Financial Stability Board Still Weighing Digital Currency Risks
The Financial Stability Board said in a recent annual report that it continues to assess opportunities and risks related to digital currencies.
ItBit Hit With String of Departures in Bitcoin-to-Blockchain Transition
A slew of recent departures from itBit suggest a changing future for a startup originally founded as a bitcoin exchange service.
The War On File Sharing is the New War On Drugs
“It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral — it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.” — Aaron Swartz The post The War On […]
Ethereum Exchange’s Attempts to List ETC Leads to Losses
Yunbi, one of China’s biggest Ethereum trading exchange, announced today that they were to postpone the listing of ETC in order to undertake “security preparations” to address vulnerabilities due to “Relay Attack.” Yunbi further stated that they had lost over 40,000 ETC “from users who deposited ETH before YUNBI listing ETC after Hard Fork:” “The […]
Darknet Investigations Now a Priority, Says German Federal Police Chief
Investigations in the aftermath of the recent terror attack in Munich which saw nine people killed in a Munich shopping center on Friday will now see darknet markets under the scanner. Speaking to journalists today, Holger Muench, the chief of Germany’s Federal Criminal Police (also known as Bundeskriminalamt or BKA), has stated that the emergence […]
Miami Judge Rules Bitcoin Is Not Money; Dismisses Money Laundering, Transmitting Charges
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Teresa Pooler has dismissed a money-laundering case involving an alleged “illegal sale” of bitcoins, after declaring that under the laws of the state, the digital currency is not considered to be a form of money. Defendant Michell Espinoza was arrested after being accused of selling bitcoins to undercover detectives who told him […]
Ethereum’s Tale of Two Chains
Zsolt Felföldi, developer of the Geth implementation of Ethereum, weighs in on Ethereum Classic.
In Rejecting Bitcoin as Money, Florida Court Sets Likely Precedent
A Miami judge has dismissed charges against a Florida-based bitcoin seller after he was indicted on money transmission and money laundering charges.
Michell Espinoza Case: Bitcoin Can’t Be Considered as Money
The recent judgement by the Miami-Dade Circuit Court declares that the popular digital currency, Bitcoin can’t be considered as money. The decision made by Judge Teresa Mary Pooler exonerates Michell Espinoza from the charges of illegally selling virtual currency and money laundering. Michell Espinoza, the defendant in the case was arrested by the police as […]
Alternative Ethereum Blockchain Gains Support as Price Declines
Ethereum Classic may have started as a protest currency against the hard fork, but it is gaining more services.