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(via Virtual Capital Ventures slideshow on the impact of blockchain on financial services - Business Insider)

"Cloud-based computing, blockchain processing technologies and virtualization of IT systems are a few examples which hold potential for being used in a big way ... Banks and IDRBT can work together to study these, test them out and adapt for best use."

Bitcoin price failed to trade towards $700 against the US Dollar, and it looks like the price is setting up for a decline moving ahead.

(via Industry Report: Bitcoin Fraud Never Works - Bitcoinist.net)

(via Where Will Bitcoin Prices Go Post-Halving? - CoinDesk)

Over the past few years we have built, partially also by means of these conferences, an expert community of investigators, prosecutors and private sector practitioners that, importantly, jointly contribute to the prevention and combating of various forms of abuse of the virtues that digital currencies offer."

(via "Bitcoin Now More Stable Than Pound", Says Lily Allen to 5.8 Million Twitter Followers - CCN: Financial Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News)

Ethereum is an open software platform, comprising a currency called ether, a public ‘blockchain’ ledger for keeping track of transactions and tools for building so-called smart contracts that automatically make payments when their terms are fulfilled. PHOTO: JENS KALAENE/DPA/ZUMA PRESS

(via Magister Advisors' report on bitcoin and blockchain ecosystems - Business Insider Deutschland)

"Russia can take advantage of the difficult economic situation that has developed today for us to become a very profitable country open to [blockchain]."

I think you need to take a different view and reinvent how you do business. We have a team looking at it from the blockchain perspective, for example, to look at how the distributed ledger can be used across multiple different products, and trade is one of those. I personally believe we need to look at the business from a different perspective."

"In its filing with the Commission, the Exchange included statements concerning the purpose of and basis for the proposed rule change and discussed any comments it received on the proposed rule change."

Certain people have recently been promoting OneCoin, said to be a virtual currency based on cryptography, in Belgium. The FSMA wishes to warn the public that OneCoin has not received any form of recognition whatsoever from the FSMA. The same is true of the persons who are promoting OneCoin: They do not hold an authorization or any other form of recognition from the FSMA."

(via Bitcoin rewards halve for virtual cash money miners - BBC News)