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OCTOBER 3, 2017

Citing people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported that Goldman Sachs is mulling whether to launch a new trading business that is focused on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. If the firm moves ahead with these plans, it will be the first high-profile Wall Street company to deal directly in the bitcoin trading market.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

27 that it was partnering with the pizza chain to process cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Litecoin, Binance Coin, Binance USD, Tether, Dash, Ether, Dai and XPT, Cryptobuyer’s native coin. Pizza Hut has restaurants in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, and Maracay, Maracaibo and Barquisimeto, the report stated.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

dollar will remain strong on the international stage and won’t be surpassed by bitcoin anytime soon, although it could be a veritable reserve currency, CoinDesk reported. Other than, you know, gold, bitcoin. He may up the request, made in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Civil and Administrative Tribunal, to $250,000.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

Crypto exchange ShapeShift is suing former engineer Azamat Mukhiddinov for allegedly stealing $900,000 in bitcoin via programs he installed on their servers, CoinDesk reported. 26), for promoting purchasing opportunities and information about bitcoin and other such products, according to a report from Cointelegraph.

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JUNE 23, 2019

Byrne predicted that security tokens will reduce friction in capital markets while also improving price discovery. Patrick McDonnell, a scammer that called himself the “coyote of Wall Street,” has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. I perpetrated a fraud. The killer app of blockchain is security tokens,” Byrne said.

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APRIL 10, 2019

The DFS cited deficiencies in capital, according to Reuters , and “failure to demonstrate that it will conduct its business honestly, fairly, equitably, carefully, and efficiently.”. In other bitcoin news, two men in Singapore were arrested on charges that they promoted OneCoin, a multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency pyramid scheme.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

“It’s possible that the economic tumult may have prompted some capital flight from China, though much of the Tether movement could have been East Asia-based cryptocurrency traders moving their holdings to international exchanges in order to trade at a time when cryptocurrency price volatility was high,” Chainalysis wrote.

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JANUARY 24, 2021

LVL, an upstart bitcoin exchange, has rolled out its own Mastercard debit card which it's taking pre-orders for, a report from CoinDesk says. The card will be linked to bitcoin and fiat accounts, and will be one of Mastercard's premium accounts, able to be used anywhere globally, CEO Chris Slaughter said, according to the report.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Square , the payments company founded by Jack Dorsey, has received a license to enable residents in New York state to buy and sell bitcoin via its Cash App. Brian Grassadonia, the head of Square’s Cash App , said in the same press release that the license will make it quick and easy to buy and sell bitcoin. Didn’t see much.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon is not a huge fan of bitcoin and offered a comment on the cryptocurrency’s 10th anniversary, Financial News reported. MarketWatch said “the gist of his response” was “I didn’t want to be the spokesman against bitcoin. ” The executive has long been a skeptic of bitcoin.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has charged a Colorado resident with fraud in an alleged Ponzi scheme. Defendants Breonna Clark, of Denver, Colorado, and Venture Capital Investments Ltd are charged with soliciting American citizens to trade foreign currency and Bitcoin using a communal digital pool.

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APRIL 28, 2017

In the last few weeks, three separate bitcoin exchanges have reported a halt on processing transactions in dollars — the result of global banks pulling out of high-risk areas. Global banks have long been wary of even indirect interactions with bitcoin exchanges — particularly in the case they could be held liable if something goes wrong.

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MARCH 31, 2017

This past week proved once again that it’s tough to be a bitcoin fan. In another blow to bitcoin legitimacy, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has denied the second bitcoin-based ETF bid up for consideration in the month of March — the Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.’s Well, as long-term as bitcoin value can be.

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APRIL 26, 2019

Cryptocurrencies have had a rough week of it, evidenced by a double-digit percentage drop in bitcoin, arguably the marquee name in the space. At a recent price of $5,092 as reported Friday (April 26), bitcoin is down from levels earlier in the week that topped $5,580.

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MARCH 17, 2017

It has been another wild ride of a week for bitcoin in the wake of the SEC ruling. At the tail end of last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission ruled the proposed Winklevoss bitcoin ETF a no-go by nixing a proposed rule change that would have led to the fund being listed on the Bats BZX Exchange. The reason?

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

When it comes to Bitcoin and other digital currencies, Morgan Stanley chief executive officer James Gorman sees potential, something with which his counterpart at JPMorgan does not agree. If banks behave badly, the government says, ‘Raise more capital.’ Speaking during a Wall Street Journal event on Wednesday (Sept.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Instacart raises new capital, Berkshire takes a stake in Chase and bitcoin has a bad day. Data: Thanksgiving Day Will See Peak Fraud Attempts. Data: Thanksgiving Day Will See Peak Fraud Attempts. Bitcoin Drops Below $6,000. Instagram Rolls Out Three New Ways to Discover Products to Purchase.

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APRIL 15, 2020

In 2018, venture capital investment in blockchain was at a high point, with almost $4.3 Andreessen Horowitz, seeking new funding less than two years after its first venture, is going faster than others would, looking to capitalize on a particularly energized stretch of investing lately.

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APRIL 26, 2019

That revelation sent shares of bitcoin down close to 6 percent. The court filing also shows messages that an executive at Bitfinex sent last August to get capital from a payment processor in Panama that Bitfinex had transferred funds to. It’s also raising worries that Tether isn’t a viable stablecoin, noted the report.

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APRIL 10, 2017

Wells Fargo found yet more fraud problems in its organization; Amazon announced some hi-tech staffing expansions and bitcoin finally found a government with the will to recognize it as a currency. Japan Gives Bitcoin a Big Thumbs Up. at the hands of the SEC, bitcoin world was looking for some good news. Yes, we checked.

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MAY 27, 2016

Gox bitcoin drama got a little more dramatic this week. Gox is the now-defunct bitcoin exchange that shuttered in February 2014 after a mysterious “glitch” caused $500 million worth of bitcoin to go missing. Those bitcoin – or at least most of them — have remained missing ever since. Gox bitcoin.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

BitPay , which is the world's largest provider of bitcoin and cryptocurrency services, has announced that mobile payments app Slide will now add cryptocurrency as a payment option, according to a press release. BDVH has partnered with Bitbond to introduce EURB to the Stellar network, the release stated.

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MAY 23, 2016

Banks may not always be up for overhauling their operations with a largely untested, disruptive technology, but new reports suggest the threat of fraud in one area of corporate finance is encouraging financial institutions to adopt distributed ledger technology in growing volumes.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged John McAfee for allegedly touting investments in initial coin offerings (ICOs) to Twitter followers without saying that he received payment for doing so, according to a press release. The computer coder and businessperson’s bodyguard, Jimmy Watson Jr.,

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The type of tax paid — capital gains tax, corporation tax, income tax, national insurance contributions, stamp taxes or VAT — will be decided by the tax authority. In other news, crypto exchange Bittrex is being sued over a SIM swap that enabled criminals to obtain 100 bitcoin, currently worth nearly $1 million.

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

Zamna announced that it has raised a $5 million seed funding round led by LocalGlobe and Oxford Capital. In other news, an executive of the Panamanian payment processing firm Crypto Capital has been arrested in Poland for allegedly laundering drug money for an international crime group.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Flanigan said in a press release , “distributed ledger technology will clearly be important in modernizing the shared infrastructure of capital markets. HSBC Global Banking and Markets, Americas COO Matthew J. ”

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JANUARY 13, 2021

The OCC conditionally approved the charter, meaning Anchorage had to agree to comply with certain capital and liquidity requirements, as well as the OCC’s risk management rules, the release stated. With the national trust bank charter, South Dakota-based Anchorage will become Anchorage Digital Bank , National Association.

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MAY 27, 2016

I was reminded yesterday in my digital discussion with the CEO of Forter, Michael Reitblat, that 83 percent of the fraud attacks last year were the result of botnets, besting some of the more “tried and true” tactics like account takeovers and phishing. Absurd seems to be a good word to use to describe the whole of bitcoin, too.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Citigroup said earlier in February that it will no longer allow credit card customers to purchase bitcoin with a credit card issued by Citigroup. “We Meanwhile, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase said they, too, wouldn’t allow customers to purchase bitcoin with their credit cards anymore.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Currently, the digital token is being tested inside the bank with corporate clients, unlike bitcoin , which is open source and can be accessed by anyone. Dimon called bitcoin a “ fraud ” during the apex of the crypto boom. The bank’s website says it does not have any plans to give individuals access to the coin.

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JANUARY 6, 2019

“I really related to TrustToken’s vision to foster a new financial future which is resilient to fraud, failure and greed.”. Mehta is the latest Coinbase executive to jump ship.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

A detective superintendent said per the report, “When victims attempted to withdraw their capital, they could not.”. will roll out in September, and it is said to offer cryptocurrencies, such as stellar and bitcoin. According to the outlet, the schemes offered a “trial investment” to rope in victims. The exchange’s version 1.0

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Alternative payment mechanisms such as PayPal, iDEAL in the Netherlands and Klarna (Europe and US) will continue to grow strongly (20% – 30%) for e-commerce, driven both by convenience and by high fraud rates in card-not-present transactions. Real-time Payments Interbank Infrastructure. Distributed Ledger Technology.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Alternative payment mechanisms such as PayPal, iDEAL in the Netherlands and Klarna (Europe and US) will continue to grow strongly (20% – 30%) for e-commerce, driven both by convenience and by high fraud rates in card-not-present transactions. Real-time Payments Interbank Infrastructure. Distributed Ledger Technology.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The IRS website seemed to indicate that it would treat V-bucks like it does bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and looked like it could have affected millions of gamers. Experts warn of fraud happening through video game marketplaces. It apparently marked the first time that video game currencies had received a comment from the IRS.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

XRP is the third-largest cryptocurrency by market value after bitcoin and ethereum, but its architecture is different, which gave the company more than just a technological challenge. Blockchain forensics company CipherTrace indicated in an August report that cryptocurrency thefts, scams and fraud might exceed more than $4.3

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