Search Results for: Bitcoin exchange
LedgerX Selects Ancoa to provide platform for monitoring bitcoin options trading
March 2nd, 2015
Ancoa has issued a press release informing that: LedgerX Selects Ancoa to Deliver First Real-Time Market Surveillance Capability for Bitcoin Options Trading Ancoa and LedgerX today announced that LedgerX has selected Ancoa to provide the first real-time market and ...
ASIC issues stop order on pre-prospectus publications by Bitcoin Group Limited
February 13th, 2015
ASIC has placed a stop order prohibiting Bitcoin Group Limited (a proposed Bitcoin ‘miner’ in Australia) from publishing any statements concerning its intention to make an initial public offering of its shares until the lodgement of a prospectus. ASIC’s ...
The Federal Reserve Bitcoin Strategy
January 28th, 2015
This morning The Federal Reserve Bitcoin Strategy was released in a paper outlining multiple options for improving the U.S. payment system. In the past, Digital currency had been deemed too immature. Now, after pressure from private sector interests, the ...
Bitcoin finds a place among the world’s elite
January 22nd, 2015
More famous for being a renegade alternative to a world currency, bitcoin has managed to find a more prominent role among the global elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The Alpine resort plays host to a slew ...
Bitcoin dealer sentenced to four years in US prison
January 21st, 2015
Robert Faiella, 55, and an accomplice were charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and running an unlicensed money transmitting business. A New York court Tuesday (Jan 20) handed a four-year prison sentence to a Bitcoin exchange operator who ...
Bitcoin Review: Bitcoin’s New Year Starts With a Crash
January 5th, 2015
Bitcoin‘s price crashed over the weekend, losing $51 over two days. It opened on Saturday at $314.59 and closed Sunday at $263.63, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index. The plunging price got market watchers chattering as Sunday drew to ...
Statement of the National Bank of Ukraine on the legal status of Bitcoin
December 19th, 2014
Ukraine’s local chapter of the Bitcoin Foundation has spoken out against a recent statement by the central bank concerning the legal status of bitcoin in the country. In a document issued last month, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) ...
Chinese Official: Bitcoin Can ‘Co-exist’ with Fiat Currencies
December 16th, 2014
A former vice-governor of China’s central bank, Wu Xiaoling, has said that digital currencies like bitcoin “could co-exist with fiat currencies”. Wu, who is currently a member of National People’s Congress Standing Committee and a vice-chairperson of the Financial ...
Proposal To Form China’s First Bitcoin Advocacy Group To Test Government Attitude
December 10th, 2014
Established in 2012, the Bitcoin Foundation has quite a few titles – It is a “top trade organization”, an “unofficial organisation to represent the interests of Bitcoin”, a Bitcoin “lobbying group” and “one of the world’s leading advocacy groups ...
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 ...
