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Although it is difficult to quantify whether the economic crisis has driven Greeks to purchase the digital currency, perhaps the more important question to ask is whether it has really increased bitcoin awareness in Greece. CoinDesk has spoken to various bitcoin and non-bitcoins sources on the ground.
15 Jul 2015 01:47 pm | Yessi Bello Perez
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Blockchain-focused investment company Coinsilium has announced it intends to IPO on AIM, a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange. Launched in 2013 by the founders of bitcoin and blockchain incubator Seedcoin, Coinsilium is thought to be the first company of its kind to go public on AIM.
15 Jul 2015 10:54 am | Yessi Bello Perez
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Users storing bitcoin using hardware from a leading data protection company have been urged to update their devices or risk losing funds. In a blog post on Friday, Gemini's Cem Paya released details of a vulnerability that allows secret keys to be brute-forced from SafeNet's hardware security modules, or 'HSMs'.
15 Jul 2015 09:48 am | Grace Caffyn
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A legislative bill to include bitcoin and digital currency related business activities has advanced in the North Carolina Senate. The bill passed in the North Carolina House of Representatives passed by a wide majority of 117-1 in May, setting the stage for more debate in the legislature's upper house.
14 Jul 2015 11:20 pm | Stan Higgins
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued his first remarks on bitcoin and digital currencies. He suggested that while he considered the use of digital currency as money to be perhaps problematic, the technology could be best considered as a novel way to calculate transactions.
14 Jul 2015 09:43 pm | Pete Rizzo
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Standard Chartered chief innovation officer Anju Patwardhan has penned a new essay on the potential benefits of the bitcoin blockchain. Patwardhan dismissed the idea that bitcoin as a currency posed an immediate opportunity, emphasizing the strengths of the technology's underlying distributed ledger.
14 Jul 2015 08:56 pm | Pete Rizzo
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Deloitte, one of the 'Big Four' professional services firms, is working to use the blockchain technology to automate client auditing and crowdsource its consulting efforts. In a new interview, Deloitte Consulting principal Eric Piscini explains why his company has been researching blockchain technology for 18 months.
14 Jul 2015 05:55 pm | Pete Rizzo
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