feeseminars, Published on Dec 11, 2013
Bitcoin has been making headlines for months. With the price fluctuating wildly, is it really a currency, or just a scam? To find out, we have to analyze its properties.
Gold and silver give us good examples of which properties make a sound currency, and bitcoins seem to [...]
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coindesk.com / By Matt Mihaly / December 11, 2013 at 16:00 GMT
Editor’s note: Matt Mihaly, a bitcoin fan and entrepreneur, recently wrote this article in response to Alan Greenspan’s recent comments on bitcoin. Alan Greenspan is an American economist who served as Chairman of the US Federal Reserve from 1987 to [...]
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theconversation.com / By David Glance / 13 December 2013, 12.45pm AEST
As Bitcoin’s backers push for it to become acceptable mainstream currency, its value has become increasingly tied to attempts to break the public image that it’s just a currency for cyber criminals.
It’s for this reason that every suggestion the currency is gaining acceptance [...]
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BankersWorstFear, Published on Dec 15, 2013
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zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 12/25/2013 22:48 -0500
Once upon a time, money – in the form of precious metals – used to be literally dug out of the earth. Limitations on the amount that could be mined, and on how much growth could be borrowed from the future (all debt [...]
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voiceofrussia.com / By Kirill Grishin / 26 December 2013, 19:00
Experts surveyed by the Bloomberg agency believe that during the first half of the year, the market will face an 8 percent growth of the American currency against the European. Probably, in the coming months, the dollar will be strong enough. No considerable [...]
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businessinsider.com / JOE WEISENTHAL / DEC. 29, 2013, 7:47 AM
Economist Brad DeLong poses a great question about Bitcoin:
Underpinning the value of gold is that if all else fails you can use it to make pretty things. Underpinning the value of the dollar is a combination of (a) the fact that you [...]
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chronicle.augusta.com / By William Beranek, Ph.D. / Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014
New forms of currencies, called virtual currencies, are competing with the U.S. dollar as mediums of exchange for transaction purposes. While miniscule in size relative to the dollar at the moment, they are growing rapidly, with the most popular U.S. version being the [...]
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alt-market.com / By Brandon Smith / 08 January 2014 07:31
A few years back, at the end of 2009, I was approached on two separate occasions by people claiming to be “representatives†of a digital alternative currency format. I was, of course, intrigued by the initial proposal, being that I had been writing for some [...]
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bitcoinmagazine.com / By Cathy Reisenwitz / January 10, 2014
The Congressional Research Service, aka “Congress’ Think Tank,” recently made public their report on Bitcoin, Bitcoin: Questions, Answers, and Analysis of Legal Issues. The fascinating report details in sparkling prose the history, uses, threats and regulatory implications of the world’s best-known cryptocurrency.
The [...]
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siliconangle.com / By Mike Wheatley / February 28th
If Senator Joe Manchin’s call for an outright ban on Bitcoin had you worried yesterday, there’s good news in store – apparently, the Federal Reserve has no authority to do so, and indeed, it’s doubtful it could even if it did have that authority.
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news.insidebitcoins.com / August 5, 2014 – 06:45 Tuesday
NEW YORK (InsideBitcoins) — Many long time gold investors and Bitcoin fans are finding common ground over their mutual negative view of the U.S. Dollar. Quite a few enthusiasts from both camps believe that the Dollar is a disaster waiting [...]
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activistpost.com / August 5, 2014
The Federal Reserve is apparently very worried about bitcoin disrupting the monetary system.
According to an alleged whistleblower’s post on Reddit, Fed governors were “highly alarmed” by internal economic modeling that showed Bitcoin has the potential to completely displace the dollar by as early as 2021 (which they called “worst [...]
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moneymorning.com / DAVID ZEILER / August 7, 2014
What if some researchers for the U.S. Federal Reserve developed a report on Bitcoin that so disturbed the Fed governors that they hushed up the whole thing and disbanded the research team?
That crazy little piece of Bitcoin news recently turned up in the form of a [...]
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Only 30 Views – YouTube : Conference of State Bank Supervisors Public Hearing on Virtual Currencies? https://t.co/4IdtSNSipR
— Brian Cohen (@inthepixels) August 8, 2014
letstalkbitcoin.com / Brian Cohen / August 11th, 2014
Recently I took out Twitter to note my surprise that only a handful of folks have bothered to watch the “Conference of [...]
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– Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
cointelegraph.com / Diana Ngo / 2014-08-12 02:41 PM
On August 10, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) managing director, Ravi Menon, discussed several monetary and economical topics, including the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy, China’s growth, the global economy, and digital currencies, on [...]
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freebeer.com.au / August 31st, 2014
New York University’s Professor David Yermack spoke this week at the University of Western Australia about Bitcoin.
It’s pretty clear from his talk he’s not a Bitcoin user. It’s also pretty clear he’s loving the attention he’s getting as a result of his recent interest in [...]
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blogs.wsj.com / By PAUL VIGNA and MICHAEL J. CASEY / Sep 17, 2014
-In a deep-dive report, researchers at the Federal Reserve of Boston laid out a mostly positive outlook for cryptocurrency technology, though not so much for bitcoin as it is currently designed.
In a report released earlier this month but which only [...]
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cryptocoinsnews.com / Venzen Khaosan / October 9, 2014 at 1:47 pm CET
The Federal Open Market Committee has surprised markets by speaking in dovish tones about the US and the global economy. While many people expect the Fed… and we examine the implications for the economy and Bitcoin. Meanwhile, the Bitcoin Price, [...]
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Former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan (L) watches former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
businessinsider.com / TYLER DURDEN, ZERO HEDGE / OCT. 29, 2014, 8:19 PM
It appears it is time for some Hillary-Clinton-esque backtracking and Liesman-esque translation of just what the former Federal Reserve Chief really meant. As The Wall [...]
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