September 18, 2015

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Will Russia Get Its Own Digital Currency?

Russia and digital currency are in the news together yet again, only this time, it’s not out of an ongoing war of words, but because Russia is in the process of creating a cryptocurrency all its own.Known as the bitruble, the virtual currency will likely…

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Bitcoin Foundation to Hold Developer Workshop Next Month

Bitcoin Foundation to Hold Developer Workshop Next Month. Newsbtc Bitcoin news. Bitcoin Foundation will hold a DevCore Workshop on October 16, 2015 from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm in Draper University, Menlo Park, California. The goal of the workshop is to build knowledge, widen understanding,…

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Australian Organic Farm Has Its Own Bitcoin Economy

Australian Organic Farm Has Its Own Bitcoin Economy. Newsbtc Bitcoin News. An Australian organic farm called Budafoods has created its own local bitcoin economy among farmers, using the cryptocurrency to facilitate faster and cheaper payments between merchants and small businesses. The community is also working…

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Russia to Create BitRuble, a State-Run Digital Currency, for 2016

Russia has decided to begin work on a new national digital currency, the Bit-ruble, that will be managed and overseen by the state central banking system, according to late evening reports out of El Mundo in Spain .Russia will work with Qiwi to build national…

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Bank of England Economist Proposes National Digital Currency

Bank of England The Bank of England’s top economist has suggested that a digital currency based on bitcoin could alleviate monetary policy problems.Andrew Haldane, the UK central bank’s chief economist and executive director for monetary analysis and statistics, spoke at the Portadown Chamber of Commerce…

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EU Refugee Crisis: ‘A Big Chance for the German Economy and Society’

CoinTelegraph spoke with Christoph Hering from BitShares Munich on the current refugee influx into Europe and why cryptocurrency and blockchain technology might just be the perfect answer to the crisis.Hering is the PR Manager and Crypto Coach for BitShares Munich. Born and raised in Munich,…

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Researchers Tackle Tomorrow’s Blockchain Problems With Bitcoin-NG

computer, network The question of how to best increase the transaction processing capacity of the blockchain may be bitcoin's current crisis, but that isn't stopping researchers from working to solve more forward-looking issues.Held last weekend in Montreal, the inaugural Scaling Bitcoin marked the first major…

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Notable Bitcoin Core Contributors Now Open to Increasing Block-size Limit to 2 or 4MB

Although some individuals in the Bitcoin community believed that nothing would come out of the recent Scaling Bitcoin workshop in Montreal, it seems that some progress was made in finding a compromise between the small-block decentralists and the big-block progressives.Multiple discussions between some of the…

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Reiterating The IRS, A U.S. Government Agency Declares Bitcoin A Commodity

Is bitcoin a currency or a commodity? According to the United Stated Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), bitcoin is the former . Its recent decision mirrors former verbiage by the IRS declaring bitcoin to be, as TechCrunch reported at the time, “ property, not currency…

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Bitcoin, blockchains and Swift: my London Fintech Week

fintech week London Fintech Week 2015 kicked off in style with a brilliant presentation from Jean-Stéphane Gourévitch, CEO and founder of Mobile Convergence Ecosystems, which looked at the future of mobile money with reference to the likes of Kenya's mighty M-Pesa.The way that mobile transactions…

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Bitcoin Dealer Will Conduct Seminars about Bitcoin for Law Enforcement and Financial Professionals

Bitcoin Dealer. Chamber of Digital Commerce and DCC to Foster Bitcoin Education. Pascal Reid, a Bitcoin dealer was accused of money laundering after selling bitcoins to an undercover agent. Now, in exchange for a reduced charge, he has agreed conduct training seminars on digital currencies…

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Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 18/9/2015 – The Fed Rebound

Forex Brokers Allowing BTC-USD Trades. Bitcoin News Newsbtc. Just as we discussed in the previous Bitcoin price technical analysis that the US Federal Reserve raising the interest rates will put pressure on the BTC-USD pair, the inaction on part of the central bank has buoyed…

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Litecoin Price Technical Analysis for 18/9/2015 – Very Helpful Trading Points

Litecoin is currently trading at $2.894, extending its stay in the range of $2.500-$3.200 after the US Fed decided to hold off on raising the interest rates. The move has also buoyed the Bitcoin market which is pushing for higher levels as short covering begins.Today’s…

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CRYPTOCURRENCY ANALYSIS

Greg Medcraft, Chairman, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in a speech at Carnegie Mellon University underlined the importance of blockchain and how they can transform the capital market. In the speech, he cited four main poi... Donate Bitcoin for Chile Earthquake and Tsunami victims…

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US Regulator CFTC Tells Bitcoin Options Platform to Halt Operations

Bitcoin Price bitcoin options – Keep Stops Tight! The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which is the main financial regulator in the United States, recently ordered a company offering bitcoin options to halt operations. The regulatory agency also ruled that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are…

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BAFT Launches FinTech Scheme to Promote Bitcoin Technology

Global financial services association BAFT has launched a new scheme to promote Bitcoin and blockchain technology. The association, which deals in creation and implementation of global finance policies, launched the initiative to drive “awareness of innovations in financial technology”. In its official statement , the…

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Introducing…Cryptonit Bitcoin Exchange

When you decide to trade in Bitcoin, you must know that there are currently many options available for individuals looking for Bitcoin exchanges. However, there are always a chance of you stumbling upon an exchange that is nothing but scam. We have seen multiple events…

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Donate Bitcoin for Chile Earthquake and Tsunami victims

No less than one million people had to flee from their homes in Chile after a powerful quake jolted the country’s central region. To help the survivors, SurBTC, Chile’s first fully fledged Bitcoin exchange, has created an account with the aim to help in collecting…

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Regulators Should ‘Not Stand in the Way of Innovation,’ says Australia’s Financial Watchdog

Blockchain technology has the potential to "fundamentally change" our financial system by allowing disintermediation, reducing transaction costs and improving market access, according to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC). But in order to get the full benefit of this technological advance, regulators should not…

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IBM Developing Blockchain Without Bitcoin for Record-Keeping and Smart Contracts

IBM is developing its own version of the blockchain technology and plans to release open-source software within the next few months, The Wall Street Journal reports . The new platform would operate without a native currency like bitcoin and be used to keep track of…

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Human Trading Glitches and Coin Flips

Money Stuff Oh well. I'm a little embarrassed that I got up on a horse and recited the Saint Crispin's Day speech yesterday and then the Fed didn't raise rates . I guess that was pretty widely expected, but now I don't really know where…

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Bitcoin is Officially a Commodity in the U.S.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been officially deemed a commodity by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on September 17. The official CFTC press release reads: "In this order, the CFTC for the first time finds that Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are properly defined as…

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Ethereum user Applied Blockchain doing brisk trade amid smart contracts buzz

fintech week There's a lot of buzz around terms like "smart contracts" at the moment, evidenced by the amount of people crowded into a dedicated session on the topic yesterday at London's Fintech Week 2015.Adi Ben-Ari, founder Applied Blockchain, who was giving the smart contracts…

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Second 422% Hike In Fee To Exit U.S. In 12 Months

When the news broke a year ago that the U.S. was hiking the fee to renounce U.S. citizenship by 422% there was a backlash. If anything, the uptick in American expatriations grew rather than declined. The U.S. State Department said raising the fee for renunciation…

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CEO Daily: Friday, September 18

CEO Daily This morning’s post comes to you from Tokyo, where I have spent the day drinking green tea in a variety of offices kept excessively warm to meet environmental goals.In her press conference yesterday, Fed Chief Janet Yellen said the central bank’s decision to…

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