Cryptocurrency & Blockchain breaking news

LocalBitcoins is making it possible for you to buy and sell Bitcoin at the touch of a button – literally.

120 minutes, a Latvian-Canadian technology company, has developed a new a bot, called Callcoin, for the instant messaging service Telegram. Using Callcoin, people can now make cheaper international calls and pay for them using Bitcoin.

EasyBit, one of the leading Bitcoin ATM operations, has announced a partnership with CoinOutlet, an innovative software company, to provide software upgrades to EasyBit’s BitAccess Bitcoin ATMs.

20 people in the Czech Republic have already implanted microchips to make their Bitcoin payment experience easier.

Despite all the negative attitude towards Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, in August employees of Sberbank, the largest bank in Russia had an opportunity to buy hot drinks for Bitcoins from the coffee stand located right in the same building as the bank’s central office in Moscow.

CLS Group, a financial services company that provides settlement services to its members in the foreign exchange market, announced its plans to build a payments netting service for trades using Blockchain or Distributed Ledger technology.

UK payment gateway Bitwage has announced the launch of a new platform that will enable its clients to know more about their oversea employees. This, Bitwage says, will improve the level of trust between employers and employees who are varying distances apart.

September 23, 2016 - The Ethereum Network fixes a new Denial of Service attack that causes block confirmation times to increase by 300%.

BitXatm Network was recently sabotaged by a former employee. A total of 18 Bitcoin ATMs from the machine’s first generation, out of 197, have been compromised, officially stated Gabriel Prodanescu, CEO of BitXatm.