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50 million NXT, one of the most popular and more powerful alternative digital currencies on the market, has been stolen from the popular Chinese based exchange Bter.

A small Caribbean island, which has yet to be named, will soon become the largest Bitcoin community in the world.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Paypal executives are in talks to bring Bitcoin payments to its Braintree division, with eventual aims to bring the digital currency to EBay and Paypal as well.

NYSDFS has recently received detailed comments about the virtual currency ecosystem from consumer finance company, Circle.

A Silicon Valley tech company and a Berlin crowdlending platform each announced they had received rounds of funding on Wednesday.

The Geniuses at Work Corporation (GAW) announced in a statement Wednesday that the company had acquired a controlling stake in cloud mining company ZenMiner.

Y Combinator-backed startup Shift Payments, announced its upcoming debit card, a financial instrument that will process payments in digital currencies, regular money and loyalty points.

While the success of cryptocurrencies has been much highlighted in developed countries in 2013, 2014 is certainly the year when digital currencies will embrace emerging markets.

Major sports teams around the nation are offering their season ticket holders special reward points. Could blockchain technologies be more effective? And what would we gain from using them?

In a video published Wednesday on YouTube, Infowars host Alex Jones announced that his show’s store would accept Bitcoin payments both online and, um, over the phone.

Conceived in January on the Bitcointalk.org forum, the New Economy Movement ups the rhetorical ante on all these crypto 2.0 efforts.

More companies are taking Bitcoin everyday, but how are they doing?

Today, the Cointelegraph is proud to announce that it is launching a dedicated web portal for its highly successful Human Resource service: Coinhr.com.

A University of Florida law professor, Omri Marian says that while cryptocurrencies are already considered taxable assets (under US tax law), the inability of the gov. to monitor blockchain transactions could mean a lot more people opting out of the tax system.

Ravi Menon from MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore) discussed several monetary and economical topics, including the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy, China’s growth, the global economy and digital currencies.

Before answering the question whether if Bitcoin is robust enough to handle the workload of an entire national or global economy, we must first determine the hurdles still in front of the nascent digital currency.

Coinsis Is a new entrant into the Bitcoin debit card game, and it appears that they plan to use Blackcoin to stand out from the crowd.

The first ever CryptoForum conference titled “Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies: Prospects for Development in Russia” was held on August 9, 2014 in St Petersburg, Russia.

Claims of evidence that bitcoin was created by the CIA or NSA surfaced by a supposed hacktivist group calling itself CIAproject. But should we take them seriously?

Blockchain.info, one of the oldest and most prominent Bitcoin wallet and block explorer services, surpasses 2 million wallet users.

NXT launches Digital Goods Store for independent artists, musicians, game developers, writers, and other creative professionals

New York’s ‘BitLicense’ draft, which recently made head waves for its heavy-handed approach, was another reminder that regulation is unavoidable.

Bitcoin peer-to-peer lending site BTCJam was shut down for a short amount of time. Some user have claimed to have lost some bitcoin, at this time BTCJam denies that any bitcoins have been lost.

The Bitcoin Expo (March 1-15, 2015) will be held online only, and thus, will be accessible to the community around the world.

Bitcoinis ruling over the crypto currency marketplace, and increasingly more companies are starting to accept bitcoins as payment mode.

BitX launched the first wallet and exchange service in Kenya on August 6.

The time constraints still apply, but at least the Bitcoin community has been promised a fuller description of what New York thinks the benefits of its proposed BitLicenses program would be.

To break down barriers for Bitcoin to turn into a mainstream investment class, the acclaimed Winklevoss brothers filed SEC documents in an attempt to register the first Bitcoin related ETF.

Weekly roundup by Cointelegraph.

This week Tone Vays introduces you to the intricacies of the Bitcoin trading Volume. Friday Aug 1st started out as an impressive day yet sold off near the end.