Wiper, an ephemeral messaging app that launched in 2014, has a reputation as a Snapchat clone, but it’s actually closer to Line, which uses over-the-top messaging as a platform to sell… Read more »
His attorneys admitted early on in the trial that Ross Ulbricht had created the Silk Road, the online drug bazaar that was busted by the FBI in October 2013 when Ulbricht… Read more »
A company changing its project outline for a year isn’t surprising, nor is laying off staff — except when that project was the one to give $5 million in equity back… Read more »
Bill and Melinda Gates’ to-do list will probably put yours to shame. This year, in the Gates Foundation annual letter, the duo outlined their long-term, 15-year roadmap for the challenges that… Read more »
PayPal’s developer arm Braintree has finished its initial integration work with Coinbase, and is opening up a beta program to its online merchants and mobile developers who want to start accepting… Read more »
Despite a price crash and security breach to start 2015, it appears investor interest in bitcoin hasn’t slowed down. Payments processor and wallet startup Coinbase announced today a $75 million Series… Read more »
Bitcoin has had a messy start to 2015 when you consider the breach of the Bitstamp exchange alongside plummeting prices and miners going dark. But for Xapo CEO Wences Casares, it’s… Read more »
Here’s a story I didn’t see coming. Big data center providers may be feeling the reflected pain of the struggling bitcoin cryptocurrency, as Data Center Knowledge reported. Exhibit A: a lawsuit lodged by C7… Read more »
The Russian telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor has blocked access to five bitcoin-related websites because the cryptocurrency “contributes to the growth of the shadow economy.” The sites include Bitcoin.org, a primary community resource… Read more »
Mobile payments technology has made it easier to purchase everything from movies to furniture with the tap of a mobile app. Now it’s making a particularly distasteful transaction just a bit… Read more »