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The bitcoin price surpassed the $300 mark over the weekend, reaching its highest point since 10th March, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index. CoinDesk has looked at the available data to discern whether recent events in Greece have impacted the digital currency's price movements.
13 Jul 2015 01:10 pm | Yessi Bello Perez
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The UK government's proposed 'snoopers charter' has been revived since May's election and brought to the forefront after last month's Tunisia terrorist attacks. But would breaking encryption, as part of the proposals, have an impact on bitcoin businesses in the UK?
12 Jul 2015 03:00 pm | Jon Southurst
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Matthew Spoke is a senior consultant at Deloitte Canada and is actively involved in the company's internal initiative to explore uses of blockchain technology in accounting. Here, in an article co-authored with his colleague Shannon Steele, he explores why a blockchain-based audit system is the future of accounting.
11 Jul 2015 03:00 pm | Matthew Spoke
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Bitcoin wallet provider Airbitz has raised $450,000 from new industry-focused VC firm Block26. Calling the funding the company's "first big announcement", Block26 principal Ni'coel Stark indicated that Airbitz is representative of the kind of companies in which her new venture firm is looking to invest.
10 Jul 2015 10:07 pm | Pete Rizzo
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Would a central bank ever take the step of issuing its own cryptocurrency? A new report by Deloitte explores how one might go about doing so. The idea of a central bank-backed cryptocurrency has been floated in the past, as shown by concepts like Fedcoin and comments by central banks from countries like Singapore.
10 Jul 2015 09:15 pm | Stan Higgins
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The fires of one of bitcoin's hottest recurring debates raged on this week, with its potential use as a safe haven asset coming under the microscope. The focal point of the media's attention was Greece, with reports attempting to discern if and how the digital currency was playing a role in this larger narrative.
10 Jul 2015 07:33 pm | Yessi Bello Perez
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Customers of GAW High Speed Internet, the ISP linked to GAW Miners, are reportedly experiencing broad service outages. The now-defunct cryptocurrency mining company continues to be the focus of an on-going investigation by federal authorities including the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC).
10 Jul 2015 05:02 pm | Stan Higgins
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A series of entrepreneurs and investors have launched the Chicago Bitcoin Center, an incubator which seeks to foster blockchain technology startups. The Center's inaugural companies include Glidera, a digital currency merchant services provider and OasisCoin, a bitcoin remittances company.
10 Jul 2015 03:30 pm | Yessi Bello Perez
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