Franc fallout. So … how’s your foreign-exchange trading going? Yesterday’s pick-a-number-standard-deviation move in the Swiss franc "caught everyone off guard," "sent the markets into a tailspin," is "likely to create more volatility in the short term," and left a lot of people very embarrassed or broke: Anthony…
The price of bitcoin remains relatively stable, while other cryptocurrencies experience more losses (IBTimes UK) Cryptocurrencies have experienced more mixed fortunes over the last 24 hours following a turbulent week for the markets. Bitcoin has remained relatively stable with just a 1% shift in value…
At a time when many bitcoin sectors are struggling, 2015 began with an outpouring of interest and show of strength for the crypto 2.0 community. CoinDesk profiled a number of the promising projects , naming 19 to watch in the year ahead, but as our…
Mt. Gox bitcoin protest Mark Karpeles The trial of alleged Silk Road ringleader Ross Ulbricht heated up today during the questioning of a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by the defense team, led by Ulbricht’s lawyer Joshua Dratel. The DHS witness, agent Jared DerYeghiayan, apparently claimed that…
People are Talking About… Bitcoin was supposed to be a substitute for gold , but now it’s behaving more like oil. Not the oil of 2013 and 2014 when the price spiked above $100, but the oil of today with prices below $50. Bitcoin prices…
Following a lengthy silence in the media, CoinTerra CEO Ravi Iyengar has emerged on the offensive, seeking to clarify the current state of his bitcoin mining firm, one that has recently been rocked by questions about its solvency. Speaking to CoinDesk as part of a…
Elliptic, a UK-based digital currency services company, announces it had received ISAE 3402 accreditation from "Big Four" Dutch firm, KPMG. The accreditation from KPMG followed a review and audit of Elliptic ‘s financial controls, regulatory compliance, internal access controls and other areas including code deployment,…
SilentVault’s anonymous peer-to-peer, multi-asset Bitcoin wallet and exchange platform uses sophisticated technology to enable anonymous communication and secure off-blockchain transactions for Bitcoin and Litecoin. The company is now announcing a change in personnel with the the transition of SilentVault founder Sean Daley who is leaving…
Inside U.S. v. Ulbricht. Illustration by Susie Cagle. On October 2, 2013, Ross Ulbricht was arrested at the Glen Park branch of the San Francisco Public Library, his laptop open and connected to the library wi-fi. The government claims he is the Dread Pirate Roberts,…
New York police arrested an 18-year-old Bitcoin trader on Tuesday after he allegedly beat his roommate to death with a hammer inside their luxury Queens apartment. Quentin Capobianco, a Bitcoin entrepreneur and paralegal, who worked in both capacities with his roommate, attorney Jesse Smith, allegedly…
Russia is apparently having a hard time making up its mind about bitcoin. One minute it’s completely against it . Then, the very law laying out the disapproval is criticized and rejected . Now, citing a court order from September 2014, the country has blacklisted…
A proposed UK bill could end anonymity in Bitcoin transactions by logging of all content accessed via UK ISPs. This will leave only services such as DarkWallet as truly anonymous options, placing them firmly in the sights of UK lawmakers seeking “the legal power to…
The Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications (Roskomnadzor in Russian) has blacklisted five Bitcoin-related websites. Roskomnadzor has effectively blocked access to Bitcoin.org – an online community of cryptocurrency users and specialists supported by the Bitcoin Foundation – entering it into a registry of…
Russia’s media watchdog has blocked access to a number of bitcoin-related sites, citing a court order from 30th September. The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) allows visitors to check whether or not a site is blacklisted . At press…
Bitreserve has closed its crowdfunding campaign after raising over $9m. The final total, one of the largest recorded in the digital currency sector for a crowdfunded initiative, reached $9,620,802 (£6,363,024) after 157 investors bought 11.27% of the equity offered. Tim Parsa, Bitreserve’s president of global strategy and…
Perianne Boring Talks Anti-Money Laundering Compliance and the Boot Camp Offered at TNABC Flike Tweet G+1Pin Perianne Boring is the president of the Digital Chamber of Commerce . The chamber will be hosting an Anti-Money Laundering Boot Camp at the North American Bitcoin Conference 2015…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. crackdown on use of the digital currency bitcoin for drug trafficking and other crimes is headed for its highest-profile test yet, as a trial begins for the alleged creator of an online marketplace catering to vice. Jury selection is…
Ross Ulbricht Flike Tweet G+2PinSome are labeling it the trial for Internet freedom, others – freedom to retain some privacy – but it will center around one man. The alleged operator of Silk Road known by his pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR) was identified by…
The bitcoin blockchain can be utilized to store transaction records in its public ledger database, but that is far from its only use case. Novel real-world applications in the fields of smart contracts and intellectual property rights , have begun to surface, providing a glimpse of the…
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Dec. 30, 2014 (Mimesis Law) — Houman Shadab, professor at New York Law School, talks with Lee Pacchia about the emerging regulatory landscape for people and companies using bitcoin. Click here to view full article
People Are Talking About … This week in hilarious bloviating: Activist investment firm Starboard Value warned Yahoo in a letter that it doesn’t like rumors that Marissa Mayer might want to buy Scripps Networks or Time Warner’s CNN . I don’t like those rumors much…
Bitcoin mining firm CoinTerra has put many of its customers on edge. While the company website is remaining operational, many users are receiving emails that the firm is unable to issue any payments following a default on its “secured notes,” an alleged form of debt….
For Purse.io has announced plans to offer a $10,000 guarantee plan to protect users from any costs related to purchasing items through its website. The program, launched on 7th January, will also be available retrospectively to users who report incidents on any past transactions. Andrew…
One element of cybersecurity that is often overlooked is the impact of the cyber world on people’s physical security. Parents seeking to protect their children are often aware of concerns such as cyberbullying and adolescents making inappropriate social media posts, but remain uninformed about the…
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For those who exist in the gray and darker areas of the legal spectrum, pre-paid “burner” phones offer a convenient, workable way to avoid surveillance. Buy a phone at a gas station with some prepaid minutes, call or text your clients, get rid of the…
The price of bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies has steadily increased in recent days (IBTimes UK) Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies have enjoyed a steady resurgence following the market-wide crash at the beginning of the year. Over the last 24 hours bitcoin, dogecoin, paycoin and…
“Our connection to Bitcoin is that we share the community’s passion for decentralization and its ability to re-address the balance of power.” —MaidSafe COO Nick Lambert A recent article published on CoinTelegraph, entitled MaidSafe Founder Seeks Monopoly on ‘Distributed Network System,’ caused some unintended controversy….
Bitcoin mining hardware firm CoinTerra has been the subject of speculation this week, as emails purportedly sent by the company to customers of its cloud mining service suggest the firm has defaulted on debt obligations. The email, signed by a representative of the CoinTerra support…
Oh, ye of “too much faith!” Those who follow the “Bitcoin Jesus,” as he’s come to be called will not be able to witness their leader rise to the top on U.S. soil. As it so happens, bitcoin evangelist Roger Ver is being denied entry…
Arnhem Bitcoinstad In October of 2014, CoinTelegraph reported that the city of Arnhem in the Netherlands had become the densest concentration of Bitcoin merchants in the world. And in November, the organizers held a successful six month anniversary event entitled “Arnhem Bitcoin Metropolis,” which attracted…
Bitcoin entrepreneur Roger Ver has been effectively locked out of his native USA after this week being denied a non-immigrant visa for the third time. Ver, who publicly gave up his US citizenship in 2014, was planning to speak at the North American Bitcoin Conference…
ForexMinute.com – In response to US Treasury Department’s invitation for a roundtable discussion on Financial Access for Money Services Businesses (MSB) next week, the Chamber of Digital Commerce recently formed Financial Access Task Force – a team that will highlight the banking accessibility issues faced…
Coin Center In September, Coin Center announced that they were launching a blockchain-technology think tank with a $1 million budget . Tuesday, they kicked off the website, which includes a number of resources. The think tank, which they call “ a new voice for Bitcoin…
Concerning Garza, TNABC and Bitcoin Media: ‘Down with Everything Associated with Anyone’ (Op-Ed) Paycoin was announced back in November and became a media darling, thanks to backing by Josh Garza’s GAW Bitcoin mining company and a promised feature set that was longer than a rich…
Coin Center, a non-profit research and advocacy centre, announced today the launch of its new website that offers educational resources and detailed information about the organisation. The group focuses on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies such as bitcoin. It provides updates on advocacy…
The US Treasury Department plans to spell out the government perspective on financial access for money services businesses (MSBs), as well as hear concerns from the MSB community, at a roundtable discussion next week. In response to the announcement of the meeting, the Chamber of Digital Commerce (CDC) has…
Understanding Bitcoin (Wiley, 2015) At the core of this scholarly book is a dissection of bitcoin’s biggest achievement. That is the transmission of value over the internet, an inherently insecure channel, without any reliance on a trusted third party. Even the harshest critics of bitcoin…
CoinTelegraph can reveal that reports of Bitreserve facing a trademark lawsuit because of its use of the name “Bitgold” are unfounded. A recent article in Altcoin Press suggested that Nick Szabo, who supposedly trademarked the name “Bitgold”, could bring a lawsuit against the digital money…
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The company is set to launch a constellation of nano-satellites that will act not only as depositories for digital cash, but also as a platform to provide global and universal access to remote areas around the globe where payment infrastructures are non-existent. “Our goal is…
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DBO, California California’s financial services and money transmitters regulator did not rule on whether it would regulate bitcoin at a scheduled December meeting. The meeting of California’s Department of Business Oversight (DBO) was first revealed in early December by Bloomberg . Though details were scarce,…
The City of New York is following the same path as the state in trying to use regulation to push Bitcoin into obscurity. A Manhattan Community Board ruled that a Bitcoin decentralization block party would be refused permits. The block party was a co-venture between…
Chip, computer 2014 may be remembered as the year the bitcoin protocol became unrealistically lauded as a magic cure-all to problems plaguing everything from cancer research to copyright law. What may have been lost in this stream of sometimes sensational headlines is that, while bitcoin’s…
Anarchist activist Cody Wilson has officially launched his candidacy for the upcoming Bitcoin Foundation board elections, and reaffirmed his intention to try and disband the organization from within if successful. Wilson nominated himself with a post on the foundation’s forums on 20th December and has…
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Microsoft caused quite a stir earlier this month when it announced that customers could use bitcoin to pay for certain content in the Windows and Xbox stores. While not accepting bitcoin on a global scale just yet, Microsoft has mentioned that it is experimenting with…
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This will not happen next year. Photographer: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images” src=”http://media.gotraffic.net/images/iCMjbI3vm5KU/v3/620×349.jpg”> This will not happen next year. As 2014 draws to a close, I offer my predictions for the new year. Some are serious, some are whimsical, most are heartfelt. They are not listed in…
Bitcoin Analysis Note from the Author: Please see ( @Tone_LLT ) for more timely updates throughout next week on price developments and latest charts. Last Week’s Review Last Week we concluded with the following: Because just 14 months ago the price of a bitcoin was…
It appears that an extortionist is aiming to make life hard for certain bitcoin adopters. It has been reported that during the final stages of his battle with ALS , early bitcoin enthusiast Hal Finney spent a long and arduous 30 minutes shivering on his…
Global tech giant and Internet pioneer Microsoft ignited a new wave of interest in both bitcoin and its brand with its surprise December announcement that it had integrated the digital currency as a payment option for digital goods. While widely lauded by the bitcoin community…
The digital currency wedding industry is taking off with iDIAMONDS offering diamond rings for Bitcoin. Following the first blockchain wedding at Coins in the Kingdom in late 2014, the wedding industry is taking note, as everything from rings to wedding dresses becomes savvy to the…
A company based out of New York City called HyprKey aims to accomplish a three-factor level of security that credit cards, Apple Pay, CurrentC and Bitcoin haven’t. The day of paying for goods and services with our mobile devices instead of swiping credit cards is…
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Banco Central del Ecuador (BCE) announced it has officially entered into the first phase of the establishment of its own electronic cash system, asking citizens over 18 years old to open an account using their smartphones. Starting from December 23, Ecuador citizens over 18 years…
The Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay may never make it to its teenage years. The popular file sharing site, launched in 2003, was recently taken offline following a raid by Swedish police. It’s a sad event for a site that is supposed to be all…
Coinbase has recently been demonstrating why consumer regulation is such a problem . The company seems to be tracking what their customers are buying with Bitcoin and closing any accounts involved in transactions that the company objects to. It is probably no secret that Bitcoiners…
File Sharing I’ve been venturing into new subreddits lately (after patronizing /r/Bitcoin almost exclusively for a year). This branching out lead me to /r/cryptocurrency , where I stumbled upon a sort of manifesto for the decentralization of all the things. It’s compelling. Here’s a breakdown…
Politicians rarely think about the long-term implications of policy proposals and nowhere is this more evident than in the Russian Federation. Vladimir Putin’s policies have turned the Russian economy into a shambles and the icing on this particular cake may well be his policies concerning…
Roger Dingledine Tor founder Roger Dingledine has reported today that some of the network specialized servers have been compromised. Websites on the Tor network have been under attack by government law enforcement agencies for more than a year, beginning with the take down of the…
Russia and bitcoin have not exactly been on good terms. The country showed a particularly strict attitude towards the digital currency and was looking to enforce a ban that would threaten any users with heavy fines and other forms of punishment should they engage in…
Kevin Dowd Kevin Dowd is a professor of Economics and Finance at Durham University. A libertarian and fierce advocate of private money over government-issued and controlled alternatives, Dowd has written extensively about Bitcoin, in addition to presenting on the issues surrounding it. Dowd is no…
Bitcoin Review 2014 Part I: Price and Commerical Activity CoinTelegraph has put together a research report on Bitcoin’s journey through 2014. This year has seen many unprecedented events in cryptocurrency, and we’d like to highlight the main ones for readers. The report contains infographics, summary…
by John Light Washington Post columnist Henry Farrell has just added himself to the Nakamoto Institute’s running list of skeptics making bold assertions about the certain demise of Bitcoin. In a post entitled “ Bitcoin’s financial network is doomed ,” Mr. Farrell demonstrates his short-sightedness…
It’s safe to say that 2014 was an interesting year for bitcoin. As core development on the bitcoin protocol continued to strengthen the technological foundation of the digital currency, members of the bitcoin community had a significant impact on the ‘front-end’ of the budding industry…
Even though 2015 is right around the corner, some might say that bitcoin was still in its ‘Wild West’ days throughout the course of this year. While it’s easy to appreciate all of bitcoin’s best qualities – it’s cheap, fast and reliable, to name a…
John Beccia is general counsel and CCO for Circle, a consumer finance company that uses bitcoin technology to make money transfers and payments instant, secure, global and free. In this article, he shares his wish list for regulators focused on digital currency. It’s the time of year…
A year ago, Finnish bitcoin entrepreneur Risto Pietilä attempted to compile a list of the top publicly known bitcoin holders. Assuming his list is accurate (which it probably isn’t), if you add up the alleged top-20 largest holders of bitcoin, these individuals control roughly 4.44m…
All was quiet in the bitcoin markets this week, with price and trading volume both remaining relatively flat. The bitcoin price opened the week at $375.24 and climbed just under $2 to close the week at $377.09, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index ….
A new attack on the predations of the financial industry was announced by Bloomberg on Wednesday morning with the revelation of a lawsuit alleging that both HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) had jointly engaged in price manipulation of the precious…
Zennet blockchain For several years now, kindly volunteers have been contributing their spare computing power to vast, distributed supercomputers, all in the name of worthy causes. Spare computing cycles have been used for everything from scanning cosmic radio signals for signs of extraterrestrial life through…
For many entrepreneurs, one of the most compelling use cases of blockchain technology is the potential for it to enable new marketplaces that remove traditional hurdles associated with investing and crowdfunding. The growing number of public crowdsales has been widely covered as of late. With…
Jonathan Levin is a digital currency consultant and entrepreneur. He previously co-founded and served as CEO of Coinometrics. Payment systems are systems of pipes and valves that allow monetary transfers between people all over the world. To most, they sit insulated from view. Even when…
Story Highlights Digital Finance Institute launched Will spearhead fintech regulation Related Articles Earlier today, it was reported that a brand-new Digital Finance Institute launched with a mandate to work towards supporting international financial technology innovation with bonds regulation that addresses financial inclusion globally. The Institute…
Decentral TV dashboard page Toronto-based co-working space Decentral has rebranded, dropping ‘bitcoin’ from its name and launching two new sites including a 24-hour bitcoin video news service. This will include the new Bloomberg-like information dashboard site Decentral TV , and a redesigned version of the…
The breaking news on Reddit today is an article by Ken Hess , “reporter” for ZDNet. The Reddit community seems to be in panic mode about Hess’s report that the United States Senate is poised to make Bitcoin illegal. A casual inspection of his report…
Jakob Kamminga, an official from the Dutch Ministry of Finance, has said that bitcoin transactions will "probably" be not liable for value added tax (VAT). His comments were made during a debate on bitcoin and tax at VU University, Amsterdam, on Thursday. This would mean that goods and services…
US Marshalls A second planned auction of 50,000 bitcoins seized by the US government from alleged Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht is attracting many of the same bidders who participated in the June sale of roughly 30,000 BTC taken from the illicit website itself. Many of…
Benjamin Lawsky, an increasingly familiar name in the bitcoin space, is once again making the news. Lawsky, presently serving as the Superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services ( NYDFS ), is reportedly leaving the regulatory body some time next year, according to…
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Blockchain Factory Facebook Twitter51 G+5Pinterest1 reddit Upvote Downvote submit inShare 4Art by: Jing Jin Last month we brought you an interview with Nathan Wosnack, David Mondrus and Matt McKibbin, who had left the crowdfunded Bitnation days before the launch of its crowdsale due to concerns over…
When John and I were invited to speak at Libertopia this year, I was extremely excited about the prospect of visiting California again. The last time I had been that far West was February of 2011 for the Freedom Law School Conference in Ontario, California….
Moving into the holiday season, the crypto 2.0 segment of the bitcoin industry continues to garner increasing attention for its efforts to expand the potential use cases for blockchain technology. However, after months of heightened activity and exciting launches that saw the community come into…
Australian Senate The Australian Senate will hold its first hearing into digital currencies this Wednesday morning (local time) from 8:30am–12:30pm, part of the Digital Currency Inquiry (DCI). Representing the international community at the hearing will be Perianne Boring of the US Chamber of Digital Commerce…
Justice statue Across the board, bitcoin requires forceful and aggressive legal defense, not complicity with governments in crafting policy and regulations. It’s going to get a lot rougher for bitcoin in the months and years ahead. We have to be prepared. As Rick Falkvinge, author…
The Digital Currency Council’s recently released study on UK citizens reveals that Bitcoin’s biggest challenges are around adoption and communications, and that digital currencies have got a persistent reputation problem. It is in light of the call for information made by the government of the…
It would be difficult to find a nonpolitician to agree that the United States has anything close to a functional Congress. The conservative wave that seems to be sweeping the United States political world actually does little to defend an entity that does not contribute…
Chalkboard, price A new research paper aims to understand bitcoin’s price fluctuations and usage patterns through empirical analysis. Notably, the work finds a positive link between media attention and the value of the cryptocurrency. “The rise of bitcoin has generated interest from the media and scientific community. However…
News Roundup More merger Monday. Bloomberg’s MA function tells me that 98 mergers and acquisitions were announced yesterday, including the acquisitions of five malls by Macerich and eight farms by Farmland Partners . But the headline is the $100 billion or so in two deals…
Facebook39 Twitter20 G+Pinterest reddit Upvote Downvote 3 points inShare 1Factom, a recently announced decentralized protocol aiming to solve the Bitcoin blockchain’s problems of speed, cost and bloat, releases API and white paper.The lead developers of Factom , a new protocol built upon the Bitcoin blockchain,…
Satoshi Citadel Industries John Bailon is Co-Founder and CEO/CTO at Satoshi Citadel Industries (SCI), a Filipino Bitcoin startup aiming to improve the lives of Filipinos with smart and innovative products related to Bitcoin. As of today, the ventures company offers as much as 7 Bitcoin…
Bitcoin Analysis Note From the Author: Please follow me on Twitter ( @Tone_LLT ) for additional updates to the state of Bitcoin’s price volatility. Last Week’s Review Due to the volatile action of Bitcoin, a special Mid-Week Update was published and in it we concluded…
Sign showing FBI emblem at FBI headquarters. A third of the 414 dark net addresses seized in Operation Onymous may have simply been ‘cloned’ sites with no actual illicit commercial activity taking place on them, according to new research by independent security analyst Nik Cubrilovic….
The importance of regulation was the topic of the day as industry heavyweights joined current and former regulators at Bloomberg’s bitcoin conference yesterday. Bitcoin: Beyond the Currency , held at the organization’s global headquarters in New York, drew an audience of roughly 200, many of…
Inside Bitcoins is kicking off their inaugural Paris event on November 20-21, and we’re offering our readers 10% OFF with the discount code BMAG14! The conference, which will take place at Espaces Cap 15, will explore the growth of crypto currencies, FinTech, business trends, investment…
In a November 6 interview in Dublin, Ireland, recorded at this year’s Web Summit , Gavin Andresen called Bitcoin “shady.” He was speaking of Bitcoin in the past, and said, “We’re quickly evolving to something that is much more mainstream, much more accepted, much easier…
E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share iconsReddit, the online comment and aggregation site that boasts 175 million users, yesterday announced that CEO Yishan Wong had resigned due to a disagreement over new office space. He will be succeeded on an interim basis by business development…
Bank of Canada On November 13, Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins gave a speech at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, on ‘Money in a Digital World,’ where she tackled the topic of ‘e-money,’ dissecting both the benefits and risks of such…
This year, at Riga’s International Economic Forum , CoinTelegraph had the chance to catch up with Yuri Ivanov , Head of Partner Relations at Russia’s largest and most popular social network, Vkontakte (VK.com). As of January 2014, VK.com had at least 239 million accounts. VK…
Australia Parliament Building Canberra A small addition to a pension application form provoked interest in Australia yesterday, with its request that applicants declare their "cyber currency" assets such as bitcoin. A printed reference to bitcoin value in a government-issed document such as this, according to…
Computer malware A county sheriff’s office in Tennessee paid a $500 ransom in bitcoin after it became the victim of a cyberattack this week. As reported by Nashville-based WTVF-TV , the Dickson County Sheriff’s Office ran afoul of a bug known as Cryptowall, a derivative of…
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Asking anything of new Reddit CEO Ellen Pao and company co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Reddit, the online comment and aggregation site that boasts 175 million users, today announced that CEO Yishan Wong resigned last week due to a disagreement over new office space. He will be…
With the recent successes in London, Las Vegas and Tel Aviv, Inside Bitcoins Conference and Expo , has proven to be one of the leading trade shows for the fast-growing Bitcoin and related cryptocurrency industry. Inside Bitcoins will now make its debut in Paris, France…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 299.4 Ph/s Embattled New York superintendent of financial services Benjamin Lawsky is rumored to be stepping down from his post in 2015. Sources told the New York Daily News the departure is expected as part of a reshuffle of several key positions,…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 302.8 Ph/s Mark Thomas Williams, a faculty member in the Finance and Economics Department at Boston University, presented his top-10 most significant risks associated with Bitcoin at World Bank forum. Professor Williams was invited to speak about ‘virtual currencies’ at the World…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 265.7 Ph/s Facebook Twitter53 G+4Pinterest reddit Upvote Downvote 9 points inShare 4Like many of us, David Mancini first learned about Bitcoin after reading a sensational news story, in this case a story about an early Bitcoin adopter who threw away a hard…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 265.7 Ph/s Facebook2 Twitter19 G+1Pinterest reddit Upvote Downvote submit inShare 2While much of the payments and financial world was in Las Vegas at Money20/20 last week, about 250 researchers, business people and policymakers met in Singapore to have a frank conversation about…
Former Federal Reserve Bank Examiner Mark T. Williams Says Bitcoin May Attack Sovereignty Former Federal Reserve Bank Examiner Mark T. Williams believes that if adopted in its current raw form, Bitcoin has the potential to undermine the longstanding bond between sovereign and its currency ….
Yellow Twitter pills delivered to the Random Darknet Shopper installation. Source: !Mediagruppe Bitnik Last week, a padded envelope was delivered to the Kunst Halle St Gallen, a sophisticated contemporary art gallery in the city known as the gateway to the Swiss Alps. The envelope contained a DVD…
This is a transcript of Factom’s introductory video . Speaking is President of Factom, Peter Kirby. The Bitcoin blockchain is one of the most amazing technologies we’ve ever come up with. It allows us to write a permanent system of record of basically anything, and…
Bitcoin Analysis Note From the Author : Please follow me on Twitter ( @Tone_LLT ) for additional updates to the state of Bitcoin’s price volatility Last Week’s Review Just a few days ago we concluded with the following: We remain slightly Bearish long-term though acknowledge…
Ted Cruz Art by: Jing Jin Ted Cruz might still be considered a newbie to the United States Congress the splash that he has made in his short time there can only be considered a building tsunami. Cruz has been compared by several media personalities…
Facebook5 Twitter41 G+2Pinterest reddit Upvote Downvote 1 point inShare 2Love him or hate him (I frequently do both), philosopher Stefan Molyneux makes an interesting point when he says that while many stand to see incredible lifestyle gains from Bitcoin, others stand to lose. And it’s…
Russia’s Ministry of Finance has reduced the proposed fines both individual and institutional bitcoin users would potentially face for creating, issuing or promoting digital currencies under a draft bill that seeks to outlaw the use of so-called "money surrogates" like bitcoin. The updated bill decreases penalties for…
Libertopia 2014 Live Stream Poster v01a.min The Libertopia Festival will be held in San Diego, California for its fifth year on November 14-16 and will be hosting a slew of speakers discussing Bitcoin and related topics. This unique festival/conference has the usual conference offering of…
Richard Branson stock image Sir Richard Branson has voiced his support for bitcoin ahead of the Global Digital Currency Conversation (GDCC) forum in Brisbane, Australia, this Sunday. The GDCC is due to coincide with this year’s G20 Summit on 16th–17th November, at the close of the G20 event. Organisers…
We’re excited to be continuing our partnership with Inside Bitcoins Conference and Expo , the leading trade show for the fast-growing bitcoin and related cryptocurrency industry, as they launch in Paris in just two weeks! The full schedule for this leading crypto event is now…
Epicenter Bitcoin Ep 51: ‘Everything that can be Decentralized will be Decentralized’ – David A. Johnston “If a government isn’t integrating blockchain technology in the next 5 or 10 years, not only will they be obsolete, but their currency will be gone.” – David Johnston…
THIS WEEK: —————————- Gavin Andresen: I don’t want to be ‘king of Bitcoin’ http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/20… Bitcoin Billionare Review http://toucharcade.com/2014/11/07/bit… Bill Nye supports Bitcoin https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bill-… Silk Road 2.0 was just the first: police seize more Tor-shielded darknet sites http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/07/op… Silk Road 2.0, infiltrated from the start, sold…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 281.8 Ph/s This December 6th & 7th, laBITconf RIO 2014 will not only be the first world-class Bitcoin Conference to be hosted in Brazil, but also the most important conference of the year in Latin America. CoinTelegraph is proud to announce that…
Gavin Andresen Web Summit The Bitcoin Foundation’s chief scientist Gavin Andresen has given his opinions on a variety of issues at this year’s Web Summit – an annual event held in Dublin, Ireland, that attracted more than 20,000 attendees this year. The summit has established itself as…
Trendon Shavers, a Texas man who ran a scam investment scheme called Bitcoin Savings and Trust, has been arrested in his home state. The charges filed against Shavers today are one count of securities fraud and one of wire fraud. Each charge has a maximum penalty…
Silk Road 2 seized At least 400 dark net web domains have been seized and 17 individuals individuals arrested in connection with Operation Onymous, an ongoing global cybercrime crackdown. A number of high-profile dark net markets, most notably Silk Road 2.0 , have been shut down…
Sir Richard Branson Endorses the Australian Digital Currency Commerce Association Sir Richard Branson explains why he endorses the Australian Digital Currency Commerce Association and supports Bitcoin in an op-ed. The founder of Virgin Group Sir Richard Branson, published an op-ed on the Australian Digital Currency…
Cops in the Republic of Ireland Seize 2m Euros of digital currency from the Darknet The Darknet, an encrypted version of the internet that enables anonymity, has become a tool that is being used by drug peddlers, has been exposed in Ireland by the Irish…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Texas man who operated Bitcoin Savings and Trust was charged on Thursday with bilking his investors, in what prosecutors called the first federal criminal securities fraud case arising from a bitcoin-related Ponzi scheme. Trendon Shavers, 32, of McKinney, Texas, was…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) together with the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York have announced that they have arrested ‘Defcon’, the operator of illicit black market website Silk Road 2.0. At press time, the Silk Road 2.0 marketplace was no…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 308 Ph/s Another Bitcoin mining company, this time in Canada, is facing fines from government regulators. The Dominion Bitcoin Mining Company of Saskatchewan has been under a cease-trade order since May of 2014. The order, issued by the Financial and Consumer Affairs…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 286.3 Ph/s DigitalTangible has been providing customers with blockchain-recorded metals ownership from its San Francisco location. Today in a welcome move for sound money-lovers across the pond, DigitalTangible has just announced their new partnership with Bitgild (Netherlands) and BitcoinCommodities (Germany) to serve…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 286.3 Ph/s Google is behind the latest installation of a Bitcoin ATM in London, it has emerged, with its East London Campus hosting the company’s latest foray into digital currency. The machine, which is the sixth in the UK capital to allow…
Researchers at the University of Kentucky have published a new paper examining the characteristics of US bitcoin users based on an analysis of Google search data. The paper, titled " Characteristics of Bitcoin Users: An Analysis of Google Search Data ”, resulted in some rather controversial conclusions…
Patrick Murck Newly elected executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation Patrick Murck participated in an ask-me-anything (AMA) session on Reddit today, engaging the bitcoin community in a wide-ranging discussion to mark his new appointment. Murck assumed his new position last week following the resignation of…
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In Pattern of BitLicense, the UK Treasury Willing to Bring in Bitcoin Regulations Realizing the importance of regulation for Bitcoin, the UK Treasury is seeking advice from members of the Bitcoin community . Looks like the government agency is inspired by the steps being taken…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 299.6 Ph/s The creator of the controversial BitLicense legislation has sought to make its effect more palatable for New York start-ups by offering them a form of temporary coverage. Speaking at Money20/20 Las Vegas , superintendent of financial services Benjamin Lawsky announced…
While Price Falters, Bitcoin’s Institutional Acceptance Grows It’s been a lackluster year for the price of bitcoins. In a few days, fans of the fledgling digital currency will come face to face with a reality that few would have thought possible at this point last…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 283.2 Ph/s Facebook2 Twitter30 G+1Pinterest reddit Upvote Downvote submit inShare 2Art by: Jing Jin A major Paypal executive is taking his talents to the Bitcoin industry, leaving payment processing giant Paypal to take a position at Bitstamp. Jean-Baptiste Graftieaux was Paypal’s chief compliance…
Antique cash register The bitcoin price continued its decline this week, deepening losses that began last week. However, fundamentals suggest there may be reason for optimism in the long-run. Bitcoin was trading at $352 at the start of the week, close to its high for…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has secured the authority to begin converting Butterfly Labs’ bitcoin holdings into cash reserves. The motion was granted by the US District Court for the Western District of Missouri on 29th October and marks the latest update in the case…
Swarm #1: Rick Falkvinge’s SwarmOps Project Rick Falkvinge, the author of Swarmwise (inspiration for Ethereum ) and founder of the Pirate Party , plans on shaking up the world with his new project called SwarmOps, which will be fully presented at the Swarm Demo Day this week…
Cryptocurrency Trading News: Bitcoin and Litecoin Attempting to Recover ForexMinute.com – Last 24 hours in the cryptocurrency market were somewhat optimistic as both Bitcoin and Litecoin recovered from the vulnerable falling channels. The short-term bullish sentiment was further reflected in other altcoins, including Dogecoin, NXT…
U.K. bank sets aside $1.6 billion for three separate issues–and may face penalties for helping French clients to evade taxes. HSBC Holdings Plc HBC became the latest of the world’s top banks to book a hefty charge against earnings as it prepares to settle with…
Bitcoin Analysis: Week of Nov 2 (Intro to Stochastics) Note From the Author: Please follow me on Twitter ( @Tone_LLT ) for additional updates to the state of Bitcoin’s price volatility Last Week’s Review In last week’s post we concluded with the following statement: We…
Like 1 Tweet inShare Benjamin Lawsky Proposes Transitional BitLicense for Small Cryptocurrency Firms 1 Like Tweet 0inShare 1 Share Email CevherShare Like 1 Tweet inShare Share Email ForexMinute.com – In his crucial speech at a Las Vegas event, Benjamin Lawsky proposed “Transitional BitLicenses” to reduce…
Like 2 Tweet inShare Bitcoin News Mash-Up: Silk Road Bitcoins Auction; NYDFS New Bitcoin Proposal; and More 2 Like Tweet 0inShare 2 Share Email CevherShare Like 2 Tweet inShare Share Email Following are the major Bitcoin news of the day Australian Officials Announced to Sell…
Finance Ministers in 51 Countries Declare Bank Secrecy Act ‘Obsolete’ Finance ministers from more than 50 countries recently signed the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement, with another 30 countries pledging to sign the agreement by 2018. The agreement, signed in Berlin, is an effort to end…
The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has announced that it is considering creating a special type of transitional BitLicense tailored to the needs of small businesses and startups. The special licensure would allow bitcoin startups that meet certain criteria to operate within a…
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SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 300.3 Ph/s Art by: Jing Jin Update: Justcoin has responded to our questions indicating that no such deal is imminent and stresses that they are still focused on getting users to withdraw their funds. Stating: "We’ve been contacted by many other digital currency businesses…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 338.7 Ph/s Facebook1 Twitter20 G+2Pinterest reddit Upvote Downvote 1 point inShare 1As happens in all brand-spanking-new industries, the first actors who come to market aren’t vetted yet. The vast majority of merchants in the cryptocurrency space don’t have lengthy records of successful…
Patrick Murck The Bitcoin Foundation’s new executive director Patrick Murck has outlined his priorities for the organization’s "new direction" and its relationship with stakeholders. His statement follows yesterday’s resignation of former executive director Jon Matonis both from the post and his position on foundation’s board. Notably, former…
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The bitcoin community could soon see another high-profile auction of bitcoins confiscated from users of the now-defunct online black market Silk Road. Australian law enforcement officials are now in possession of 24,500 bitcoins ( worth $9.4m at press time ) following the conviction of their…
Peter Oakes is a business strategist and non-executive director with particular interest in FinTech and digital currencies. He advises bitcoin firms and financial institutions. He was the first Director of Enforcement and Anti-Money Laundering at the newly formed Central Bank of Ireland, and he previously…
New Hampshire – the first colony to sever ties from Great Britain – is once again leading the revolution. Along with its centuries-long “Live Free or Die” culture, New Hampshire is becoming a Mecca for digital currency enthusiasts. In just the last few years, Bitcoin…
The owners of the troubled digital currency exchange MintPal are moving to take legal action against former Moopay LTD CEO and alleged scam artist Alex Green. Green, who was once known as Ryan Kennedy, is accused of stealing as much as 4,000 BTC ($1.3m at press time)…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 264.2 Ph/s Chances are, if you’re an early evangelist the idea of a marriage between ‘Bitcoin’ and ‘taxes’ makes you cringe, however, we have to face facts. Extreme changes arise from chaos or time and Bitcoin, as anticipated for the price of…
Let’s Foxtrot: Interview with BitPay CEO Stephen Pair & Executive Chairman Tony Gallippi Facebook Twitter40 G+2Pinterest1 reddit Upvote Downvote 1 point inShare 3BitPay’s CEO Stephen Pair recently announced an innovative new program that could very well change the way the internet works on several levels….
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 319 Ph/s Facebook13 Twitter63 G+6Pinterest reddit Upvote Downvote 1 point inShare 8Mike Gropp is the co-founder of the BitBays Bitcoin exchange and is in charge of the company’s compliance to the ever-changing landscape of cryptocurrency law.After working in the financial sector in California,…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 319 Ph/s Facebook3 Twitter23 G+1Pinterest reddit Upvote Downvote submit inShare 1While even the Bitcoin Foundation seems to be skeptical of increasing Bitcoin merchant diversity, an existing start-up has come forward to deliver some unadulterated good news on the Bitcoin ecosystem.The US Bitcoin…
US Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) has called for a crackdown on the dark web following reports that illicit marketplaces are thriving even after the government shutdown of Silk Road. In an open letter addressed to Attorney General Eric Holder and published by Schumer’s office on…
Following rumors that prominent members of the sector have been receiving requests for information from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), members of the crypto 2.0 segment of the bitcoin community are now stepping forward to deny these claims. The reports first surfaced on…
Popular bitcoin gambling site SatoshiBet has announced that it will now restrict US customers from accessing its platform. In its announcement posted on Reddit, SatoshiBet cited both the uncertain future of online gambling regulation in the US and future legal problems that could result from…
Oct 30 – Arthur Levitt The former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Arthur Levitt discussed the evolving regulatory landscape for bitcoin companies and the commission’s ability to keep up with fast-paced technological changes in a wide-ranging interview on Bloomberg TV yesterday. Levitt, who is…
There’s a vicious, global economic war raging and its outcome will be determinative for the destiny of humanity, and necessarily, also for Bitcoin. That sounds melodramatic, but it’s true. You don’t have to take my word for it. Warren Buffett, multi-billionaire and fourth richest man…
Bitcoin’s Potential for the Unbanked Seven months ago, the Bitcoin Foundation formed the Committee for Financial Inclusion. Andreas Antonopoulos was to head it, and things looked promising for a while. Since then, however, Antonopoulos has stepped down, following concerns about the foundation’s management . "No one stepped…
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IRS Seizes Assets on Suspicion Only: Bitcoin could be Next When the Reagan Administration declared its “War on Drugs” during the 1980’s, one of their first methods of attack was to go after the huge sums of money generated by the criminal cartels, a tactic…
Bitcoin News Mash-Up: FinCEN New Bitcoin Regulations; UK Court and Moolah; and More Following are the major Bitcoin news of the day FinCEN Releases Two New Bitcoin Guidelines FinCEN added two new guidelines in its existing Bitcoin regulations – FIN201-R011 and R2012-FIN-2014 – in response…
BTC/USD Still Down Despite Good News Yesoption Review The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network just released new guidelines for custodial Bitcoin exchanges and payment processors, and ruled that such companies will be listed as money services under U.S. law. It goes without saying that this a…
FinCEN’s New Bitcoin Guidelines Actually a Good News ForexMinute.com – The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FInCEN) released new Bitcoin guidelines for Bitcoin exchanges and payment processing companies in the US. The additional rulings stated that such organizations are subjected to fall under the category of…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 285.1 Ph/s Facebook3 Twitter52 G+1Pinterest reddit Upvote Downvote submit inShare 2 Note from the Author: Please follow me on Twitter ( @Tone_LLT ) for additional updates to the state of Bitcoin’s price volatility Last Week’s Review In last week’s post we concluded…
Swiss Bank UBS Executive Believes ‘Digitalization Is One of the Threats to the Financial Services Industry’ Swiss Bank UBS CIO Oliver Bussmann settled a system of internal working groups devoted to working on innovative technology projects and puts the blockchain as top priority. Oliver Bussman…
Poland-based bitcoin payment solutions provider InPay S.A. has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign that makes it possible to buy company stock with bitcoin. The public offering claims to have secured the approval of Poland’s Financial Supervision Authority ( KNF ), the country’s equivalent of the US Securities and Exchange Commission…
Bitcoin price resilience finally crumbled this week after two weeks of strength following the so-called ‘BearWhale’ slaying. The price opened the week at $386, holding steady until mid-week, when it began a steep decline. It closed at $346, shedding $40 over the last seven days….
UK High Court Moopay LTD and ex-CEO Alex Green have been ordered by a UK court to hand over 750 BTC to the team that developed the syscoin cryptocurrency. The final injunction, issued by the High Court in London, was granted in response to a request from…
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has released new guidance for custodial bitcoin exchanges and payment processors, ruling that such companies may be considered money services businesses under US law. In a response to twin letters submitted in late 2013, the chief US money laundering…
Andreas auction of ten trillion dollars… for charity! Between the efforts of Jason King and Andreas Antonopoulos, Coins in the Kingdom might secure it’s place as the most charitable Bitcoin conference of the year. At the end of the first day of the conference, Andreas…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 288.7 Ph/s Facebook16 Twitter45 G+5Pinterest1 reddit Upvote Downvote 15 points inShare 3 Will Hammer is the Libertarian candidate for the United States House of Representatives from the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Sixth District. The 27 year old candidate is running against incumbent Bob…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 285 Ph/s Florida Law Firm, Silver Law, has filed lawsuits against two Bitcoin companies on behalf of users who claim damages due to either company negligence or intentional intent. The Cryptsy lawsuit is the more interesting of the two, as Bitcoin Savings…
Lamassu Bitcoin Ventures Partners with IdentityMind Global to Offer Anti-Money Laundering Solution After reaching to a large number of countries with its Bitcoin ATMs, Lamassu Bitcoin Ventures has announced that it has partnered up with IdentityMind Global. According to the company the partnership is aimed…
Embattled mining hardware company Butterfly Labs has filed a motion to dismiss a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint against the company. Butterfly Labs (BFL) was shut down by the FTC last month following numerous claims of public misrepresentation and downright fraud. However, in spite of nearly…
Cryptocurrency payment processor GoCoin has teamed up with iGaming operator Cozy Games to deliver bitcoin, litecoin and dogecoin payments on its platform. The companies said the move will make Cozy Games the first regulated iGaming operator in the world to accept cryptocurrencies. GoCoin said recent gambling tax…
Last September 17th to 19th, the Digital Currency Summit was celebrated in Andorra, the small country placed three hours away from Barcelona; it was a three day debate forum which treated topics like the use and importance of cryptocurrencies for banks, governments, investors and general…
New York Law School The buzz surrounding Apple Pay may have initially startled some bitcoin enthusiasts, but industry experts continue to speak out on why the latest mobile payments solution is only passively interesting. At the Bitcoin Law conference , an event held at New York Law…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 242.8 Ph/s Bitcoin ATM manufacturer Lamassu Bitcoin Ventures partners up with IdentityMind Global to offer integrated Anti-Money Laundering and Compliance platform within Bitcoin ATMs. The companies announced today they had partnered up to provide international Lamassu Bitcoin ATM operators with integrated compliance…
Ecuador’s National Digital Currency Experiment Explained Facebook Twitter27 G+3Pinterest reddit Upvote Downvote 1 point inShare 2The tiny South American nation of Ecuador has begun its experiment with virtual currencies. The government announced earlier this year that they would be creating a government backed virtual currency…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 264.8 Ph/s Welcome to the new Alt-Cracks column on its new day: Thursdays. The main reason for the move is because I am selfish. I want the clicks and the eyeballs that come from bored crypto-maniacs browsing CoinTelegraph while pretending to work….
Blockstream has raised at least $15.18m toward a major funding round expected to close in the coming weeks, according to a recent Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. The filing also shows that Reid Hoffman, a partner at venture firm Greylock Partners and co-founder of LinkedIn, will take…
Different governments have taken different stances on Bitcoin. For example, Bangladesh has outlawed it and Germany considers it “private money.” Within the US, different states have different standpoints, as each state possesses respective laws. Japan has decided to take an interesting stance on it.Mt Gox,…
On Tuesday morning, the New York Law School hosted the Bitcoin Law conference, drawing entrepreneurs and enthusiasts from the New York City bitcoin community, as well as many of its own aspiring lawyers. The event was moderated and largely organized by Houman Shadab, a law…
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KnCMiner Stops Sales of Equipment, Mining For Themselves Instead Sweden-based KnCMiner is quite frankly tired of dealing with customers, evidently. And it’s one thing to curse at your unhappy customer while they are on hold. KnCMiner is saying goodbye to all of their customers because…
SHA256 ALGORITHM HASHRATE: 246.1 Ph/s Back in August, the New York Department of Financial Services pushed back the deadline for public commentary on its proposed BitLicenses. That deadline, October 21 , is here. In the last few days, two big names in the Bitcoin community,…
PayPal Co-Founder Peter Thiel: ‘Unlike PayPal, Bitcoin Succeeded in Developing a Currency’ PayPal co-founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel believes Bitcoin has succeeded as a currency, but still lacks as a payment system. On October 15, Peter Thiel was invited to the University of Chicago…
New York Central Park Just in time for the closing of the comment period for New York State’s ‘BitLicense’ proposal yesterday, bitcoin companies Circle and BitPay managed to have the final say on the matter – for now. In their comments, both companies expressed a number…
Open Mustard Seed, ID3 To members of more than 20 digital currency companies, the broad increase in financial access the industry hopes to achieve is currently being impeded by issues that go beyond finance and technology to defining transparency and identity in the digital age….
Bitcoin is Not Backed by Anything (And That’s OK!) Whenever you hear, “That currency is not backed by anything!,” it’s almost always meant as criticism. Hard-money enthusiasts are quick to point out the horrible track record of fiat currency. Nearly without fail, currencies “backed by…
Founder of Paypal and Tesla, Elon Musk thinks Bitcoin will mainly be used for illegal transactions (Reuters) Elon Musk, the man behind future tech giants Tesla Motors and SpaceX, has offered his thoughts on Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency. In an extensive interview at Vanity…
Circle Issues Remarks on BitLicense Ahead of Comment Period Deadline Circle is joining the ever-lengthening line of bitcoin companies to issue public comments on the New York Department of Financial Service’s (NYDFS) BitLicense proposal, it would seem. The Boston-based company’s General Counsel/Chief Compliance Offer, John…
BitPay Also Issues Remarks on the Proposed BitLicense Circle Internet Financial isn’t the only bitcoin company to issue remarks on the proposed BitLicense regulations put forth by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) today. Read: Circle Issues Remarks on BitLicense Ahead of…
Bitcoin Analysis: Week of Oct 19 (Intro to MACD) [Author’s note: Please follow me on Twitter ( @Tone_LLT ) for additional updates to the state of Bitcoin’s price volatility] Last Week’s Review In last week’s post we concluded with the following statement: “Our overall stance…
Is Bitcoin Better Than the Dollar? CNBC’s Worldwide Exchange takes a look Subscribe to CNBC International: http://bit.ly/1eiWsDq Brian Armstrong, co-founder of Coinbase, says bitcoin has better "properties" than the U.S. dollar as it relies on the "laws of math" rather than politiciansCNBC’s global business programme…
Millions of Dollars Worth of Bitcoin Reportedly Seized in Australian Drug Bust Australian newspaper The Age this week reported that millions of dollars worth of bitcoin has been seized in a drug bust spearheaded by Victorian authorities. Said report indicates that the Director of Public Prosecutions “obtained…
CannabisCoin Officially Redeemable for 1 Gram Starting October 20 – Interview with Founder Back in June, CoinTelegraph reported on CannabisCoin (CANN) – a PoW (proof-of-work) peer-to-peer digital currency that is intended to be used for legally purchasing cannabis from registered dispensaries. CANN is based on…
Russian Yandex Forgot Bitcoin Exchange Rate Russian Deputy Finance Minister Aleksey Moiseev informed a reporter that the Russian government would be banning Bitcoin within one year. That was in September, only a month ago, and it seems that they are moving forward much more rapidly….
Op-Ed: Why We Need Decentralized Due Diligence Facebook38 Twitter21 G+1Pinterest reddit Upvote Downvote submit inShare 1The recent happenings around BitNation illustrate how simply creating a coin and starting a crowdsale is not enough . We need due diligence around projects and an engagement mechanism that…
Bitcoin Exchange Coinsetter Launches proprietary HTML5 mobile trading application In an announcement Bitcoin exchange Coinsetter has said that it has brought in its proprietary HTML5 mobile trading application. According to the company sources it will place Bitcoin exchanges directly in line with mainstream retail FX…
For better or worse, the story of bitcoin in Brazil begins with Leandro César Marciano. An IT consultant from Belo Horizonte, Marciano founded and later sold the country’s largest bitcoin exchange Mercado Bitcoin following an alleged security breach, and launched Bitcoin Rain, an investment scheme…
BitStamp to Handle Over Unverified Accounts to the Government ForexMinute.com – BitStamp recently issued a statement regarding the “unverified” nature of its customers’ accounts. The Bitcoin exchange said it is liable to handle those dark accounts to the government, if not verified within 28 days…
“Inventor” of Bitcoin Sues Newsweek When most of us who are involved in the Bitcoin community think of its original developer we think about Satoshi Nakamoto. But we also know that “Satoshi Nakamoto” was very probably a pseudonym for at least one person and perhaps…
Lawyers talking A potential class-action suit against bitcoin mining firm KnCMiner is beginning to take shape. California-based attorney Charlotte C Lin has announced that her firm is investigating unlawful activities related to the sale and distribution of KnCMiner’s Titan and Neptune mining products. These include breach of contract,…
Bitstamp announced today that select users who fail to verify their accounts within the next 28 days risk having their balances forfeited to regulatory authorities. One of the largest bitcoin exchanges in terms of daily USD trading volume, Bitstamp stated that all users who fail…
Digital rights advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is supporting privacy, free speech and innovation through a new email campaign opposing New York’s proposed BitLicense. The EFF has crafted a pre-written letter for supporters to sign and send to the New York Department of…
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Lawsky of NYDFS Talks BitLicense at Cardozo Law School It wasn’t terribly long ago that I wrote about New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Superintendent Benjamin Lawsky speaking at the Cardozo Law School in New York City. That event took place on Tuesday evening,…
IMF and World Bank Both See Potential in Blockchain Technology The IMF and the World Bank annual meeting took place last weekend in Washington, DC. Among the topics discussed, which included the normalization of the US Fed monetary policy, the impact of diverges in emerging…
Bitcoin Software Developers Do Not Need ‘BitLicense’ The New York “BitLicense” proposal is most certainly controversial at the very least. There are of course many people who feel that Bitcoin should not be regulated at all and others who feel that current financial regulations can…
Bitcoin News Mash-Up: IMF Acknowledges Bitcoin; Bitcoin Operations Suspended; and More Following are the major Bitcoin news of the day IMF and World Bank Acknowledges Bitcoin Blockchain Technology This weekend, representatives of both public and private sector took part in a panel discussion. The purpose…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York will not require digital currency software developers to obtain a "BitLicense" to operate in the state, said Benjamin Lawksy, superintendent of financial services for the state of New York, on Tuesday. His comments came after New York extended the…
Coinbase Hires Former Senate Advisor to Head Its Government Affairs Department In a statement released Monday, Coinbase announced it had hired a DC veteran to “engage and educate public officials on regulatory and compliance issues related to Bitcoin.” John Collins, who has served as campaign…
Coinage Launches First Order Book Exchange in the Philippines; Pakistan Gets Its First Bitcoin Exchange Pakistani Bitcoin exchange Urbudit launched on October 11, with the ultimate goal of bringing the digital currency to the locals. At around the same time, the Philippines got its first…
Russia and China Partner across Finance; Apple and Others Threatened by Ban Facebook11 Twitter29 G+Pinterest reddit Upvote Downvote submit inShare 2In the wake of continued sanctions, Russia is turning to China to provide new financial possibilities, with signing a currency swap deal worth 150 billion…
Family-Owned Shot Bar Testing the Frontiers of Bitcoin Acceptance in Latvia Facebook18 Twitter80 G+Pinterest reddit Upvote Downvote submit inShare 2 SPOT Kafe is the kind of bar for which Riga is famous among Erasmus students and backpackers. Its menu of shots is a page long,…
A campaign has been launched to fund legal action against Newsweek on behalf of Dorian Nakamoto, the California man the magazine claimed was the inventor of bitcoin back in March. The campaign has set up a website called newsweeklied.com , a twitter account and a bitcoin address…
Bitcoin and Revolutionary Journalism Despite the recent drop in bitcoin’s price, cryptocurrency startups are now attracting more investment than ever and stories about major developments in the bitcoin ecosystem are being picked up by mainstream media on a regular basis. The New York Times reported the news that…
Ben Lawsky Developers, miners and individuals using bitcoin will generally not be regulated by the impending ‘BitLicense’ proposals, according to Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of the New York Department Financial Services (NYDFS). Speaking at the Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law, New York, Lawsky clarified that many individuals and…
Inside Bitcoins Conference & Expo , the leading trade show for the fast-growing bitcoin and related cryptocurrency, will be launching in Israel later this month after successful events earlier this year in Berlin, New York, Hong Kong, Melbourne, London, and Las Vegas. From October 19-20,…
Former Senate Adviser Joins Coinbase Team Story Highlights Coinbase hires John Collins Collins was a former Senate Adviser Related Articles FinCEN Ruling Does Not Classify Bitcoin Mining as Money Services Business 0 Comments 28.Dec Miami’s North American Bitcoin Conference Full Schedule Released 0 Comments 21.Jan…
In the Spirit of Transparency, Bitcoin Foundation Announces Reddit AMA Series The Bitcoin Foundation is planning to host a series of Reddit AMAs beginning tomorrow in the spirit of transparency. The Foundation’s own Jinyoung Lee Englund announced the series in a blog post Monday ….
Man Pegged By Newsweek as Satoshi Nakamoto Plans Legal Action The man pegged by Newsweek as bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is poised to take legal action for what he claims to have been a false story that took the cryptocurrency community by storm back in…
Indysci Founder Isaac Yonemoto: ‘I Was Presented with a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity to Develop a Drug without Patents’ As we reported last week, Indysci is a new project funds open-source scientific projects that anyone can look at, modify, or use. The first project on the agenda,…
Common Ads 3 The Institute of International Finance Discusses Threat of Bitcoin to the Traditional Banking Recently, the Institute of International Finance held its annual membership meeting in Washington wherein banking elite from all over the world convened to discuss many topics that included discussion…
Bitcoin services provider Coinbase has hired an in-house liaison to US policy makers who are drafting digital currency legislation. John Collins joins the San Francisco-based company as Head of Government Affairs in Washington, DC. He previously worked as a senior advisor to the Senate Homeland Security and…
As someone who spends one to two hours every day reading about Bitcoin, I assumed that the newly released documentary “ The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin ” wouldn’t have much to offer me. I assumed it would be some sort of primer for people…
European prosecutors are speaking out about a new pan-European project designed to combat dark markets on the web – and they’re addressing bitcoin as a key tool of dark market operators. The Illegal Trade on Online Marketplaces (ITOM) was started by the Dutch Public Prosecution Service,…
Bitcoin Foundation Urging NYDFS to Provide ‘More Research and Analysis on Bitlicense’ The fight over New York State’s “Bitlicense” proposal continues unabated as the Bitcoin Foundation pressures the state’s Department of Financial Services to follow its own rules. When the proposal was first released last…
Darkcoin Gains Wider European Exposure, Now Trading at Danish Exchange CCEDK Danish cryptocurrency exchange platform CCEDK announces it has started accepting Darkcoin, allowing the privacy-centered digital currency to gain wider European exposure. Hune-based cryptocurrency exchanger CCEDK (Crypto Coins Exchange Danemark ApS) announced on October 10,…
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Apple Pay Bitcoin Threat Apple Pay isn’t even here yet and, arguably, it’s already winning the war against bitcoin. Like the digital currency, Apple is disrupting the payments system, but people will probably use it more than they use bitcoin. Cupertino has carefully focused on three…
A member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines has introduced a bill that would seek to create a government-backed “e-peso” that would serve as an official medium of exchange for domestic online payments. Introduced as part of the E-Peso Act of 2014, the payments…
Due to Russia’s status as the ninth-largest economy in the world, its rising interest in non-cash transactions and its evolving payments ecosystem, the country has unsurprisingly been a market of interest for the bitcoin community, both domestically and internationally. However ripe for disruption the Russian…
National Bank of Serbia The National Bank of Serbia (NBS) issued its first statements on bitcoin earlier this month, echoing familiar warnings issued by central banks around the global. Citing statements from the European Banking Authority, the NBS confirmed that bitcoin is not considered legal…
Manx news outlet The Isle of Man Today reported Thursday that the Manx Labour Party has called for the island’s Department of Economic Development to conduct a risk assessment of cryptocurrencies, which apparently are giving Labour a cause for concern. Bitcoin, the party said, is…
When Bill Gates introduced the Windows® operating system it changed how we use computers forever and made Gates one of the wealthiest men on the planet. But it was also Gate’s unique business model that made Microsoft the powerhouse that it is today. Instead of…