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  • CoinSetter NYC forex digital currency trading platform
    Coinsetter Lands $500K

    Coinsetter, a New York City-based startup looking to launch a new Forex trading platform for Bitcoin, announced today that it has raised $500,000 in seed capital. The round was led by Tribeca Venture Partners and SecondMarket founder...

    • Posted April 9, 2013
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    You Should Care About Bitcoin

    There is some debate around whether Bitcoin is a currency or commodity. The issue there is whether people are converting fiat money into Bitcoin in order to profit off its current meteoric rise in value, or whether...

    • Posted April 4, 2013
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    The Bitcoin Boom

    On March 16th, the Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, who’d been in office for about a month, announced a strategy to solve the country’s banking crisis. This plan met with instantaneous and violent opposition from the country’s citizens....

    • Posted April 2, 2013
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    Bitcoin Surpasses 20 National Currencies

    Bitcoins now exceed the value of the entire currency of small countries like Liberia (which uses “Liberian dollars”), Bhutan (which uses the “Ngultrum”), and 18 other countries. Bitcoin is in high demand right now — each bitcoin...

    • Posted March 29, 2013
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    FinCEN Guidelines

    Regulatory guidelines for virtual (digital) currency were issued last week by the US government agency known as the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The regulations say that digital currencies like bitcoin are to be treated essentially as...

    • Posted March 18, 2013
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