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Romania’s first Bitcoin Exchange Shuts Down

16/09/2016(0)
BTCXChange was Romania’s first Bitcoin Exchange platform A Statement on the BTCXChange website on 4th September informed users that the platform is going to close down starting the 12 ... Read More
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Coinpit Takes First Steps Toward Trustless Bitcoin Futures Exchange

15/09/2016(0)
Coinpit is taking significant and innovative steps to offer a safer alternative to Bitcoin’s custodial futures exchanges. Thanks to Bitcoin’s multi-signature technology, users that store bitcoins on Coinpit remain in ... Read More
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One of Bitcoin’s Biggest Miners is Launching a Second Pool

14/09/2016(0)
As if running the third-largest bitcoin mining pool wasn’t enough, China-based Bitmain announced the launch of its second mining pool yesterday. Unlike the other large mining pools, though, the ... Read More
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Europol, Interpol unite to combat money laundering with digital currencies

13/09/2016(0)
Europol, INTERPOL, and the Basel Institute on Governance have formalised the establishment of a tripartite partnership for a working group on money laundering with digital currencies. The working group ... Read More
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Apple Removes ShapeShift From App Store

12/09/2016(0)
Apple appears once again to be restricting the use of digital currencies on iOS, with the removal of multi-currency trading app ShapeShift from its mobile App Store. ShapeShift’s Currency ... Read More
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DDoS Extortionist Copycats Continue To Hound Victims

09/09/2016(0)
It has been a while sine I wrote about this subject (or about anything at all for that matter) but, it occurred to me to today that the distributed ... Read More
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DLT Financial To Launch Top 10 Cryptocurrency Index

08/09/2016(0)
Recently rebranded from Tramonex, DLT Financial is a fintech company that aims to make virtual currencies an enticing asset class for investors. The firm has received a 250,000 GBP ($333,000 USD) grant from the ... Read More
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Low tax Zug aims to become Switzerland’s ‘Crypto Valley’

08/09/2016(0)
Zug town hall now accepts bitcoin  More than a dozen crypto currency firms operating there so far Government looking at changing regulation to attract more firms The small Swiss ... Read More
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SWIFT: Virtual currencies unlikely to crowd out fiat currencies

07/09/2016(0)
The SWIFT Institute has published a new research paper analysing whether Bitcoin will crowd out fiat currencies in the global community. The paper, entitled “Virtual currencies: Media of exchange or ... Read More
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Innovator Launches New Digital Currency eQuid with a Focus on the Money System Side of the Coin

06/09/2016(1)
eQuid will launch on select cryptocurrency exchanges in late fall 2016 after running a crowdfunding campaign to build support. When the currency is active on those exchanges, anyone with ... Read More
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