Financial institutions have a vested interest in blockchain technology, and that become even clearer when Rabobank announced their partnership with NexusLab. This gives the Dutch bank every opportunity to work with distributed ledgers, and ten startups will partake in their very first Startupbootcamp round. Also…
Internationally renowned Bitcoin exchange BitStamp today announced that it has become a fully-regulated payment institution in Luxembourg.The Slovenia-based bitcoin exchange confirmed being the world’s first-ever digital currency firm to have obtained a national license, thereby enabling people to legally trade Bitcoin against the fiat currencies…
Bitcoin price is on an advance, pushing ceilings higher after scaling $440 to reach $450 last week. On Sunday, bitcoin price scaled to $460. In the early hours of Monday, the Bitstamp price index was trading at a new record high for the year at…
A major step for advancing bitcoin adoption by the existing financial system as Luxembourg has granted the European bitcoin exchange Bitstamp today a license as a fully regulated Payment Institution. Bitstamp has also announced today it launches BTC/EUR trading marking its connection to the continent.The…
Key Points Bitcoin price climbed higher this past week against the US Dollar, and currently showing a lot of bullish signs. There was a bearish trend line on the hourly chart (data feed from Bitstamp) of BTC/USD, which was broken during the upside drift. Buying…
Since its introduction, bitcoin’s price has never been the hallmark of stability. It has proven itself to be a highly volatile digital currency which has recently shown some signs of stability in its value. The value of bitcoin is currently hovering at the $440 range,…
Bitcoin regulation is a very touchy topic. The regulators don’t want some open source, decentralized currency to take reigns of their country’s economy. At the same time, they don’t want to lose out when speaking of the blockchain technology or the possibility of creating their…