An interesting malaise of events is turning the tide in favor of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general. Search terms for “Earn Bitcoin” are at all time highs, demonetization in India has not, surpri ...

One month after Switzerland’s national railway company SBB/CFF/FFS surprised everyone by allowing every single one of their ticket machines to sell bitcoin to anyone with a Swiss phone number, we foll ...

Since its introduction in 2015, BitPay’s Payout Service is growing much faster than the services of other payment providers, demonstrating that Bitcoin is less about spending but more about receiving. ...

Consider this: the efforts of central banks to create centralized digital currencies are no different to altcoins. The only difference is who is producing the coin and what funding the development tea ...

Blockchain technology reaches India. During the first Blockchain summit in the country, Vitalik Buterin explained non-financial blockchain applications, while Microsoft presented its Blockchain-as-a-S ...

Venezuela is the world’s worst performing economy, hit by 700% hyperinflation and sinking in debt. Its currency, the bolivar, is currently losing half its value every 18 days. However, the government ...

As ForkLog reported earlier, a group of crypto-enthusiasts from Ukraine is attempting to launch a blockchain platform designed for banking that could become a fully-fledged alternative to Visa and Mas ...

A recent proposal by Matthew Mazur for the Ethereum Classic network, ECIP 1017, looks to adjust the monetary policy to make it more like Bitcoin’s, introducing a finite supply and a reduction in the b ...

At Silicon Republic’s Inspirefest 2017, Hazel Moore, the chairman and co-founder of international investment bank FirstCapital, stated that banks are completely wasting valuable customer data. She rev ...

Holger Zschaepitz, best selling financial author of “A book on states’ addictiveness to debt” and senior editor at Welt, recently discovered an intriguing relationship between gold and bitcoin: when g ...