Digibyte has announced a new change in algorithm. It will be moving to a multi-algorithm system much like Myriadcoin. This will enable miners to mine using five separate algorithms including Scrypt, SHA-256 and three other GPU friendly algorithms. The digibyte head developer, Jared Tate stated that it will be a few months before implementation because of all the testing that ...

Yesterday, the developers behind CAIx (formerly Caishen) announced several developments on their BTCtalk thread. The announcement came in three parts: Part I: CAIx Foundation The foundation will consist of investors, community members, and holders of CAIx but they must meet some criteria for involvement. Initially 12 members will be chosen to act as a supervisory committee overseeing various projects for CAIx ...

The Piggycoin development team have announced that the coin will be seeing some rather big changes in the near future, moving to the X11 algorithm before changing entirely to proof-of-stake (PoS). They’ll also be significantly reducing the total number of mined coins. This move will mean an entirely new blockchain, so you’ll need to trade your old coins for new ...

After the Dogecoin community managed to sponsor Josh Wise’s NASCAR, it was announced a few weeks ago that the “Dogecar” livery would be coming to the NASCAR 2014 video game. Earlier today an employee of Eutechnyx, the game’s developer, posted the above render of how the Dogecoin sponsored car will appear in the game as downloadable content (DLC). There is currently ...

Nascar driver Josh Wise was voted into the 2014 NASCAR All Star Race by the Dogecoin community and here is a video of his qualifying lap the Charlotte Motor Speedway. Much speed. Wow.  

    Bittylicious have announced that they have enabled the ability to buy Bitcoins using a credit card for buyers in the UK and EU. Currently, credit card payments must be purchased in Euros — which could incur a currency transfer fee for those in the UK — but the ability for direct payments in British Pounds and other European ...

After several weeks of dedicating voting on the part of the /r/dogecoin and /r/NASCAR communities,  it was just announced that Josh Wise has won the fan vote for the 2014 All Star Race.   Over the years the NASCAR fan vote has become a very important milestone for any driver, but the community behind Dogecoin should be especially proud because it means the crowd founded ...

BitPay and Toshiba have announced at the 2014 National Restaurant Association show in Chicago that Bitcoin payments will be implemented into Toshiba’s VisualTouch POS system. VisualTouch is a full point-of-sale system that’s used by more than 6,o00 companies (some with up to 1,600 locations) within the Hospitality, Food Service, Grocery, Retail and Concession industries. BitPay integration will mean that any one ...

Caishen, a cryptocurrency released on March 13 of this year, also stands for “God of Wealth” in Chinese.  Today, the currency known by it’s abbreviation CAI, is transforming into CAIx which means holders of CAI may also be blessed with the “God of Wealth”, by having the opportunity to earn interest on their coins.  Beginning on May 18, all CAIx will be created through PoS at ...

The 2000 Cannacoin giveaway has just been increased to 2500 Cannacoins.  The goal is to reward 250 people with 10 CCN that are members of both Reddit and the Northwest Greenthumb forums. Here are the details of the giveaway posted from Reddit: Hello everyone, I will be giving away a total of 2500 Cannacoins to users of NWGT and Reddit. The ...