insidebitcoins.com / By Kyle Torpey Nov 12, 2014 4:18 PM EST
NEW YORK (InsideBitcoins) — Previously, we covered [See: “Professor Bitcorn Strikes Again”] the first nine points made by former Federal Reserve Bank Examiner Mark T. Williams in his recent presentation at the World Bank Conference, Virtual Currencies – Bitcoin Risk. Point ten [...]
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cointelegraph.com / Carlo Caraluzzo / 2014-12-29
The Federal Reserve Bank in Washington, D.C. has issued a report entitled Bitcoin: Technical Background and Data Analysis. The recently released report, dated October 7, is a technical analysis of Bitcoin and the Bitcoin protocol. While mostly accurate, it contains a number of assumptions and self-serving statements suggesting [...]
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cointelegraph.com / George Samman / 2015-01-08
The global macroeconomic picture is sending out a message and that is one of deflationary forces starting to take hold.
In past articles it was discussed what this means and its likelihood. With each passing day the probability seems to grow and global central banks are beginning to [...]
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coindesk.com / Pete Rizzo / January 18, 2015
An interest in bitcoin and digital currency makes Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis vice president and research director David Andolfatto something of a rarity among Fed officials. However, while he may see the technology’s big picture, why he believes bitcoin is potentially transformative doesn’t exactly fall [...]
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cryptocoinsnews.com / P. H. Madore / January 21, 2015
David Andolfatto, vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, came out Monday with some words that should be encouraging to the Bitcoin world. He said that the open-source, transparent, decentralized management of the blockchain, the ledger that underpins all Bitcoin transactions, is a [...]
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newsbtc.com / Gola Yashu / February 19, 2015 18:51
Payment exchange network Ripple Labs recently appointed Norman Reed as its general counsel.
A law graduate from Columbia University, Reed started his career at a large international firm where he worked for three years. He later joined the prestigious Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where [...]
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cryptocoinsnews.com / Evander Smart / March 13, 2015 at 9:42 am CET
It was only a matter of time. The ultra-advanced, superior technology of the digital currency Bitcoin and it’s Blockchain public ledger system are in danger of being co-opted. The tacit compliments of the financial establishment for the Bitcoin Blockchain, not Bitcoin the currency, [...]
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fortune.com / Chris Matthews / MAY 4, 2015, 4:15 PM EDT
The phenomenon is an indictment of Argentina’s decades of economic mismanagement.
The New York Times Magazine published a meaty feature this weekend asking the question, “Can Bitcoin take over Argentina?”
The article follows a long tradition of bitcoin reportage, filled with detailed accounts of [...]
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cointelegraph.com / Amanda B. Johnson / 2015-05-05 08:58 PM
Ron Paul started talking about the serious problems of the Federal Reserve system in the 1970s. In his words, the ability to control the supply of money was “throughout history, the most sought-after monopolistic power of man” (below). He was generally greeted by the sound [...]
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loa.fm / Trinh Nguyễn / 25 May 2015
“Regulators, the federal reserve, the banking system need to understand that this is a thing that they have to take seriously.”
“This is going to change the economic culture.”
“Bitcoin could be a microeconomic miracle worker and it could be a macroeconomic wrecking ball.”
Financial reporters and [...]
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hngn.com / By Taylor Tyler / Jul 16, 2015 01:21 PM EDT
“The really interesting part about this depository, which hasn’t been getting a lot of press,” is that “with this depository, private individuals and entities will be able to purchase goods, and will be able to use assets in the vault the same way [...]
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coindesk.com / Pete Rizzo (@pete_rizzo_) / August 20, 2015 at 23:08 BST
The Federal Reserve and European Central Bank should be given a mandate to monitor threats bitcoin and digital currency systems pose to the broader financial system, a new report from a Suffolk University researcher argues.
Entitled “$=€=Bitcoin?”, the report speculates as to the [...]
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newsbtc.com / Samuel Rae / September 18, 2015
For the past few days we’ve been championing the suggestion that the (then upcoming) interest rate decision out of the federal reserve could inject some volatility into the bitcoin price. Why? Because the response to any movement or lack thereof in the rate hike had the potential [...]
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bloombergview.com / Mark Gilbert / SEPT 22, 2015 7:18 AM EDT
Want to know what central bankers will do in the next few years? There’s a Bank of England website page you need to read. But you might need a suspension of disbelief to absorb its conclusions.
In 2008, as the financial crisis really [...]
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coindesk.com / Pete Rizzo / October 5, 2015 at 17:15 BST
US Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen has issued new comments on how she believes the country’s financial regulators should address bitcoin and blockchain technologies, stating that these agencies must be careful not to “stifle innovation”.
The statements were issued in response to a question [...]
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insidebitcoins.com / Bitcoinist.net / Oct 25, 2015 7:19 PM EDT
The price of Bitcoin is surging towards the $300 USD price range. Over the past two weeks, BTC has seen a steady climb from the $260 range to yesterday’s $280 break. Despite breaking this boundary, the digital currency stepped up again to a high of [...]
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qz.com / Matt Phillips / November 19, 2015
Ben Bernanke was arguably the most powerful person in finance at the exact moment finance, essentially, broke.
The institution he had led since 2006, the Federal Reserve, was the world’s most important central bank, with wide-ranging responsibilities influencing financial markets, financial institutions, global economic growth, and [...]
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finance.yahoo.com / By Yahoo Finance / Dec 8, 2015, 10:03AM EST
You may be familiar with the phrase “cash is king,” but with cash alternatives like credit cards, PayPal (PYPL), Venmo, Apple Pay (AAPL), Google Wallet (GOOG, GOOGL), and bitcoin flooding the market, the king might be about to lose its crown.
So [...]
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fxstreet.com / Tip TV Team / Dec 17 2015, 15:20 GMT
Charlie Morris, Editor of Atlas Pulse, joined today’s Tip TV Finance Show along with Bill Hubard, Chief Economist for Bullion Capital, and Zak Mir, Technical Analyst at Zak’s Traders Café, to speak on the US interest rate hike, the ‘doughnut’ factor in spending, and [...]
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bizjournals.com / Michael del Castillo / Dec 21, 2015, 5:52am PST
Bitcoin continued its year-end price increase last week, the same week the Federal Reserve moved interest rates above nearly zero percent for the first time since the Great Recession.
But highlighted among the week’s news were signs that the technology underneath [...]
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