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A seven man team from Barclays Bank, using tools from FreedomPay and their own Pingit mobile payments app, emerged with top honours at Microsoft's week long Digital Wallet Foundry hack-a-thon in London.
22 March 2013
Having seen its value soar in recent weeks, digital currency bitcoin plummeted today after a technical glitch sparked a sell off and exchange MT. Gox suspended deposits.
12 March 2013
The world's biggest Bitcoin exchange, MT. Gox, has inked a deal that will see Silicon Valley-based CoinLab handle its North American operations.
28 February 2013
Amazon is to introduce its own virtual currency for purchasing apps, games and in-app items on Kindle Fire.
05 February 2013
Digital payments processor BitPay has closed a $510,000 funding round from a group of well-connected angel investors, including Shakil Khan, Barry Silbert, and Roger Ver.
08 January 2013
US start-up Movenbank, which has positioned itself as a mobile-only, cardless, branchless bank, may be forced to offer companion, plastic cards to customers in order to be compliant with MasterCard rules.
14 December 2012
The growth of virtual currency schemes such as Bitcoin and Second Life's Linden Dollars, could have a negative reputational impact on central banks due to their inherent instability, warns the European Central Bank.
30 October 2012
Bitfloor, the Bitcoin exchange that shut down earlier this month after hackers compromised its servers and stole around $250,000 in the virtual currency, has reopened for trading.
28 September 2012
Bitcoin exchange Bitfloor has been forced to temporarily shut down its operations after hackers compromised its servers and stole around $250,000 in the virtual currency.
05 September 2012
US State Representative Mark Warden has added a Bitcoin donation system to his campaign Website, marking the first use of the decentralised virtual currency system by a sitting incumbent politician.
04 September 2012
Bitcoin exchange Bitcoinica is being sued by four former users who allege they are owed nearly half a million dollars-worth of the virtual currency, plus damages.
13 August 2012
Bitcoin exchange Bitcoinica has shut down its operations after an online hacker breached its defences and stole $90,000 worth of the virtual currency.
14 May 2012
Six EU member states - Belgium, Spain, France, Cyprus, Poland and Portugal - have been threatened with legal action by the European Commission unless they comply with one-year old rules on e-money issuance.
27 April 2012
The Royal Canadian Mint has unveiled a 'digital currency' called MintChip, inviting developers to build applications using the new form of cash.
05 April 2012
TradeHill, the Bitcoin exchange operator which closed down last month, has filed a lawsuit against digital payments outfit Dwolla, seeking $2 million in damages.
07 March 2012
Google chairman Eirc Schmidt says the Internet search giant once considered creating its own peer-to-peer money system, dubbed Google Bucks, but binned the idea because of regulatory concerns.
01 March 2012
Bitcoin's tribulations continue, with e-wallet provider Paxum ceasing all business involving the virtual currency after coming under pressure from MasterCard and banks, and major exchange TradeHill shutting down.
20 February 2012
American Express has filed a patent for a system and method for using loyalty rewards as a currency.
01 November 2011
Facebook is seeking to extend the reach its virtual currency, teaming up with developers to test Credits outside of the social network.
25 October 2011
A point-of-sale system, based on a VeriFone terminal, which enables retailers to accept virtual currency Bitcoin has been developed.
21 October 2011
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