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AlphaPoint, a white label exchange and automatic market making provider, secured $1.35 million in funding which will be used to promote international growth and further development of products and services. The round of capital raising included investors such as Scott Becker of Invite Media1, Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo, Robin Hood Ventures, Ben Franklin Technology Partners as well as other unnamed angel investors. Continue reading
Acquired by Google. ↩
Moolah was a CryptoCurrency web wallet and financial platform that aimed to simplify CryptoCurrency payments. The service was presumably launched by Alex Green in January 2014. Moolah is backed by Moopay LTD, the company behind all of the Moolah services. It was owned by the reddit user moolah_, and had 59,689 followers. Continue reading
Australian Labor senator Sam Dastyari has told the Australian banking sector that they cannot ignore Bitcoin simply by sticking their heads in the sand" and that it is headed their way because it's the future. Continue reading
Khilafah.is, an unofficial IS website, which was used to publish "an alternative narrative of the events happening in IQ & SY"1 has been shut down. Continue reading
Iraq and Syria. ↩
Coins.ph, a Bitcoin exchange located in the Philippines, today launched what they describe as a bitcoin wallet that caters to the needs of users in emerging markets. Continue reading
On March 14th, 2014, Newsweek published a story titled “The Face Behind Bitcoin” written by Leah McGrath. In the article Ms. McGrath stated “Standing before me, eyes downcast, appeared to be the father of Bitcoin.” While Newsweek claimed that they had discovered “the face behind Bitcoin.” Dorian Nakamato denied having anything to do with it. Continue reading
James Humphrey1, an attorney representing BFL in the case that the FTC brought forward last month, has filed a motion to dismiss the complaint. He stated that for the state to argue for deceptive representations, the FTC would need to allege facts that established BFL made a representation that was material and likely to mislead customers.
Polsinelli PC. ↩
Houman B. Shadab, who recently appeared at the CFTC meeting which focused on issues related to clearing Non-Deliverable Forwards (NDFs) and the digital currency bitcoin, has released a paper titled Regulating Bitcoin and Block Chain Derivatives. Continue reading
The online gambling venue News and Score have enabled bitcoin bets which will allow customers to bet bitcoin, win bitcoin and do so without dealing with fiat currencies. Continue reading
The "Bitcoin Group" of Melbourne Australia aspires to list on the Australian Securities Exchange reports the Sydney Morning Herald. The Group was founded by Sam Lee and to this point funded by Chinese fire safety mogul Allan Gao. The prospectus will be filed October 22nd with the offer opening October 29th. In related news the Australian Senate has on open call for submission related to its inquiry on Bitcoin regulations which closes November 28th. Presently the group focuses on arbitrage, which they admit will face shrinking returns if more market makers compete in this area. Continue reading