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Tuesday, 1 July 2014

Bitcoin bigwigs SecondMarket, Pantera outbid in Silk Road auction

NEW YORK: SecondMarket and US investment firm Pantera Capital, two of the more prominent bidders in the US Marshals bitcoin auction, on Monday said they were outbid in their attempts to buy some of the nearly 30,000 coins sold late last week. The rejection …


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Bitcoin gets more good news as California legalises use of virtual currency

Bitcoin has received some further good news as Governor for California, Jerry Brown, has signed into law a bill that legalises the use of Bitcoin, along with other digital currencies, across the state. One particular point of the bill, dubbed AB 129 …


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Meet Britain’s Bitcoin Barrister

At the beginning of June, the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced the formation of Project Innovate, an initiative aimed at getting to grips with disruptions in payment from new technologies. The FCA hopes to develop the rules around …


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Bitcoin in 10 Years: 4 Predictions From SecondMarket’s Barry Silbert

Barry Silbert is beyond bullish about Bitcoin. The SecondMarket Holdings founder and CEO personally invests in 28 Bitcoin-based businesses through his Bitcoin Opportunity Corp. He also runs the Bitcoin Investment Trust. And, if the list of potential …


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BitBeat: Who Won the FBI’s Bitcoin Auction? – Wall Street Journal (blog)








BitBeat: Who Won the FBI's Bitcoin Auction?

Wall Street Journal (blog)

For one thing, the Marshals Service is auctioning off 29,000 bitcoins, part of the assets seized in the October 2013 Silk Road bust and arrest of Ross Ulbricht (the coins being auctioned were held on Silk Road servers; the Marshals still hold another





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Litecoin Slumps As Bitcoin Recovers Some Of Its Former Luster

During the height of the 2013 Bitcoin bubble, Litecoin soared, crossing the $40 mark late in the year. Since then, mostly tracking Bitcoin, Litecoin’s value has faded. Today, you can buy a Litecoin for just under $9. That cryptocurrencies are dealing …


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US Marshals Release Update on Silk Road Bitcoin Auction – CoinDesk








US Marshals Release Update on Silk Road Bitcoin Auction

CoinDesk

The number of confirmed bidders in the auction, however, continued to grow today, with The Wall Street Journal indicating that Boston-based bitcoin financial services company Circle had participated. With the news, Circle joins other notable names in





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Regulation Around Bitcoin Starting to Clear, Says Circle CEO

Bitcoin watchers today will be anxiously waiting for the results of an auction of 30,000 bitcoins seized last year as part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s crackdown on the Silk Road online marketplace for illicit drugs. The price for a bitcoin …


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Friday, 20 June 2014

Email gaffe unmasks ‘anonymous’ bidders in Bitcoin auction

Somebody at the US Marshals Service goofed, cc’ing a list of 40 people who’d written to inquire about what was supposed to be an anonymous auction of the Bitcoins seized in the Fed’s raid on Silk Road. from Naked Security – Sophos http://bit.ly/1ifc2Ci via IFTTT


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Email gaffe unmasks ‘anonymous’ bidders in Bitcoin auction

Somebody at the US Marshals Service goofed, cc’ing a list of 40 people who’d written to inquire about what was supposed to be an anonymous auction of the Bitcoins seized in the Fed’s raid on Silk Road.


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