Google has showed huge support for Bitcoin by installing a Bitcoin Telling Machine (BTM) at its London campus. The BTM will allow Google employees as well as visitors of the campus to…
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Coinbase Bitcoin wallet returns to iOS App Store unofficially
Coinbase is back certainly and available for download, but is it secure enough?
Bitcoin Foundation members walk out over election of Brock Pierce
Bitcoin Foundation is likely losing a part of its backbone due to the controversy following last week’s election of Brock Pierce as new director. The Foundation is facing several cancellations of memberships…
Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox mulls liquidation
Mt Gox, once the biggest Bitcoin exchange, said on Wednesday that it is most likely to be liquidated, following the denial of bankruptcy protection by a Tokyo court. Earlier this year, the…
eBay US gets ‘virtual currency’ category
eBay has added a “virtual currency” category to its US site, which gives users an opportunity to buy and sell digital currencies like Bitcoin and Dongecoin, as well as mining contracts and…
UK gets its first ever Bitcoin ATM
Britain has got its first ever Bitcoin ATM at the quirky yet trendy Old Shoreditch Station café and bar located just off of Old Street Tube station. Installed on March 4, the…
Bitcoin bank ‘Flexcoin’ folds after £365,000 theft
Flexcoin, an Edmonton-based Bitcoin bank, has been forced to close after a theft of 896 Bitcoins to a hacker attack on Sunday equalling £365,000. The company reported that the entire stock of…
Mt Gox call center to answer customers’ queries
Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox announced that it has set up a hotline in Japan, that will go live on March 3, and will be active from 10am to 5pm (Japan time), Monday…
Mt Gox resigns from the Bitcoin Foundation as withdrawals still MIA
Mark Karpeles, CEO of Mt. Gox has submitted his resignation from the board of directors at Bitcoin Foundation. This move follows a string of technical issues that forced the exchange to suspend…
Mt Gox’s twitter feed emptied
Mt Gox is probably going through the worst time in its history with falling Bitcoin prices, suspended withdrawal, angry customers, and on top of that an emptied twitter feed. Yes you read…
Bitcoin surges on Mt Gox withdrawal rumours
Bitcoin prices on Mt Gox went as high as $348.98 in intraday trading because of rumours that the troubled Japanese exchange was testing its withdrawal system and that users will be able…
Harvard-owned computing resources misused for Dogecoin mining
Computing resources in the Harvard research network specifically those on the Odyssey cluster were misused by a member of the Harvard community to mine Dogecoins sometime last week, it has been revealed….
Mt Gox still without an answer on Bitcoin withdrawals
Mt Gox is still to open up Bitcoin withdrawal and provide a convincing answer about the delay and extension of the self-imposed deadline. It has been two weeks since Mt Gox suspended…
Amazon Coins arrive in Android land
Amazon has announced that its virtual currency, Coins, is now available on Android devices in the US, UK and Germany. Users will be able to buy, spend and even earn Amazon Coins…
Silk Road 2 hacked; Bitcoin worth £1.6m stolen
Silk Road 2 administrators have revealed that hackers manipulated computer code and siphoned off £1.6m ($2.7m) worth of Bitcoin. Silk Road 2 appeared after its predecessor, the original Silk Road, was shuttered…