In an industry first, Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK) will now accept altcoins, in addition to Bitcoin, as payment. Customers will have the option to pay with dozens of cryptocurrencies, including Ethereum, Ripple, Dash, and Bitcoin Cash. Overstock.com has accepted Bitcoin since 2014, and its CEO, Patrick Byrne, is a long-time advocate for bringing cryptos into the retail…

A series of email correspondence from 2009-2011 with the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, has recently surfaced on the Internet. An anonymous researcher, CipherionX, posted the emails on the bitcointalk forum on August 11th, having retrieved them from the former Bitcoin Core developer Mike Hearn. Curiously, the first email and reply were already shared on…

Bitcoin markets are continuously building up support for higher levels with all time high levels continuing to be broken day after day. Traders are displaying massive intent to get behind the rising bitcoin price and, as a result, buy orders are quite dominant within order books. Bitcoin’s 24hr trading volumes approached $2 billion recently, which shows…

Rivetz to Bring TEE Hardware-Based Cybersecurity to LAToken  BOSTON August TBD, 2017 -- LAToken (https://www.latoken.com/), creator of the peer-to-peer Liquid Asset Token (LAT) marketplace and wallet, and Rivetz International today announced a partnership to bring TEE hardware-based cybersecurity to the LAT platform. The newly announced Rivetz token, RvT, provides a new decentralized model to protect and…

Two months ago a seismic shift appeared to be underway among cryptocurrencies. Ethereum was on the verge of overtaking Bitcoin in terms of both market share and fiat value. Other competing coins, such as Litecoin and Ripple, were also rapidly advancing. Although Bitcoin’s fiat value had reached record highs, many analysts believed that it would…

As the hype for Bitcoin Cash slowly fades away, crypto currency exchanges continue to reap the benefits of increased trading volumes. Small trading fees of 0.25% are hardly noticeable when utilizing these service, but generate amazing revenue during times of increased activity. As we are seeing with ICOs and gambling sites, US residents are contending…

Bitcoin Cash (BCH or alternatively BCC; also bcash) did successfully split from bitcoin’s main blockchain as it was expected to on August 1st. The first Bitcoin Cash block was block number 478559 which consequently is also the block after which the newly born cryptocurrency started running it’s on own chain. Bcash’s fork happened about six hours…

MMORTES Prospectors is a multi-player online real time economic strategy that will allow players to monetize time spent on the game. It has started the preparations to the crowdfunding campaign. The launch of the campaign is planned for August 10. Gameplay The game world will be based on a real economic model, typical for the second…

The news, along with all the panic surrounding the split of bitcoin cash, might have overshadowed some of the more positive developments bitcoin has had the chance to go through in the last few weeks. There’s a growing trend of adoption and recognition that bitcoin is receiving from high-level individuals as well as institutions in…

In 2016, the global e-commerce sales reached a record-breaking $1.9 trillion USD. The Etheriya Project aims to tap into this market with a very high profit potential. eBay on the Blockchain Etheriya is a blockchain-based auction marketplace that leverages Ethereum smart contracts and allows users to buy and sell both physical and digital products and services…