Giulio Prisco

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Bank of America Files Patent Application for Cryptocurrency-Mediated Wire Transfers

Bank of America (BoA) has filed a patent application titled “System and Method for Wire Transfers Using Cryptocurrency .” The application was filed in March and published on September...

Bank of England Chief Economist: Blockchain-based Digital Currency Issued by Central Banks Could Replace Cash

In a talk given at the Portadown Chamber of Commerce in Northern Ireland on September 18, Andrew G Haldane , Chief Economist at the Bank of England (BoE), has hinted at...

Bitcoin According to Regulators: Money, Currency, Property and Now a Commodity

Bitcoin is now officially a commodity according to U.S. regulators, Bloomberg Businessreports. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on Thursday that it had filed and settled charges against a Bitcoin exchange...

IBM Developing Blockchain Without Bitcoin for Record-Keeping and Smart Contracts

IBM is developing its own version of the blockchain technology and plans to release open-source software within the next few months, The Wall Street Journalreports . The new platform would...

Wall Steet Interest in Bitcoin Grows with ARK Fund Investing in Silbert’s Bitcoin Investment Trust

ARK Investment Management LLC (ARK), an active manager of thematic Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), announced that the ARK Web x.0 ETF has become the first ETF to invest in bitcoin. ARK has made...

First Peer-Reviewed Academic Bitcoin Journal, Ledger, Launches and Issues Call for Papers

Ledger, a new peer-reviewed scholarly journal, will publish full-length original research articles on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, as well as any relevant intersections with mathematics, computer science, engineering, law...

Nine Top Global Banks Pool Resources to Fund R3 to Develop Digital Currency Standards

Nine of the largest investment banks are planning to develop common standards for blockchain technology in an effort to broaden its use across financial services, The Financial Timesreports.The banks...

Bitcoin Must Be About the Mission Rather than the Money, Says MIT Media Lab Founder Nicholas Negroponte at Scaling Bitcoin

Legendary Internet pioneer Nicholas Negroponte, a founder of the MIT Media Laband the One Laptop per Child initiative (OLPC), gave a controversial talk at theScaling Bitcoin workshop in Montreal.The Scaling Bitcoin workshop has been focused on how to...

The UK Government and IBM Support and Fund Innovate Finance’s Blockchain Lab

In August Bitcoin Magazinereported that the "Innovate Finance Manifesto: 2020", released by Innovate Finance, an organization focused on promoting U.K. leadership in digital fintech, was praised by British Prime Minister David...

Google Launches Android Pay to Compete with Apple Pay and Boost Mobile Payments

In February, Bitcoin Magazine reported Google’s preliminary announcement of Android Pay. In June, we reported the official announcement of Android Pay at the annual Google I/O event on May 28 and 29, where Google...

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