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The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is seriously considering replacing its current clearing and settlement system with blockchain technology, reports claim. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, ASX CEO Elmer Funke ...

Multinational e-commerce giant eBay has filed two cryptocurrency-related patent applications. Published by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) last week, the applications were both submitted on 18th April last ...

The Financial and Consumer Affairs Authority (FCAA) of Saskatchewan, Canada, has cleared a bitcoin startup of breaching securities law. A decision from the FCAA panel, announced on 22nd October, found that Dominion Bitcoin Mining ...

Bitcoin’s biggest miner, BitFury, says it is launching the world’s largest two-phase immersion cooling project. As part of its new $100m data centre in the Republic of Georgia, the firm will ...

The price of bitcoin has hit a new high for 2015, with the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (BPI) peaking at $333.75 this morning. Bitcoin, which opened the day at $313.31, ...

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 ...

A proposal to add the bitcoin “B” to the Unicode computing character standard was accepted this week. Submitted by tech blogger and pencil-and-paper bitcoin miner Ken Shirriff, the proposal was ...

The US Marshals Service (USMS) has revealed that its fourth and final auction of confiscated Silk Road bitcoins resulted in four winners. The public announcement adds certainty to the speculation ...

Central banks would “struggle” to implement monetary policy in a world where digital currencies are more widely used, a senior official from the Bank of Canada said in a speech ...

Distributed ledger startup R3CEV announced the addition of three new banking partners to its blockchain project last week, raising the total number of banks involved to 25. The list of ...