Bitcoiners are ready to bet on Ethereum’s future
The bet on Ethereum surviving until December 2015 became the most popular one on the wager contract platform BitBet.
Circle gets BitLicense
A bitcoin company, Circle has announced full compliance of its service with the New York's BitLicense. Additionally, Circle now allows users to send and receive U.S. dollars using an account linked to a bitcoin wallet.
Russian government recommends Ministry of Finance and Central Bank to ban cryptocurrency
The Russian government has had an internal discussion about the proposed law for “surrogate money” and recommends the regulators to consider the introduction of criminal charges for using and producing cryptocurrencies, the Russian news agency Interfax reports.
21 Inc produced pocket-sized bitcoin computer
21 Inc announced the release of a new kind of computer with native hardware and software support for the bitcoin protocol. Earlier this year the company attracted $116 million investments.
The operator of Bitcoin Savings and Trust pleads guilty to running a Ponzi scheme
Trendon Shavers, 33, pleads guilty to the charge of operating a bitcoin Ponzi scheme, which caused losses of over $4.5 million to 48 investors.
U.S. agricultural consultant expects farmers to be paid in bitcoin soon
Local dealers will soon pay for grain and soy in bitcoin, a grain marketing advisory service and brokerage firm, The Hueber Report, suggests.
Hive wallet is officially unsupported
The company behind Hive, a bitcoin wallet for multiple platforms, officially announced that there was not enough capital to continue supporting the wallet and that there had not been any wallet developing activities for over a year. The Hive's founder recommended customers to move bitcoins to other wallets.
Russian Central Bank created a working group to research blockchain
The Central Bank of Russia created a special working group to research the blockchain technology, the deputy president of the bank Olga Skorobogatova revealed at the Finnopolis 2015 Forum in Kazan.
U.S. federal regulators confirm bitcoin is a commodity
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission defined bitcoin digital currency as a commodity which is covered under the existing law.
The regulators revealed their approach to bitcoin charging the bitcoin operator Coinflip for unregistered trading and processing of swaps.
Yandex.Money ready to facilitate cryptocurrency transactions
The leading Russian electronic wallet platform, Yandex.Money is interested in facilitating cryptocurrency transactions, given that they are not officially banned, says the platform's CEO Maria Gracheva.
Governor of Russian Central Bank: We do not prohibit cryptotechnology, we are studying it
The Central Bank of Russia studies the cryptocurrency technology. So says the governor of the bank Elvira Nabiullina.
In 2014 hackers stole more than $1.8 million from BitPay
A leading bitcoin processing company, BitPay lost more than $1.8 million in 2014 because of hacking attacks. Atlanta Business Chronicle reporter found this information in a BitPay lawsuit.
