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    Fedcoin: The U.S. Will Issue E-Currency That You Will Use

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    By Wendy McElroy, The U.S. Federal Reserve will not only issue its own cryptocurrency but will also make sure Americans use it. That’s the prediction of currency guru Doug Casey who has an uncanny record of being correct about economic and political trends. His latest...

    The Lightning Network Alpha Release is Ready for Testing

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    By Jamie Redman, A recent blog post by developers of the Lightning Network, has announced an alpha release of the protocol’s daemon. The release called v0.1-alpha of the Lightning Network is said to be a milestone that enables the platform to be publicly tested by...

    China’s Big Bitcoin Traders Are All-In On Bitcoin

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    By Pete Rizzo, Despite recent reports that suggest China’s central bank is casting a critical eye on domestic bitcoin exchanges, local traders remain largely unfazed. Members of the country’s bitcoin trading community, as well as cryptocurrency exchange...

    Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – Bitcoin Complaints

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    By Stan Higgins, New data shows American consumers filed almost no complaints – a total of just seven with the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in 2016. The CFPB was created in the wake of the financial crisis of the late 2000s as part of a bid to...

    Why I’m Fighting the IRS’s Bitcoin Privacy Invasion

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    By Jeffrey K Berns, Berns is a bitcoin user, Coinbase customer and a managing partner at multi-specialty law firm Berns Weiss LLP. On 30th November, 2016, a federal court issued an order allowing the IRS to serve an unprecedented summons on Coinbase, Inc, a...
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