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March 8, 2016

Infosys: Blockchain Tech Adoption Won't Take A DecadeBitcoin Business

Infosys: Blockchain Tech Adoption Won’t Take A Decade

IT consulting giant Infosys believes that estimates for how long it will take blockchain technology to achieve mainstream adoption are greatly exaggerated. According to Infosys principal technology architect Peter Loop, work on blockchain applications will benefit from an accelerating pace of overall tech adoption that…
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March 8, 2016
Mizuho Trials Blockchain for Cross-Border PaymentsBitcoin Business

Mizuho Trials Blockchain for Cross-Border Payments

Japanese banking group Mizuho has completed a blockchain test focused on cross-border securities settlement.The test used the Open Assets Protocol, a commonly deployed implementation of colored coins that provides an added layer of functionality to the bitcoin blockchain. Using Open Assets, bitcoins can be specially…
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March 8, 2016
Bitcoin Price Holding $400 SupportBitcoin Business

Bitcoin Price Holding $400 Support

Bitcoin price continues trading across critical support just above $400. Maintaining this position is the key to additional advance. Losing it, will open a proverbial can of downside toward the lows of 2015. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the…
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March 8, 2016
Maybe Bitcoin Will Grow Up to Be a CurrencyBitcoin Business

Maybe Bitcoin Will Grow Up to Be a Currency

Economics Two big things have happened in the cryptocurrency world recently. The first is that there are now two competing versions of bitcoin: bitcoin core and bitcoin classic. There is quite a lot of argument about which will become more popular. The second development is…
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March 8, 2016
Bitcoin Price Watch; Back to Breakout!Bitcoin Business

Bitcoin Price Watch; Back to Breakout!

Yesterday afternoon, in the second of our twice daily bitcoin price watch pieces, we mixed things up a little bit. At time of writing we remained well within the range we had pre-slated as the one to watch for the morning session, and this gave…
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March 8, 2016
B2B Bitcoin Payments on the RiseBitcoin Business

B2B Bitcoin Payments on the Rise

According to BitPay’s annual report , business-to-business payments have made up over 10% of all transactions the firm has processed over the past 12 months.Global merchant payment processor and bitcoin solutions provider BitPay released its annual report for 2015 in January. The BitPayCT r: 17…
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March 8, 2016
Bitcoin and Puerto Rico Condom Price FreezeBitcoin Business

Bitcoin and Puerto Rico Condom Price Freeze

Puerto Rico is sick. A government-mandated freeze in the price of condoms, because of an explosion in the number of cases of the Zika virus, exposes at least that much. Unfortunately, the island territory is also afflicted by a second, even more dangerous disease, one…
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March 8, 2016

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