The State Banking Authority of New York says that Bitcoin exchange itBit has filed for a banking license; however, approval for the license may come in the next couple of weeks.
Bitcoin price has been rearing to go all weekend. Conflicting technical signals had both advance and decline as likely outcomes of the price consolidation on Saturday. By Sunday morning (UTC) the buy signals were unmistakable.
London photographer Abby Scarlet has embarked on a six month challenge during which she will only accept work from clients willing to pay her in bitcoin.
In the aftermath of the Nav Sarao scapegoating farce, one week ago Zero Hedge decided to give the confused CFTC a helping hand and launched a daily series highlighting the constant spoofing and "manipulation"
On Thursday we noted that no matter how tempting it may be to tune out the almost hourly warnings from various sources claiming Greece is finally set to run out of cash,the inevitable for another few weeks
Investors are increasing the pressure to acquire shares of the Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC) with a bid for 50,000 at $35 per share by the Maxim Group.
It's a quiet Tuesday morning – at least it was, before the consumer confidence report catalyzed a major PM surge, and stock plunge – a day ahead of yet another so-called "momentous" FOMC meeting.
Chainalysis offers a service that provides financial institutions with the means to obtain regulatory compliance through real-time analysis of the blockchain.
Overstock.com is one step closer to offering a new kind of stock intended to remake the stock market in much the same way the bitcoin digital currency remade our money system.
In what future generations will likely see as a major, potentially catastrophic blunder of monetary policy, the West and particularly the City of London continues to hemorrhage huge volumes of gold which is flowing Eastwards to Singapore, India and C
The three Bitcoin core developers who were, up until now, funded by the Bitcoin Foundation will join the MIT Media Lab's newly established Digital Currency Initiative.
I'm pleased to announce that I've joined the MIT Media Lab's newly launched Digital Currency Initiative to continue my work on the Bitcoin project. I'm looking forward to working with all the amazing people associated with the initiative.
I continue to hold the view that China may be in the early stages of a great financial collapse. Not because it has gone free market, but becasue Chinese central bankers have propped up spectacular slices of the Chinese real estate market via...
The Netherlands has fired a 46-year-old female employee who for 6 of her 8 years with the central bank made money on the side as a "dominatrix prostitute who described herself as a high-class nymphomaniac and earned €10,000...
Despite rising stock prices and a falling unemployment rate, the United States is on the brink of a catastrophic "financial crisis," according to former U.S. presidential candidate Ron Paul. And the culprit could be the dollar.
Back in November we chronicled the (quiet) death of the Petrodollar, the system that has buttressed USD hegemony for decades by ensuring that oil producers recycled their dollar ....
One proposed solution to Greece's European debt problem is for the Mediterranean country to abandon the euro and resurrect its old currency, the drachma.
Citibank's Global Chief Economist Willem Buiter is another in a line of economic idiots (sorry, but no other word is more accurate) who call for abolishing cash and taxing deposits.