Banks and governments are warming up to the possibility of leveraging the power and resiliency of the blockchain to implement smarter financial systems that permit faster and cheaper local...
In many recent articles, Bitcoin Magazine reported the trend toward private, “permissioned” non-Bitcoin blockchains, supported by Accenture and Digital Asset Holdings CEO Blythe Masters, among others. Permissioned blockchain developments for banks and financial operators have...
Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast host Trace Mayer interviewed legendary cryptographer Adam Back on his role in the creation and deployment of some of the most potent privacy software to ever affect the world...
Today ECUREX, a digital finance marketplace for professional traders and financial institutions headquartered in Zurich, is publishing a comprehensive 110-page report on digital currencies – an ECUREX Research Working Paper...
In April, Bitcoin Magazine reported that UBS was planning to investigate blockchain technology in a new innovation lab based in London. The innovation lab is located in Level39, Europe’s largest technology accelerator...
In April, Bitcoin Magazinereported that Bitcoin exchange itBit had filed for a banking license in New York. Later in May, itBit was granted a trust charter by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYFDS)...
Major banks and mainstream financial institutions are warming up to the blockchain technology that powers Bitcoin, and launching internal experiments and pilot projects to find out how they can...
Lightning networks are considered a promising innovation in the Bitcoin space, which would make the Bitcoin system much more scalable and able to process transactions at a high rate...
Barclays is about to become the first mainstream bank to openly and directly support bitcoin transactions, The Sunday Timesreports. The Daily Mailechoed the news for its huge readership.Barclays has been experimenting with...
Barclays is about to become the first mainstream bank to openly and directly support bitcoin transactions, The Sunday Timesreports. The Daily Mailechoed the news for its huge readership.Barclays has been experimenting with...