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Bitstamp, the EU’s first and only licensed cryptocurrency exchange, has unveiled its unified pricing structure, according to an email CoinReport received from Uproar, Bitstamp’s PR firm. The email said that following in the wake of the exchange’s newly-added trading pairs, the...

Swissquote Group Holding SA, a Swiss banking group specializing in the provision of online financial and trading services, and Bitstamp, the EU’s first and only licensed digital currency exchange, announced in a press release CoinReport received initiation of bitcoin integration...

Ripple announced Monday it has opened an office in Luxembourg. The launch is part of the distributed financial technology company’s growing presence in Europe, following the opening of its London headquarters a few months ago. Evan Schwartz, engineer and co-architect of the...

The Luxembourg government approved Monday a national payment institution license for Bitstamp, making the company the first fully licensed and regulated bitcoin exchange in Europe. According to a press release sent to CoinReport, the license goes into effect on July 1, 2016, and...

As everybody is also saying, bitcoin had a much better year compared to the previous one. In 2014, bitcoin was the world’s worst-performing currency, losing more than 57 percent of its value against the US dollar, while the cryptocurrency ended 2015 as the world’s best-performing...

At least three digital currency firms have followed ShapeShift’s lead in abandoning operations in New York because of the state’s polarizing BitLicense. Poloniex, an American cryptocurrency exchange, has left New York because of BitLicense’s restrictions and limitations, reported...

Bitstamp recently announced support for Canadian customers, allowing them to fund the accounts on the Bitcoin exchange using eCheck. Also known as an ACH (Automated Clearing House), an eCheck is a direct debit from a customer’s bank account that is then deposited into their...

With banks closed as Greece heads toward defaulting on its International Monetary Fund loan, worried Greeks are turning to online trading platforms to see if Bitcoin is a better option than the euro, reported CNNMoney. Major Bitcoin exchanges told the news outlet they have seen a...

The Slovenia-based Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp resumed services late Friday, four days after suspending operations to due to breach that saw the loss of 19,000 Bitcoins valued at more than $5 million. In a statement on the company’s website, Bitstamp CEO Nejc Kodrič said the firm...

In a surprising move that indicates just how far Bitcoin has come over the last year, the CCO of PayPal, Jean-Baptiste Graftieaux, has resigned, and taken a new job at Bitstamp, a large international Bitcoin exchange. As CCO (Chief Compliance Officer), Graftieaux was responsible...