Search Results for: Bitcoins
Illegal Bitcoin IPO Actually Worked Out Pretty Well for Investors
June 4th, 2014
Today the Securities and Exchange Commission shut down a bitcoin investing scam that, as bitcoin investing scams go, is disappointingly un-scammy. A very bitcoiny guy named Erik Voorhees1 started some very bitcoiny companies called SatoshiDICE and FeedZeBirds,2 and he ...
Bitcoin’s Futile Quest to Be a Currency
June 2nd, 2014
Bitcoin is a fascinating and ingenious technology, but most promoters are mindful of neither the monetary nor the tax issues. For all practical purposes IRS regulations issued in March preclude bitcoins from being used as an alternative currency. The ...
Gox bankruptcy judge rejects CoinLab complaints over Sunlot Bid
May 29th, 2014
The U.S. judge presiding over the MtGox bankruptcy proceedings has rejected complaints by CoinLab that proposals to save the exchange are being unfairly executed. Last year, Seattle-based Coinlab had sued MtGox for $75 million over a botched deal. It ...
European Central Bank comes down against Bitcoin
May 27th, 2014
Yves Mersch, a member of the executive board of the European Central Bank (ECB), speaking at the Bargeld-symposium of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt, has come down firmly against Bitcoin. Whereas, this will probably not come as much of ...
U.S. authorities reportedly investigating Bitcoin businesses for connections to Silk Road
May 21st, 2014
Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. authorities are apparently renewing investigations into Bitcoin businesses and any potential connections to criminal activity. Specifically, renewed interest has surfaced in who else may have been connected to Silk Road, the shuttered online ...
Bitcoin: guide for tax purposes
May 19th, 2014
Interest in Bitcoin has shot up since the virtual currency’s inception in 2009, and many a contractor is considering how it could play a part in their business, writes James Poyser, co-founder of online contractor accountancy firm inniAccounts. While ...
Bitcoin’s Intergration to PayPal is under consideration
May 15th, 2014
John Donahoe, CEO of ecommerce giant eBay, said he is actively considering an integration of popular digital currency bitcoin with the company’s payment processing service PayPal. In a Q&A session at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on 13 May, ...
InstaForex Becomes Latest Online Forex Broker to Launch Bitcoin CFD Trading
May 14th, 2014
The list of online forex brokers entering the bitcoin market and launching CFDs of the digital currency continues to increase during 2014. Starting with Plus500 and AvaTrade in 2013, along with eToro, FXOpen, and Markets.com and many other smaller ...
Bitcoin promoter breaks silence on Cyprus fraud allegations
April 22nd, 2014
Danny Brewster, CEO of the defunct Cyprus-based bitcoin promoter Neo & Bee, has broken his silence, taking to the social networking site reddit to respond to allegations that he defrauded investors and skipped the country, racking up about 1 ...
Heartbleed Compromises Bitcoin Wallets: Digital Currency Also Built Using OpenSSL
April 14th, 2014
Bitcoin is the latest digital entity to be added to a growing list of organizations compromised by the Heartbleed bug. The Bitcoin Foundation said on Friday that the latest version of Bitcoin Core, the open source software that enables ...
