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Australian cryptocurrency firm DigitalBTC bought $10.1m worth of bitcoin in Q2 of this year, the company's latest quarterly report reveals. This brings the amount of bitcoin the company has purchased over the past 12 months to almost $29.7m.
24 Jul 2015 01:49 pm | Yessi Bello Perez
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CoinDesk speaks to ShoCard CEO Armin Ebrahimi about his company's efforts to disrupt identity verification via the blockchain. ShoCard recently raised $1.5m in funding from investors including AME Cloud Ventures and Digital Currency Group.
24 Jul 2015 10:06 am | Pete Rizzo
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Last month, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded bitcoin startup Bitsoko $100,000 to help troubleshoot Africa's now-ubiquitous mobile money systems. The news came as a surprise to the team of six, not least because Bill Gates has been publicly skeptical about bitcoin's future in the developing world.
23 Jul 2015 10:45 pm | Grace Caffyn
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The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has penned a note to community banks highlighting the potential challenges of working with bitcoin firms and consumers. The report offered guidance to banks that use these assets to provide loan collateral as well as those that may hold digital currency through loan defaults.
23 Jul 2015 09:20 pm | Pete Rizzo
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New data suggests that many financial professionals see their industry being reshaped by blockchain technology. A recent survey conducted by Greenwich Associates shows that bitcoin and the blockchain are on the radar of many in financial circles.
23 Jul 2015 08:21 pm | Stan Higgins
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A UK bitcoin vendor may have suffered a security breach, temporarily exposing customer data to the public. Visitors to the website for CoinCut, based in London, were able to access subdirectories that included images of passports, credit cards and personal IDs.
23 Jul 2015 06:50 pm | Stan Higgins
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Tunisia’s Ministry of Communication Technologies and Digital Economy is reportedly looking to explore both bitcoin and blockchain technology. The news proves significant given the perceived lack of bitcoin-related news surfacing out of the North African nation.
23 Jul 2015 05:26 pm | Yessi Bello Perez
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Nasdaq CEO Bob Greifeld has suggested that the US-based stock market giant plans to roll out additional blockchain projects. The comments are the latest from the firm, which announced it was working on a trial using blockchain technology in May.
23 Jul 2015 04:15 pm | Pete Rizzo
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A new service is launching its invite-only beta this week with the promise of delivering the "gold standard" for bitcoin data. Challenger Deep is an all-in-one platform aiming to make the bitcoin ecosystem easy to navigate for non-technical users, including investors, traders and consumers.
23 Jul 2015 03:04 pm | Grace Caffyn
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Q2 was the first positive quarter for bitcoin since this time last year, characterised by increased attention from the Greek crisis and interest from banks and governments in blockchains. This wasn't everything, though. Here, we've put together a few hidden gems from our State of Bitcoin report you might have missed.
23 Jul 2015 10:24 am | Grace Caffyn
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An Australian cryptocurrency firm is facing fresh delays on its road to debuting on the Australian Securities Exchange. The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has issued an interim stop order on the investment prospectus recently submitted by Bitcoin Group Ltd for undisclosed reasons.
22 Jul 2015 09:16 pm | Stan Higgins
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CoinDesk speaks to Expedia's Connie Chung, senior payments product manager, about the travel giant's bitcoin integration. In interview, Chung discusses industry trends and shares her thoughts on the role the technology could play in the future of mobile payments.
22 Jul 2015 08:50 pm | Yessi Bello Perez
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One of France's biggest banks is looking to hire a developer with a focus on bitcoin. Société Générale (SocGen) posted a job listing on 2nd July for a "IT Developer on Bitcoin, Blockchains & Crypto-Currencies". SocGen is the third-largest French bank in terms of assets, reporting $1.3 trillion in assets in 2014.
22 Jul 2015 07:40 pm | Stan Higgins
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Factom has closed $1.1m in new funding following the debut of a release client and before an expected beta client rollout. The funding comes on the heels of growing interest in the Factom project from financial institutions including USAA and at least one national government.
22 Jul 2015 05:41 pm | Pete Rizzo
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CoinDesk is now accepting applications for the Consensus 2015 Makeathon, which seeks to find fresh new use-cases for blockchain technology. Taking place on 8th-9th September at General Assembly New York City, the winning team will get a cash prize and all participants get a ticket to Consensus 2015.
22 Jul 2015 04:45 pm | CoinDesk
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Frequently referred to as the "Wild West of Finance", with its fair share of scams, hacks and crime, bitcoin is notorious for its association with illicit activities. CoinDesk takes a take a trip down memory lane, looking at some of the more high-profile bitcoin-related court cases.
22 Jul 2015 03:26 pm | Yessi Bello Perez
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