New EU Legislation on VAT
Although it seems to have largely gone unnoticed, the European Union introduced new Value Added Tax (VAT) laws on 1st January this year. As a consequence …
Mazacoin Celebrates One Year of Success
This month see’s the first birthday of Mazacoin. The Genesis Block was written into blockchain Feb 7, 2014, 5:24:05 PM. It is now time to …
February 20-22: CoinFest comes to Russia
In February 2015, for the first time in Russia, in the framework of the international project CoinFest, held the International Festival dedicated to Cryptocurrency …
ASIC coming for X-algorithms
First they came for SHA256, and before you knew it, you couldn’t mine any amount of Bitcoin with your PC anymore. Soon, you couldn’t …
Who Will Own the Internet of Things?
From phones to cars to refrigerators to farm equipment, software is helping our stuff work better and smarter. But those features come at a …
The International Virtual Crypto Summit 2015
On the 26-27 of February, 2015, the global crypto community will come together for the only truly global event bringing together thousands of crypto …
The phenomenon of disappearing Bitcoins
Unlike banks, Bitcoins are unregulated. If an owner dies without passing on their password (called a private key), their Bitcoins expire with them. They’ll …
VeriCoin Wallet 1.5 coming Friday, January 23rd
January 23rd the new VeriCoin Wallet 1.5 will be available for download. The new wallet 1.5 brings many new, exciting features that are sure …
What is the Merkle Root?
In cryptography and computer science, a hash tree or Merkle tree is a tree in which every non-leaf node is labelled with the hash …
The Price of Bitcoin Doesn’t Matter Right Now
The price of Bitcoin has taken bit of a dive over the last couple of days, shedding over 20 percent of its value in …
Why CEX.IO Paused Mining and the Future of the Industry
In a less than graceful tweet, Jeffrey Smith, the CIO of CEX.io, announced that the company would be pausing mining for its users. Instantly, …
Bitcoin Price Falls Below $200
Bitcoin was named one of the worst investment of 2014. As predicted however, 2015 has seen the continued fall in value of the world’s …