Vitalik Buterin

WalletBit, a payment processor and online wallet that had acquired some attention especially in Canada and Denmark, has announced that it is shutting down on July 15. “Despite sales...

The Bitcoin Foundation has published a reply to the cease and desist order that the organization received on May 30 from California’s Department of Financial Institutions. The cease and...

The largest Bitcoin exchange, MtGox, has announced that they are resuming USD withdrawals around the world, putting an end to two weeks of hiatus. A long backlog of withdrawal...

BTC London was a conference quite different from both Bitcoin 2013 and Porcfest. While Bitcoin 2013 was a conference generally intended for fans of Bitcoin in general, and Porcfest an...

Most attempts to make Bitcoin more palatable to governments tend to revolve around downplaying its privacy aspects. Arguments are made that figuring out who can be linked to which...

BTCGuild, currently the second largest mining pool with 17 of the network hashpower, started selling ASICMiner’s USB Block Erupter mining devices, but announced that it sold out their 1000...

Nearly one and a half months ago, the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange took a sudden and crushing blow from the United States government when the Department of Homeland Security...

See also: the 2012 analog of this article.Correction: the IMF did not actually release the paper linked to in this article; the author was a University of Chicago professor...

Many of us are already familiar with Bitcointip, the bot that allows anyone to easily send any amount of money to anyone else on Reddit. For those who have...

One of the crucial features for a digital transaction medium to be viable for payments made in person is that it should be reliable, and nearly instant. A transaction,...