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Bitcoin Sinks After Hackers Steal $65 Million From Exchange

03/08/2016(0)
Hong Kong-based Bitfinex halts trading, deposits, withdrawals Digital currency is down almost 20 percent this week Bitcoin plunged after one of the largest exchanges halted trading because hackers stole ... Read More
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Bitcoin experts are having a spat on whether it’s a currency or a commodity

02/08/2016(0)
Bitcoin experts have weighed into a debate regarding the legal status of the cryptocurrency following a ruling by a Florida judge last week. Florida judge Teresa Pooler dismissed felony ... Read More
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Bitcoin Startup Founder Resigns Board Position Amid Fraud Charges

01/08/2016(0)
The former executive chairman of a publicly listed Australian digital currency startup has been indicted by the US government for his alleged involvement in a fraudulent text messaging scheme. ... Read More
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Police in India nab “3gcoin cryptocurrency” head

29/07/2016(0)
Reacting to a complaint lodged by a victim, who was working in a reputed software company that the agents of “3gcoin cryptocurrency” lured him to invest in Virtual mining ... Read More
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Is this the end of Bitcoin anonymity? EU plans database of Bitcoin Users

28/07/2016(0)
The European Commission is proposing the creation of a database that will hold information on those using virtual currencies and that will record data on the users’ real-world identity, along ... Read More
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Visa Europe Partners for Bitcoin Micropayments Trial

27/07/2016(0)
Bitcoin micropayments startup SatoshiPay is developing a new proof-of-concept with Visa Europe’s innovation unit. Work on the project was first disclosed earlier this year, when Visa Europe Collab said that ... Read More
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A Miami judge rules that bitcoin isn’t money

26/07/2016(0)
Sorry bitcoiners, the US court system doesn’t think your digital currency is real money. At least, Miami-Dade circuit court judge Teresa Mary Pooler doesn’t. Yesterday (July 25), Pooler handed ... Read More
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Gibraltar Stock Exchange welcomes BitcoinETI

26/07/2016(0)
The Gibraltar Stock Exchange welcomes BitcoinETI (ticker: BTCETI), an asset-backed Exchange Traded Instrument that is invested exclusively in bitcoin, making it the first European regulated product for the leading digital ... Read More
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The founder of the Bitcoin Savings and Trust company gets 18 months in prison for Fraud

25/07/2016(0)
Trendon Shavers, the mastermind behind the disgraced Bitcoin Savings & Trust Ponzi scheme, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison on one count of securities fraud. In addition, ... Read More
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Coinbase is adding support for Ethereum

22/07/2016(0)
Since Coinbase was founded in 2012, hundreds if not thousands of Bitcoin competitors (typically referred to as alt-coins) were created. But Coinbase ignored the noise and remained focused on supporting just ... Read More
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