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Russia’s Deputy Finance Minister has confirmed the country’s plans to penalise the conversion of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin into the ruble. Speaking to CoinDesk, Alexey Moiseev said a proposed draft law ...

Computing giant Microsoft is rolling out a toolkit that will let its enterprise users build on the Ethereum protocol. Thanks to a partnership with Ethereum collective ConsenSys, business users of ...

American financial services company USAA is rolling out a pilot program that will let some of its customers view their Coinbase bitcoin balances through their USAA online and mobile accounts. The pilot, as ...

Overstock has confirmed that Nasdaq is not using its tØ blockchain platform to clear trades. Rumours suggesting that Nasdaq – which unveiled its own blockchain-based platform last week – was using ...

The former operator of bitcoin poker site Seals with Clubs was sentenced to two years probation and fined $25,000 today after pleading guilty to the unlawful operation of a gaming ...

Major bitcoin industry companies including Digital Currency Group (DCG) subsidiary Genesis Trading and bitcoin hedge fund Binary Financial are set to participate in a government auction of just over 44,000 ...

Two-time auction winner Tim Draper has revealed to CoinDesk that he is not participating in today’s auction of more than 44,000 BTC confiscated from convicted Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht. ...

Christine Lagarde, chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and finance minister under former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, said this week that banks don’t have much to fear from bitcoin ...

The fourth and final US Marshals (USMS) auction of bitcoins confiscated during the investigation into online black market Silk Road drew only 11 bidders today, the lowest total since the ...

Wedbush Securities has revised its 12-month projections for the price of bitcoin, revealing it expects the price to rise to $600 over the next year. The estimate represents a revision of a $400 ...