Digital Currency and Blockchain Weekly Round-up, July 22 2016
Jul 22, 2016 10:23 am UTC| Digital Currency
Russian political party calls for bitcoin and blockchain adoption The leader of Russian Party of Growth has urged for legalization of digital currencies such as bitcoin and become a leader in the development of...
BitPay launches new invoice display option to improve bitcoin payment process
Jul 22, 2016 09:32 am UTC| Digital Currency
Leading bitcoin payment processor BitPay has launched a new invoice display option BitPay modal invoice that has been designed to make the payment experience smoother, faster, and more user-friendly for bitcoin...
FxWirePro: BTC/EUR trades narrow, good to buy the dips
Jul 22, 2016 07:44 am UTC| Digital Currency
BTC/EUR is trading in anarrow range between 610.95 and 599.51 levels (CEXIO) for the past two trading session. It is currently trading at 604.20 at the time of writing. Ichimoku analysis of daily chart...
BTC/USD struggles to break above 21 MA, break above confirms bullishness
Jul 22, 2016 07:38 am UTC| Digital Currency
BTC/USD is trading in a narrow range on Friday, between 662 and 666 levels. The pair managed to break above 21 MA recentlybut seems to be failing to sustain its strength. It is currently trading at 665.12 levels at the...
Bitcoin startup Bitnet to sell assets to Japan’s Rakuten
Jul 22, 2016 07:16 am UTC| Digital Currency
Bitnet Technologies Ltd, a bitcoin payments processing firm has announced that it is in the process of selling its intellectual property assets to a Japan-based e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc, Wall Street Journal...
Fintech startup BnL Growth Partners joins Banking on Blockchain Fund
Jul 22, 2016 07:07 am UTC| Digital Currency
BnL Growth Partners, a fintech-focused smartmoney company, has partnered with the Banking on Blockchain Fund to boost investments and facilitate banking use cases in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) blockchain...
Bitcoin Savings and Trust founder sentenced to prison for 18 months
Jul 22, 2016 06:21 am UTC| Digital Currency
In a first U.S. securities fraud case involving a Bitcoin Ponzi scheme, a Texas-based man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Trendon T. Shavers, going by the alias pirateat40, was the founder and operator of...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight