No, the EBA’s Bitcoin Regulation Proposals Aren’t All Bad
Jacek Czarnecki is an attorney at Warsaw-based law firm Wardynski & Partners, where he specializes in areas including FinTech, digital
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Month: August 2016
Moscow Opens its First Bitcoin Exchange
By Rebecca Campbell Days after Russian authorities reversed plans to penalize bitcoin use, the country’s capital has unveiled that it
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Why Bitcoin Is Essential To Abra’s Global Payments App
By Bitcoin Magazine Bill Bardhydt has been trying to solve the problem of mobile money transfers for over a decade
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Bitcoin Trading Booms, Set To Spike in Japan As Regulation Improves
By Olusegun Ogundeji The push for the next spike in Bitcoin price could come from Japan very soon. More exchange
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Stealing bitcoins with badges: How Silk Road’s dirty cops got caught
By Cyrus Farivar and Joe Mullin DEA Special Agent Carl Force wanted his money—real cash, not just numbers on a screen—and he
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Bitfinex: Cause of Bitcoin Hack Still ‘Unknown’
By Stan Higgins early two weeks after losing more than $60m in customer funds, Bitfinex reports it has not yet
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Bitcoin naysers are wrong, says former SEC chief
by Martin Essex A former chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a stout defence of the
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Tether and its Partners To Disrupt Conventional Trading On Bitcoin Blockchain
By Iyke Aru In disrupting the legacy financial systems, Tether Inc. in conjunction with partner exchanges have announced the launch
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Bringing Bitcoin to the Masses: Captain Drakin’s Show Airs Today
By Amelia Tomasicchio Bitfilm Production is the creator of a new Bitcoin show called “Captain Drakins”, the first TV series
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Study Shows Bitcoin and Blockchain Investments Near $300 Million in First Six Months
By Rebecca Campbell A study conducted by Juniper Research has found that the total value of Venture Capital (VC) blockchain
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Mimblewimble: A Stripped-Down Bitcoin Version
By A slimming down of the bitcoin protocol called Mimblewimble generates a blinding factor that can prove ownership of bitcoins,
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New KnCMiner Owners Seek to Revive Bitcoin Firm With Acquisition
By Pete Rizzo A preliminary sale that would find bitcoin mining firm KnCMiner continuing under new ownership has been approved,
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Operations With Bitcoin in Russia Do Not Entail Punishment. Yet.
By Alisa Tciriulnikova Endless discussions For over two years Russian authorities could not make up their mind concerning the bizarre
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Bitfinex Announces 5% Bounty for Information Leading to Recovery of Stolen BTCs
By Gautham In the beginning of this month, the Bitcoin industry witnessed one of the biggest hacking incidents of this
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TradeZero, Jered Kenna unite to create bitcoin ‘dark pool’ exchange
By : Tabish Faraz assau, Bahamas-based and Securities Commission of the Bahamas-registered online broker dealer TradeZero has partnered with bitcoin
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Decentralization & Governance: Can Bitcoin Have the Best of Both?
By Ariel Deschapell Ariel Deschapell is content manager for blockchain real estate startup Ubitquity, and a recent Henry Hazlitt fellow
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Renowned Futurologist Predicts $4,000 Bitcoin
By Justin OConnell Climate change. Riots. Food shortages. Water shortages. General suffering. Cliff High foresees doom! He tries to not
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Bitcoin’s technology has a surprising fan: IBM
by Stephen Shankland Bitcoin has a bad rap as the preferred currency of drug dealers. But that isn’t stopping IBM
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Bank Group Calls for Broader Oversight of EU Bitcoin Services
By Stan Higgins The European Banking Association (EBA) has called for more details regarding the European Union’s (EU) plan to
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The Two Faces of Bitcoin Regulation
By Martin Tillier When it comes to Bitcoin, not all regulation is created equal. There are things that all regulatory
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Bitcoin Traders Made 700% Returns Before Losing Millions in Hack Attack
By Yuji Nakamura Lulu Yilun Chen For years, Tian Jia made the kind of returns on his money that investors
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Bitcoin Or Ethereum, Which Blockchain Is Right For Your Startup?
By Jonathan Chester The past couple months have been quite the roller coaster in the world of public blockchains. $125
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Envisioning Bitcoin’s Technology at the Heart of Global Finance
By NATHANIEL POPPER A new report from the World Economic Forum predicts that the underlying technology introduced by the virtual
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Survey: Bitcoin Users Lose Money to Hackers, Exchange Shutdowns
By Rebecca Campbell A survey by an Irish company has found that one in six bitcoin users worldwide lose money
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TradeZero Platfom Opens Off-Chain Exchange, Accepts BTC
by: Tyson O’Ham TradeZero has announced today that they will be partnering with Jered Kenna to create an off-chain “Dark
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Authorities Hint At Potential Bitcoin Taxation In Russia
By JP Buntinx Bitcoin in Russia will never be a favorite combination by the look of things. Even though the
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Pantera Partner Steve Waterhouse Exits Bitcoin Investment Firm
By Pete Rizzo Pantera Capital partner and chief technology officer Steven Waterhouse has departed the bitcoin and blockchain-focused venture capital firm. Founded
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