Bitcoin Group Delays ASX Listing, Claims Australia’s Prime Minister Is Not A Shareholder

Bitcoin Group has delayed its Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) listing due to issues with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) over indications that Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is a shareholder and misstatements about the company’s profitability, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. The company, a bitcoin miner, has postponed its listing date to […]

Bitcoin Price Advancing Again

Bitcoin price achieved a new high for this year, last week. The correction over the weekend looked to be a potential reversal of the uptrend, but after a relatively shallow retracement the uptrend appears to have resumed. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? […]

It’s Much Too Soon to Regulate Bitcoin, Says Deloitte Exec

Jon Watts, director of enterprise services at Deloitte, has weighed in on Bitcoin regulatory issues with clear and cogent arguments. Watts’ thesis is that Bitcoin is at the crossroads, and the race to regulate it could be happening much too soon. Deloitte is a professional services firm headquartered in New York. Considered one of the […]

Bruce Fenton: Blockchain Alliance is a Profoundly Bad Idea

It was announced earlier this week that a significant group of prominent Bitcoin companies, individuals and institutions have united in a “Blockchain Alliance.” This alliance will serve as a resource for law enforcement to help combat criminal activity involving bitcoin and the blockchain, and has so far engaged with the Department of Justice (including the […]

BitFury Looks to Go Green With 3M’s Novec 7100 Engineered Fluid

In an attempt to further decrease energy costs and its impact on the environment, BitFury announced that it was launching the world’s largest two-phase immersion cooling (2PIC) project at its new data center in the Republic of Georgia. By using the technology from Allied Control, bought in January, and the Novec 7100 Engineered Fluid from […]