By now you may have heard that yet another attempt at identifying Satoshi Nakamoto – the pseudonym used by the creator or creators of Bitcoin has been made.

Earlier this month, Wired named Craig Steven Wright, an entrepreneur and academic with businesses in Australia as the person behind the digital currency. His home in Sydney was subsequently raided by police, although they claim it’s over tax issues.

We spoke with Christie Christelis, president of Technology Strategies International Inc., a Canadian digital payments research firm, on this headline and others digital currencies have made in 2015, as well as the technology’s outlook in the upcoming year.

http://www.computerdealernews.com/news/bitcoin-and-digital-currency-a-year-in-review/45916

The CEO of Overstock.com last week warned that a consortium of the world’s largest banks could be used to make sure the blockchain, a new way to track value exchanges, is controlled by the existing powers.
Speaking at the Blockchain Agenda San Diego, Patrick Byrne warned that New York City-based R3CEV, a consortium of 42 global banks, could stifle innovation, according to an InsideBitcoin’s report Friday.

http://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2015/12/21/patrick-byre-s-warning-about-r3-s-blockchain.html

Bitcoin (BTC/USD) fell 8% to a 1-week low of $425 during the past 24 hours.

The steep drop is one of several big moves that have become increasingly common since bitcoin’s resurgence in late November.

Over the past week, bitcoin ran into fierce resistance near $467. If bitcoin would advance past this mark, the prospects of revisiting $500 would be more convincing. Bitcoin’s hype-filled spike to $500 in early November is believed by some to have been driven by investors flocking to a Ponzi scheme.


http://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/trading/bitcoin-price-tumbles-8-after-failing-to-break-resistance/

Coinbase held their second internal hackathon at the Coinbase HQ, the company announced yesterday, focusing on projects its workers do not normally work on.

The Bitcoin exchange acknowledged their team investigates “new behaviors that an open, global payment protocol can uniquely enable.”

The hackathon went on for 48-hours so the team could explore such new horizons.

Assigned to the hackathon were teams of Coinbase engineers, designers and business operations individuals. Their only requirement was they had to work outside the normal purview of their jobs and try new things.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/78608-2/

anything can happen in bitcoin market but $500 looks more reasonable price than $700
the important thing now is that we must continue to keep hodl our bitcoin

Not-for-profit open source group The Linux Foundation has announced a new collaborative effort that aims to advance the Blockchain, the technology that powers Bitcoin.
The project is aiming to develop a new enterprise-grade, open-source distributed ledger framework based on the existing Blockchain with a goal of allowing developers to focus on building robust, industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support business transactions from the resultant open source code.
Initial members of the initiative include a highly impressive list of finance firms including Accenture, ANZ Bank, Cisco, CLS, Credits, Deutsche Börse, Digital Asset Holdings, DTCC, Fujitsu, IC3, IBM, Intel, J.P. Morgan, London Stock Exchange Group, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MFUG), R3, State Street, SWIFT, VMware and Wells Fargo.

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/12/20/linux-foundation-announces-bitcoin-blockchain-initiative-to-develop-new-fintech-applications/

Kenyan operator Safaricom says it will not agree to have bitcoin-related transactions on its M-Pesa system unless the virtual currency is authorised by the banking sector regulator, Business Daily reported. CEO Bob Collymore says bitcon, a digital currency used online, would expose M-Pesa to Central Bank of Kenya's (CBK) money laundering penalties.

Collymore said the restriction is to assist the police and CBK's fight against money laundering and the possibility of being used to finance terrorism. Collymore said Safaricom is in a very precarious position as a successful mobile money transfer system and cannot afford to compromise M-Pesa or any other mobile money system.

Although not outlawed, the CBK has issued a statement warning that holders of the bitcoin currency did not have any legal recourse if they lost their money.

http://www.telecompaper.com/news/safaricom-wants-rules-before-allowing-bitcoin-on-m-pesa--1119852

Not a single month passed in 2015 without some groundbreaking new development in the world of digital currency regulation.

I’ll count down some of the ones that have been most influential on my own practice.

10. New Jersey: The Digital Currency Jobs Creation Act

9. Hong Kong: No Need for Bitcoin Regulation

8. CFTC: Bitcoins are Commodities

7. BSA Audits: FinCEN is Serious about AML Enforcement

6. California: A License for Digital Currency Businesses

4. NYDFS: The BitLicense

3. ItBit: An Alternative to the BitLicense

2. ECJ Bitcoin Sales Are Not Subject to VAT

1. UK Treasury: AML Rules for Wallets and Prudential Regulations for Exchanges

read mrore : http://www.coindesk.com/top-10-bitcoin-regulatoin-2015/

I have been using xapo wallet more than 1 year and I have never experienced such your constraints
you should follow this advice

in my opinion altcoin trading can started with a small capital (where you get from faucet)
and thew fluctuations of altcoin market sharper than bitcoin market
you can utilize it to get more bitcoin

This is decentralization, you are the owner of your bank, no one can freeze all of your money
you have to increase your security to access your address because your address is your bank if someone can access your address so you lost your money.....

I agree with you
bitcoin = real money and real currency

no one can make money quickly without any sacrifice,,
you must spend your time, thought and effort to earning bitcoin

do not give up
we still have 10 days before the end of december

Im sure we can reach $500 at december

agree with you
now is the right time to collect as much as we are able bitcoin
halving decrease reward from 25 to 12.5 and im sure price will be up from $500 to $1000  

of course we will reach $500 at the end of this year
may be we will reach $600 at this week and $1000 at the end of this year

OF COURSE YESS

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i think we can say "star warz"