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Ripple Labs names Michael Barr as advisor

Ripple Labs, the global leader in distributed payments technology and supporters of the Ripple protocol, today announced that it has named Michael S. Barr, former official at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and at the Brookings Institution, as an advisor to the company.

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Bitreserve adds new currencies

Bitreserve, the world's first real-time, transparent and free financial service, today announces the availability of seven new currencies to its cloud money service. Now users can hold, exchange and send money between sixteen global currencies and four precious metals.

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BitX raises $4 million

We are excited to announce our USD 4 million Series A funding round lead by the Naspers Group, through their payments subsidiary PayU. Our existing investor, Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group, also participated in the round.

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Alpha Payments Cloud enlists Snapcard for bitcoin acceptance

Snapcard, a leading payment processor and e-wallet for Bitcoin, has partnered with Alpha Payments Cloud to power AlphaHub users to accept Bitcoin payments globally.

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Bit-X Financial adds Nikita Oraevskiy ot the board

Bit-X Financial Corp (BITXF) and its 100% owned bitcoin exchange, Digatrade, today announced that Mr. Nikita Oraevskiy has been appointed to the board of directors and will act as the Company's Chief Strategic Analyst focusing on prospective revenue producing acquisitions.

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Accenture picks Asia Pacific Fintech Innovation Lab startups

Cyber-security solutions, blockchain technology and behavioral analytics applications are some of the innovative services being developed by the seven financial technology entrepreneurs selected to participate in the 2015 FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific.

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Bitnet taps BlockCypher to cut risks in accepting bitcoin

Bitnet, an enterprise bitcoin payments processor, today announced that they have selected BlockCypher, a blockchain web services company, as a key data provider to help Bitnet mitigate the risk for merchants in accepting bitcoin payments.

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Swift Institute tips smaller mining pools to stabilise bitcoin ecosystem

The SWIFT Institute announces the availability of a new paper that investigates Bitcoin mining pools and considers whether an evolution towards smaller mining pools might stabilise the Bitcoin system.

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BitFury secures $20 million funding round

BitFury Group, the leading Bitcoin Blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company today announced it secured $20 million in funding.

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Limonetik offers bitcoin option to PSPs and merchants via Bitnet

Bitnet, an enterprise bitcoin payments processor, and Limonetik, a key player in global digital payments infrastructure and a marketplaces solution provider, today announced a strategic partnership.

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Payever closes EUR500,000 seed round

Payever makes commerce easier for everyone and closed a seed round with the leading early stage venture capital firm in Germany

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Mercury Digital Partners debuts algorithmic trading services through Coinado.com

Mercury Digital Partners Inc, a leading automated trading solution provider in digital currency, is proud to announce its first automated trading and management service at Coinado.com.

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Coinfloor launches broker-based bitcoin marketplace

Coinfloor is announcing the launch of the world's first broker based bitcoin marketplace.

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Chamber of Digital Commerce adds Blythe Masters to advisory board

The Chamber of Digital Commerce was honored to announce today the addition of three significant advisory board members: Blythe Masters, CEO, Digital Asset Holdings; James Robinson, co-founder and managing partner, RRE Ventures; and Jason Weinstein, partner, Steptoe & Johnson LLP.

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Computop and Bitnet partner on merchant bitcoin acceptance

Computop, a leading payment service provider (PSP), and Bitnet, a bitcoin payments processor, today announced a strategic technology partnership.

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ChangeTip first in line for BitGo verification service

BitGo, the leading bitcoin security platform, today announced its Verified by BitGo proof-of-solvency service. Immediately adopted by micropayment service ChangeTip, BitGo’s Verified by BitGo product provides a real-time view of bitcoin assets, quickly and easily assuring ChangeTip’s customers and partners of adequate funds.

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Westpac's Reinventure invests in Coinbase

We are pleased to announce that Reinventure Group, an Australian-based VC firm focused on fintech, has made a strategic investment in Coinbase.

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Bitcoin exchange Kraken opens in Canada with Vogogo

Risk Management & Payment Processing specialist Vogogo Inc. (“Vogogo”) (TSX VENTURE:VGO) today announced the launch of its proprietary compliance, risk management and payment processing platform with prominent bitcoin exchange Kraken.

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BitFury adds former CFTC chairman James Newsome to advisory board

BitFury Group, the leading Bitcoin Blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company added Dr. James Newsome, ex-Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and former CEO of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and Hernando de Soto, the President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), to its advisory board.

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FTC warns consumers of perils of paying in bitcoin

If you shop online — and who doesn’t? — you might notice that some websites let you pay with bitcoins. Virtual or crypto currencies like Bitcoin can be a fast way to pay online, or in person with a mobile app.

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