http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/06/george-osborne-britain-bitcoin-capital

The Treasury has launched a review looking to turn the UK into a centre for virtual currency trade, the chancellor, George Osborne, announced at Canary Wharf in London.

Officials will study the benefits and threats unregulated digital currencies including bitcoin, which peaked with a market capitalisation of around $14bn at the end of 2013 but has since declined to about $8bn according to bitcoin market watcher BlockChain.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/willardfoxton2/100014074/could-the-so-called-bitcoin-price-crash-be-good-for-the-cryptocurrency/

Over the last few months, the price of Bitcoin has gently slumped; at the time of writing, they are worth just under $600 each, and have been about that for several months.

Previously, Bitcoin has been incredibly vulnerable to speculation driven by media reports; there's a big part of me that thinks that the reason the Winklevii went out and made their "$40,000" claim was to talk up the value – after all, the "Winklevoss Bitcoin trust" set up by the brothers owns millions of dollars worth of the cryptocurrency.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/11013767/Bitcoin-trades-slump-as-cryptocurrencys-rise-stalls.html

 The ascent of digital currency Bitcoin has been halted. Transaction levels have been crumbling this year, and priced in dollars total volumes are now back to the levels seen in 2012.

Widely touted as a rival to traditional state-issued currencies, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin became increasingly popular late last year.

http://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1567534/britain-eyes-bitcoin-rivals-virtual-currency-rules

The announcement came in a package of measures unveiled by finance minister George Osborne aimed at boosting financial innovation in London to help fend off challengers to the city’s status as the world’s leading financial centre.

Unlike conventional money, virtual currencies are not backed by a central bank or government, but have become increasingly used as a means of online exchange with some bricks-and-mortar vendors also accepting them as payment for goods and services.

“The government will look at the potential virtual and digital currencies have for achieving positive change and for encouraging innovation in our world leading financial sector, as well as the potential risks,” said a finance ministry statement.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/11014508/George-Osborne-embraces-Bitcoin-as-London-aims-to-be-centre-of-global-financial-technology-revolution.html

 The Chancellor is to launch a review to assess how the UK could become a leading global centre for Bitcoin and other virtual currencies.

George Osborne has instructed Treasury officials to work on a study looking at the benefits and threats of digital currencies, which remain unregulated.

The study, expected in the Autumn, will scope out the potential for cryptocurrencies, and their role in business and society, in the context of the overall financial system.

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http://fortune.com/2014/07/31/stripe-launches-bitcoin-challenger-gives-it-away-for-free/

The San Francisco-based startup, whose technology lets businesses accept online payments, helped introduce a new Bitcoin-like currency on Thursday called “stellar,” as well as a payments network that lets users send any kind of traditional and digital currency including U.S. dollars, pesos, euros and Bitcoins. People will be able to send one kind of currency across the globe and have it automatically converted into another — a sort of all-inclusive online money exchange.

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/07/30/bitbeat-wikipedia-adopts-bitcoin/

Wikipedia is one of the most heavily trafficked sites on the web, and seems a natural fit for bitcoin as a payments system, seeing both are powered by a decentralized network of users, so it’s a wonder it took this long.

In a press release on its website, Wikimedia explained that it had been asked in the past to take bitcoin, and those requests combined with recent events, including the IRS guidance on bitcoin, convinced it to revisit the cryptocurrency. “There is [now] a clear understanding of how to legally manage it

http://www.paymentssource.com/news/emerging-payments/coinapult-intros-service-to-anchor-bitcoins-price-for-wary-users-3018663-1.html

For most of the digital currency's existence, the price of a bitcoin has swung wildly. Coinapult is looking to remove this risk with the launch of Coinapult Locks, which pins the value of a user's bitcoin balance to a stable asset.

"Our thesis is that 99% of normal people aren't currency speculators, and won't deal with a service that exposes them to volatility in daily transactions,” said Gabe Sukenik, executive director at Coinapult. “We created Locks as a bridge to overcome this barrier to entry, and allow users to exist in the Bitcoin ecosystem without have to worry about the price.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/sungardas/2014/07/28/how-safe-is-your-bitcoin-wallet-from-a-cyber-attack/

Bitcoin is a type of digital currency established in 2009 as an inexpensive payment method that can be used to buy merchandise and make transactions online. Although bitcoins are unregulated and not associated with any central bank, there are millions of bitcoin users across the world. As more merchants accept them from travel sites like Expedia to sport teams such as the Sacramento Kings, bitcoins are primed to enter the mainstream. If you have not heard about Bitcoin, perhaps you should.

http://www.brw.com.au/p/entrepreneurs/young_rich_lister_zhenya_tsvetnenko_4tNJu7w5JavjCp4Y6rrvJP

The budding tech entrepreneur would pose for photographs with his white Lamborghini LP560 – one of seven luxury cars in his stable – alongside a rented private jet that had become his preferred mode of international travel. In one shot his glamorous fashion designer wife Lydia draped herself across the bow of a motor yacht, in another he’s sipping champagne in the back seat of the jet. Now, aged 34, he is selling most of the cars – he’s realised he doesn’t have time to drive them all.

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http://phys.org/news/2014-07-entrepreneurial-teen-bitcoins-father-power.html

Campbell Harvey, a finance professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, said the Triangle isn't a good spot for bitcoin mining given the relatively high cost of electricity here and the huge amount of power required to run the required computer hardware.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-07-17/trust-will-kill-bitcoin

last month, a mining pool -- an association of people who own specialized hardware that produces Bitcoins by running specific mathematical operations -- gained a 51 percent share of computing power used in currency production. That gave it the power to reverse transactions, to pay twice with the same Bitcoins, and to delay or even cancel other people's transactions. The pool was GHash.io, run by a secretive U.K.-incorporated outfit called CEX.io, which came close to topping the 51 percent mark in January. Back then, it promised not to do that: "GHash.io will take all necessary precautions to prevent reaching 51% of all hashing power, in order to maintain stability of the Bitcoin network," the pool said in a statement.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/n-y-proposes-licensing-plan-for-bitcoin-businesses-1405611198

New York's top financial regulator on Thursday proposed the toughest restrictions on bitcoin companies to date, unveiling a plan that would require firms dealing in virtual currencies to hold certain levels of capital, hire compliance officers and obtain special licenses.

Regulators around the country are grappling with how to oversee virtual currencies as more entrepreneurs create bitcoin trading exchanges and merchants accept it as a method of payment.

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