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Bitcoin Tracker: The Unbanked-Profit Dilemma

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Can the unbanked benefit from bitcoin, or are they merely the experimental subjects of bitcoin adherents, lobbyists and scientists? This week’s Bitcoin Tracker takes a look at the recent bitcoin projects that are in the news and that are targeting the unbanked. Vogel also wanted to clarify regulations surrounding bitcoin.

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Bitcoin Tracker: Another Tough Week

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This past week proved once again that it’s tough to be a bitcoin fan. In another blow to bitcoin legitimacy, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has denied the second bitcoin-based ETF bid up for consideration in the month of March — the Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.’s Well, as long-term as bitcoin value can be.

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Bitcoin: 10 Years Of Smoke And Mirrors

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31, 2018, will mark the 10th anniversary of the day that a link to a paper , authored by Satoshi Nakamoto , describing the digital currency called bitcoin was first publicly circulated. Ten years after bitcoin launched, it remains the go-to currency of criminals and a way for cybercrooks to wash their money. The end of this month, Oct.

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Lawmakers Push To Fast-Track Crypto Regulation

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Are new bitcoin rules coming? According to The Wall Street Journal , “the Internal Revenue Service is expected to update its 2014 guidance on cryptocurrencies in coming weeks, following an April request from a bipartisan group of 20 lawmakers. It is part of a broader push to boost the nascent cryptocurrency industry.”

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Bitcoin’s Resplendent Week

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Milan, Italy was the host of a formal bitcoin conference to address scaling and a protest conference that addressed, well, everything that the formal conference didn’t. Scaling of bitcoin is a thorny issue and one that caused some dissension at the Scaling Bitcoin conference that took place on October 8 and 9.

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Bitcoin Daily: US Marshals To Hold Bitcoin Auction; Researchers Claim New ‘Spider’ Tech Can Route Crypto Payments More Efficiently

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Marshals Service is auctioning roughly $40 million in bitcoin, CoinDesk reported on Monday (Feb. The auction of 4,040 confiscated bitcoin — worth $37.7 Investor Tim Draper won nearly 30,000 bitcoin across 10 auction blocks. . million at press time — is for people who are registered to bid by Feb. This is the first U.S.

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Bitcoin Daily: P2P Firm Origin Launches Stablecoin; Coinbase Hires Execs from Venmo, Adobe And Google

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Block by block, second by second, OUSD grows passively for you without requiring you to use other platforms,” the post stated. dollars in 2014. The product was created using the organization’s current workforce of individuals at Origin Protocol who are FinTech and cryptocurrency veterans.