ACCC investigating banks’ closure of bitcoin companies’ accounts
by Paul Smith The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is investigating why Australian banks are closing the accounts of bitcoin
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Shares of Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC) Come Within 2% of Fair Value
By Leon Pick As the phenomenon of regulated bitcoin trading emerges, bitcoin prices and their related instruments are likely to
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BTCC CEO Bobby Lee Warns Bitcoin Investors about MMM Ponzi Scheme
Author Joseph Young Customers from Shanghai-based bitcoin exchange BTCC have been receiving incredibly high profitably bitcoin investment offers which appear
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What 2016 Holds for Bitcoin Businesses
Charlie Woolnough Charlie Woolnough is a co-founder of CoinCorner, a consumer-focused bitcoin services business. In this article, he gives his view
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Trezor: The Bitcoin Safe
Zane Huffman Bitcoin is a novel and innovative platform for making digital money transactions over the internet, and it’s cleverly
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Cyber Insurance — A Much Needed Thing for Bitcoin Sector
Gautham The number of hacking attacks on various companies, irrespective of their business have been on a rise across the
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Having a ‘Hard Time’ Spending Your Bitcoins? High-End British Escorts Can Help
By Nozomi Hayase Many people like the idea of Bitcoin, but find there aren’t enough things to spend it on,
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MMA welterweight Jon Fitch gets paid in cryptocurrency and, yes, he prefers it that way.
By Ben Gaurino Mixed martial artist Jon Fitch, a former top welterweight contender for Ultimate Fighting Championship preparing to headline
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Rogue DEA Agent May Face 7 Years in Jail for Silk Road Extortion
by Chris Miranda An agent of the Drug Enforcement Agency is scheduled to be sentenced on Monday for his involvement
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Now OpenCart Online Shops Can Add Bitcoin Payment
By Nikhil Gupta European Bitcoin payment processor BitcoinPay.com has announced that it has worked on a plugin which would allow
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Bitcoin Node Numbers Fall After Spam Transaction ‘Attack’
By Grace Caffyn The number of reachable nodes has declined further following an “attack” that overloaded the bitcoin network. Last week,
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Winklevoss Exchange Gemini Struggling to Win Bitcoin Traders
By Pete Rizzo Gemini, the long-awaited New York-based bitcoin exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and billed as the
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‘Voxels’ to become the first cryptocurrency to power a VR marketplace via Voxelus
by Kyt Dotson First debut at Oculus Connect last month, Voxelus (www.voxelus.com), the world’s first end-to-end virtual reality content creation
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Domain Registrar Gandi.net Will Start Accepting Bitcoin
by Samburaj Das Domain registrar and cloud hosting services provider Gandi.net, known for its “no bullshit” ideology and lack of
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SOB Q3 2015: Banks Embrace Blockchain Amid Bitcoin Funding Slowdown
Garrick Hileman CoinDesk’s latest State of Bitcoin and Blockchain report, sponsored by Coinalytics, summarizes the key trends, data and events from
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Fork The Banks Aids Bitcoin Adoption at Moniker Art Fair
Posted by B Holmes During October, Frieze brings the world’s most influential art buyers to London, and has spawned an
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Why Buy? Bitcoin is Free R&D For Big Business
Brian Worley The programming community has long been an independent and even grumpy group of individuals. Programmers have resisted any
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IDentabit: Bitcoin Minus the Anonymity
Sarah Jenn Perhaps one of the biggest characteristics associated with bitcoin transactions is anonymity, as transaction verification occurs through a
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Hedge Fund Borrows $10M in Stock Via the Bitcoin Blockchain
By Cade Metz Yesterday morning, New York time, a company called Clique Fund used the bitcoin blockchain to borrow $10
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Bitcoin exchange Bitreserve rebrands as Uphold and now offers fiat money services
by Duncan Riley Bitcoin exchange company Bitreserve, Inc. has changed its name to Uphold, Inc. as part of a repositioning of
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Bitcoin Firm Signs Compliance Deal With Banking Giant Barclays
By Pete Rizzo UK banking giant Barclays signed contracts with eight graduates of its New York-based FinTech accelerator program today,
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Ripple Sues Social App for $2 Million Over Trademark Infringement
By Pete Rizzo Ripple (formerly Ripple Labs) has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Kefi Labs, the makers of
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Mexican Retailer Famsa Integrates Bitcoin
By Grace Caffyn Latin American e-tailer Famsa is now accepting bitcoin for online purchases. The chain, founded in 1970, sells
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Blockstream to Launch First Sidechain for Bitcoin Exchanges
By Pete Rizzo Nearly one year after the release of its sidechains white paper, bitcoin technology startup Blockstream has announced
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Developers Propose ‘Proof of Bitcoin Node’ To Reinvent Bitcoin Mining Into Big Data Mining
by Elliot Maras SpreadCoin, a cryptocurrency, has released a “Proof of Bitcoin Node” (PoBN) that proposes using the block chain
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Scorechain Raises $570k for European Bitcoin Compliance Solution
Pete Rizzo Bitcoin compliance solutions provider Scorechain has raised €500,000 ($570,000) in seed funding from an undisclosed group of angel
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How Vogogo Simplifies Regulatory Compliance for Bitcoin Businesses
Gola Yashu The growing popularity of Bitcoin is finally pushing governments and regulators to create a legal space for this
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