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The company's proposed system could reinvigorate the movement to build smart contract mechanisms.

CoinDesk interviews Dell's Paul Walsh to learn more about its bitcoin payments play.

Early in the North American Bitcoin Conference, Cloudhashing President Lukas Gilkey stated that, according to their market research, Bitcoin users are 99 percent male. To many, this is not breaking news. The realm has been targeted at males seemingly since the beginning simply due to the interest. Though there are successful groups such as CryptoWomen […]

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European financial regulators just took a positive step to engage directly with the disruptive effects of the growing cryptocurrency ecosystem, but you might not have realized that. The European Banking Authority (EBA) watchdog agency issued a report on Friday, July 11, titled “Opinion on ‘virtual currencies’.” It then received a great deal of media attention—most of it negative.

The Latvian-based airline now offers a bitcoin payment option for basic class reservations.

Bitcoin may have emerged from a shadowy corner of the internet, but soon, it'll have its own government affairs office in Washington. According to the crypto-currency's biggest advocates, who assembled at the second North American Bitcoin Conference this weekend in Chicago, Bitcoin is all grown up. In reality, it's entering adolescence—which is way more interesting.

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 Bitcoin allows people to build financial technology without asking for permission, but if New York state has its way, this won’t be the case for long. The New York Department of Financial Services released a series of proposed regulations last week that could shut down the digital currency startup ecosystem as we know it. Deemed “BitLicense,” it may help “Big… Read More

Two Chinese Bitcoin exchanges, BTC China and OKCoin, have recently announced new international trading features. Earlier today, in a selfpost to Reddit, BTC China revealed their newest features: Withdrawals and deposits in both USD and HKD. Just a few days ago, fellow Chinese Bitcoin exchange, OKCoin, also announced the launch of English-language service in the form of a […]

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The China-based cryptocurrency exchange has added support for USD and HKD deposits and withdrawals to attract international customers.

A worker group is filing charges against franchisees and McDonald's as a joint employer, setting a precedent that could have broad ripple effects.

The island's Financial Supervision Commission has explained the application of existing regulations on bitcoin businesses.

Circle Internet Financial gave CoinDesk a preview of the Circle.com digital money platform.

The European Union is to step in to determine the Value Added Tax treatment on the trading of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin. Sweden has prompted the investigation, fearing its own initial tax pronouncement is being undermined by the UK’s revised position issued in March this year. European Court of Justice to clarify VAT liability Sweden […]

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La empresa norteamericana CryptVision ha llegado a un acuerdo con el fabricante de cajeros automáticos de Bitcoin alemán BitXatm para llevar 1.000 cajeros automáticos de Bitcoin a Estados Unidos. Con este acuerdo CryptVision obtiene la exclusiva sobre los cajeros de Bitcoin de BitXatm en Estados Unidos y Canadá.

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In a recent speech, the venture capitalist discussed the issues preventing bitcoin from reaching widespread adoption.

Even the cryptocurrency's biggest boosters admit it is probably too early to be useful to the mainstream.

Youl, a French artist, has represented the Bitcoin community in an astonishingly beautiful painting styled after the famous work of art by Leonardo da Vinci, the Last Supper, which he calls the Bitcoin Supper. The painting, 140cm x 70cm, was originally offered more than three months ago, but it received a muted reaction. All changed […]

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Purchasing Bitcoin or altcoins through an online exchange can be time-consuming and frustrating. To ease this process, entrepreneurs developed Bitcoin ATMs, which function similarly to traditional ATMs, but transfer cryptocurrency rather than paper bills. Bitcoin ATMs have become quite popular. They have been installed all over the world – from Los Angeles to Honk Kong […]

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Purchasing Bitcoin or altcoins through an online exchange can be time-consuming and frustrating. To ease this process, entrepreneurs developed Bitcoin ATMs, which function similarly to traditional ATMs, but transfer cryptocurrency rather than paper bills. Bitcoin ATMs have become quite popular. They have been installed all over the world – from Los Angeles to Honk Kong […]

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Die Veröffentlichung der „Bitlicense“ des New York State Department of Financial Services hat große Wellen in der Welt der Kryptowährung geschlagen und zeigt auf, dass die staatlichen Regulatoren Bitcoin langsam immer ernster angehen. Die in der Bitlicense festgelegten Regulierungen würden es Unternehmen im Staate New York wesentlich erschweren, sich mit Bitcoin zu etablieren. Schlimmer noch: Die […]

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Day two of TNABC showcased the wide range of individuals and ideas emerging in the bitcoin industry.