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Industry Speaks Out As CoinDesk's Text Size Turmoil Continues

Following an unexpected hard fork of the CoinDesk news blockchain today, the much-lauded industry news site continues to experience website issues, users report. At press time, CoinDesk readers were experiencing varying text sizes on the pages of articles as a result of being directed to one of....

Digital Currency Group Acquires News Outlet CoinDesk

Coindesk, a leading industry news and media outlet has announced today that it has been acquired by Digital Currency Group. Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group, an initial investor in Coindesk has now acquired the publication as a whole, with editorial and business teams at CoinDesk to....

Bitfinex Now Included in the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index

CoinDesk has added Bitfinex to the Bitcoin Price Index (BPI) today as of 16:00 GMT. Bitfinex, which is incorporated in Hong Kong, has been on CoinDesk's radar for possible inclusion in the BPI for some time now. Over the past several weeks, and particularly since the decline of Mt. Gox, we have....

State of Bitcoin 2014 Report Analyses Emerging Trends

CoinDesk State of Bitcoin 2014 from CoinDesk. Download the full report in PDF form. View more of CoinDesk's Research Reports here. Today, CoinDesk is pleased to release its first ever 'State of Bitcoin' report. This report is not intended to be another guide answering the question 'what is....

State of Bitcoin Q2 2014 Report Reveals Expanding Bitcoin Economy

State of Bitcoin Q2 2014 from CoinDesk. Download the full report in PDF form. View more of CoinDesk's Research Reports here. In April we announced that CoinDesk would be publishing State of Bitcoin updates on a quarterly basis. Given the positive response we have received since 2014's first....

CoinDesk Adds Coinbase and itBit to Bitcoin Price Index

CoinDesk is pleased to announce the addition of Coinbase and itBit to its Bitcoin Price Index (BPI). First launched in September 2013, CoinDesk's BPI provides the most accurate bitcoin price using an average from the world's leading exchanges. Boasting a BTC/USD combined trading volume of....

Introducing CoinDesk Research: Exclusive Insight and Analysis

Today sees the launch of our new in-depth analysis reports service, CoinDesk Research. CoinDesk's platform and resources bring a unique opportunity to provide industry-leading research and insights on the most pressing issues concerning digital currencies and their emergence into mainstream....

Win a MacBook Pro with the Launch of CoinDesk Deals

Today sees the launch of CoinDesk Deals, which brings you exclusive offers on hardware, gadgets, software and e-learning, plus awesome giveaways of big-ticket tech items and special freebies. To mark the launch of this new service, CoinDesk is giving away a MacBook Pro to one lucky winner. The....

Charlie Shrem to Kick Off New CoinDesk Event Series

The early days of bitcoin are chock full of characters who fearlessly navigated unknown and choppy waters. For some people, those unchartered waters led to trouble. But only Charlie Shrem can claim the title of "Bitcoin's First Felon." Join the CoinDesk team on November 22 from 6:30pm....

Bitcoin Price Hits $500, a 50x Increase in Just 12 Months

The price of bitcoin reached $900 on Mt. Gox at around 01:15 GMT, with the highest price recorded on BTC China being 6,989 CNY ($1,147) at around 01:00 GMT. The CoinDesk BPI reached $781 at 01:13 GMT. The price has now dropped, though, with BTC China showing 4,000 CNY, Mt. Gox showing $670 and....

CoinDesk Launches Moon Bureau

Disclaimer: This article was posted as part of CoinDesk's April Fools' Day coverage. Taking advice from r/bitcoin's best-loved mascot, ToTheMoonGuy┗(°0°)┛ ..○, CoinDesk is shutting down its operations on planet earth today. The news site, which hinted at plans to relocate to the moon via....

CoinDesk goes live

Welcome to CoinDesk. We aim to give you the best information and insight on digital currency and the technologies that develop around it. These are exciting times. Every day there are developments in price, investment, technology, crime and regulation. There are plenty of sceptics and a few....

State of Bitcoin Q2 2015: Price Rallies Amid Economic Turmoil

CoinDesk State of Bitcoin Q2 2015 from CoinDesk. CoinDesk's latest State of Bitcoin report is now live, focusing on events in the cryptocurrency world in the second quarter of 2015. This article runs through some key findings from the nearly 100 new slides found in the report. Why 'State of....

New York Business Journal Veteran Joins CoinDesk Editorial Staff

New York Business Journal technology and innovation reporter Michael del Castillo has officially joined CoinDesk as a full-time staff journalist. A founding reporter at Upstart Business Journal and New York Business Journal, del Castillo has specialized in covering cutting-edge technologies....

Coinplug of South Korea Gets $400,000 Investment

South Korean-based bitcoin services company Coinplug has reportedly raised $400,000, according to CoinDesk. The news comes from an announcement made this week, in which VC firm DFJ Partners contributed the capital along with investor Chol Hwan Kim. This investment is an addition to a $400,000....

CoinDesk Acquired By DCG, Announces Consensus 2016

We are excited to announce that CoinDesk has been acquired by Digital Currency Group (DCG), a leader in the bitcoin and blockchain industry and one of CoinDesk’s earliest investors and supporters. Since CoinDesk launched in 2013, our audience has trusted us to be the leading publication of....

CoinDesk’s Hard Fork 'Text Size' Debacle Temporarily Averted

A temporary solution to the ongoing text size debate has been reached, CoinDesk has learned, ending the contentious hard fork that risked leaving readers viewing news articles with incompatible text sizes. The debate, fueled by text size problems experienced by news blockchain users earlier....

Coindesk Reports on the Success of NewsBTCs Operation

"No I won't fill up this space today. My body is enough." - Content NewsBTC is happy to report that its long time plan to secretly champion and eventually implement the controversial CoinDesk blockchain hard fork has finally come to fruition. 

Reliable sources suggest that the....

What's Next For CoinDesk?

CoinDesk first published Bitcoin-related content in May 2013. The website, launched by Spotify angel investor Shakil Khan, came to fruition in just four weeks. “I was just sitting there and I literally had five e-mails that day from very seasoned entrepreneurs asking me, ‘What do you know about....

Watch Bitstamp, BTC-e and Mt. Gox Prices in Real-Time on CoinDesk

We have updated our bitcoin price data page so you can now not only track the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index in real-time, but you can also check out the up-to-the-minute prices from the world's largest exchanges: Bitstamp, BTC-e and even Mt. Gox. While exchanges have come and gone from the....