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13.1KLexisNexis Aiming To Stop Bitcoin Bad Guys In Their Tracks
Bitcoin appeals to many different people, including the nefarious ones that like the anonymity associated with digital currency. LexisNexis, the company that...
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7.5KBitcoin Price Drops In Response To $65M Hack
After an early summer with solid gains, bitcoin’s price has been plummeting following the hack of Bitfinex – a Hong Kong-based bitcoin...
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EU Pushes For Bitcoin Database And Transparency
Anonymous is the name of bitcoin’s game. But Europe might like to make it less so. The European Commission would like to create a...
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7.0KFlorida Man Robbed Trying To Buy Bitcoin
While computer breaches and malicious emails are commonplace online, when it comes to bitcoin, it can also be dangerous offline in the...
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Venezuela Turns To Bitcoin As Inflation Skyrockets
The search for inflation hedges and stability of purchasing power in a world of hyperinflation has led some in Venezuela to turn...
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First Regulated Bitcoin Product Launches In Europe
Digital currency is all the rage among a small section of the population, but it’s about to get more mainstream with the...
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Bitcoin Not The Same As Money, Miami-Dade Court Rules
In a closely followed case focused on bitcoin as a currency, a Miami-Dade judge on Monday (July 25) ruled bitcoin doesn’t count...
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Washington Bitcoin Miners Will Soon Pay More For Electric
Not long ago, it was disclosed that the supply of bitcoin was going to be halved. Now, it seems that, at least in one...
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5.7KIllegal Drug Sellers Borrow A Page From ECommerce
The illegal purchase of drugs is alive and growing on the so-called dark Internet, where users can make purchases anonymously. According to a new report,...
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Bitcoin Halving Ups The Pressure For Miners
In a move that is designed to keep inflation down for the virtual currency known as bitcoin, the amount being made available...
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Bitcoin’s (Donald) Trump Card
Bitcoin’s trump card may be Donald Trump. Yes, this is a very real story based on an actual Juniper Research study that...
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Bitcoin Remittance App Enters US Market
Abra, the bitcoin remittance app, has made its way to the U.S. — via the iPhone and Android app options. What that...
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7.7KFormer Secret Service Agent Suspected Of More Bitcoin Thefts
Bitcoin, continuing to bring out the best in everyone it touches. Former Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges has already been found to...
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Bitcoin’s Big Halving Countdown And ‘Long Tail Risk’
On July 9, 2016, just eight days away, the bitcoin market is going to change. As for the impact of that change,...
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9.3KTSYS Puts Bitcoin In Perspective
Bitcoin’s reputation needs a makeover. Russell Moore, Director of Innovation at TSYS, sat down with PYMNTS to offer new thinking on the...
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Singapore Bitcoin Exchange Startup Raises $16M
A startup in Singapore offering bitcoin exchange and cryptocurrency services just secured another major round of funding. The company, Quoine, announced that is has...
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Bitcoin’s Brexit Effect
What goes up must come down. A week ago, bitcoin had surpassed the $700 mark, and the headlines were giddy with excitement...
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Canada’s CAD-COIN — And Bitcoin’s Price Rally
Is the concept of “experimenting with a digital dollar” the financial services industry’s version of the hula hoop? Flash in the pan...
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Bitcoin’s Price Surges To Two-Year High
Bitcoin did something yesterday (June 13) that no one has seen in two years — surge above the $700 mark. $704.40, to...
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Ripple Secures NY Bitcoin License
The state of New York just got another bitcoin company that can legally operate under the auspices of the state financial regulator’s...
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Bitcoin’s 2016 Price Trends: Highs And Lows
Compared to 2015, bitcoin has had a stellar 2016. But when it comes to bitcoin’s price, it’s all relative. So before the...
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9.1KYes, No, Maybe: Bitcoin, Bank of America And Apple Pay
Last week was short on work days due to the Monday holiday, but what the work week lacked in hours it made up for...
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How Long Will Bitcoin’s Price Boom Stick?
Is bitcoin making a comeback? Oh, if we had a bitcoin for every time we’ve heard that question. Actually, that would be pretty...
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Alleged Dark Web Bitcoin Thieves Who Stole $6.6M Nabbed
It appears, once again, that the Dark Web and bitcoin aren’t untraceable. Just in case there was any doubt. A new court...
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PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: Bitcoin’s Price Surge
Is bitcoin making a price comeback? Well, a recent surge from Chinese investors has managed to bump bitcoin’s price over the $500...
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7.9KChina’s Bitcoin Buying Binge
In a buying spree that began on Friday (May 27) and carried on through the four days since, Chinese investors managed to...
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The Mt. Gox Bitcoin Math That Doesn’t Add Up
The Mt. Gox bitcoin drama got a little more dramatic this week. As a quick refresher, Mt. Gox is the now-defunct bitcoin exchange that...
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Bitcoin’s ‘Robin Hood Hacker’ Targets ISIS
Good intentions gone bad? “Robin Hood Hacker Donates $11,000 of Stolen Bitcoin to Help Fight ISIS.” This is a real story and...
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Coinizy Bitcoin Startup Brings Ethereum Debit Card To Market
A bitcoin startup that’s gotten press for its ability to convert bitcoin to fiat currency has made some more big news: It’s...
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Should Obama ‘Heed The Call’ On Bitcoin?
President Barack Obama and his administration get a lot of demands, to say the least. Stop ISIS, bring peace to the Middle...
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Swiss Town Says ‘Yes’ To Bitcoin
While plenty of government officials aren’t ready to jump to support bitcoin as a legitimate payment option, there is one small town...
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Craig Wright To Bitcoin Community: So Long, Farewell
Get your popcorn ready. News broke earlier in the week that Craig Wright, the 45-year-old Australian computer scientist/engineer, would finally come out...
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12.6KSkeptics Question Whether The Founder Of Bitcoin Has Really Stepped Forward
Craig Steven Wright, an Australian entrepreneur, has officially laid claim to the “creator of bitcoin” mantle. Now, the question is: Can that...
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Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright Steps Forward
After a few years of speculation — and a couple of fairly notable wrong guesses — the real creator of bitcoin has...
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Bitcoin’s Russian Problem, Eulogy And New Supporters
Western Union just put its toe in the bitcoin/blockchain waters. It announced an investment in Digital Currency Group, a bitcoin/blockchain startup-focused investment...
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Bitstamp Secures EU’s First Bitcoin Exchange National License
Bitstamp has stamped its name in the record books in the EU for being the first company of its kind to secure...
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JPMorgan Hack Indictment Unearths Bitcoin Bribery Link
Generally, when court documents are unsealed, you can discover some pretty juicy details. When the case involves a global hacking, those details...
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Lawsky Backs Blockchain, Bitcoin Miners Take On Trump’s Wall
Benjamin Lawsky, the former New York state financial services chief, certainly wasn’t a fan of bitcoin or virtual currencies. But now, he...
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Obama Declares Bitcoin A National Currency
Editor’s Note: This article is part of the PYMNTS.com special April Fools’ edition. Any connection to fact is purely coincidental. ………………………………………. In...
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Bitcoin: Fact, ‘Fiction’ Or A ‘Virus?’
What do a Russian presidential advisor and JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon have in common? If you guessed a disdain and hatred for...
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Bitcoin Payments Go NFC
“There exists a bizarre gap in today’s state of financial services.” That’s the philosophy of Shake, a new startup in the bitcoin...
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Bitcoin’s Ransomware Problem And Bernie’s ‘Bitcoin Bounty’
City held hostage. Hospital held hostage. Businesses held hostage. Thank you, bitcoin. And one of the many reasons why, among plenty of other...
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Mt. Gox Bitcoin Bank Case To Be Heard In US Court
The defunct Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange case is back in the mainstream news cycle, and this time, it’s back in the U.S....
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Microsoft Addresses Bitcoin Payments Mix-Up
Microsoft got a little less bitcoin-friendly, but only in a momentary lapse. Without much of a fuss, Microsoft appeared to have quietly taken...
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How To Catch A Criminal — Using Bitcoin’s Tech
As infamous bitcoin criminals like Ross Ulbricht have learned, it’s not impossible to get caught. And, as law enforcement has learned, the...
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A Pastor With A Bitcoin Hacks Into A Bank…
It was only a matter of time. That a pastor … got nabbed for his alleged involvement in a bitcoin banking hacking...
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Will P2P Bitcoin Save The Unbanked?
Bitcoin often gets a bad rap and, by association, so can the organizations and companies looking to use digital currency platforms to...
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Japan’s Political Pitch To Legalize Bitcoin
Here’s a headline that could stop everyone in the payments ecosystem in their tracks: “Japan considers making bitcoin a legal currency.” And...
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Bitcoin’s Hospital Hack, FTC’s Bitcoin Scammer Crackdown
Here we go again. When the words “bitcoin ransom” and “malware attack” show up in headlines together, is anyone really surprised anymore?...
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Australian Banks Cleared Of Bitcoin Blocking Accusations
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has cleared Australian banks from the accusations related to claims over blocking bitcoin services. More...
