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The Schism Over Bitcoin Is How Bitcoin Is Supposed to Work

12/02/2016(0)
THE BITCOIN COMMUNITY can’t even agree on whether it’s breaking up. Last month, Mike Hearn—an ex-Googler and one of the biggest names working on the software underpinning bitcoin—made more than ... Read More
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PayPal Puts a Stop to Bitcoin-Inspired Ad Parody

11/02/2016(0)
‘New Money’ campaign gets an imitator after the Super Bowl PayPal Holdings Inc. this week blocked a parody of its “New Money” Super Bowl ad that swapped in “bitcoin” ... Read More
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Five UK Fund Giants Partner up to Join the Blockchain Bandwagon

09/02/2016(0)
In a recurring theme to confirm the financial industry’s collective fawning of blockchain technology – the distributed ledger that underpins Bitcoin – five of the UK’s biggest mutual fund ... Read More
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Bitcoin: A 21st Century Currency Explained By a Wall Street Veteran

08/02/2016(0)
Jason Leibowitz is a former Wall Street professional who pivoted careers in 2014 to focus full-time on digital currency. In this paper, Leibowitz answers questions about how bitcoin was created, how ... Read More
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Japan’s Largest Bank developed its own digital currency

04/02/2016(0)
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFG) has revealed that it has developed its own digital currency nicknamed “MUFG coin” as part of its research into blockchain and distributed ledger technology. ... Read More
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Bank of America is going big on blockchain

01/02/2016(0)
Bank of America is trying to steal a march on the latest developments in the technology behind digital currency bitcoin by loading up on blockchain-related patents. Blockchain works like ... Read More
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EC focuses on monitoring, not regulating, virtual currencies

29/01/2016(0)
The European Commission is examining whether virtual currencies need to be regulated in the wake of last November’s terrorist attacks in Paris, but is currently more focused on monitoring ... Read More
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Why Bitcoin Isn’t Dead

28/01/2016(0)
Milo Yiannopoulos, the technology editor for Breitbart.com, a global news site for independent and conservative-leaning thinkers, admits he first believed the recent media coverage that bitcoin was dead due ... Read More
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How China’s Plans to Launch Its Own Currency Might Affect Bitcoin

26/01/2016(0)
China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has revealed that it is in discussions to launch its own digital currency. What does this mean for Bitcoin? A statement by ... Read More
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PwC launches new global technology team to harness Bitcoin technology

22/01/2016(0)
PwC has recruited 15 leading technology specialists to exploit and commercialise blockchain, the technology that powers the crypto-currency, Bitcoin. The new Blockchain team will be based in PwC’s Belfast ... Read More
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