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Swift Boasts Blockchain Technology Will Not Disrupt Their Business Model

Financial infrastructure is on the brink of being disrupted by new technologies. Mainly blockchain technology is one of the contenders to disrupt the financial sector as we know it. Swift, one of the world’s leading money transfer protocols, will make sure they are not replaced by distributed ledgers. A very bold statement that will require […]

Bitcoin All Time High Chart

The post Bitcoin All Time High Chart appeared first on 99 Bitcoins. As Bitcoin is racing to a new all time high we’ve added a cool new feature that tracks the all time high values of the currency. If you want to look at different time intervals look at the tabs below. The first tab […]

The Status of the ‘Hong Kong Hard Fork’: An Update

Last February, in the midst of Bitcoin’s long-lasting block size dispute, a group of Bitcoin Core developers, Bitcoin miners, and representatives from the Bitcoin industry met in Hong Kong. Sealing their position with a signed letter, the attendees agreed to run only Bitcoin Core-compatible consensus software for the “foreseeable future.” This avoided a potential hard fork as […]

Op-Ed: China’s Mining Subsidies Create Tension With Free Trade Rules

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it’s tempting to treat everything as a nail. Thus, most people in the technically-oriented Bitcoin community treat the specter of mining centralization as a problem to be solved chiefly by technical means. However, a substantial cause of mining centralization is Chinese government policy, which distorts the […]

Bitcoin Transactions and American Taxation: An Interview With Daniel Winters

The rise of bitcoin and other forms of digital currency is fueling a wealth of questions about tax enforcement: what sort of tax treatment guidelines exist for digital currencies? How are tax reporting agencies responding to the large number of digital currencies that now exist worldwide? To what extent is virtual money being used for […]