Category: Finance

A Swiss real estate agent has offered a Villa in Ticino for 829 bitcoin. That’s the first Swiss Villa sold for bitcoin - but just the tip of the iceberg. Is the leading cryptocurrency on its way to becoming the global currency of the wealthy? Sometimes it is said, bitcoin is no money, because you can’t buy X with it....

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Gambling is considered one of the most ancient traditions found in the humankind regardless of culture or civilization. There are known instances of gambling in the Roman Republic, ancient Egypt, ancient China, and even the Northern Europe. There are numerous examples of games of chance played at the dawn of humans; in Rome, they first came up with heads and...

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Making international remittances fair and simple was among the first use cases invented for Bitcoin. Even though the initial concept of low fees and high-speed transactions is now threatened by the increased load on the network and complete absence of any consensus regarding the scalability issue, bitcoin remains a preferable solution for those willing to send money abroad without any...

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Cryptocurrency has gone a long way from a geek thing to the protagonist of headlines in mainstream media, which took it less than ten years to accomplish. Blockchain technology that underlies cryptocurrencies has gone even farther and now finds use cases far beyond financial transactions. This all has drawn much attention to cryptocurrency trading. The recent bitcoin price rally was...

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The company Crypto Fund AG, located in the Crypto-Valley in Zug, Switzerland, wants to release a Crypto-Fund which invests in bitcoin, ether, and other cryptocurrencies. The world’s first regulated crypto fund aims to get a volume of 100 million Swiss Francs - and will make a Swiss Bank store the private keys for cryptocurrencies in their own safe. Finally. You...

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California-based blockchain startup Enigma has announced the creation of a cryptocurrency investment platform that allows developers to start their own digital asset investment funds based on trading strategies that they create themselves. The platform, named Catalyst, enables developers to create investment funds where they have full control of how their digital assets are handled. Developers are free to incorporate whatever...

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On June 3, an insider source told Chinese cryptocurrency news agency CnLedger that two of the largest Chinese bitcoin exchanges Huobi and OKCoin are currently working on the development of an off-chain payment channel similar to the Lightning network to lower transaction fees. CnLedger reported: “Chinese exchanges Huobi and OKCoin are working on building a Lightning Network-like channel, to lower...

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On May 30, LG, one of the largest electronics company in South Korea behind Samsung, officially announced its partnership with R3CEV as a part of a larger vision to target the South Korean fintech and finance industries with distributed ledger technology. Over the past few years, many leading financial institutions and banks in the world have joined R3CEV, including South...

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If you have heard of an ICO, chances are someone was trying to sell you a “coin” that sounded like bitcoin but cheaper, faster, and better. Diving into the ICO phenomenon that is quickly gaining in popularity amongst blockchain startups, BTCManager had a conversation with the man who started it all. Brock Pierce is a venture capitalist and something of...

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As trading volumes in Asia support bitcoin’s bullish run, which extends for a eighth consecutive week, some investors in Japan are using small-cap stocks on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as a proxy for the digital currency. Bitcoin’s recent rally has been linked to a phenomenal rise in small stocks on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, as Bloomberg reported June 5, where...

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