CFTC Grants Temporary Approval to Bitcoin Startup LedgerX
LedgerX has received temporary approval from the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission to act as a swap execution facility.
Trust, Law Enforcement and Killer Apps: Consensus 2015 Morning Sessions
Check out our roundup of the morning sessions at Consensus 2015, held in New York.
Nasdaq CIO Says Bitcoin Can Transform Stock Market
In a feature on WIRED, Nasdaq CIO Brad Peterson shared that bitcoin technology could transform the stock market. Nasdaq is the second-largest exchange in the world based on capitalization, next to the New York Stock Exchange. In particular, Peterson and his team are working on a system that can make use of the distributed public […]
Bitcoin & Altcoin Trading Talk 11 – Analysis, Fundamentals and Market Forecasts
The Rational Investor is back again with the Coinigy team for more of our special brand of Bitcoin and Altcoin analysis, market forecasts, fundamentals and more. Don’t forget to like and subscribe if you want to see more videos like this! Markets analyzed: $GEO (Geocoin), $VTC (Vertcoin), $MONA (Monacoin), $DOPE (Dopecoin), $OPAL (Opalcoin)
NSFW: A Niche Fetish Site Just For Bitcoiners
Saffron Bacchus made Bitcoiners very happy internet participants lately when she launched her new membership site, (NSFW) Bacchus Entertainment. As she told Redditors: I think 2015 is going to be huge for bitcoin so I think it’s time to stop getting screwed over by credit companies and just go 100% on bitcoin! You can check […]
Bitcoin for Governments, but Without Privacy and with Taxes
Banks and governments are warming up to the possibility of leveraging the power and resiliency of the blockchain to implement smarter financial systems that permit faster and cheaper local and global transactions, permanently recorded in a tamper-proof blockchain. At the same time, financial institutions and states find some aspects of Bitcoin worrisome. One concern is […]
Bitcoin Venture Capital Markets Heating up as Five Bitcoin Startups Raise $45 Million
This week, five Bitcoin startups, including Chronicled, Chain, Abra, Case and Coinalytics, have raised more than $45 million in funding from Wall Street investors and banks, Silicon Valley venture capital firms and angel investors. The recent funding rounds also showed a significant increase in corporate investors, rather than just traditional venture capitalists. These five funding announcements […]
Cubits Partners with Gobal Payment Provider ApcoPay for Bitcoin Payments
Cubits, an all-inclusive platform to buy, sell and manage bitcoin, has entered into a strategic partnership with ApcoPay, a global online payment service provider to enable more than 500 businesses to accept bitcoin, as well as major cards and e-wallets. “Our collaboration with ApcoPay is another important step for us in bringing Bitcoin to the […]
Want to understand the world of Bitcoin? This research may help!
Mercator Advisory Group has come up with a new research on the Bitcoin and the problems it could face in the future. The research titled “How Many Sidechains Can Bitcoin Economics Support?” also has an in-depth study of the past issues that once threatened to put a stop to Bitcoin. The study also explains the complex […]
Vogogo Launches its Platform With Celery
On September 8, 2015, we learned that one of our leading partners – Vogogo Inc – had launched its proprietary compliance, risk management and payment processing platform with Bitcoin exchange Celery. The announcement marks Celery as juts one in a long line of high profile digital currency clients for Vogogo, which already includes crypto incumbents […]