September 10, 2015

Bitcoin Business

Factom Launches Factom Keymaker – The Easiest Way To Check Factoid Balances

Factom is perhaps the most anticipated project in the cryptocurrency ecosystem for 2015. Factom promises to introduce new blockchain based software that will bring developers the tools to build a new generation of applications using the blockchain technology while making it available to every type…

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Nasdaq CIO Says Bitcoin Can Transform Stock Market

bitcoin stocks, bitcoin nasdaq, blockchain stocks In a feature on WIRED , Nasdaq CIO Brad Peterson shared that bitcoin technology could transform the stock market. Nasdaq is the second-largest exchange in the world based on capitalization, next to the New York Stock Exchange.In particular, Peterson…

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A Venezuelan in Silicon Valley Finds a Niche in Finance

Photo Meyer Malka, known as Micky, at Ribbit's office in Palo Alto. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times PALO ALTO, Calif. — Jonathan Gheller went from selling tequeños, a Venezuelan fried, cheese-filled appetizer, in Caracas to building a company that he sold to Facebook. Now,…

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Trust, Law Enforcement and Killer Apps: Consensus 2015 Morning Sessions

CoinDesk's inaugural conference took place at the TimesCenter in the heart of New York today, with over 500 guests in attendance. Garrick Hileman, a CoinDesk analyst and economic historian at London School of Economics, kicked off the day's sessions with an overview of the current…

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Rumor Mill: New Reserve Currency May Rock U.S. Dollar in October (Op-Ed)

Westerners are funny people. Westerners have never experienced currency devaluation, EVER! “The Almighty Dollar” has ruled the world their entire lives. Telling a Westerner there might be a problem with the U.S. Dollar is like saying the sun might not show up tomorrow morning. It…

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Want to understand the world of Bitcoin? This research may help!

Mercator Advisory Group has come up with a new research on the Bitcoin and the problems it could face in the future. The research titled “ How Many Sidechains Can Bitcoin Economics Support ?” also has an in-depth study of the past issues that once…

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Abra Raises $12M In Series A Funding For Its Bitcoin-Based Remittance Service

Abra , a remittance service built on top of the Blockchain, has closed $12 million in Series A funding. Investors in the round include Arbor Ventures , RRE Ventures , and First Round Capital . Total funding to date by the company now totals $14…

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Bitcoin Venture Capital Markets Heating up as Five Bitcoin Startups Raise $45 Million

This week, five Bitcoin startups, including Chronicled, Chain, Abra, Case and Coinalytics, have raised more than $45 million in funding from Wall Street investors and banks, Silicon Valley venture capital firms and angel investors. The recent funding rounds also showed a significant increase in corporate…

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Bitcoin for Governments, but Without Privacy and with Taxes

Banks and governments are warming up to the possibility of leveraging the power and resiliency of the blockchain to implement smarter financial systems that permit faster and cheaper local and global transactions, permanently recorded in a tamper-proof blockchain. At the same time, financial institutions and…

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Blythe Masters, Digital Asset Holdings CEO Issues the First Wall Street Crypto Security

Blythe Masters, the former JPMorgan executive who helped pioneer credit derivatives in the 1990s, has re-emerged as chief executive of Digital Asset Holdings. The Digital Asset Holdings is a venue for buyers and sellers of financial assets to meet and transact, switching currencies into bitcoin…

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ShapeShift Closes 1.6 Million Funding Round

ShapeShift.io , a well-known currency converter in the bitcoin industry, has recently closed an investment round of US$1.6 million led by Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group, businesses participation included leading exchange Bitfinex, Bitcoin Capital, Mardal Investments, and top industry angels such as Bruce Fenton, Trevor…

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Live Blog: Consensus 2015 as it Happens

CoinDesk's inaugural event – Consensus 2015 – is taking place at the TimesCenter in New York today.Find out what's happening right now with our live blog below and find out what's coming next with our conference agenda .14:57Chung says that Expedia offers no discount on…

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Is Bitcoin Becoming a Safe-Haven “Exit” Currency?

Is Bitcoin Becoming a Safe-Haven Exit Currency. Bitcoin news. Earlier this year, the Greek debt crisis has highlighted the role of bitcoin in keeping an economy afloat despite capital controls. Several startups offered investments and loans using the cryptocurrency, providing an option for those who…

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Bitcoin as Currency for the Unbanked in Developing Economies

bitcoin asia, bitcoin unbanked, bitcoin emerging nations Although bitcoin has been gaining a lot of traction in major economies such as the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom, the cryptocurrency could still have tremendous potential for growth in developing economies. A huge part of the…

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Attention! Apply To The Startup Battlefield At Disrupt London NOW

Attention Europe! Applications are now open for the Startup Battlefield competition at Disrupt London. The Battlefield is TechCrunch’s premiere startup competition .Three times a year, the Battlefield takes place at TechCrunch Disrupt, where 20-something new companies will have the opportunity to present their product live…

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John McAfee to Run for US President after Creating Own ‘Cyber Party’

The Anti-Virus software millionaire and Bitcoin supporter John McAfee has announced he is running in the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections. Into the fray McAfee has filed with the Federal Election Commission, reports campaign director Kyle Sandler. The tycoon believes he can snag quite a bit…

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Digital Currency Crimes Chief: DOJ Has No Bitcoin Agenda

Few groups have been as early and as active in attempting to understand the implications of digital currency and blockchain technology as US law enforcement.Despite expanded use and investment, cryptographic currencies such as bitcoin continue to be widely used for illicit activities. Dark market operators…

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Litecoin Price Technical Analysis for 10/9/2015 – Range Time?

Litecoin Price Technical Analysis – New Range In the previous Litecoin price technical analysis Flat Action , we discussed that if Litecoin fails to cross the resistance posed by the level of $3.160, it runs the risk of entering into a range. As can be…

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