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Bitcoin Suisse AG Gets Licensed, Will Turn on ATMs in Zurich
“In a statement released Monday, the CEO of Switzerland’s Bitcoin Suisse said his company had been approved by government regulators to start operating Bitcoin ATMs in the country. ‘BTCS will turn on...
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US Gold Dealer Launches “Gold-Backed” Virtual Currency
“Announced at FreedomFest 2014, which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Independence Coin or INNCoin is the first open-source, gold-backed cryptocurrency. The currency was symbolically launched on...
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Google Analyst: Bitcoin Could Be ‘The Internet of Money’
“Bitcoin holds potential to act as ‘the Internet of money’ if regulated correctly, according to a new report from Google policy advisor Andy Yee. In an article for Internet Policy Review, Yee, who...
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BitInstant Founder to Forfeit $950K to US Government in Plea Bargain
“Further details have emerged of former BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem’s plea bargain with US authorities, which saw him plead guilty to aiding and abetting an unlicensed money-transmitting business on...
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Dominica Will Be First Nation with Universal Bitcoin Possession
“For the first time in history, an entire national population will have the cryptocurrency bitcoin in their hands for use: the people of Dominica, an island republic in the middle of the Caribbean. An...
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Apple Pay won’t bite into bitcoin: Winklevoss
“Apple’s entry into mobile payments last week through Apple Pay won’t really waver use of bitcoin, investor Cameron Winklevoss told CNBC on Thursday. ‘I don’t think they compete. I think Apple Pay is...
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PayPal’s Braintree Embraces Bitcoin, One-Touch Payments
“Nearly a year after PayPal acquired it in an all-cash $800 million deal, online and mobile payments platform Braintree is unveiling one-touch payments and is integrating Bitcoin. They’re partnering...
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BitPay Expands European Headquarters
“Last week, BitPay announced plans to move to a larger office in the Dutch capital after observing a bitcoin payment explosion in Europe of €28 million this year: a whopping 1,900 percent increase from...
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TeraExchange Receives US Approval to Launch First Bitcoin Derivative
“The first financial instrument tied to bitcoin has launched following approval from the US government. TeraExchange, a swap execution facility based in Summit, New Jersey, is marketing the bitcoin...
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OpenBazaar: The Decentralized Offspring of Ebay & Amazon
“No longer do you have to worry about a centralized business dictating the rules of operation (i.e. what kinds of items you want to list, what price, where you can sell or buy from). This creates a...
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Bitcoin Boulevard: Dutch neighborhood now accepting cryptocurrency
“Ever more people are using digital currencies to pay for things – though it’s still relatively hard to find places that will accept them. But not so in one Dutch neighborhood, where the Bitcoin has...
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Online Drug Dealers Are Now Accepting Darkcoin
“Over the last month, two of the dark web markets selling an anonymous, mail-order catalog of narcotics and other contraband have begun supporting darkcoin transactions. On a site called Nucleus,...
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An enormous bitcoin mine went up in flames in Thailand
“A large bitcoin mining facility in Thailand went up in flames this week, destroying the five-megawatt operation and disrupting the crypto-currency’s entire network. Bitcoin is a digital currency...
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Feds Begin Their Crackdown on Bitcoin Stocks
“If 2013 was the year that Federal agencies locked horns with bitcoin, the currency, 2014 is the year that they’re learning about bitcoin the fundraising mechanism. The current, technically...
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Texas Man Arrested For $4.5 Million Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme
“A Texas man has been arrested on wire fraud and securities fraud charges for his operation of what authorities allege was a Bitcoin-related Ponzi scheme that raised millions of dollars through a...
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It’s all over: Bitcoin miner maker HashFast to auction remaining assets
“A federal bankruptcy judge has approved the auction of nearly all of HashFast’s remaining assets, putting the company out of business for good. According to court records, HashFast owes over $40...
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Missouri halts investments in Springfield man’s Bitcoin operations
“Secretary of State Jason Kander has halted investment activity associated with in a Springfield resident’s Bitcoin-related businesses, saying in a news release Monday that Kenneth Slaughter used...
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Feds say Bitcoin miner maker Butterfly Labs ran “systematic deception”
“BFL’s offices in Leawood, Kansas (just outside Kansas City) were ‘raided’ by the United States Marshals Service (USMS) last Friday. Helen Wong, an FTC attorney, told Ars that all three principals...
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ID3 Hopes You’ll Opt-In to Your Own Surveillance
“The ID3 software, called Open Mustard Seed, wouldn’t just contain your name, home address, birthday, government tracking numbers, etc. It would also contain “biometric” and ‘behavioral’ trackers, and...
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Dutch man injects Bitcoin wallet NFC chips into his hands
“As an entrepreneur and founder of Mr. Bitcoin, a company that installs Bitcoin ATMs in the Netherlands and Belgium, Wismeijer had a 2 millimeter by 12 millimeter NFC Type 2 compliant NTAG216 RFID...
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