EBA welcomes EC's virtual currency AML proposal, suggests sufficient time to implement amendments
Aug 12, 2016 09:31 am UTC| Digital Currency
The European Banking Authority has recently published its opinion on the European Commissions proposal to bring virtual currencies into the scope of Directive (EU) 2015/849 (fourth Anti-Money Laundering...
FxWirePro: ETH/EUR faces strong resistance at 11.30, good to sell on rallies
Aug 12, 2016 09:16 am UTC| Digital Currency
ETH/EUR has recovered sharply in previous week from the low of 6.52and closed at 9.94 levels (KRAKEN).It is currently trading at 11.72 at the time of writing. Ichimoku analysis of weekly chart shows: Tenkan-Sen...
New ATM enables French to trade bitcoins
Aug 12, 2016 07:39 am UTC| Digital Currency
GroupBTC France, a subsidiary of ATM Bitcoin Exchange, has announced its international expansion by installing a bitcoin ATM in Montpellier city in France, marking it as the first town in the region of Occitania to get the...
90 pct believe blockchain technology to alter payment landscape by 2025: EPC poll
Aug 12, 2016 07:26 am UTC| Digital Currency
The European Payments Council (EPC), an international not-for-profit association that aims to support and promote European payments integration and development, has released the results of its poll on the impact of...
Swirlds releases SDK for hashgraph distributed consensus platform
Aug 12, 2016 06:50 am UTC| Digital Currency
Swirlds, a software platform designed to build fully-distributed applications that harness the power of the cloud without servers, has released the Software Development Kit (SDK) for thehashgraph distributed consensus...
Big four accounting firms to contemplate blockchain consortium
Aug 12, 2016 06:13 am UTC| Digital Currency
Big Four accounting firms Deloitte, Ernst Young (EY), KPMG and PwC, have decided to meet at Microsofts headquarters in New York City to discuss on establishing their own blockchain consortium. Specialists from these...
Korean cryptocurrency exchange Korbit launches Ethereum Classic trading
Aug 12, 2016 05:36 am UTC| Digital Currency
While there is araging debate going on in the cryptocurrency community that whether Ethereum Classic is a scam or not, another digital asset exchange has announced its support for ETC trading. Leading Korean...
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