As SegWit activates today on the Bitcoin network, we are happy to announce that BitGo is starting to roll out SegWit to all BitGo wallets. Our plan is to immediately launch with a few select customers while we observe production operation. Assuming it works as expected for a few days, we will release final versions of our SDK and begin rollout of SegWit to all BitGo wallets.

If you’re not buying Bitcoin, you’re not keeping up with the Joneses.

The American middle class is falling in love with the unregulated cryptocurrency’s skyrocketing value, which hit a record-breaking $4,400 in August, a 600 percent year-over-year increase.

There are now more Google searches for Bitcoin than for Beyoncé. It’s not just bankers and techno-nerds buying up this “digital gold,” hoping to sell them for more later, but flight attendants, ironworkers, and small business owners.

The bitcoin mining firm led by cybersecurity entrepreneur John McAfee has raised $2.4 million in new funding.

The financing for MGT Capital came as a result of a 10 percent convertible note issued to a firm called UAHC Ventures LLC. The funding, according to statements, will be used to expand MGT’s bitcoin mining operations in the northwest US, where plentiful hydropower has attracted more than a few miners.

“In September and October we’ll see a second wave of ICO [Initial Coin Offering] hype. I expect crypto prices will surge as demand rises and investors need Ether to invest. In November I expect we’ll see a correction. In January, I predict prices will come back.” - Nicolai Oster, Bitcoin Suisse AG

TL;DR: Best-hope ingredients for consensus seem to be: witness discount for non-segwit txs, gradual weight increase by 14–17% pa, 12-18 month deployment period, hardFork nVersion bit, spoonnet coinbase refinements, 1-way replay protection.

New state data showing a continued increase in the presence of fentanyl in opioid deaths highlights the need for action to combat trafficking of the synthetic opioid, U.S. Sen. Ed Markey said. Earlier this year, Markey and Sen. Marco Rubio filed a bill that would give border patrol agents technology, including chemical screening devices, to help them identify and seize illicit fentanyl before it enters the country.

If there is any existing instrument—again from the perspective of a traded security—that cryptocurrencies resemble, it is penny stocks

A mum and dad charged with cooking up vast quantities of drugs and distributing them on the internet black market skip bail and reinvent themselves as a well-heeled family in an affluent suburb on the other side of the country.

A father and son team from New York City has been busted for allegedly using the so-called “dark web” to sell potentially deadly fentanyl and oxycodone.

This is the same busted “one sided” replay protection that Bitcoin ABC was originally doing and the people there advocated for because it would maximize relative disruption to Bitcoin. :-/
It’s actually even a lot weaker than that, because it’s just a standardness rule and will be overridden by miners.

Since bitcoin cash split from the bitcoin blockchain, miners have had a choice: which of two blockchains to mine?

At play in their considerations are two factors: ideology and profitability. But while it’s possible some miners are choosing bitcoin or bitcoin cash based on preference, a certain contingent seem to be following the money.

President Donald Trump‘s brand is so popular–or perhaps so infamous–that even drug dealers are cashing in.

Camped out amidst the Wild West-like environs of the so-called Dark Web (or Dark Net) are multiple online businesses peddling illicit wares using and featuring the image of America’s 45th president.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) players looking to get a leg up on the competition by using the vHook cheating app for macOS were also infected with a cryptocurrency miner.

Lightning Network creator Tadge Dryja is developing an experimental tool he hopes will help bitcoin users safely claim their newly created bitcoin cash.

On August 22 the creator of the Yours network, Ryan X Charles, announced his blockchain based media platform is switching over from litecoin to bitcoin cash. The team just recently switched from the legacy bitcoin chain to litecoin because of the protocol’s inability to process micro-transactions.

Popular how-to website wikiHow is partnering with blockchain startup Civic to boost login security for its users.

According to the two companies, the partnership will see wikiHow offering its users the ability to swap out their old login methods for Civic’s mobile app. The idea is that, by using the app, wikiHow users can avoid the pitfalls of handling passwords and user names that are susceptible to cyber theft.

A senior official for South Africa’s central bank has said it’s “too risky” for the institution to launch its own cryptocurrency.

Ukrainian authorities and businesses are on alert after a local security firm reported that another accounting software maker got hacked and its servers were being used to spread malware.

The incident is almost identical to how the NotPetya ransomware outbreak started on June 27, this year, when hackers breached Intellect Services’ servers and trojanized update packages for the M.E.Doc accounting software package, delivering at least three ransomware families on three different occasions (XData, NotPetya, and a WannaCry lookalike).

A candidate for the US House of Representatives said today that he has begun accepting bitcoin donations.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. can’t seem to shake the cryptocurrency bug. 

The undefeated boxing champion took to Twitter Wednesday to promote another initial coin offering, the red-hot cryptocurrency-based fundraising method.