Funding Daily: Kids these days, with their Walkmans & their Bitcoins
Bitcoin-related startups have become hotter than your mom lately. Here are the deals that prove it.
Bitcoin-related startups have become hotter than your mom lately. Here are the deals that prove it.
Today, a multi-city angel network and incubator dedicated solely to Bitcoin startups announced that it has raised nearly $6.7 million in about a week to fund Bitcoin startups.
Digital currency Liberty Reserve has been shut down after U.S. and Costa Rican authorities arrested founder Arthur Belovsky in Spain.
There's no shortage of money being thrown at digital currency Bitcoin. Now relatively young Bitcoin startup BitPay has announced that it has raised $2 million more in funding
Back in late February, top Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox struck a deal to let Seattle startup CoinLab handle its U.S. operations. But now what looked like it would be a beautiful friendship has turned into an ugly mess.
A pro-gaming league made $3,700 "mining" for Bitcoins using malware they installed on their customers' PCs.
Prominent entrepreneur and Andreessen Horowitz investor Chris Dixon is known for being ahead of the curve. The next thing he has his eye on: Bitcoin startups.
Bitcoin's main exchange, Mt. Gox, was taken offline by another denial of service attack today, showing it is really a barrier to Bitcoin's growth.
By allowing its users to pay for its service with Bitcoin, OKCupid is showing that it isn't quite sure what it's demographic is.
After wild swings during the past week, prices for virtual currency Bitcoin appear to have stabilized at about $100 per Bitcoin on top exchange Mt. Gox.
Leading Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has been knocked offline in another coordinated distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack just hours after the exchange re-opened following a huge price decline.
Editor's Pick Interest in the virtual currency Bitcoin has surged in recent months, but Mt. Gox -- the largest exchange -- is (for now) holding back Bitcoin from stability and legitimacy.
OpenCoin is a startup building a simple, global, open currency system. Today, the company announced closing an angel round of funding to expand the Ripple protocol, a virtual currency and payments system that allows "anyone in the world to trade any amount of money in any currency."
Top Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, which facilitates more than 70 percent of trades, has halted trading for 12 hours following a gigantic decline in Bitcoin prices.
Virtual currency Bitcoin has seen a massive rise in prices in the past few week, but today that growth was halted with a precipitous price decline of more than $100.
If you're new to the virtual currency Bitcoin, you've probably got a lot of questions. This video can answer most of them.
It's been a great past few weeks if you're a holder (or hoarder) of Bitcoins. The value of a single Bitcoin surpassed $200 today on the Mt. Gox exchange, yet another impressive milestone for the virtual currency.
Heyzap recently added the option to let game developers make or receive payments from its ad network in the increasingly popular electronic currency Bitcoin.
Clicked on any weird links in Skype lately? Your computer might be mining Bitcoins for a hacker.
Coinbase warned users about phishing attacks in a blog post this week after personal information is exposed in search engine results.