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Citi, HSBC Partner With R3CEV As Blockchain Project Adds 13 Banks
September 30th, 2015
Distributed ledger startup R3CEV has added 13 new banking partners, bringing the total number of banks involved in its activities to 22. In a release, R3 revealed Bank of America, BNY Mellon, Citi, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Mitsubishi UFJ ...
Blockchain Identity: Solving the Global Identification Crisis
September 28th, 2015
Bitcoin and the underlying technology of the blockchain has become a pretty important invention of our time. The cryptocurrency application itself has given us a sketch of new meanings that apply to money and mediums of exchange. The blockchain ...
Russia Planning to Criminalize Bitcoin Activities
September 24th, 2015
The debate whether Bitcoin should be banned in Russia is once again picking momentum. According to a report of Interfax, the Russian government lately approached the regulators with its plan to criminalize the use and issuance of Bitcoin under ...
Is Bitcoin here to stay? Experts are still torn
September 24th, 2015
The digital currency has been called everything from a fad to the next big thing. Will Bitcoin go away? That’s the question that digital currency experts debated Monday at a conference in San Francisco hosted by tech news site ...
Texas Man Admits to Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme
September 22nd, 2015
Trendon Shavers pleads guilty to a charge of securities fraud A Texas man admitted Monday to running a bitcoin Ponzi scheme, which at one time controlled about 7% of digital currency in circulation, in what authorities described as the ...
Arcadia-based company under investigation, councilman’s connections under scrutiny
September 21st, 2015
State and federal agencies are investigating an Arcadia-based company that is facing allegations from investors that it swindled them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and may have taken more from individuals overseas. Officials with the Department of ...
Video: Bitcoin’s blockchain technology explained in 2 minutes
September 11th, 2015
Bitcoin continues to be a controversial digital currency. But the financial world is buzzing about new applications for the blockchain, the underlying technology that makes Bitcoin possible. Here’s how it works. Source: MarketWatch – Video: Bitcoin’s blockchain technology explained ...
Binary Options Brokers Accepting Bitcoin Payments
September 10th, 2015
According to one of the Juniper Research’s reports, Bitcoin cryptocurrency ecosystem will have nearly 5 million active users by 2019; chiefs of some of the world’s leading finance organizations, including Nasdaq and Westpac, believe Bitcoin technology will be a ...
UBS Building Virtual Coin For Mainstream Banking
September 7th, 2015
Swiss bank UBS is working on a prototype virtual currency that it hopes will be used by banks and financial institutions as a basis to settle mainstream financial markets transactions. But unlike the bitcoin digital currency, the Swiss bank’s ...
Barclays set to become first UK high street bank to accept bitcoin
August 31st, 2015
Company set to partner with a ‘bitcoin exchange’ or spending platform Has two bitcoin ‘labs’ in London and has been collaborating with start-ups Bought with real money and traded online, a bitcoin is worth around $230 It can be ...
