When Heartland Payments e-commerce director Joe Wysocki looks to add a product or service to his company’s portfolio, he looks for three factors – that it will help Heartland’s merchants improve security, convert shoppers and obtain repeat business. Bitcoin, Wysocki says, aligns with these principles. In a new interview with CoinDesk, Wysocki discussed the strategy […]

The founder of  Buttonwood SF has started an online petition against a California legislative proposal for regulating digital currencies. Penned by Assemblyman Matt Dababneh, chairman of the state’s Banking and Finance Committee, the proposal aims to regulate virtual currency businesses under the state’s Money Transmission Act. In so doing, the bill, otherwise known as AB-1326, would prohibit virtual currency businesses from […]

A man from Hyannis, Massachusetts has been charged and arrested after attempting to buy a $2,500 firearm from a darknet website using bitcoin. According to US Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s office, Justin Moreira was arrested after he picked up a package he believed contained a .380 caliber pistol and a silencer, sent by an undercover federal agent, […]

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Bitstamp has initiated legal action over more than $1m in disputed funds related to the sale of nearly 100m XRP last month. Bitstamp, which operates a Ripple gateway and bitcoin exchange, filed a complaint for interpleader on 1st April in the US District Court in the Northern District of California. Jed McCaleb, the founder of both Ripple Labs and Stellar, and two […]