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Law Enforcement and Regulators Agree: Bitcoin Not Useful for Terrorists, Thoughtful Regulation and Education Needed

In the aftermath of the Paris attack on November 13, the European Union (EU) is looking to crack down on bitcoin with the...

Circle’s CEO Jeremy Allaire Defends the Bitcoin Blockchain

Banks, financial service providers, venture capitalists, and even governments, are showing more and more interest in blockchain technology. Venture capital money isflowing into...

EU Court to Decide Bitcoin’s VAT-Status Next Week

In what could be a landmark case for Bitcoin in the EU, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has announced that it will make...

Gravatar Adds Bitcoin Support for User Accounts

Gravatar is an avatar platform that works across the internet and integrates with popular sites inclusing WordPress, Disqus, GitHub, and Stack Overflow. Gravatar serves...

Globalizing Digital Currency — Trends, Gaps, Opportunities

This is a guest post by Michael Haley, Operations Manager at AlphaPoint. AlphaPoint is a financial technology company that powers digital currency exchanges and...

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...

Coin Center: State Bank Supervisors Proposal Good for Lawyers, Bad for Consumers and Innovators

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) released its model framework for states to use in designing regulations and made it clear it wants...

Bitcoin for Governments, but Without Privacy and with Taxes

Banks and governments are warming up to the possibility of leveraging the power and resiliency of the blockchain to implement smarter financial systems that...

Commonwealth Virtual Currencies Working Group Issues Statement about Bitcoin’s Potential

This week, the Commonwealth Virtual Currencies Working Group made up of Australia, Barbados, Kenya, Nigeria, Singapore and Tonga, together with the International Monetary Fund...

Coin Center and the EFF Square Off Over Proposed California Digital Currency Business Licenses

The ongoing debate about the role of governments in regulating digital currencies isn’t going away anytime soon. While the dustup over New York’s BitLicense...
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