Paul Koster, Director of the Netherlands Stockholder’s Association (Vereniging van Effectenbezitters), went on a rant against Bitcoin in a January 15 article calling for the Central Bank to completely ban the cryptocurrency.
Netherlands Stockholder Association Director Calls for Immediate Ban on Bitcoin (Op-ed) New European Legislation Ties Taxes in Online Orders to the Country of Purchase The European Union introduced legislation in November 2014 that implemented a new Value Added Tax (VAT) to virtual purchases.
New York Stock Trader Kills Roommate, Press Connects the Murder to Bitcoin The website DNAinfo ran a story on January 13 about a murder in NYC with the headline “Bitcoin Trader Accused of Murder.”
Perianne Boring Talks Anti-Money Laundering Compliance and the Boot Camp Offered at TNABC Perianne Boring is the president of the Digital Chamber of Commerce. The chamber will be hosting an Anti-Money Laundering Boot Camp at the North American Bitcoin Conference 2015 in Miami on January 16 and 17. Boring took time from her schedule to speak with Cointelegraph about the boot camp and the importance of compliance with AML regulations for companies in the Bitcoin industry.
Patrick Byrne: ‘Medici Will Be a National Market System Compliant and Able to Trade Everything’ Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock, speaks with Cointelegraph about the company’s new projects, including Medici and whether it will work with the Counterparty platform, how Wall Street and regulators are receiving the project, and how the old system has allowed financial predators to roam free.
BitMex Offers 30-Day Historical Bitcoin Volatility Futures Contract BitMex, one of the world’s most advanced Bitcoin derivatives exchanges, recently announced the addition of a futures contract for Bitcoin. Now that the cryptocurrency’s value has fallen to below $300 for the first time in nearly two years, the expansion of trading alternatives could give Bitcoin the boost that it needs.
Coinbase Updates User Agreement to Access Customers’ Credit History Coinbase has updated its User Agreement to allow the company, either directly or through third party intermediaries, to collect credit histories from its 1.9 million users.
Dish Network Launching IPTV Service Payable in Bitcoin Dish Network, rebranded as Dish, will unveil a new internet television service (IPTV) at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show.
Argentinian Organic Farmers Reach out to Bitcoin for Help Nubis Bruno, an Argentinian web developer, has designed a way to help organic farmers in his country sell their goods online using Bitcoin.
Bitreserve Lawsuit Rumor Untrue Cointelegraph can reveal that reports of Bitreserve facing a trademark lawsuit because of its use of the name “Bitgold” are unfounded.
How the Government Is 'Hacking' Tor (Op-Ed) There has been a lot of news lately about websites and nodes that operate on the Tor network have been compromised by various governmental police agencies.
Police Suspect Mt. Gox Inside Job After nearly a year of investigations, Japanese police are saying that the missing Mt. Gox Bitcoin vanished due to someone with inside knowledge of the system.
Manhattan Community Board Bans Bitcoin Block Party The City of New York is following the same path as the state in trying to use regulation to push Bitcoin into obscurity. A Manhattan Community Board ruled that a Bitcoin decentralization block party would be refused permits.
Edward Snowden Is Accepting Bitcoin Donations for His Legal Defense Fund Edward Snowden now accepts donations in Bitcoin for his legal defense fund.
Cornell Professor Challenges ChangeTip Emin Gün Sirer, the Cornell professor who recently said that ChangeTip needed to die a quick death has returned to the offensive on the issue of privacy. ChangeTip CEO Nick Sullivan recently criticized Sirer´s statements saying that it felt “like a charity being yelled at”. What Sullivan did not do though was to explain how ChangeTip could even remotely be considered a “charity”.
Singapore Hosting Inside Bitcoins 2015 Conference The major cryptocurrency event, Inside Bitcoins, will be held next year in Singapore on January 29-30, 2015.
The Federal Reserve Publishes Another Paper on Bitcoin The Federal Reserve Bank in Washington, D.C. has issued a report entitled Bitcoin: Technical Background and Data Analysis. The recently released report, dated October 7, is a technical analysis of Bitcoin and the Bitcoin protocol. While mostly accurate, it contains a number of assumptions and self-serving statements suggesting that, despite a great deal of empirical research and terabytes of data, the Federal Reserve lacks a fundamental understanding of Bitcoin.
Coinbase Is Tracking How Users Spend Their Bitcoins Coinbase has recently been demonstrating why consumer regulation is such a problem.
Russian Ministry Questions Proposed ‘Quasi-Money’ Ban Politicians rarely think about the long-term implications of policy proposals and nowhere is this more evident than in the Russian Federation.
Bitcoin Could Help US Protect Against Rising Card Fraud Most people have no idea how insecure their credit and debit cards are. Scary Fact: A child with an old-style VCR can use it to obtain the information stored on a bank card's magnetic strip. It is that easy to defraud both banks and banking customers. A recent report issued by Trend Micro outlines the problem in graphic detail.
Warren Buffet Wrong About Bitcoin ‘Mirage’ in 2014 (Op-Ed) Warren Buffet is one of the most well-known investors in world. He has been in the news a great deal over the last few years after he publicly criticized the wealthiest members of society for paying lower income tax rates than most people. In March of this year, Buffet came out as an opponent of Bitcoin, as revisited in a recent article in Business Insider.
Op-ed: Gold Versus Bitcoin: Quest for Supremacy Even if gold were becoming hard to find on Earth recent discoveries on the asteroid Eros indicate that there is more gold on that one small space rock, 20,000 times more, than is produced on Earth in a single year.
Students Could Save 17% on Loans by Paying with Bitcoin A new service plans to help students use Bitcoin to reduce their student debt by as much as 17%. Brawker, in combination with Tuition.io, is offering tuition gift cards to students.
The Tor Onion Is Under Attack and Rapidly Disintegrating Tor founder Roger Dingledine has reported today that some of the network specialized servers have been compromised.
Filipinos Can Now Withdraw Money from 450 Bank ATMs, Thanks to Bitcoin Firm Coins.ph has a new service that allows recipients to instantly withdraw money from a bank ATM.
Bitcoin Companies to Showcase the World of Bitcoin at CES 2015 The world of Bitcoin is coming to the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show, sponsored by a huge partnership between BitPay, Circle, Kraken, Bitmain, Blockchain, Bitstamp, Private Internet Access, Robocoin, and yBitcoin. The world of Bitcoin show will feature ten different brands that are shaping the Bitcoin and virtual currency industries.
Student Uses the Blockchain to Develop Censorship-Resistant Messaging App A student in the Netherlands, as part of a class project, may have found a way to prevent censorship of text messages by enlisting the aid of the Bitcoin blockchain.
Who Will Regulate the Regulators? (Op-Ed) The Conference of State Banking Supervisors (CSBS) recently released their “Draft Policy on State Virtual Currency Regulation.”
Blockchain.info Asking for User Passwords Whenever we do any type of business on the internet we receive a warning that our passwords will never be requested in an email. The reason for this is simple: Scammers often pose as legitimate businesses in phishing scams. While requests for passwords are unusual, they are not unknown and sometimes are necessary. Blockchain.info is an excellent example of this and the company has recently requested account passwords from many of its users.
MIT Offers Cryptocurrency Course Modules for Fall Semester Bitcoin has a large presence on and off, the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This makes sense when we consider that this is one of the finest technical colleges in the world. The University itself has not become directly involved in cryptocurrency in the past, but it seems that this is about to change. The fall semester will be offering “Computer Systems Security 6.858” and a few of the modules in the class are related to cryptocurrencies.