Bitcoin Financial News

The situation around development and introduction of cryptocurrencies in Russia is far from being clear. State authorities and major financial institutions fail...

Bitcoin has come to be the known as digital gold – a new age currency whose value cannot be eaten away by the inflationary policies of the government. The two h...

Global assurance, tax and advisory services firm, Ernst & Young, will facilitate a first-of-its-kind Bitcoin sale process in Australia on June 20.

Will we invest in and transact with Ether differently than we do with Bitcoin, since the two currencies have different monetary policies?

In its quarterly, the IMF examines how Bitcoin and its blockchain technology may end up helping banks, despite being created to help avoid them.

Newly nominated for the Libertarian party, Gary Johnson is the only remaining major candidate for US president to accept Bitcoin campaign donations.

A London company has come out with a card and a mobile app that allows customers to scan all their debit and credit cards and then use each one for separate pur...

Argentina has the greatest potential for Bitcoin adoption in the world, and China ranks only 27th in a survey conducted by London School of Economics.

Banco Santander UK has made available to its staff a mobile application which uses blockchain to transfer money.

In a first since mid-2014, the price of Bitcoin shot past $500 early Saturday morning, reaching the newest high in a year-and-a-half steady victory march.

How The DAO - or the the first Decentralized Autonomous Organization - performs on the Ethereum blockchain after its launch today will go a long way to affect o...

Can the European Central Bank become a decentralized autonomous organization?

More effective transaction processes and lower charges encourages Nigerians to seek cross-border employments amidst harsh local economic conditions.

Our society is moving faster and faster towards its cashless future, paradoxically at the same time losing trust in traditional banking. Does it mean that we ar...

In a recent report, the European Parliament looked at cryptocurrencies with a mixture of openness to innovation and uncertainty in how to tackle it.

How do consortiums/private Blockchains affect Bitcoin? Financial institutions are trying different ways of approaching Bitcoin’s blockchain. These technologies ...

The Bitcoin Index may change significantly if exchanges which have been left out before are now considered, according to plans by BitcoinAverage.

Why does the UK have such a small BTC/GBP trading volume ratio? Bank’s refusal to deal with Bitcoin companies is at the heart of the problem.

A class-action lawsuit filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against the now infamous former Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, and its owner Mark Karpeles, is...

Smart contracts can help avoid human error and prevent fraud in countries like Nigeria.

British banks have turned down 6 million people access to banking services over the past two years. Bitcoin would allow all those unbanked access to valuable fi...

DAO is a new concept which has grabbed imagination, raising a record-breaking $150 million. What can it do? What can’t it do?

As the volume of transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain keeps increasing, transaction delays have become more apparent. The problem relates to how transactions ...

A recent survey by The Zimbabwe Standard showed that a number of banks in the central business district of the country’s capital, Harare, had long queues to wit...