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Bitcoin in the Headlines is a weekly analysis of bitcoin media coverage and its impact. If there was remaining doubt that digital currency applications of bitcoin have taken a backseat to distributed ledger use cases, the October edition of Bloomberg Markets illustrated how fast this ...
How much have Ashley Madison customers been blackmailed for since their personal data was leaked last month? One cybersecurity firm thinks it might have the answer. In a 1st September blog post from network security firm CloudMark , software engineer and research analyst Toshiro Nishi...
A parliamentary hopeful running in Canada's upcoming federal election says he wants to give bitcoin an equal footing with the dollar. Alex Millar, a former maths teacher and software engineer, claims to be an independent candidate running for Vancouver East. In a post on Straight.com ...
Brazil-based bitcoin startup Rippex has announced the former founders of digital payments gateway PagSeguro have joined its team. Founded in 2007, the Brazilian payments solution provider is one of the more prominent online payments startups in the region, receiving coverage in intern...
The story of the rise and fall of bitcoin exchange Mt Gox and its CEO Mark Karpeles could soon find its way to the silver screen. The Hollywood Reporter reports that a film version of David Kushner's recent Rolling Stone piece on Mark Karpeles and Mt Gox is being shopped around by Cre...
The US Marshals Service (USMS) has revealed it is likely to auction off any remaining bitcoins confiscated from convicted Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht sometime in 2015. In total, the USMS seized more than 144,000 BTC (then worth $122m) from Ulbricht in late 2013 along with 29,65...
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The bitcoin stress tests planned by CoinWallet could breach UK law, a legal professional has suggested. The claim was first posted on Reddit yesterday, with user 'btcdrak' asserting: "The Computer Misuse Act 1990 in the United Kingdom makes it an offence to deliberately cause disrupti...
