• MAKING ATM BITCOIN PAYMENTS VIA LIGHTNING NETWORK IS BECOME A REALITY

    • 1 April 2019
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    WORLD’S FIRST LIGHTNING-ENABLED BITCOIN ATM ‘WORKED FINE’ On March 31, 2019, Weis publicly demonstrated a transaction via Lightning Network at a bitcoin ATM, during the Lightning Hackday, in Hong Kong, as shown in the video below. Later, Weis described the transaction as: Just a proof of concept ‘top up your existing channel.’ Lots of bugs but two

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  • SWITZERLAND MOVES FORWARD TO FIT CRYPTOCURRENCY INTO TRADITIONAL REGULATIONS

    • 21 March 2019
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    A HESITANT VOTE 99 members of the National Council, Switzerland’s lower house of the Federal Assembly, have supported a motion to put forward proposed regulations by liberal public representative Giovanni Merlini. 83 people voted against, while 10 refrained from voting at all. The proposed regulations will now have to be considered by the Council of States, which

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  • BITCOIN BANK’S SILVERGATE SAYS CRYPTO CLIENT BASE CLIMBED 122% IN 2018

    • 21 March 2019
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    Silvergate Bank, which bills itself as the “leading provider of innovative financial infrastructure solutions and services to participants in the digital currency industry,” has disclosed in a preliminary prospectus filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that despite the bearish conditions in the bitcoin market, its number of crypto industry clients surged in 2018. SILVERGATE CRYPTO

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  • CITI SCRAPS ITS PLAN FOR A JPM COIN LIKE BANK-BAKED CRYPTOCURRENCY

    • 18 March 2019
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    In light of the splash JPMorgan made recently with its plan for a bank-backed cryptocurrency, it’s worth remembering another big institution first tested a token to connect global payments – back in 2015. Codenamed “Citicoin,” the project out of Citigroup’s innovation lab in Dublin was never formally announced by the bank, even as a proof

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  • WELCOME ON BOARD, LUNO

    • 14 March 2019
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    Upgrade the world to a better financial system. The way people use and think about money is constantly evolving. The existing financial system was built for a non-digital age, ignoring the needs of the modern individual  and with many unnecessary inefficiencies and gatekeepers. The world now has access to new  technologies like decentralised cryptocurrencies that

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  • GERMAN FINANCE MINISTRY CALLS FOR REGULATED BLOCKCHAIN SECURITIES MARKET

    • 9 March 2019
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    The German Ministry of Finance has recommended that the country recognize blockchain-based securities as a legitimate form of financial instrument and regulate them as such. In a paper published Friday, the agency said securities can be issued in electronic form and shouldn’t have to be documented on paper. “German law should generally be opened up for electronic

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  • NO ETF DECISION YET, BUT GEMINI-BACKED BITCOIN INTEREST ACCOUNT IS LIVE

    • 7 March 2019
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    A BITCOIN BANK ACCOUNT Even the greatest proponents of Bitcoin tend to admit that the number one cryptocurrency is unlikely to replace banks anytime soon. However, it certainly has fiat currency in its sights. With the launch of two high-interest Gemini-backed cryptocurrency accounts in Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), maybe the banks should be worried

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  • SWISS STOCK EXCHANGE SIX LISTS ETHEREUM ETP FOR TRADING

    • 6 March 2019
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    Swiss stock exchange SIX Group has listed an ethereum-based exchange-traded product (ETP). SIX Group announced Tuesday that trading for the Amun Ethereum ETP started on March 5 under the ticker symbol AETH. The product carries an annual management fee of 2.5 percent and is backed by Switzerland-based firm Amun AG. ETPs are a type of financial instruments

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  • PUTIN SETS JULY DEADLINE FOR CRYPTOCURRENCY LAW IN RUSSIA

    • 1 March 2019
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    Russia’s long-running cryptocurrency regulation saga may soon be at an end as Vladimir Putin has ordered a deadline of 1st July 2019 for the approval of the ‘crypto-sphere’ bill. PREVIOUSLY, ON ‘CRYPTO-CURRENSKIY’ The ‘Quest for the Regulatory Bill’ picked up pretty much straight after the finale of prequel, ‘The Prohibition Question’. As you may recall,

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  • BLOCKCHAIN E SMART CONTRACTS IN ITALIA ASSUMONO PIENA VALIDITÀ LEGALE

    • 28 February 2019
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    Nei giorni scorsi è stata approvata una norma dal Parlamento alla quale forse non è stata data la dovuta importanza ma che può rappresentare un vero punto di svolta per aprire la strada alla blockchain e agli smart contracts in Italia. Il Parlamento ha, infatti, approvato la conversione in legge, con modificazioni, del c.d. Decreto Semplificazioni (decreto-legge 14 dicembre 2018,

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