Patents

The lawsuit alleges that Crusoe’s mining operations utilizing stranded natural gas infringe upon Upstream’s patent.

Bitcoiners understand that ideas are best built upon in a system that does not restrict innovation.

Square, the payments company with a penchant for Bitcoin and open-source development, has launched a membership organization to curb stifling patents.

The retail giant is considering entry into the corporation-controlled digital currency game. But it can’t compete with bitcoin.

PayPal has been awarded a patent for a technique that can help with the timely detection and reduction of ransomware attacks, claiming that attackers frequently "demand that the user pay him some amount of anonymous crypto-currency (e.g., BitCoin) in order to have the user's files decrypted so that they are accessible again."

U.S.-based digital currency exchange Coinbase has filed a patent on a new bitcoin payment system designed to make cryptocurrency payments safer.

Intel, one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, has filed a patent for a new Bitcoin mining chip accelerator. Entitled “Bitcoin Mining Hardware Accelerator...

After joining the Blockchain Defensive Patent License, Halong Mining has announced that it is embedding AsicBoost in its DragonMint mining hardware.

Slush Pool, which currently claims about 11 percent of total hash power on the Bitcoin network, is compatible with AsicBoost, starting immediately.

Here are some of the headlines from this past week in the Bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency space.