12/10/2014 9:49:11 PM A bitcoin battle Is brewing By Seth Phillips There are die-hard advocates of bitcoin, alt coins, colored coins, sidechains and alternative blockchain applications. This article does...
12/10/2014 9:48:53 PM Gentleman hacker returns stolen bitcoins to Blockchain.info By Seth Phillips A security vulnerability was found by hackers during an update to Blockchain.info's wallet service. Luckily, these hackers, who stole...
12/10/2014 9:48:48 PM What Airbnb can teach banks about branding By Seth Phillips Airbnb has an amazingly engaged community. This article highlights three practical ways that banks can learn from Airbnb and better...
11/21/2014 2:53:12 PM 16 Bitcoin startups investor Tim Draper has personally funded By Gareth Jones He's definitely keen! Tim Draper admits to having personally backed 17 bitcoin start-ups so far. VentureBeat could only find 16 of them...
11/12/2014 1:45:28 PM Lawsky Rumored to be Leaving By Brooks Gibbins Opportunity: US slows down and UK takes the lead in setting the regulatory agenda, globally. Risk: overly restrictive regulation...
11/12/2014 3:39:46 AM Openfolio and Coinbase bring something that Bitcoin investing needs: transparency By Gareth Jones Our portfolio company Openfolio just announced their integration with Coinbase. Now you can see who’s investing in Bitcoin.
11/8/2014 3:55:09 AM Blockchain's weekend Hackathon at Money20/20 By Gareth Jones The Money 20/20 Hackathon had 50% of the 104 participating developers submit projects built on Bitcoin APIs like Blockchain's who helped...
11/5/2014 4:31:27 AM UK Treasury Issues 'Call for Information' on Digital Currencies By Gareth Jones The UK Govt. are leading the charge again - this time issuing a 'Call for Information' on digital currencies in order to weigh the risks...
11/3/2014 8:35:25 PM TradeBlock XBX Index Data Now Publicly Available By Gareth Jones TradeBlock’s XBX index is an institutional-quality reference rate for the USD-denominated price of bitcoin. TradeBlock draws from a...
10/28/2014 3:46:29 AM UBS CIO: Blockchain Technology Can Can Massively Simplify Banking By Gareth Jones Is Bitcoin winning over the bankers? “I believe – and this is my personal view – that blockchain technology will not only change the way...
10/14/2014 3:43:48 AM Marc Andreessen on Finance: ‘We Can Reinvent the Entire Thing’ By Gareth Jones Big Data, Bitcoin and flummoxed regulators all get an airing in this latest Andreessen interview by Bloomberg. I particulalry enjoyed the...
10/14/2014 3:42:36 AM Big Banks Are Confident in the Face of the Bitcoin Threat By Gareth Jones This article provides a good counterpoint to Marc Andreessen's position on Bitcoin. With the IRS suggesting that Bitcoin miners, who add...
10/14/2014 3:15:42 AM Why Bitcoin’s Price is Irrelevant to Its Success By Gareth Jones Perhaps we need to see less headlines about Bitcoin’s price, and more headlines about Bitcoin-based innovations and applications.
10/11/2014 7:14:35 PM Which Countries Will Buy Into Bitcoin? By Gareth Jones We continue to be interested in how emerging markets and the blockchain might provide the most interesting use case for Bitcoin.
10/11/2014 7:14:30 PM State of Bitcoin Q3 2014: Ecosystem Maturing Amid Price Pressure By Gareth Jones CoinDesk have produced their 69 page "state of Bitcoin" Q3 report. It makes for pretty interesting reading on the back of the recent fall...
9/15/2014 9:59:31 PM Bitcoin gets boost as U.S. watchdog approves first swap By Gareth Jones TeraExchange launched a swap based on the bitcoin virtual currency late last week and became the first to receive approval from a U.S....