Search Results for: bitcoin transactions
SpectroCoin Launches Bitcoin-to-Cash Service in 25 Countries
November 20th, 2014
SpectroCoin is now allowing its customers to convert bitcoin into cash in 25 countries across Europe and Central Asia. The announcement is the latest from the UK and Lithuania-based bitcoin services provider, which added merchant processing to its existing brokerage and ...
World Bank: Bitcoin is not a “Ponzi Scheme”
November 19th, 2014
Ponzi scheme: A fraudulent investment operation where the operator, an individual or organization, pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the operator. Many of the ...
BNP Paribas: The five ways Bitcoin can shake up the financial services world
November 12th, 2014
Bitcoin could become a market-leading technology that will change the way financial systems are engineered says BNP Paribas, in an analysis of the potential disruptive impact of the crypto-currency on banking and asset servicing. In an article for the ...
NODE Second Generation Cryptocurrency With Different Codebase To Bitcoin Launches
November 10th, 2014
After almost a year in development, recently launched NODE is a second generation cryptocurrency built from scratch in node.js that features encrypted messaging and NodePay launching in February 2015: the first hybrid international electronic payment system that allows users to pay ...
Bitcoin ATM Goes Live at Google’s London Co-Working Space
November 6th, 2014
Visitors to Google’s ‘Campus London’ co-working space will now be able to buy bitcoin and spend the cryptocurrency on a coffee or muffin thanks to its new bitcoin ATM. Conveniently, the UK’s first BitAccess-made machine is located in the ...
Interview with St. Louis Fed Vice President on Bitcoin
October 9th, 2014
Dr David Andolfatto, who is Vice President of the St. Louis Federal Reserve, has been one of the most forward-looking people at central banks around the world when it comes to crypto-currencies. Here he speaks with Max Rangeley, Editor ...
Greenpeace Now Accepts Bitcoin
September 23rd, 2014
Completely independent organization Greenpeace announced today that it now accepts donations in bitcoin, becoming the latest charitable institution to adopt the digital currency into its operations. Greenpeace devotes its efforts to ensuring a “healthy planet for current and future ...
Why The Bitcoin Price Dropped Today
September 19th, 2014
Normally in the Bitcoin world sudden price fluctuations ranging from $10-$30 can be attributed to market manipulation by large holders of the virtual currency. However, when the price changes greater than $30 in a short period of time there ...
Bitcoins to be taxed like shares
August 20th, 2014
BITCOIN and other crypto-currency investors will have to pay capital gains tax on the sale of these assets, according to new guidance by the Australian Taxation Office. People in possession of bitcoins don’t need to declare it to the ...
EU court to decide on tax-free trading of bitcoin
July 30th, 2014
Tax-free trading of bitcoin is on legal questioning at the European Union’s top court following Swedish authorities request to extend existing levies to virtual currencies. The EU Court of Justice must decide if transactions between virtual and traditional currencies ...
