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NYDFS Plans ‘Regulated’ Digital Currency Exchanges The New York Department of Financial Services has called for proposals for accepting Digital Currency Exchanges in the state of New York. The financial services institution claims it wants to enhance customer...

For the avid supporters of bitcoin, the digital currency is the gateway to transactions of the future. On the flip side of the coin, the financial institutions do not really know, as of yet, how to deal with this new innovation. Morgan Stanley’s Gorman Speaks out Against...

More bitcoin regulation talks as the MtGox saga continues to unfold and bitcoin continues to take blows. It seems the negative news for bitcoin is never ending and recent events, specifically the fall of MtGox and Flexcoin have thrown the regulation of bitcoin into the limelight,...

New Members to Bitcoin Foundation Board According to a press release, Jim Harper of the Cato Institute and Amy Weiss of Weiss Public Affairs have been announced as the newest members of the Bitcoin Foundation Board. Harper has been given the role of the foundation’s Global...

A few days ago, Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia’s co-founder posted on twitter that he is “playing with Bitcoin” and has bought 0.1 BTC through Coinbase. Later, on a reddit post, Wales asked about Bitcoin and how Wikipedia could incorporate the digital currency for donations....

Boston Bitcoin ATM Jon Brodkin of Ars Technica has begun investing in bitcoin after making a trip to a Boston bitcoin ATM. The ATM is located in Boston’s South Station. The bitcoin novice inserted a dollar into the machine and got back 0.0014 bitcoins. Co-founder of Liberty...

American businessman and investor, Mark Cuban, was interviewed by USAToday on his thoughts about Bitcoin and to discuss his app, Cyber Dust. Cyberdust is a new private messaging app that Cuban likens to Snapchat for texting. Mark Cuban on Bitcoin When asked about his viewpoint on...

Nouriel Roubini: BTC is a Ponzi Scheme Economist Nouriel Roubini declares bitcoin as a Ponzi scheme and says that it has a “lousy” store of value. Roubini, also know as the “Dr. Doom” of the business world, refutes the digital currency and took to his...

MtGox Gets ‘Goxed’ Over Stolen Bitcoins Mark Karpeles, CEO of Mt. Gox, had his blog and Reddit account hacked on March 9th by hackers. It appears that the hackers are claiming the bitcoin exchange was not as forthcoming or truthful about the details of the whole...

eBay Bitcoin Exchanger Patents Bloomberg Television’s Matthew Miller and Trish Regan recently conducted an interview with CEO of eBay John Donahoe, to discuss the auction site’s future plans with PayPal and digital wallets. Miller insisted that bitcoin would cause...