Noelle Acheson is a 10-year veteran of company analysis, corporate finance and fund management, and a member of CoinDesk’s product team. The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly, a custom-curated newsletter delivered every Sunday, exclusively to our subscribers. As you’ve likely heard, Circle announced this week...

By most accounts, the activation of Segregated Witness (SegWit) should be a boon for bitcoin. The code, first proposed last December, has been introduced to the network, and at least 20% of bitcoin’s hashing power is now signalling support for the software change that is...

Indian bitcoin exchange Unocoin has launched a new mobile wallet app. The launch comes roughly two months after Unocoin closed a $1.5m funding round backed by both domestic and international investors. Unocoin had previously raised a smaller seed round in mid-2014. Unocoin said it released...

“It’s both a liabilty and an opportunity.” At least that’s how BTCC CEO Bobby Lee describes his Shanghai-based bitcoin exchange startup’s affiliation with its domestic market. Formerly known as BTC China, BTCC markets itself as the “world’s longest-running bitcoin exchange”, but it’s now taking steps to...

Bitfinex is now seeking to strike a deal with the hacker who stole $65m in bitcoin from the exchange back in August. The latest twist in the ongoing story comes nearly three months after Bitfinex lost roughly 120,000 BTC in the breach. The exchange was...

A securities exchange trade organization has submitted a letter to the industry’s top regulator in the European Union that offers input on how it should regulate the use of blockchain. The response, sent last week by the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) to the European Securities...

South America’s biggest stock exchange operator has joined the R3 distributed ledger consortium. BM&F Bovespa, based in Brazil, announced today that it is now part of the effort, launched last September. The news comes as more financial institutions and startups in the Latin American region and...

Bitfinex has finally begun to reimburse its customers. Announced 1st September, the Hong Kong bitcoin exchange revealed it had purchased more than 1% of the blockchain debt tokens it issued to customers in August as a way to pay them back for losses it experienced in a debilitating hack. While...

A new report from financial giant Japan Exchange Group (JPX) contends that distributed ledgers will work “better” when applied to capital markets if third parties are involved. The finding comes from a 27-page working paper, released yesterday, in which JPX offered insights into its proof-of-concept...

A US judge largely denied a bid last week by Mizuho Bank to dismiss charges filed against it in a class action lawsuit tied to the collapse of defunct bitcoin exchange Mt Gox. In a court order dated 26th August, US District Judge Gary Feinerman ruled Mizhuo should face charges...