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Mandatory Bitcoin Reporting Ordered in Argentina

http://cointelegraph.com/news/112060/mandatory-bitcoin-reporting-ordered-in-argentina

<< The July 4th, 2014 announcement by Argentina’s Unidad de Información Financiera (UIF) that all financial service companies in the country would need to begin reporting all transactions involving virtual currencies. The primary concern, according to the UIF was the threat of both money laundering and the ability to use cryptocurrencies to finance criminal activities or terrorism. Unfortunately, like most such official concerns, the politics of the situation never allows that fiat currencies are used in the exact same manner as virtual currencies and that such onerous regulations will not stop its use by them any more than it does with dollars. >>

Bitcoin Treasure Hunt Launched in San Francisco by Mystery Donor

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2014/07/12/bitcoin-treasure-hunt-launched-in-san-francisco-by-mystery-donor/

<< If you missed out on the Hidden Cash treasure hunt last May,never fear. @SFHiddenBitcoin has arrived, transforming San Francisco into a gigantic bitcoins beta test. No one knows who is leaving the shiny bitcoin "wallets" around the city and posting tantalizing clues on Twitter. But the buzz is building for the daily crypto-currency scavenger hunt. >>

Startup sees business in bitcoin, seeking to promote local uptake of digital currency

http://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/2014/07/05/startup-sees-business-in-bitcoin-seeking-to-promote-local-uptake-of-digital-cur-a-526444.html

<< First came the switch off of the gold standard. Then checkbooks and credit cards started the shift away from cash - but to bitcoin advocates, not far enough. >>

Ireland Central Bank Official Admits Bitcoin's Disruptive Potential

http://cointelegraph.com/news/112015/ireland-central-bank-official-admits-bitcoins-disruptive-potential

<< "Virtual and digital currencies can challenge the sovereignty of states", says Gareth Murphy, senior Central Bank of Ireland official. At a recent digital money conference in Dublin, he mentioned that rivals are interfering with a bank's ability to sway the price of credit for the entire economy. Murphy warned that there might be considerable threat to the finances of a country if increasingly more transactions for services and goods fade away from the tax system due to the use of crypto currencies such as Bitcoin. >>

Revealed: the banks using "pseudo" solicitor firms to make debtors pay up

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jul/04/banks-legal-demands-that-scare-customers

<< Threatening legal letters from what appear to be solicitor firms are actually coming from a department of Lloyds or NatWest. >>

EU's right to be forgotten: Guardian articles have been hidden by Google

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/02/eu-right-to-be-forgotten-guardian-google

<< Publishers must fight back against this indirect challenge to press freedom, which allows articles to be "disappeared". Editorial decisions belong with them, not Google. >>

Internet filters blocking one in five most-popular websites

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/internet-filters-blocking-popular-websites-guido-jezebel

<< Jezebel and Guido Fawkes sites among those blocked by at least one mobile or fixed line service provider in UK, campaigners say. >>

Bitcoin Draws Attention Of Institutional Bidders And MasterCard

http://www.forbes.com/sites/paularosenblum/2014/06/30/bitcoin-draws-attention-of-institutional-bidders-and-mastercard/

<< Bitcoin, the crypto-currency that has drawn both positive and negative reaction from investors, is back in the news. >>

Facebook reveals news feed experiment to control emotions

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-users-emotions-news-feeds

<< Protests over secret study involving 689,000 users in which friends' postings were moved to influence moods. >>

Bitcoin: Can Travel Trust the Cryptocurrency?

http://www.travelpulse.com/news/travel-technology/bitcoin-can-travel-trust-the-cryptocurrency.html

<< Where is Bitcoin going? Where will it go? The travel industry and other industries across the globe have been asking these questions for months. But, given recent developments, it appears companies are at least willing to give Bitcoin a shot. >>

Bitcoin has a future, but maybe not as a currency

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bitcoin-has-a-future-but-maybe-not-as-a-currency-1.2686045

<< Champions and critics agree that the underlying software has many uses. >>

North Korea threatens "merciless" response over Seth Rogen film

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/north-korea-merciless-response-us-kim-jong-un-film

<< Country wants film about attempt to assassinate Kim Jong-un banned and says failure to stop its release will be "act of war". >>

Bolivia turns back the clock in bid to rediscover identity and "southernness"

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/bolivia-clocks-time-run-different

<< Foreign minister says the horological initiative is intended to help people find their indigenous roots. >>

US police departments are increasingly militarised, finds report

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/jun/24/military-us-police-swat-teams-raids-aclu

<< ACLU cites soaring use of war zone equipment and tactics. Swat teams increasingly deployed in local police raids. Seven civilians killed and 46 injured in incidents since 2010. >>

My Insights on Bitcoin: Going from Deceptive to Disruptive

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdiamandis/2014/06/23/my-insights-on-bitcoin-going-from-deceptive-to-disruptive/

<< Bitcoin is moving from its Deceptive phase to a very Disruptive phase. This Blog is going to explain why, and what you may want to do. >>

Bitcoin certainly has a friend in Jared Polis

http://upstart.bizjournals.com/entrepreneurs/hot-shots/2014/06/23/jared-polis-vows-to-fight-bitcoin-regulation.html

<< This outspoken political supporter of bitcoin gave a strong statement that could be reason for bitcoin detractors in the government to be concerned about their bottom line. >>

The war on drugs killed my daughter

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/22/mother-fights-against-war-on-drugs-anne-marie-cockburn-martha-fernback

<< Martha Fernback, 15. died from taking 91% pure ecstasy. Anne-Marie Cockburn is campaigning for drug legalisation to spare others her ordeal. >>

Bitcoin faces biggest threat yet: a miner takeover

http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/technology/bitcoin-faces-biggest-threat-yet-a-miner-takeover/article_83936051-10ad-5325-9354-362425954ff9.html

<< The Bitcoin digital currency system is in danger of losing its credibility as an independent payment system because of the growing power of a group that runs some of the computers behind it. >>

Bitcoin threatens payments sector

http://upstart.bizjournals.com/money/loot/2014/06/21/bitcoin-threatens-payments-sector.html

<< For the payments industry, bitcoin is a major threat because it could remove credit card processing outfit's middleman fees. But it's not so far-fetched to imagine those same threatened companies getting in on the game by buying bitcoin startups. >>