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Some 62% of bitcoin enthusiasts believe the digital currency's price will be less than $500 at the end of this year, according to the results of a CoinDesk poll. The survey results show 1,682 of the 2,702 respondents predicted the price of bitcoin would end the year between $0 and $499.
22 Jul 2015 10:40 am | CoinDesk
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Two operators of bitcoin exchange service Coin.mx were arrested today and charged with unlawful money transmission and money laundering. Anthony Murgio and Yuri Lebedev have been accused of operating Coin.mx in violation of federal anti-money laundering statutes.
21 Jul 2015 11:02 pm | Stan Higgins
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ItBit has launched its Global OTC Agency Trading Desk, a new, five-person over-the-counter (OTC) trading service based in New York. The trading desk will facilitate transactions of 100 BTC (roughly $28,000 at press time) with no broker or trading fees.
21 Jul 2015 10:46 pm | Pete Rizzo
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CoinDesk's Pete Rizzo discusses why the bitcoin industry should learn from the early Internet's sillier success stories. He argues that the community should take steps to create experiences for users that can communicate the often complex technical underpinnings of the industry to potential new end users.
21 Jul 2015 10:06 pm | Pete Rizzo
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CoinDesk chats with David Rutter and Todd McDonald of R3CEV, a crypto-venture firm working to bridge traditional finance and blockchain technology. The pair outline how R3 has been playing a quiet yet concerted game to bring the technology to the world’s largest financial institutions.
21 Jul 2015 09:05 pm | Stan Higgins
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Banks are not prepared for the wave of disruption emerging from FinTech startups, according to research carried out by Adaptive Lab. The digital innovation agency also found that the lack of in-depth digital understanding, legacy technology and rapidly changing consumer behaviour were hampering innovation.
21 Jul 2015 05:56 pm | Yessi Bello Perez
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CoinDesk is pleased to announce the addition of Coinbase and ItBit to its Bitcoin Price Index (BPI). Boasting a BTC/USD combined trading volume of approximately $3.3m in the last 24 hours, Coinbase and ItBit join previously approved exchanges Bistamp, Bitfinex, BTC-e and OKCoin.
21 Jul 2015 04:01 pm | CoinDesk
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