Canada Takes a Careful, Community-driven Approach to Bitcoin Regulation
Like many other countries, Canada has been wrestling with the issue of whether to regulate digital currencies and, if so, how and to what extent. In it’s February 2014 budget, the Canadian government...
View ArticleNew York Stock Exchange Launches Bitcoin Pricing Index NYXBT
The New York Stock Exchange today launched its NYSE Bitcoin Index (NYXBT) to track the price of bitcoin and give the digital currency’s value a definitive global benchmark. This move by one of the...
View ArticleCanada’s First Fintech and Banking Innovation Conference is Coming to Vancouver
On June 3, 2015, Vancouver, British Columbia, will host “Digital Finance 2015,” Canada’s first fintech and banking innovation conference, at the Vancouver Club on West Hastings in the city’s trendy...
View ArticleBitSent Expands its Fleet of Bitcoin ATMs to British Columbia’s Simon Fraser...
One of Canada’s first companies to launch Bitcoin ATMs across the country is expanding its fleet of Lamassu-brand ATMs to Vancouver, British Columbia’s Simon Fraser campus bookstores in Vancouver,...
View ArticleMIT’s Joi Ito Calls for a ‘Supporting’ Role for Governments as Community...
As the Bitcoin community awaits New York State’s BitLicense regulations, expected to be released today, the debate about regulating digital currencies is in full swing. Director of the Massachusetts...
View ArticleFinal BitLicense Rules for New York State Released Today by NYDFS...
New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Superintendent Benjamin Lawsky today released the final version of the BitLicense regulations, saying that his “gut feeling” was that digital...
View ArticleBitLicense Blowback No Surprise to NYDFS Officials
Just as it seemed like the dust was settling around the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) BitLicense regulations released last week, Erik Voorhees of ShapeShift.io raised new criticisms...
View ArticleCanadian Senate Says No to Regulating Digital Currencies
The Canadian Senate’s Banking, Trade and Commerce (BTC) committee released its final report Friday asking the federal government to use a “light touch” in dealing with digital currencies. “We’ve heard,...
View ArticleDigital Currencies a Silver Lining in the Dark Cloud of Greece’s Economic Crisis
As the world watches nervously, Greece, under pressure from the European Central Bank, takes the serious step of imposing capital controls: Banks are closed, ATM withdrawals are limited and funds...
View ArticleChinese Bitcoin Exchanges: Litecoin Price Volatility Driving Bitcoin Gains,...
Over the past several days, investors have witnessed sudden gains in volume and extreme price volatility for litecoin. In the last week litecoin has gained over 79 percent against bitcoin, 88 percent...
View ArticleCanada’s Shifting Economic and Political Climate May Affect Bitcoin...
The Bank of Canada has confirmed that, after two quarters of negative growth, the Canadian economy is technically in a recession although the bank would prefer to call it a “mild contraction.” The...
View ArticleBlythe Masters to Keynote American Banker’s Conference on Digital Currencies...
On July 28, 2015, in New York City, American Banker is hosting a conference devoted exclusively to exploring the implications of the digital currencies and blockchain revolution for the banking sector....
View ArticleEthereum Project Opens Up New ‘Frontier’ for Developers
You could hear a pin drop at the recent Toronto DEC_TECH conference as Vitalik Buterin told a standing-room-only crowd about his remarkable journey to build Ethereum – a decentralized open source...
View ArticleNew Ethereum Foundation Executive Director and Board Members Signal a Reboot...
One of the strengths of Ethereum is its decentralized nature, giving it a wider, more stable base. There are Ethereum project teams in different parts of the world, including Amsterdam, Berlin,...
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