Archive for the politics Category

03 July 2014 / Telegraph – Bitcoin, the decentralised crypto-currency, is slowly shaking off the lingering whiff of criminality. Its association with (especially) online drugs markets like the Silk Road and radical anarchists is only half the story, and probably the least interesting half, of what Bitcoin

02 July 2014 / Wall Street Journal – Russian authorities have softened their tone on Bitcoin; the central bank now says it won’t hamper the usage of the virtual currency whereas previously it had vowed to crack down on the electronic payment instrument. The Bank of Russia

02 July 2014 / New York Times – The venture capitalist Tim Draper was the sole winning bidder of the nearly 30,000 Bitcoins auctioned on Friday by the United States Marshals Service, several people close to the auction said on Wednesday. Avish Bhama, the co-founder and chief

30 June 2014 / Benzinga – It’s hard to envision the future bitcoin bulls do – where bitcoin is more ubiquitous than Visa, used for more than just purchases and accepted around the globe. But the difficulty sharing the vision doesn’t make it a mirage. The general

30 June 2014 / Herald Scotland – The Bitcoin is on course to revolutionise global trading in the same way email, MP3s and digital photography flipped lifestyles and industries on their head, supporters have claimed. Key players in the world of online payments are meeting in Dublin

26 June 2014 / Wall Street Journal – In Argentina, the exact opposite occurs. Firms such as San Francisco-based BitPagos will take the dollars received by tourism industry clients in Buenos Aires and deliver them bitcoins in return. That their clients are opting for this says much

25 June 2014 / Quartz – Bitcoins could be coming to an stock exchange near you. Bitcoin-mining company BitFury Group is hoping to become the first bitcoin-related company listed on a major exchange as early as next year, reports bitcoin newsletter Crypto Crimson. The San Francisco-based cryptocurrency startup

25 June 2014 / NY Post – Bitcoin’s future might come down to David versus Goliath. Nasdaq, the stock exchange known for its high-tech stocks, and Marc Andreessen, the venture capitalist who co-founded Netscape, could soon be squaring off in a battle to become New York’s first

24 June 2014 / NASDAQ – Kathleen Moriarty knows a thing or two about ETFs, and then some. A securities attorney with Katten Muchin Rosenman in Manhattan, she helped launch SPDR S&P 500 ( SPY ) in 1993 and, thereby, what is now a $1.7 trillion industry