Blockchain

P2P student lender gets financing; Bitcoin Cash surges

08/21/17

Prodigy Finance, a London-based graduate student lender, gets $240 million in new funding round; Bitcoin Cash value soars.

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Digital currency exchange readies expansion into hot U.S. market

08/18/17

The Japanese exchange bitFlyer has processed $30 billion in bitcoin trades so far in 2017. Now it has its sights set on American crypto enthusiasts.

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'He should never have joined': Comments of the week

08/18/17

Readers weigh in on the end of President Trump's business councils, what the Charlottesville, Va., clashes mean for banks, OSHA's mishandling of Wells Fargo whistleblower claims, community banks' embrace of blockchain, and more.

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'This is how money should be': Digital asset pioneer Erik Voorhees

08/16/17

In an in-depth Q&A, early bitcoin adopter Erik Voorhees, founder of the crypto exchange ShapeShift, discusses a new acquisition, an experimental investment product and the future of his industry.

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Community banks stand to gain from blockchain — if they work together

08/14/17

Collaboration will help make up for cost concerns from adopting the technology and ensure that the core vendors get the message of community banks’ interest.

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NSFW? Microsoft tries to make blockchains work-appropriate

08/10/17

The business world has been seeking the benefits of distributed ledgers but worries about security, control, privacy, performance and other issues. Microsoft says its new Coco framework will solve all these and more.

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Vantiv, Worldpay to merge; Fiduciary rule delay sought

08/10/17

Merger creates a $20 billion payments processor; government seeks to delay fiduciary rule so it can make revisions.

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The race to connect smart contracts to the real world

08/07/17

A San Francisco startup working with Swift plans to launch a network that would tie self-executing contracts to independent data sources.

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'To unbank the banked': Comments of the Week

08/04/17

Readers react to USAA teaming up with Amazon’s Alexa, how a new Wells Fargo’s scandal could affect arbitration rules, a digital identity startup’s ambitions, and more.

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Steep fees call into question bitcoin’s promise for the underbanked

08/01/17

As an open network, bitcoin is in one sense the most inclusive financial system imaginable. But for now, transfers of the cryptocurrency are priced like a luxury good.

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