| The price of bitcoin declined sharply across global markets yesterday, falling by more than 13%, according to the CoinDesk USD Bitcoin Price Index (BPI). The declines came amid a frenzied media response to the much-discussed exit of BitcoinJ developer and R3 employee Mike Hearn from the bitcoin project. Stan Higgins / Jan 15, 2016 10:59 pm
Romit, the remittance service that began as bitcoin ATM developer Robocoin, has said that it is shutting down its bitcoin services. The company told customers today that it was suspending its bitcoin-related services and encouraged customers to begin withdrawing their funds. Stan Higgins / Jan 15, 2016 10:07 pm
Long-time bitcoin developer Mike Hearn officially "left" the project this week, creating a contentious and highly negative narrative that was seized by the press. More than 30 major news outlets profiled Hearn's declarations that the project had "failed", though many lacked critical analysis of underlying debates. Pete Rizzo / Jan 15, 2016 07:18 pm
The island of Alderney, a self-governing British Crown Dependency, has sponsored an experimental open-source timestamping service based on a mutual distributed ledger technology. The global service aims to facilitate commerce by providing timestamps and unique universal identifiers for various types of data. Daniel Palmer / Jan 15, 2016 05:35 pm
21 Inc has announced that consumers can now use bitcoin to purchase its 21 Bitcoin Computer. Customers can pay with bitcoin, without providing a name, and request shipping to a PO Box. 21 says it will address the package to "Postal Customer", as USPS rules allow. Daniel Palmer / Jan 15, 2016 04:31 pm
Digital Asset Holdings, the New York-based blockchain startup led by ex-JP Morgan executive Blythe Masters, has added new executives to its team. The new hires include NICE Actimize managing director Justin Amos and former Goldman Sachs VP of enterprise systems management Edward Newman. Pete Rizzo / Jan 15, 2016 03:11 pm
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