The European Central Bank has released a new report on digital currency, describing it as “inherently unstable” but potentially transformative in the realm of payments. The ECB study builds off an earlier study published in 2012, offering both a general overview of digital currencies as well as follow-up analysis on the potential benefits and risk […]

A new iOS app allows users to help save mankind from a “reptilian alien invasion” and earn bitcoins in the process. Tigara Games released its first title, Uranus Attacks!, for iOS users on 1st March. Built using the Coinbase API, users are rewarded with bitcoin dispensed in Coinbase wallets, about $0.05 according to developers, for encouraging […]

Bitcoin startups Volabit and SatoshiTango have opened a money transfer service between their respective countries through a collaboration called Coinnect. Volabit framed the offering as a bitcoin-powered international money bridge for remittances and global commerce that will minimize the bitcoin learning curve. Continue reading at CoinDesk Powered by WPeMatico

Ask your average bitcoin enthusiast, and he or she will be quick to list the reasons why the price of bitcoin, even at $260, is undervalued, or at least, not properly reflective of its long-term value. Now, however, those with a more bullish outlook have a new tool that can help them uncover bitcoin’s ‘intrinsic […]

Olivier Janssens and Jim Harper have become the Bitcoin Foundation’s newest board members, following a recent election that was not without controversy. The winning candidates received 277 and 264 votes respectively, from 440 eligible voters. When asked about his objectives as a newly appointed board member, Janssens, a founder of Freedom Investment Group, said that he […]