Market Outlook

Bitmessage is a protocol that implements some of the ideas of Bitcoin into communications.

Tangible Cryptography says it is suspending new purchases of bitcoins through its FastCash4Bitcoins service while it tries to resolve a compliance issue.

Butterfly Labs has announced it will begin selling bulk ASIC chips for bitcoin mining starting this month.

Reddit users can now use the site's bitcointip bot to offer a financial thumbs-up to fellow redditors on any subreddit.

The boss of US regulator FinCEN has outlined what Bitcoin exchanges need to do to keep the feds happy and stay out of prison.

OKPay - the payment processing company - has told customers it will stop processing bitcoin transactions.

Whether you use “real” government-backed fiat or a distributed digital currency, what you use it for is subject to laws and regulations of many kinds.

Chris Larsen wants to make waves with Ripple, his new combined altcurrency and payment network. But when will he make it open source?

Liberty Reserve, a Costa Rica-based private currency exchange with its own digital currency, has shut down and its founder charged with money laundering.

The Seasteading Institute shares many of Bitcoin's ideals.

A new trading platform, BTC.sx, is offering investors the chance to take short and long positions on future bitcoin price movements against the dollar.

Let's look at five countries where citizens might have more than the usual reasons to adopt Bitcoin.