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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been officially deemed a commodity by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on September 17.

This week ARK Investment became the first ETF to invest in Bitcoin, purchasing publicly traded shares of Grayscale’s Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC), which are linked to the price of bitcoin directly, for ARK’s Web x.0 ETF fund.

While a new digital currency proposed by payments services company Qiwi, dubbed the BitRuble, has led to harsh criticism from a top Russian official, the head of the country’s largest bank Sberbank has admitted to owning bitcoin.

IBM is the latest industry leader to not only show major interest in Bitcoin’s innovative tech, but they seem to be nearing completion for a new creation featuring it

US-based bitcoin exchange platform Bitcoin Builder has announced their release of a bitcoin service that enables users to pay with bitcoin for Uber rides.

The CEO of Bitcoin merchant services industry leader BitPay has suffered a phishing scam that cost the company 5,000 bitcoins or over US$1.8 million.

US-based bitcoin exchange Laissez Faire (LZF) has legally launched its currency trading platform across 49 states by complying with the financial regulations of each state, to provide its users with an incentivized trading environment.

Swiss banking giant UBS is developing a new blockchain-based currency “settlement coin” – a digital currency that’s backed by fiat money and fits into the existing regulatory framework.

Just weeks after New York officially drove several major Bitcoin businesses out of the state through regulation California chose a freer path forward for digital currency in The Golden State.

As much as the financial establishment hates to admit it, Bitcoin is a major economic and technological advancement, and it’s not going anywhere.

Russian payment service provider Qiwi has reportedly invested “several hundred million rubles” to develop the first cryptocurrency designed for the Russian market.

A Blockchain lab is scheduled to launch in the UK next month as a result of Innovate Finance teaming up with Hartree Centre to explore the opportunities offered by blockchain technology.

The Bitcoin story of the summer has been about the future direction of Bitcoin in relation to block size and a potential Bitcoin fork.

Recently the Russian State Duma adopted amendments to the law “On Information, Information Technologies and Information Security” that will enable Moscow to tighten its grip on the Internet.

The Bitcoin industry received its first celebrity endorsement following an announcement that Conexus Corporation’s subsidiary Bitcoin Direct LLC and boxing legend Mike Tyson have inked a partnership agreement.

While Russian authorities are scratching their heads about cryptocurrency, Bitcoin is being put in the spotlight in the center of Moscow.

A San Francisco-based technology company Chronicled Inc. has raised US$1.4 million in a funding round participated by Pantera Capital, Mandra Capital, Seattle Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch

Onename made a big announcement on September 12 at the Blockstack Summit 2015. Co-founder, Muneeb Ali, revealed during his keynote presentation that the Namecoin network is not decentralized

“DD4BC,” a cybercriminal group that has launched distributed denial of service (DDos) attacks on bitcoin mining companies, exchanges and Hong Kong Banks since mind-2014, have begun to target financial institutions

Venomous Reddit comments and division may come to mind when you hear the words “blocksize debate”. Yet in the latest episode of Epicenter Bitcoin proof-of-work inventor Adam Back argued technical consensus is still on the table.

Bitcoin has made a lot of progress over the last six-plus years. It has gone from a Western-based invention used by a few computer guys like Satoshi Nakamoto, the late Hal Finney, and Mike Hearn

DASH has released a decentralized voting and fund allocation mechanism that could bypass the internal tensions of Bitcoin and its dramatic block size debate.

While banks and investors look to the blockchain as a singular investment vehicle, they miss the fact that Bitcoin is not only the strongest distributed ledger in existence

Digital Asset Holdings LLC, a blockchain startup led by Former JPMorgan Executive Blythe Masters have issued its first crypto-security for Pivit

Westerners are funny people. Westerners have never experienced currency devaluation, EVER! “The Almighty Dollar” has ruled the world their entire lives.

ShapeShift.io, a well-known currency converter in the bitcoin industry, has recently closed an investment round of US$1.6 million

The Bitcoin XT project, championed by Gavin Andresen and Mike Hearn, has been the talk of the Bitcoin community all summer long.

Instant cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift has completed its fund-raising of US$1.6 million; Nick Szabo says banks must go permissionless to get all of blockchain’s benefits, and more top stories for September 9.

Major Banks and credit card companies such as American Express have developed “fraud free” and encrypted chip-enabled cards

Mega, a free cloud storage and file hosting service founded by German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has been taken over by a Chinese Fraudster, Hollywood and the New Zealand government