Bitcoin

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. It is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries.

Bitcoin Daily: India Considers Crypto For Financial Transactions; Bitcoin Makes Up Half Of Crypto Market
Bitcoin Daily: India Considers Crypto For Financial Transactions; Bitcoin Makes Up Half Of Crypto Market
August 14, 2018  |  Bitcoin

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) in China is seeking to double down on its efforts to make a fertile environment for blockchain...

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Hedging Bets, Hedging Taxes As Taxman Cometh For Cryptos   
Hedging Bets, Hedging Taxes As Taxman Cometh For Cryptos  
August 13, 2018  |  Investments

If the world of cryptocurrencies is relatively nascent, unformed, without a clear roadmap … guess what else is equally opaque? Tax policy. Specifically, as Fortune...

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Investors Have Lost Close To $100M In ICO Scams
Investors Have Lost Close To $100M In ICO Scams
August 13, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

Based on new research from Diar, a blockchain intelligence firm, close to $100 million in cryptocurrency has been stolen via initial coin offering (ICO) exit...

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Payments’ Stranger Things
Payments’ Stranger Things
August 13, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

The payments world could very well be living in the Upside Down. The Upside Down is the fictional parallel universe controlled by a hive mind...

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Little Evidence That Tether Has The US Dollar Reserves To Back Tokens
Little Evidence That Tether Has The US Dollar Reserves To Back Tokens
August 13, 2018  |  Cryptocurrency

Tether, the digital currency that is purported to be backed by U.S. dollars, has been surging in trading — with daily trading volume around $3...

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Elaborate Indian Bitcoin Scam Involves Policemen, Lawmakers
Elaborate Indian Bitcoin Scam Involves Policemen, Lawmakers
August 13, 2018  |  Bitcoin

Gujarat, the Indian home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is at the center of a bitcoin-based Ponzi scheme that could end up being the...

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Cryptocurrencies End The Week Down
Cryptocurrencies End The Week Down
August 13, 2018  |  Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrencies ended the week on a down note, with all of the leading digital tokens lodging losses. According to a report in MarketWatch, Bitcoin, the...

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Crypto Chip Maker Bitmain Eyes $18B IPO
Crypto Chip Maker Bitmain Eyes $18B IPO
August 13, 2018  |  IPO

Bitmain, the world’s largest producer of cryptocurrency mining chips, is planning to file for an initial public offering (IPO) in September, which could turn out...

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Five At Five: Amazon Opens Alexa Voice To iOS
Five At Five: Amazon Opens Alexa Voice To iOS
August 10, 2018  |  News

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news of the day. Coverage includes Amazon opening up voice applications for...

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