As one of its most important properties and a key selling point, Bitcoin is not controlled by any government, (central) bank or company. Nor is there even an active inventor to call the shots, as is the case in many other open-source projects. But that doesn’t mean the peer-to-peer electronic cash system is not governed […]
In your own virtual world, you’re running down a street, buying prostitutes, robbing people, killing cops. Through it all, you’ve got bitcoins at stake. This is the sort of game which could be forthcoming thanks to new technology like, Bitcoin, the digital currency designed in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto. Grand Theft Auto, the open world […]
‘Big Four’ accounting firm Deloitte is now the owner and operator of its first bitcoin ATM.
A major exchange industry trade group has joined an EU-level debate on blockchain regulation.
Blockchain technology has expanded rapidly in financial markets in the last year, drawing concern among financial regulators. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), an independent European Union authority, has released a paper on distributed ledger technology (DLT) as it applies to securities markets, including the possible benefits and challenges. ESMA believes DLT is expanding in […]
The company featured in a bestselling book says it plans to use the blockchain to build a more transparent gold exchange.
Barclays and Israel-based startup Wave, which has benefitted from the former’s accelerator program, have revealed what they claim as the first global trade transaction using blockchain technology. In an announcement today, Barclays has revealed a successful letter of credit transaction between Ornua, an Irish agriculture co-operative and Seychelles Trading Company a distributor of food products […]
One of the industries that soon started to use it as its central business model was the gambling industry. The Bitcoin gambling industry is probably the most competitive and healthy industry in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Today, the Bitcoin gambling industry continues to grow at full steam, so when looking for a website to start gambling […]
So the session is about to draw to a close out of Europe, and it’s time to take the second of our twice daily looks at the bitcoin price in an attempt to see if we can draw a profit from the markets at some point during this evening’s session. Things have been pretty dull […]
These are exciting times for blockchain technology. Barclays, a world-renowned bank, and Wave, one of their accelerator graduates, conducted a live test of distributed ledger technology. A Live Letter of Credit transaction was performed and completed.This is a significant validation of blockchain technology. Wave is a company dedicated to bringing distributed ledgers to the financial […]