Liberty Reserve's lesson: Don't take liberties with the law
Whether you use “real” government-backed fiat or a distributed digital currency, what you use it for is subject to laws and regulations of many kinds.
Read moreWhether you use “real” government-backed fiat or a distributed digital currency, what you use it for is subject to laws and regulations of many kinds.
Read moreChris Larsen wants to make waves with Ripple, his new combined altcurrency and payment network. But when will he make it open source?
Read moreLiberty Reserve, a Costa Rica-based private currency exchange with its own digital currency, has shut down and its founder charged with money laundering.
Read moreThe Seasteading Institute shares many of Bitcoin's ideals.
Read moreA new trading platform, BTC.sx, is offering investors the chance to take short and long positions on future bitcoin price movements against the dollar.
Read moreLet's look at five countries where citizens might have more than the usual reasons to adopt Bitcoin.
Read moreCoinpunk offers a roll-your-own Bitcoin wallet service that can be hosted on your own web server, or a hosting provider's one.
Read moreA new venture that aims to connect Bitcoin technology startups with investors calls itself the "world's first distributed veteran entrepreneur and angel investor group."
Read moreCoinDesk sat down with Gavin Andresen, chief scientist for the Bitcoin Foundation and lead developer for the Bitcoin open-source project.
Read moreBitcoin Card will offer a way to transfer bitcoins without a smartphone or laptop, say the founders of the Mycelium network, which is backing the idea.
Read moreSatoshi Nakamoto remains a mystery, but Ted Nelson has thrown another hat into the ring - a Japanese mathematician - Professor Shinichi Mochizuki.
Read moreButterfly Labs is shipping some ASIC mining rigs to users - but how many can it deliver, and how quickly?
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