Bitcoin startup Satoshipay has been enabling content publishers to facilitate tiny bitcoin payments with no fees. Now it is going mainstream. Headquartered in London with an office in Berlin, Satoshipay started developing its Satoshipay is Taking Bitcoin Nanopayments to the mainstream nanopayment product in April 2015. Its beta version was released the following February. While micropayments are usually €10 or less, nanopayments “are a thousand times smaller” such as a few cents or less, according to the company. Last year, through organic growth alone, almost 30,000 user wallets were created and over 300 publishers...

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Bitcoin’s rise back above the $1,000 mark for the first time in three years, amid continuing global economic uncertainty, signposts its emerging niche as a long-term store of value – with other blockchain platforms emerging to provide facilities as transactional currencies. Markets move in cycles and it is not surprising that, three years after the speculative bubble at the end of 2013, bitcoin is enjoying a resurgence of interest.

Bitcoin’s rise back above the $1,000 mark for the first time in three years, amid continuing global economic uncertainty, signposts its emerging niche as a long-term store of value – with other blockchain platforms emerging to provide facilities as transactional currencies. Markets move in cycles and it is not surprising that, three years after the …

Like all new technologies and movements, blockchain crowdfunding is prone to hype as it gathers momentum and establishes itself as the de facto means of raising the cash for cutting-edge new cryptocurrency projects. This is a technology for the grassroots — blockchain promises disintermediation of finance and much else besides — and so perhaps its to be expected that the money and development also comes from the grassroots. Big corporations are developing their own distributed ledger technology, but the real innovation is happening in pockets of activity scattered across the web.

Bitcoin has broken through its all-time price high.

Industry heads cite global factors for surge; see the currency reaching $US2000 by the end of the year.

Some small-time traders are taking advantage of the absence of rules governing crypto-currencies in India by creating multi-level marketing (MLM) or pyramid-like schemes with bitcoin as the base product. The issue of multi-level marketing schemes is a global problem; however, these are now gaining traction in India owing to a lack of governing guidelines and the rapid rise in value of the crypto-currency, according to Digital Assets and Blockchain Foundation of India (DABFI), a self regulatory organization for bitcoin and blockchain companies.

Just under $2 billion has been wiped off the value of bitcoin (Exchange: BTC=-USS) in under three days as a fight over the future of the technology underpinning the cryptocurrency wages on. Bitcoin was trading at around $1,142.60 at time of publication, giving it a market cap of $18.53 billion, according to CoinDesk data. This is down from highs of $1,255.32 on Tuesday, which valued the total bitcoin pile at $20.36 billion.

Many feel that a “hard fork,” creating two separate currencies, is imminent.

The crash is reportedly due to a disagreement among Bitcoin developers.

Japan’s Government has long been working on a bill to amend its Banking Act, accounting for changes to the economy stemming from the growth of telecommunications technologies. Last week, the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) announced that this bill will come into full force on Saturday, April 1. The amendments include an ordinance concerning digital currencies as well as digital currency exchanges.

Of all the objections to Bitcoin, the objection that it “wastes” electricity is the most absurd. This thinking betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of how electricity works, how markets work, and what waste is. Electricity is a real time service. It is transmitted by specialist companies, through either Solar, Nuclear, Wind or Water generation. When these services produce electricity, the consumers of it draw it in real time...

In his video, Dotcom called the demo “a first walkthrough of how the features work and how the site looks.” The first screen of the demo self-proclaims the system a “trusted global distribution of digital goods.” The preview began with Dotcom unveiling a smooth interface which he called Bitcontent. It allows users of his platform to monetize any file by uploading it to a “Bitcache container” and charging a price in bits to download or stream it. He showed a four-step process which allows users to sell items...

Japan’s consumer electronic retail giant Bic Camera officially began accepting Bitcoin payments on Friday at two of its stores in Tokyo. 28 media crews reportedly gathered to cover the premier event. Bitflyer which processes Bitcoin payments for the stores has also launched a campaign to give away bitcoin to shoppers using its wallet.

Investor Adam Draper recounts the day the US government sold 30,000 bitcoins at auction, a day he argues changed perception of the tech forever.

If you have ever sent money abroad using your local bank you probably noticed that their model favors corporate profit over people’s need and its own convenience over fast speeds. For the majority of businesses and individuals in the developing world, foreign exchange remains a critical inhibitor to their success or sometimes access to basic food and medicine. As a leading blockchain banking company that strives to help people make international transfers faster and cheaper we noticed a particular trend in new users signing up from the developing countries.

The cryptocurrency market is on an exponential rise ever since the inception of Bitcoin. Though it was not really a concept that garnered immediate attention in 2009, it caught the fancy of several enterprises and individuals later in the year 2012. Digital currencies earned a whole new meaning as they worked in sync with cryptography to secure financial transactions and to regulate the formation of new financial units. What made the concept was its ability to increase the supply of digital currency without leading to fraud.

Billionaire investor Mike Novogratz is betting big on digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ether. "Ten percent of my net worth is in this space," Novogratz said at a forum held at the Harvard Business School Club of New York Wednesday. He declined to say exactly how wealthy he is, but he's a former hedge fund manager at Fortress Investment Group and a Goldman Sachs partner who made the Forbes billionaire list in 2008.

It’s been some really quite interesting weeks lately in crypto land. Scaling hasn’t been much of topic for the last years – and boom – now it’s front and center. Bitcoiners used to clobber anyone who thinks miners having different incentives than currency holders is a problem.