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All Things Alt: The MintPal Fallout, Viacoin's Big Haul and an Altcoin for Kids

An altcoin presale fetched nearly $400,000, while two coin developers debated the vericoin block chain rollback.

By Stan HigginsJul 19, 2014

A namecoin botnet throws up questions about privacy and censorship in alternative domains.

By Joon Ian WongJul 18, 2014

The bitcoin entrepreneur has announced a new cryptocurrency backed one-to-one by US dollar reserves.

New alts square off to take a lead role in e-sports betting as McDonald's UK debates the McShibe.

By Stan HigginsJul 4, 2014

Could there be better uses of cyrptocurrency proof of work rather than just solving arbitrary cryptographic problems?

By Daniel CawreyJul 3, 2014

Litecoin is experiencing its biggest price slump ever, less than two months after it effectively parted ways with bitcoin.

The cryptocurrency exchange is saying it has fully reimbursed all affected customers since it suffered an attack in March.

By Pete RizzoJul 2, 2014

After trial and error on business ideas, the company believes one wallet for top altcoins is something investors need.

By Daniel CawreyJul 1, 2014

Can new features and technologies in Hive's HTML5 wallet help address consumer pain points?

By Daniel CawreyJun 27, 2014

A new service offered by vericoin enables users to make payments to any bitcoin address.

By Stan HigginsJun 27, 2014