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The ‘Bitcoin Island’accept the digital currency for everyday transactions
January 4th, 2016
Bitcoin: How the Isle of Man is leading a cryptocurrency revolution A scattering of businesses on ‘Bitcoin Island’ accept the digital currency for everyday transactions alongside sterling Like most coffee shops, Java Express in Douglas offers its clientele ...
Bitcoin is one of 2015’s biggest winners
December 30th, 2015
Gold is down nearly 10 percent, major U.S. stock indexes are roughly flat and energy commodities have nearly all fallen more than 30 percent: It’s been a tough year for investors. And while individual stocks have seen big pops ...
Barclays has two blockchain ‘labs’ in London and is planning 45 experiments with the technology
December 28th, 2015
Like pretty much every other major bank at the moment, Barclays is very interested in the potential of the blockchain, the technology that underpins bitcoin. The Sunday Times reported this week that Barclays is planning to let charities accept bitcoin later ...
11 Bitcoin Startups That Went Bust in 2015
December 28th, 2015
This year was a time of further consolidation for the bitcoin industry. After what you might call a ‘Wild West’ period (when it seemed everyone with the urge was setting up their own bitcoin-based service), the space is now rapidly becoming ...
Analysis – Record highs predicted for bitcoin in 2016 as new supply halves
December 23rd, 2015
2016 could prove to be the year that the price of bitcoin surges again. Not because of any dark-web drug-dealing or Russian ponzi scheme, but for an altogether less sensational reason – slower growth in the money supply. Bitcoin ...
How banks are trying squelch Bitcoin’s momentum
December 21st, 2015
There is no question that Bitcoin is causing a lot of worry and hand-wringing in the banking sector — and in national governments uncertain of how to regulate it. It is, after all, a highly disruptive technology — one ...
Bitcoin At Tax Time: What You Need To Know About Trading, Tipping, Mining And More
December 17th, 2015
If you have come into possession of Bitcoin or any other digital currency such as Ripple or Litecoin that is “convertible” to a real currency or can be used to pay for goods and services, it may seem virtual. But ...
Russia’s Biggest Bank Wants To Adopt Blockchain. Not Bitcoin
December 11th, 2015
Sberbank, the biggest bank in Russia might adopt blockchain technology in the future. The bank plans to join the international consortium R3 and develop blockchain based services. However, as in the case of other international big banks, it doesn’t plan to use ...
Banks are still betting on blockchain over bitcoin
December 10th, 2015
Bitcoin is back in the limelight, with speculation again swirling around the mysterious identity of the creator of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency. Intense media coverage caused a spike in the bitcoin price, following the publication of parallel investigations by ...
Bitcoin’s Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius
December 9th, 2015
Even as his face towered 10 feet above the crowd at the Bitcoin Investor’s Conference in Las Vegas, Craig Steven Wright was, to most of the audience of crypto and finance geeks, a nobody. The 44-year-old Australian, Skyping into ...
