Giulio Prisco

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Swiss Tax Authorities Confirm that Bitcoin is VAT-free in Switzerland

Bitcoin Association Switzerland reports that, according to the Swiss Federal Tax Administration, no VAT applies to bitcoin in Switzerland. The transfer of bitcoin doesn’t constitute delivery of goods or...

D-CENT to Launch Blockchain-Based Digital Social Currencies with €1.9 Million in Funding from the European Commission

D-CENT (Decentralized Citizens ENgagement Technologies) is a Europe-wide project to create digital tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment. The project, which received €1.9 million funding from the European...

OpenBazaar Receives $1 Million in Funding from Top Investors to Launch Decentralized Marketplace

OpenBazaar announced that it received $1 million in seed funding from Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and angel investor William Mougayar to develop the OpenBazaar protocol and client.OpenBazaar is...

Symbiont Raises $1.25M Seed Funding from Former NYSE CEO for ‘Smart Securities’ on the Blockchain

In March, Bitcoin Magazinereported that Counterparty founders had joined with MathMoney f(x) and its founder Mark Smith as co-founders of the new fintech company Symbiont, focused on fostering the...

Blockstream Moves Ahead with Sidechain Elements, the First Implementation of Sidechains

The authors of the much-discussed Bitcoin Sidechains paper “Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains,” released in October, formed the company Blockstream to implement sidechains and accelerate innovation in digital...

Max Keiser’s Investment fund Bitcoin Capital Raises Over $1 Million Through Crowdfunding

Bitcoin investment fund Bitcoin Capital has raised more than $1 million on the equity crowdfunding platform Bnk To The Future, SiliconANGLEreports. At the time of writing, almost 600 investors...

Blockchain Prediction Market Augur Elected as a ‘Breakthrough’ Finalist at Exponential Finance 2015

Augur, a fully-decentralized, open-source prediction market platform based on blockchain technology, intended to revolutionize forecasting, decision-making and the manner in which information consensus is collected and aggregated, has been...

Financial Blockchain Applications will be Measured in the Trillions, says Blythe Masters at Exponential Finance 2015

The Singularity University and CNBC are hosting the Exponential Finance 2015 conference n New York, on June 2-3. The conference examines how rapidly accelerating technologies such as artificial intelligence,...

HayekGold from Anthem Vault Represents Physical Gold on the Bitcoin Blockchain

Financial technology company Anthem Vault today launched HayekGold (the 'hayek'), a digital token that enables more people to own and spend gold. Each hayek represents 1 gram of gold...

Economists Disagree on Proposals for Alternative Currencies in Greece

The Greek crisis and the prospect of Grexit – the exit of Greece from the Eurozone and perhaps even from the European Union – continue to make headlines. The...

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