Market Outlook

Jeff Garzik, one of Bitcoin's core developers, shares his thoughts on alternative currencies, ASIC miners, and bitcoin usability.

The Bitcoin Foundation has created three legal committees to offer help and guidance to those involved in digital currency.

BitInstant, the international bitcoin payment processor, has temporarily shut while the next version of the service is worked on.

CoinDesk takes a look at some of the weirdest alternative currency stories over the past few years.

Bitcoin is due for an overhaul of its payment mechanism to make it more merchant-friendly.

Bitcoiners are donating to a messaging app that will use end-to-end encryption to ensure all messages are kept private.

German bitcoin marketplace bitcoin.de and Fidor Bank AG have formed a large-scale partnership.

Primecoin is a new digital currency that uses methods to find prime numbers as a way of providing a useful by-product from its proof-of-work calculations

Bitcoin has major potential in Africa. But you might not realize how important electronic money already is there.

Jeff Garzik, one of Bitcoin's core developers, talks about his views on Satoshi Nakamoto and the future of Bitcoin.

Kipochi is now enabling people in Africa to convert bitcoins to and from the Kenyan currency M-Pesa.

Bitcoin exchanges operating in the UK do not have to register with HM Revenue & Customs under money laundering regulations.