Bitcoin service provider Bitnet Technologies has closed a $14.5 million Series A funding round led by Highland Capital Partners to bring bitcoin payment to large enterprise retailers. The major story of Bitnet is in the pedigree of its founders and backers. The company was founded in January 2014 by Visa...

UK-based second hand electronics retailer CeX will from 22 October start accepting bitcoin payments at more than 30 of its UK stores, heralding it as the largest bitcoin adoption in the UK retail sector. The company in April 2014 launched online payments support for bitcoins. As part of the promotion...

EveryEventGives, a national ticketing platform for independent event planners and non-profit organizations, announced that users can now accept Bitcoin as payment for event tickets. “There are ticketing companies who accept Bitcoin and others who accept dollars, but we seem to be the first to accept both,” EveryEventGives CEO Sean Spence...

Digital currency trading platform Kraken plans to launch exchange in Japan in October, according to the Wall Street Journal's Japan Realtime blog yesterday. Kraken will be the latest cryptocurrency platform to start operations in Japan since popular Tokyo-based MtGox shut down. The Japanese exchange's downfall started as a result of...

Boulder, Colorado-based Mimetic Markets this week launched a turnkey bitcoin exchange service. The new service allows exchange operators to immediately create a scalable bitcoin exchange, serving cash, futures, and prediction markets. "If you'd like to expose your local market to bitcoin and launch a bitcoin exchange, you no longer have...

This week Japanese Bitcoin Exchange bitFlyer announce that had secured funding from Bitcoin Opportunity Corp in the amount of US$236,000. BOC has invested in notable digital currency companies such as Coinbase, Xapo, BitPay, Kraken, and others, globally in countries such as the USA, Mexico, Sweden, and now Japan. bitFlyer CEO...

UK-based Print-2-Media announced yesterday on its blog that it is the world’s first printer to accept online payment by Bitcoin. "We reckon we’re the first printer in the world to offer the option alongside our usual payment methods." the company stated on its blog. "If you’ve got Bitcoin to spend...

UK-based Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp has given its unverified account holders 28 days to get verified or the accounts will be terminated and there will be no access. In September 2013, Bitstamp gave notice that it was changing its verification policy to be in line with government financial standards requiring that...

Melbourne-based Bitcoin Group plans an initial public offering on the Australian Stock Exchange in mid-November, becoming the world’s first listed Bitcoin trading company. CEO of Bitcoins Reserve and Bitcoin Group Sam Lee commented, "Recognition through ATO's guidance is a huge step towards legitimacy of our industry. We look forward to...

The peer-to-peer cryptocurrency for gaming HYPER claims that it has settlement times 20 times faster than Bitcoin. HYPER rewards users by issuing compound interest to those that stake their wallets. The interest issued includes 5% interest every month, compounding and staking daily for the first 5 years, and 10% annual...

Swap execution facility (SEF) TeraExchange processed yesterday the first bitcoin derivative transaction to be executed on a regulated exchange. The initial trade was completed between digitalBTC and a hedging counterparty. Trading of USD/Bitcoin swaps on TeraExchange are subject to the rules and regulations of TeraExchange and the U.S. Government's Commodity...

Draper University, the tertiary educational institution created by famed venture capitalist Tim Draper, has teamed up with ZapChain, a growing network for Bitcoin professionals, to build a free online course on Bitcoin. The course is designed for individuals who are new to the Bitcoin space or do not have a technical...

First Global Credit yesterday launched an investment service that bridges the gap between cryptocurrencies and global stock markets. The company's website will permit users that have mined, purchased or received Bitcoins to use them as security on investments in a selection of more than 100 world-wide stocks as well as...

International cryptocurrency exchanger 247exchange.com has added Sofort Banking as an instant payment method for buying bitcoins. 247exchange now supports banks in 10 European countries - Germany, Austria, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Poland - are supported. More than 22,000 branches of over 400 banks in these counties...

United Way Worldwide and Coinbase, a leading bitcoin wallet and platform, have announced a partnership in which donors around the world can contribute to United Way's Innovation Fund using the bitcoin currency. The Innovation Fund is transforming United Way and the social sector through technology, relationships, and efficiency. Through the...

TeraExchange, a swap execution facility registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC"), announced that it launched the first regulated platform for bitcoin derivatives and a spot bitcoin price index. The trading of USD/Bitcoin swaps will be subject to the rules and regulations of TeraExchange and the CFTC. The bitcoin...

Austin, Texas-based CoinTerra, a Bitcoin mining solutions provider, has released its next generation Bitcoin Miner - the AIREMiner. With an allegedly expected performance per watt of 5x current generation miners, the 16nm ASIC based AIREMiner is now available for pre-order with expected delivery in Q1 2015. After the launch of...