Stanford offers certificate course on cryptocurrencies
Aug 20, 2015 06:10 am UTC| Digital Currency
Acknowledging the potential of virtual currencies to transform the business payment transaction system, the Stanford Centre for Professional development is offering a certificate course on Crypto Currencies: Bitcoin and...
Spanish Tax Authorities explain how tax applies to bitcoin losses
Aug 20, 2015 05:31 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Spanish tax authorities have recently shed light on how the countrys existing tax laws should be appliedto losses incurred by the collapse of a bitcoin exchange, resulting from a scam or a situation of insolvency. A...
Commonwealth specialist group to discuss bitcoin next week
Aug 20, 2015 04:19 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Commonwealth, a voluntary association of 53 independent and equal sovereign countries, has formed the Commonwealth Virtual Currencies Working Group that will meet for the first time next week to investigate the...
Cubits to help BTCGreece set up 1000 digital cash ATMs in Greece
Aug 19, 2015 12:15 pm UTC| Digital Currency
Cubits, a bitcoin services provider founded in 2014, has collaborated with Greek exchange BTCGreece in order to set up 1,000 digital cash ATMs to help businesses deal with strict regulations implemented by capital...
Augur crowdsale raises $1.3 million in 26 hours
Aug 19, 2015 11:37 am UTC| Digital Currency
Augur, the decentralized prediction market, is running a crowdfunding sale that started on August 17 to raise capital for its platform, as reported by SiliconANGLE. For this, it is selling Reputation Tokens (REP). The sale...
Nick Szabo: Rapid increase in bitcoin block size is a ‘Huge Security Risk’
Aug 19, 2015 10:40 am UTC| Digital Currency
Nick Szabo, a cryptographer and digital currency researcher, has said that a rapid increase in block size is a huge security risk and a reckless act to be performing on a $4 billion system. Szabo, who many believe to be...
SEC files suit against brother of bitcoin mining company GAW Miners CEO
Aug 19, 2015 09:39 am UTC| Digital Currency
It seems the legal troubles for GAW Miners, the now-defunct cryptocurrency mining company, are not going to end anytime soon. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has recently filed a suit against its former...