Summary: Gemini, the NY-based Bitcoin exchange founded by twin brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, has announced a new feature: multi-user accounts. Gemini customers can now allow other people to access their accounts and set different roles with various levels of access. The feature allows a fund to hold one account and assign multiple traders, or

The Consumers’ Research Executive Director Joe Colangelo unveiled a new blockchain whitepaper titled “Bretton Woods 2015: the Promise of Bitcoin and the Blockchain” at the North American Bitcoin Conference held in Miami on Friday, January 22nd, 2016. The whitepaper provides a summary and analysis of the “Bretton Woods 2015” Bitcoin & Blockchain workshop/seminar that was

Summary: CoinDesk has gone through the recent UK Government Blockchain Report prepared by their top Chief Scientific Advisor. Here are the five main points made in the report they think you should know about. UK Gov’t should take the lead as an “expert customer” and begin incorporating blockchain technology into gov’t services today so they

Summary: In early December, 2015, Gizmodo and Wired both reported that they had (once again) uncovered the secret identity behind Bitcoin’s anonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. They tapped a relatively unknown “Australian genius” named Craig Wright. An anonymous source had provided the publications with “credible” proof to back up their claim that Craig Wright was the mysterious and

Summary: The People’s Bank of China, China’s Central Bank, released a statement on January 20th, 2016 that they are looking into the possibility of launching their own digital currency. A meeting was held, attended by the governor and deputy governor of the PBOC and “currency experts” from Deloitte and Citibank. According to the statement, the

Summary: R3CEV, or simply R3, is the big-bank funded startup that is working to research and create blockchain products for use in banking. They currently have support from 42 banks around the world. The consortium has announced today that they have completed a proof of concept test involving 11 banking partners, including Barclays, Credit Suisse,

Summary: BitGo, the leading multi-signature wallet service provider, has released a new product called “BitGo Instant.” It allows BitGo customers to make instant transactions with BitGo partners, including Bitcoin exchanges BitStamp, BitFinex, and ShapeShift.io’s no-account-needed Altcoin exchange. For the user, this means that as soon as they send a Bitcoin transaction the funds will be

Summary: Bitcoin exchange Kraken has acquired New York-based Bitcoin exchange Coinsetter (which itself acquired Canadian Bitcoin exchange Cavirtex) in an effort to get back into the North American Bitcoin trading market. Kraken is well known throughout Europe and Asia as a top-tier Bitcoin exchange. Although headquartered in San Francisco, Kraken left the U.S. trading market in