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MasterCard on blockchain: ‘We don’t want to be blindsided’
January 22nd, 2016
Blockchain — the technology that underpins bitcoin — is one of the most exciting areas of technology at the moment. It has the potential to strip out huge amounts of admin costs and companies around the globe are signing ...
Goldman Sachs Seeking Crypto Trade Settlement Patent
December 2nd, 2015
Goldman Sachs filed a patent application last month for a securities settlement system based on a new cryptocurrency called “SETLcoin”. In a US Patent & Trademark Office application, dated 19th November, Goldman Sachs outlines a “Cryptographic Currency For Securities Settlement” that allows ...
BoE Chief Economist: Blockchain-based Digital Currency Issued by Central Banks Could Replace Cash
September 29th, 2015
In a talk given at the Portadown Chamber of Commerce in Northern Ireland on September 18, Andrew G Haldane , Chief Economist at the Bank of England (BoE), has hinted at the possibility that the U.K. government might issue a digital currency. Though ...
One of the World’s largest Mutual Fund wants to trademark Fidelitycoin
July 27th, 2015
FMR LLC, which is the parent company of Fidelity Investments, has filed with the US Patent Office and Trademark Office to trademark “FIDELITYCOIN.” Application number 86699431 concerns “financial services, namely, financial exchange services for virtual currency; electronic wallets; charitable services in ...
What is a Blockchain Sidechain All About?
June 12th, 2015
If you’ve been keeping track of developments in the bitcoin industry, you’d know that the blockchain refers to the public ledger of transactions associated with the cryptocurrency. As the bitcoin ecosystem has grown in size and scale throughout the ...
NYDFS Announces Final Bitlicense Framework for Regulating Digital Currency Firms
June 4th, 2015
Benjamin M. Lawsky, Superintendent of Financial Services, today announced the release of the New York State Department of Financial Services’ (NYDFS) final BitLicense – the first comprehensive framework for regulating digital currency firms. The BitLicense – which is the ...
Citi Urges UK Government to Create its Own Digital Currency
May 29th, 2015
Around the same time as Accenture’s call for the UK government to regulate bitcoin wallets, Citi suggested that officials should look into creating their own digital currency. This has been revealed in the Treasury’s release of a document entitled “Digital ...
CoinPip Supports Merchants Internationally
July 16th, 2014
Singapore-based bitcoin payment solution CoinPip Pte Ltd has been working tirelessly to make accepting digital currency even easier for its clients and for merchants in over 122 countries. Using CoinPip’s recently updated system, merchants can now instantly convert their ...
Facebook Approves Dogecoin Tipping App
June 6th, 2014
Facebook has approved a cryptocurrency tipping app for the first time, and it’s surprisingly not Bitcoin’s. On June 5, 2014, Alejandro Caballero, developer of The Doge Tipping App posted an excited announcement on Reddit’s Dogecoin section. Facebook approves The ...
