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Why Banks Are Testing Bitcoin's Blockchain (Without ...

Why Banks Are Testing Bitcoin's Blockchain (Without Bitcoin)

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June 01 2015, 3:07pm EDT

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Ask a U.S. banker about the prospects for Bitcoin, a digital currency with no trusted central authority or mechanism to reverse transactions, and you're likely to get a lukewarm answer.

But financial institutions are increasingly taking an interest in...

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Coinbase launches digital currency ... - American Banker

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Institutional investors shy about buying bitcoin and other digital assets, despite enormous recent growth in their value, may not have to wait much longer to get involved.

San Francisco startup Coinbase has launched Coinbase Custody, a new business designed to safeguard digital assets for hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds and other institutions so that they can begin buying...

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Does Blockchain Tech Solve Security Problems or Cause New ...

Does Blockchain Tech Solve Security Problems or Cause New Ones?

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August 18 2016, 3:16pm EDT

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Blockchain technology is often suggested as an answer to the financial world's security problems. Banks on the Swift network are being hacked? Put those international wire-transfer instructions on a blockchain. Card-not-present fraud is up? Well then, merchants should just let...

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Bitcoin on the agenda: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is scheduled to hold advisory committee meetings later this month to address virtual currencies and related futures.

"Bitcoin has a reputation as the Wild West of financial markets. But the sheriffs are increasingly closing in," the Wall Street Journal reports. In a video, a reporter "travels...

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A better way to buy: The real estate industry is starting to use bitcoin and the blockchain technology behind it in a development that "could eventually produce important changes in the way property is bought and sold," the Wall Street Journal...

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