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Gamblers with a predilection for decentralised and anonymous currencies finally have a place to place their bets thanks to the opening of bitcoin-based prediction market, Predictious.
12 July 2013
Anarcho-libertarians were thin on the ground at the Bitcoin London event yesterday, as the suits took over Level 39 in Canary Wharf to talk about building businesses, attracting venture capital investment and dealing with financial regulations.
03 July 2013
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, most famous for their legal tangles with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, have revealed plans to float a bitcoin trust.
02 July 2013
Wojciech Bolanowski, managing director of Electronic Banking, PKO Bank Polski explains to Finextra how the firm's IKO Project, an account based mobile payments service for Poland, is not a fight against the cards market.
14 June 2013
Ignacio Garcia, managing director, iZettle Spain discusses how the vendor increased Mpos adoption by 25% in Sweden and how the recent €5 million investment from Banco Santander will expedite its global expansion.
A pub chain run by a former Cambridge University scientist has started accepting bitcoins in exchange for pints of beer.
12 June 2013
In what is becoming a trend in the fintech world, Barclays has taken top honours at a London hackathon, this time triumphing at a weekend-long event hosted by payments start-up Birdback at Google Campus.
03 June 2013
The development of digital payment advisor (DPA) applications residing on customer smartphones and mobile devices has the potential to significantly disrupt the payment value chain states analyst group Gartner
31 May 2013
Liberty Reserve has been shut down and its founder arrested over claims that the digital currency outfit was used by crooks to launder more than $6 billion.
29 May 2013
A rogue staffer at competitive gaming firm Esea enslaved users' computers to run a background bitcoin mining operation that generated around $3700 worth of the digital currency.
03 May 2013
A two-man team from Lloyds TSB has won top honours at Microsoft's week long Digital Wallet Foundry identity and loyalty hack-a-thon in London with a proof-of-concept application to ease customer verification at the check out.
19 April 2013
New York-based bitcoin exchange Bitfloor has been forced to cease all operations indefinitely after being told that its US bank account is being shut down.
18 April 2013
Bitcoin values have resumed their upward momentum after a DDoS attack on Japanese exchange Mt. Gox and depository hack at Instawallet briefly stalled the digital currency's climb on Wednesday.
04 April 2013
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
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