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Why Bitcoin Remittance Services Should Leave the ‘Bitcoin’ Part Out
December 8th, 2014
The sister cities of Hong Kong and Macau currently house more than 200,000 migrant Filipinos between them. The breakdown is fairly homogenous in terms of occupation: the largest group consists of 160,000 Filipinas working on Foreign Domestic Helper visas ...
U.S. auction of Silk Road bitcoins draws 27 bids
December 5th, 2014
The U.S. Marshals Service on Thursday received more than two dozen bids for 50,000 bitcoins seized from the alleged owner of Silk Road, an Internet black-market bazaar on which authorities say drugs and other illegal goods could be bought. ...
Bitcoins Seized From Silk Road Offered in Second Auction
December 4th, 2014
The U.S. government will auction 50,000 bitcoins as it disposes the virtual currency seized after closing down the illicit Silk Road marketplace last year. Today’s tender is the second sale after the U.S. Marshals Service sold almost 30,000 bitcoins in June, ...
Australia probes bitcoin crime links as currency craves legitimacy
December 3rd, 2014
A top Australian law enforcement agency is investigating bitcoin’s role in organized crime, a senior official said, just as politicians and financial regulators embrace the digital currency as a legitimate part of modern business. The investigation into bitcoin’s crime ...
Bitcoin Fund Manager Faces HSBC Account Closure
December 2nd, 2014
Global Advisors, a firm based in Jersey that manages the first regulated bitcoin fund, has been served notice by its bank, HSBC. The firm said it received a notice from HSBC indicating that the company’s bank account would be ...
Bitcoin: Luxembourg Researchers find a way to unmask Bitcoin users
December 1st, 2014
According to CryptoCoins News, one of the stated strengths of Bitcoin has, from the beginning, been its ability to provide anonymity and a sense of security on the same level that cash transactions do. When one spends and is ...
Citi Sees Gold as Bitcoin Says Swiss Vote Makes No Sense
November 27th, 2014
The initiative requiring the Swiss National Bank to hold a fixed portion of its assets in gold makes no sense, according to Citigroup Inc., which said the metal was the equivalent of the virtual currency bitcoin. “There is no economic or ...
AUSTRALIAN GST BITCOIN TAX ANGERS ANDREAS ANTONOPOULOS
November 25th, 2014
No one currently knows more abut how Bitcoin works than Andreas Antonopoulos. He is a leading public speaker on Bitcoin globally, even educating the Canadian Parliament for his expertise on the digital protocol. He has literally written the book ...
Bitcoin Needs an Aggressive Legal Defense
November 25th, 2014
Across the board, bitcoin requires forceful and aggressive legal defense, not complicity with governments in crafting policy and regulations. It’s going to get a lot rougher for bitcoin in the months and years ahead. We have to be prepared. ...
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 ...
