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October 2015

Bitcoin Business

Bitcoin in the Headlines: VAT Galore

Bitcoin in the Headlines is a weekly analysis of bitcoin media coverage and its impact. Mainstream outlets from across the world reported the sentencing of rogue Drug Enforcement Agent Carl Mark Force to 78 months in prison this week, and in so doing brought bitcoin's…
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October 23, 2015
Bitcoin Business

The Bitcoin industry just got its own Justice League

The Blockchain Alliance is a new public-private forum between law enforcement and bitcoin executives. Digital currency criminals, beware: Here comes the Blockchain Alliance.This week, Coin Center and the Chamber of Digital Commerce announced the creation of the Blockchain Alliance, an ongoing public-private forum between the…
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October 23, 2015
Bitcoin Business

Deloitte says too early to regulate Bitcoin

In a report titled “Bitcoin at the crossroads,” released by Deloitte Center for Regulatory Strategies, the issue of regulation of Bitcoin has been discussed at length. The report gives a quick introduction of the virtual currency Bitcoin and its technology blockchain and then swiftly moves…
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October 23, 2015
Bitcoin Business

Bitcoin Price Watch; The Weekend Ahead…

Screen Shot 2015-10-23 at 16.51.11 A little earlier on this morning, we published our twice daily bitcoin price watch piece. In the piece we outlined the levels we were looking to watch in the bitcoin market throughout Friday’s session, and stated that – if we…
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October 23, 2015
Bitcoin Business

This Bank Loves Bitcoin!

NextBank, which prides in being the world’s first Bitcoin-friendly bank, is a great initiative for the emerging virtual currency market. The bank’s endeavor is to provide advanced banking solutions for the cryptocurrency users in every corner of the world. It also plans to offer international…
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October 23, 2015
Bitcoin Business

Top 10 Benefits Bitcoin Provides New Users

People who are new to Bitcoin rarely understand it the first time around. They think it is not real money, or only a currency, or just a scam tool for online criminals. The digital currency of bitcoin is only the Bitcoin protocol’s first “app.” Just…
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October 23, 2015
Bitcoin Business

Blockchain Alliance Forms in Washington, DC

Jason Weinstein, Partner at Steptoe & Johnson LLP and the former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in charge of cybercrime investigations at the Department of Justice, will serve as Director of the Blockchain Alliance.Industry participants include the Chamber of Digital Commerce, Coin Center, MIT Media Lab's…
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October 22, 2015
Bitcoin Business

Blockchain to help Nasdaq manage proxy voting!

Financial News Awards for Excellence in Trading and Technology, Europe 2015 In a keynote speech at the , in London, Nasdaq’s Chief Executive Bob Greifeld declared that the exchange was going to use blockchain to manage the proxy voting system.In a nutshell, proxy voting is…
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October 22, 2015
Bitcoin Business

eMunie Demonstrates its Point-of-Sale Debit Card

Alternative cryptocurrency platform eMunie recently unveiled the first look of its Point-of-Sale Debit Card through a video demonstration. The platform, which has been in a rigorous beta phase from around 2.5 years, conducted an experimental transaction between two distanced machines of the same network. The…
cinerama
October 22, 2015

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