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Obama Initiative Spawns Identity Based Bitcoin Greenlist
The IDESG or Identity Ecosystem Steering Group recently filed paperwork with the Commonwealth of Virginia to incorporate the IDESG as a nonprofit corporation. The IDESG was basically spun out of NIST...
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U.S. Air Force Building Bitcoin Payment Gateway
The United States Air Force has quietly been working on a Bitcoin payment gateway. Through an SBIR or Small Business Innovation Research grant to the Department of Defense, Utica New York based...
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eBay Files Patent Application for Programmable Money
Gift giving during the holidays just took on a whole new meaning. eBay, the parent company of PayPal, filed patent application 20130339188, “Gift Token” with the United States Patent and Trademark...
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California Bill to Legalize Bitcoin
A Bill (act to amend Section 107 of the Corporations Code, relating to business associations) introduced by California State Assembly member and Chairman on Banking and Finance Roger Dickenson on...
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SVB Financial Group Places Cryptic Bitcoin Message in Annual Report
Late Thursday evening when Gil Luria of Wedbush Securities and I announced on Twitter that Fortress Investment Group (NYSE: FIG) is probably the first public company to purchase and hold Bitcoin, there...
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Bitcoin in Beta Longer than Gmail
Ten years ago, on April Fool’s Day 2004, Google’s Gmail was released to the public as a beta product. “Google Gets the Message, Launches Gmail. User Complaint About Existing Services Leads Google to...
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Inside Bitcoins Remittances and the Developing World
Marc Hochstein, Executive Director of American Banker, was the moderator for the morning keynote “Bitcoin, Remittances and the Developing World” at the New York City Inside Bitcoins conference. Marc...
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U.S. Navy Preparing Bitcoin Battalion
Bitcoin Battalion Back in December we reported that the United States Air Force has quietly been working on a Bitcoin payment gateway otherwise known as a “snack machine” (yes you read that correctly)....
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Federal Reserve’s Bitcoin Policy Begins to Take Shape
On Friday, May 9th, 2014, the Federal Advisory Council and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve met for their quarterly meeting in Washington D.C. This meeting was historically held in secrecy...
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US Government Bans Professor for Mining Bitcoin with A Supercomputer
This article was written by Ruben Alexander and Brian Cohen The NSF or National Science Foundation Office of the Inspector General (OIG) just posted on their website their March 2014 Semiannual Report...
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