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Independent Reserve launches first Australian multi-currency bitcoin exchange
April 28th, 2015
Independent Reserve, the Bitcoin market, announced today that it had become the first Australian exchange to offer Bitcoin trading directly in both U.S. and Australian dollars. CEO Adrian Przelozny said the development would allow Australians to trade Bitcoin without ...
Coinsetter Acquires Canadian Bitcoin Exchange CAVIRTEX to Expand Company’s Global Footprint
April 9th, 2015
Wall Street-based Coinsetter will move CAVIRTEX headquarters office to Toronto and integrate its institutional-class exchange technology to offer Canadian bitcoin traders a best-in-class Canadian Dollar bitcoin exchange Coinsetter, the global bitcoin exchange based in New York City, today announced ...
Bitcoin Marketplace is shutting its doors
April 7th, 2015
US bitcoin marketplace Buttercoin is shutting its doors, despite launching with at least $1.3m in investor backing just four months ago. In a farewell post to customers today, the Buttercoin team announced the service will go offline this Friday (April 10th) at ...
Goldman Sachs Report Says Bitcoin Could Shape ‘Future of Finance’
March 12th, 2015
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are part of a technology “megatrend” that could change the fundamental mechanics of transactions, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs‘ equity research analysts. Bitcoin, along with improved payment security, ‘big data’ analytics and faster ...
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 ...
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 ...
SEC Sanctions Operator of Bitcoin-Related Stock Exchange for Registration Violations
December 9th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission today sanctioned a computer programmer for operating two online venues that traded securities using virtual currencies Bitcoin or Litecoin without registering the venues as broker-dealers or stock exchanges. The programmer, Ethan Burnside, also was ...
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, ...
