Archive for the politics Category

17 Jan 2014 / Business Insider – Bitcoin and the digital currency craze appears to be gaining more and more traction.   But we have to ask ourselves why this is occurring?  After all, Bitcoin isn’t backed by men with guns, the government’s ability to tax, the banking

16 Jan 2014 / Forbes – One of the bigger wallets on the Bitcoin blockchain is going to be emptied in the near future. Back in October, when the feds took down the online drug bazaar Silk Road, they seized the nearly 30,000 bitcoins in its coffers.

16 Jan 2014 / Bloomberg – U.S. Senator Tom Carper today called on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to clarify if or how it would regulate the emerging virtual currency business. “Given that we read about a new venture in the digital currency space nearly every day,

16 Jan 2014 / Forbes – Will 2014 be the year we trade in our credit cards and abandon our wallets in favor of virtual currencies? If you follow the recent hype surrounding bitcoin, the trendiest of the new crop of digital currencies, you could be swayed

15 Jan 2014 / Forbes – As bitcoin moves away from being known only to the tech cognoscenti and becomes a real viable currency that is adopted broadly, more organizations arise that look to leverage all this attention and add something of value to bitcoin holders. SnapCard

15 Jan 2014 / Reuters – Wells Fargo & Co has called finance executives, virtual currency experts and U.S. government representatives to discuss “rules of engagement” with Bitcoin amid concern about the money laundering risk of the currency, the Financial Times reported. The meeting, scheduled for Tuesday

15 Jan 2014 / The Hindu – After suspending their operations for a few weeks amid growing regulatory glare, many bitcoin operators have cautiously resumed courting business from their clients and some new players have also come to fore in India. The Reserve Bank last month had