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The British Bankers Association and the Payments Council have called for the Government to take a 'light touch' to regulation of the underlying bitcoin blockchain technology, which they say has the potential to fundamentally change the way financial assets are transferred.
20 January 2015
The price of bitcoin is hovering dangerously close to the $200 mark as BTC/USD exchanges creak under pressure from a wave of sell orders from spooked investors.
14 January 2015
Bitcoin firm Circle has added support for contactless mobile payments to its Android app, enabling crypto-currency enthusiasts to make instore purchases with a wave of their phone.
07 January 2015
The Bitcoin ecosystem is picking up where it left off in 2014, with a further slump in volume and prices and fresh concerns over the fate of funds deposited with exchange operator Bitstamp, which has suspended services over a possible compromise of its 'hot wallet'.
05 January 2015
As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2014, we take a look back at our most popular news stories, videos, features and blogs over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 2 January 2015.
22 December 2014
With the price of bitcoin continuing to crater, Silicon Valley-based crypto-mining outfit PeerNova has raised $8.6 million in funding to refocus its business on blockchain-based enterprise products.
19 December 2014
Founded by self-proclaimed bitcoin enthusiast, Darwin Ramon, the startup, YesToBitcoins.com now allows users to settle payments on all Canadian credit cards.
16 December 2014
VBTC Vietnam and Coinarch have launched VBTC plus, Vietnam’s first bitcoin leverage trading platform.
The former chief technology officer of Liberty Reserve has been sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business - billed as the bank of choice for the cyber underground - that processed more than $16 billion in digital currency transactions.
15 December 2014
Microsoft has begun accepting bitcoin as a payment option for apps, games, and other digital content from select Windows, Windows Phone, and Xbox platforms.
11 December 2014
While bitcoin's advance into the mainstream remains patchy, the crypto-currency still emerged as the ninth most popular payment method during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping frenzy earlier this week.
05 December 2014
Bitpay is working with Dutch startup Bitstraat to turn Amsterdam into the Bitcoin capital of the world by giving away free hardware to retailers in the city.
03 December 2014
MasterCard has called on Australia to force Bitcoin transactions to go through "regulated and transparent administrators" in the same way as other participants in the country's payments system.
02 December 2014
Australia's largest Bitcoin company CoinJar is moving its headquarters to the UK to take advantage of a more favourable regulatory regime.
01 December 2014
Coinbase has struck a deal with payments platform RewardsPay that enables online shoppers to use bitcoin for purchases at the likes of iTunes and Facebook.
20 November 2014
The US Marshals Service is looking at a $20 million payday as it auctions off 50,000 bitcoins seized from alleged Silk Road kingpin Ross Ulbricht, otherwise known as Dread Pirate Roberts.
18 November 2014
The venture capital arm of Spanish bank Bankinter has invested in a bitcoin startup that is developing an application for P2P transfer of fiat money to bitcoin - and vice versa - through consumer bank accounts.
17 November 2014
A team from RBS took top honors at the Deloitte Digital #GoneHacking capital markets hackathon on Friday with a trading platform that utilises the Ripple protocol to handle integration with crypto-currencies.
Bitcoin could become a market-leading technology that will change the way financial systems are engineered says BNP Paribas, in an analysis of the potential disruptive impact of the crypto-currency on banking and asset servicing.
12 November 2014
A dutch crypto-currency fanatic has implanted two NFC tags under the skin in his hands to store his digital cash.
11 November 2014
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