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Inconsistencies in the Irish banking industry's attitude to crypto-currencies have emerged after Bank of Ireland refused to let a bitcoin ATM outfit open an account before AIB stepped in to say it could work with the firm.
11 March 2014
Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, the man named as bitcoin's creator by a magazine on Thursday, has denied the claim before leading reporters on a car chase around Los Angeles.
07 March 2014
Zuckerberg-baiters Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are handing over some of their bitcoin fortune to Richard Branson for a trip on his Virgin Galactic spacecraft.
05 March 2014
Ripple is set to get a kick-start, with the outfit behind it opening up a developer portal and CrossCoin Ventures launching an accelerator to help startups working with the cypto-currency protocol.
The European Banking Authority is to assemble a taskforce to determine whether virtual currencies should be regulated.
Mt. Gox has filed for bankruptcy protection, a lawyer for the beleaguered bitcoin exchange told a news conference today. Meanwhile, new Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has said that the central bank has no authority to regulate the crypto-currency.
28 February 2014
The rise of bitcoin over the last year has piqued the interest of cybercrooks, who have created more than 100 unique families of malware designed to steal virtual currencies, according to Dell SecureWorks.
27 February 2014
Bitcoin prices have cratered again after troubled Japanese exchange operator MT Gox suspended trading amid reports that it has allegedly lost almost $350 million to a year-long cyber-theft and is technically insolvent.
25 February 2014
A collection of US state financial regulators has become the latest body to launch an investigation into bitcoin and other virtual currencies. Meanwhile, the boss of troubled exchange Mt. Gox has resigned from the board of the Bitcoin Foundation.
24 February 2014
Amazon Coins are coming to all Android devices in the US, UK and Germany, enabling customers to buy, spend and earn using the virtual currency.
19 February 2014
Bank of Monetral is closing all bitcoin-related business accounts across Canada in the wake of hostile comments from government ministers on the threats posed by emerging crypto-currencies.
The price of bitcoin plunged again overnight after the operator of dark market Web site Silk Road 2 claimed to have lost $2.7 million in a scam exploiting a known vulnerability in he crypto-currency.
14 February 2014
Standard Bank has begun piloting a current-account linked bitcoin wallet developed by South African outfit Switchless.
11 February 2014
A bug in the bitcoin software that makes it possible to alter transaction details over the network has caused panic-selling among holders of the crypto-currency, sending prices crashing below the $600 mark on Monday morning.
10 February 2014
Bitcoin's price has plummeted by around 20% after exchange MT Gox temporarily suspended withdrawals, Apple kicked a popular wallet off of its App Store and Russia outlawed the crypto-currency.
07 February 2014
Geeks tired of earth-bound crypto-currencies can now trade in their bitcion for Klingon Empire Darsek at a new science fiction focussed exchange.
05 February 2014
Plans floated by New York regulators to issue 'BitLicenses' specifically tailored to virtual currencies, drew mixed responses from industry players at a hearing this week.
31 January 2014
Money management app Mint has struck a deal with Coinbase that will let users view their bitcoin transactions alongside more traditional financial accounts.
30 January 2014
US prosecutors have charged BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem and an accomplice with running a scheme to sell over $1 million in bitcoins to users of the underground Silk Road marketplace.
27 January 2014
US authorities have charged three men with running an online shop that made and sold counterfeit credit and debit cards and holographic overlays to crooks.
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