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As Bitcoin ETF Nears, Analysts Warn of Trading Frenzy

07/02/2017(1)
If the Securities and Exchange Commission approves a bitcoin exchange-traded fund next month, it might set off a speculative rush into bitcoin. An easily accessed ETF that tracks the ... Read More
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DFS grants virtual currency license to Coinbase

18/01/2017(0)
Financial Services Superintendent Maria T. Vullo today announced that the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has approved the application of Coinbase, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary ... Read More
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Goldman Sachs Drops Out of R3 Blockchain Group

22/11/2016(0)
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has dropped out of the R3 CEV LLC blockchain group. The investment bank was one of nine original members of R3, founded in 2014 to explore the ... Read More
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Bitcoin Prices in India Soar Amid Demonetization Drive

15/11/2016(0)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to combat the underground economy is a blessing in disguise for companies working in the cashless space, which includes mobile wallets, card companies and ... Read More
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Bitcoin scammer busted by Dubai Police

11/11/2016(0)
A scam artist conned three young men out of hundreds of thousands of dirhams worth of Bitcoins then spent the cash of living a life of luxury, Dubai Police ... Read More
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Japan set to drop sales tax on buying virtual currency

12/10/2016(0)
Japan looks to end sales-tax collection on purchases of virtual currencies in the spring, a move likely to propel the growth of bitcoin and others as alternatives to traditional money. ... Read More
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Low tax Zug aims to become Switzerland’s ‘Crypto Valley’

08/09/2016(0)
Zug town hall now accepts bitcoin  More than a dozen crypto currency firms operating there so far Government looking at changing regulation to attract more firms The small Swiss ... Read More
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Cryptocurrency exchanges under attack, risking repeat of Mt. Gox debacle

31/08/2016(0)
When hackers penetrated a secure authentication system at a bitcoin exchange called Bitfinex earlier this month, they stole about $70 million worth of the virtual currency. The cybertheft — ... Read More
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Cyber threat grows for bitcoin exchanges

29/08/2016(0)
When hackers penetrated a secure authentication system at a bitcoin exchange called Bitfinex earlier this month, they stole about $70 million worth of the virtual currency. The cyber theft ... 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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