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Melbourne, Florida, U.S.-based, Internet of Things (IoT)-enabling technology products and services platform NXT-ID announced in a press release it sent to CoinReport that its wholly owned subsidiary, San Francisco, California-based technology platform FitPay, Inc. and Las Vegas,...

International exchange service 247exchange.com has added six additional national currencies for instantly buying bitcoin and other supported digital currencies with credit/debit cards on the platform. The six newly added national currencies include DKK (Denmark), JPY (Japan), NOK...

Seattle, WA-based fully regulated virtual currency exchange Bittrex said that it added 12 new digital currencies in the second quarter of 2016, becoming the only exchange that lists all of the CoinMarketCap top 20 coins. The digital currencies added in order of most recent...

A European Union committee has agreed that for the moment the EU should rein in plans to regulate blockchain, reported Reuters. “We don’t want pre-emptive regulation, but we do want precautionary monitoring,” said Jakob Von Weizsäcker, a German center-left member of the European...

The Australian government intends to remove the “double tax” treatment from individuals dealing in digital currencies such as bitcoin, reported ZDNet. In a report titled “Backing Australian Fintech” (available for download from the ZDNet article), the government acknowledged that...

On Tuesday, Japanese financial regulators proposed treating virtual currencies the same as fiat currencies, according to a report in the Nikkei Asian Review. Currently, virtual currencies are recognized as “objects,” but are not treated the same as established...

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said today that the Australian Dollar could go digital in the future, according to a news report by the Sydney Morning Herald. Tony Richards, head of payments policy at the RBA, said the bank has been watching demand growth for private digital...

Bitcoin anonymity may be a thing of the past in the European Union. Yesterday, the European Commission released a press release that outlines an Action Plan to strengthen the fight against terrorism financing. The plan will focus on disrupting sources of revenue used by terrorist...

Following a three-day conference in London last week, the newly-formed Commonwealth Virtual Currencies Working Group issued several recommendations with respect to digital currencies, such as Commonwealth governments reviewing their legislative responses to these currencies to...

There is a new spin on the phrase “dirty money.” Researchers at New York University’s Dirty Money Project have found 3,000 different types of bacteria living on one dollar bills that were collected in New York. The researchers could only identity around 20% of the non-human DNA...