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A research consultant for Canada's central bank has published a paper that envisions a world with a monetary standard based on bitcoin. The outcome, speculates author Warren Weber, would be a mix of good and bad in terms of impact on monetary policy.
The headquarters of Brooklyn-based ConsenSys don't look like your typical financial sector offices. As part of the lead-up to the its announcement that its Ethereum based decentralized application tools would be build into Microsoft's developer platform the startup opened its graffitied doors to CoinDesk.
The US Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is looking to establish a framework for regulating financial technologies like blockchain. The banking regulator released a new white paper yesterday establishing principles to guide this process moving forward, and naming distributed ledgers as an areas of interest.
Following the launch of Ethereum’s first production platform, exchanges are now adding support for the digital currency that powers its blockchain, ether. In recent weeks, the majority of announcements have come from Asia, where exchanges in China, Japan and South Korea have all added ether trading.
Interpol conducted a war game scenario last week that centered on discovering the identity of a blackmailer demanding a bitcoin ransom. Sixty-four participants from 26 countries took part in the event.
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