Search Results for: cryptocurrency
Bitcoin experts are having a spat on whether it’s a currency or a commodity
August 2nd, 2016
Bitcoin experts have weighed into a debate regarding the legal status of the cryptocurrency following a ruling by a Florida judge last week. Florida judge Teresa Pooler dismissed felony charges including money laundering against Michell Espinoza, who had sold ...
A Miami judge rules that bitcoin isn’t money
July 26th, 2016
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 down a verdict in the first money-laundering case in the ...
Gibraltar Stock Exchange welcomes BitcoinETI
July 26th, 2016
The Gibraltar Stock Exchange welcomes BitcoinETI (ticker: BTCETI), an asset-backed Exchange Traded Instrument that is invested exclusively in bitcoin, making it the first European regulated product for the leading digital currency. The Bitcoin Exchange Traded Instrument (ETI) was approved for ...
Coinbase is adding support for Ethereum
July 22nd, 2016
Since Coinbase was founded in 2012, hundreds if not thousands of Bitcoin competitors (typically referred to as alt-coins) were created. But Coinbase ignored the noise and remained focused on supporting just one currency – Bitcoin. But today that changes, as Coinbase ...
Russia to Treat Bitcoin as Foreign Currency
July 21st, 2016
Depending on how soon all involved parties can come to an agreement, the law proposal will be submitted to the Duma by the end of 2016. The status of Bitcoin in Russia has been up in the air for ...
Bitcoin Trading is Exceeding Gold Trading in Brazil
July 14th, 2016
A report has revealed that the total value of bitcoin trading among digital currency exchanges in Brazil has now surpassed that of gold spot trading on the Brazilian Securities, Commodities and Futures Exchange – the country’s securities market authority ...
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 ...
Bitcoin challenger YoCoin launches
July 8th, 2016
Cryptocurrency has become a phenomenon that will not be going away anytime soon, and YoCoin is leading the charge to take cryptocurrencies mainstream and make them accessible to everyone. Unlike most of the alternative cryptocurrencies, YoCoin is a decentralized, ...
Social Media Blockchain Steem Issues $1.3 Million Payout To Steemit Users
July 6th, 2016
Steemit users had countless reasons to celebrate this most recent Independence Day Weekend thanks to a special reward. On July 4, the fast-growing social media site Steemit distributed digital currency payouts worth approximately $1.3 million, or 10% of Steem’s ...
