
Bitcoin prices fell after PBOC issued warnings to banks and other payment institutions to restrict interactions with bitcoin exchanges.
Lookout, a mobile security app, has recently discovered five wallpaper apps that carried bitcoin mining malware program BadLepricon.
Bitcoin wallet provider Xapo has announced the launch of a bitcoin debit card – a new product it is lauding as the first to allow virtual currency users similar spending freedoms to traditional debit cards.
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.