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We’re happy to announce that as of this week we’ll be publishing regular community updates on our website in order to address key points in Counterparty development and share the efforts and the hard work of our thriving community. First of all, we would like to thank...

There’s no doubt that the last few weeks have been very exciting for both Counterparty and Bitcoin as a whole. As the price of BTC slowly simmers away from mainstream attention, the crypto community is laying the groundwork for the next phase of blockchain adoption....

Today, in a keynote address at Inside Bitcoins Las Vegas, Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne announced a partnership with Counterparty on a project code-named Medici, a front-end and portal to the decentralized stock exchange of the Counterparty platform. Our shared goal...

This week the Bitcoin 2.0 crowdfunding platform SWARM is presenting its first project with the launch of “Bitcoin: The Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto”, an easy-to-understand graphic novel, that aims to spread awareness and educate people about the benefits of Bitcoin. The...

We are pleased to announce that Storj, a blockchain-based, decentralized data storage network, will be holding a crowdsale using Counterparty. According to Shawn Wilkinson, the lead developer of Storj, “Counterparty and Counterwallet, upon much research, was found to...

After establishing a peer-to-peer solution to support global business and help decentralize the world of finance, Counterparty is now proud to present the future of Bitcoin betting: trustless and tamper-proof gaming on the Bitcoin blockchain. This means that in...

Over the weekend of the 28th and 29th of June, fifty software developers, finance professionals and entrepreneurs came together for Hackcoin, the UK’s first digital currency hackathon. Lending Bits One of the teams developed a prototype for a start-up called Lending...

A few weeks ago the crypto community had its first two artist coins launch: TatianaCoin and NicePlum. Both were launched as tokens on the Counterparty decentralized exchange. Coin-based crowdfunding enables fans and supporters to support the efforts of musical artists...

Members of the Counterparty team will be at several conferences this summer. If you’re going to any of these as well, we’d love to meet you and talk to you about what you’re doing (or would like to do) on Counterparty. Bitcoin in the Beltway 2014 (June 20th-22nd,...

While this post will focus on Swarm and what they are accomplishing, we have been awed by all of the extremely high quality entrepreneurs who are starting projects on Counterparty. We are humbled that an open source project with no funding or profit model evolved so...