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Evaluating the EU’s New Definition for Virtual Currencies
July 11th, 2016
The European Commission this week adopted a legislative proposal meant to bring virtual currency exchanges and custodian wallet providers under the scope of the EU’s Anti-Money Laundering Directive. This step should have been expected, as it has been clear that ...
Just How Big Is the Digital Currency Industry?
July 8th, 2016
New startups, new investment, new innovation and new ideas, we talk of them all often in the cryptocurrency industry, and often talk of the need for the industry to build into a wider audience. But what is the reality ...
An Everyman’s Guide To Understanding Cryptocurrencies
June 13th, 2016
Cryptocurrencies have a role that could increase as global currencies are devalued. When an asset rises by almost 30% in a few weeks, it tends to attract attention. Recently, that asset was bitcoin (BTC). The price of BTC in ...
Cryptocurrency Exchange Gatecoin confirms that lost $2 Mln in Hot Wallet Breach
May 16th, 2016
Gatecoin, the Hong Kong-based regulated and secure financial institution for blockchain assets has issued an official statement regarding the breach the firm experienced and lost 15% of our crypto-asset deposits. Below is the Gatecoin statement as it was published: ...
NY regulator approves Winklevoss bid to trade digital currency ether
May 6th, 2016
New York state has approved the application of Gemini Trust Company, founded by investors Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, to trade digital currency ether on its bitcoin exchange, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Thursday. Ether, an alternative currency that differs ...
Asian Stocks, Nasdaq Futures Slide on Apple; Aussie Sinks on CPI
April 27th, 2016
European shares fluctuate amid mixed earnings; Total climbs Apple, Twitter add to technology gloom as forecasts disappoint Treasuries rose, sending 10-year yields lower for the first time in eight days, and the dollar weakened, as markets signaled caution before ...
What actually is … Blockchain technology?
March 23rd, 2016
A new technology is causing a stir in the FinTech community: Blockchain has many market experts believing that it is the greatest achievement of the past decade for financial technology and the most important digital innovation since the internet ...
Five UK Fund Giants Partner up to Join the Blockchain Bandwagon
February 9th, 2016
In a recurring theme to confirm the financial industry’s collective fawning of blockchain technology – the distributed ledger that underpins Bitcoin – five of the UK’s biggest mutual fund giants are collectively exploring blockchain applications. The motivation? Cutting billions ...
How are banks actually going to use blockchains and smart contracts?
January 25th, 2016
Banks are now officially collaborating on connected distributed ledgers, something of a milestone in the blockchain narrative. But how are they actually going to use computational blockchains that can operate that well-known term of art – “smart contracts”? Dr ...
UK to spend £10m on cryptocurrency research
October 16th, 2015
Harriet Baldwin, Economic Secretary to the Treasury of UK, in a speech, that she delivered at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science, has declared a £10million funding for cryptocurrency research. Baldwin also mentioned that the country was working hard ...
