CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST The European Commission said today that it is assessing whether digital currencies like bitcoin fuel terrorist financing and money laundering. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST E.T. Brooking’s wrote for Foreign Policy what Ghost Security Group executive director, DigitalShadow, calls “a very accurate reflection of our operations against extremism.” The post Unlikely Allies: Anonymous Hactivists & The US Government Join Forces Against ISIS appeared first on CCN: Financial Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News. |
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CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Align Commerce, a San Francisco, Calif.-based cross-border payments service provider that exchanges a payer’s fiat currency into bitcoin, then exchanges it into the payee’s currency, has raised $12.5 million in Series A funding by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, according to today’s Wall Street Journal. Align Commerce’s money transfer model avoids the “cumbersome” bank wire process for payments, according to CEO Marwan Forzley, who started the company after serving as general manager at Western Union. The company can also offer features like tracking fund movement in real time and completing transactions faster and at less cost compared to banks. Align […] The post Align Commerce Uses Bitcoin To Facilitate Cross Border Payments, Raises $12.5 Million In Series A Funding appeared first on CCN: Financial Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News. |
CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST The Japan government is gearing up to regulate bitcoin activity more actively in the wake of the collapse of the now-defunct bitcoin exchange Mt Gox. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Bitcoin price returned to a central line of advance, after temporarily dropping below it over the weekend. The price action now unfolding in the chart is characteristic of previous consolidative periods. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and receive a $29 discount using the code CCN29. Bitcoin Price Analysis Time of analysis: 14h39 UTC BTCC 1-Hour Chart From the analysis pages of xbt.social, earlier today: Price had fallen towards $300 and then promptly returned to its previous trading range at $330 and 2100 CNY. The two […] The post Bitcoin Price Holding To Line Of Advance appeared first on CCN: Financial Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST The Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will host three Bitcoin core developers at the MIT Digital Currency Initiative today. An MLTalks (MIT Labs) session will see three Bitcoin core developers in a conversation session hosted by former White House advisor Brian Forde today. The event is scheduled to start Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM. A live webcast can be found streaming here. Gavin Anderson, Cory Fields and Wladmir Wan der Laan are all expected to attend, Gavin Anderson, as many bitcoin enthusiasts already know replaced Satoshi Nakamoto as the Bitcoin open source software […] The post MIT to Host Bitcoin Core Developers appeared first on CCN: Financial Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Are marijuana, binary options and digital currency the flavors of the month for U.S. state securities regulators? You might think so based on warnings issued by Washington and Colorado state officials and reported as such by local media. Recently, CCN reported the Washington Department of Financial Institutions issued an alert warning consumers about investing in marijuana, binary options and digital currencies. The News Tribune in Tacoma, Wash. reported this alert, warning consumers against becoming victims of “the next big thing.” Later in the day, I noticed the Colorado Securities Commissioner issued the same warning using similar wording. In this case, the […] The post Are Marijuana, Binary Options And Bitcoin ‘Flavors Of The Month’ For U.S. States' Watchdogs? appeared first on CCN: Financial Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News. |
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Forbes, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST The $12.5 million series A round of funding will help Align, which offers an alternative to wire transfers, expand to more countries. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Bitcoin Press Release: Gambling is big business and according to a projection from the world’s largest statistical source Statista, it’s going to reach a net worth of $41,4bn in 2015. As of lately, we can see that the online aspect of gambling is rapidly taking market shares from the brick and mortar kind. In essence, it makes perfect sense as many forms of entertainment is being transferred to the online world, and casino is no exception. The vast majority of the turnover in online casinos today are being done in major international currencies such as USD, GBP and EUR, but […] The post Why Bitcoin is Changing the Casino Industry appeared first on CCN: Financial Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Although UCLA Professor Bhagwan Chowdhry chose to nominate the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, for the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, it appears the The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will not consider the nomination unless the legendary Nakamoto were to reveal his identity. The organization's press officer, Hans Reuterskiöld, told Inverse.com that the prize is never awarded anonymously nor after someone has died. The prize, as in this instance, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Science in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is never awarded anonymously nor posthumously. Commentary The community may find this unfortunate, in that Satoshi Nakamoto […] The post Satoshi Nakamoto Not Eligible For Nobel Prize appeared first on CCN: Financial Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News. |
CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Phil Barry believes the Ethereum blockchain can change the music industry. To him, it is “the current best system for building complex decentralised applications.” Barry might know. He consulted for Courtyard and ATC Management, leading a team working on financial analysis, media strategy and user experience for the world-first release of Thom Yorke’s solo album Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes on BitTorrent. He currently leads up Ujo Music. Ujo aims to engage in a nmber of joint experiments with artists, PROs and music companies into 2016, striving to represent a new shared infrastructure for the creative industries and thereby return more […] The post Music Industry Receptive To Blockchain Technology appeared first on CCN: Financial Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News. |