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    China: More Barriers To Fiat Transactions – Bitcoin Continues

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    By William Suberg, China has stepped up controls over transactions in a bid to reduce capital outflow amid a waning yuan – yet bitcoin activity continues. The country’s regulator, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) in the past week announced spot...

    Russian Tax Office Updates Legal Stance On Bitcoin

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    By Kei K, A Russian Federal Tax Service Letter released a few weeks ago spelled out issues – including an implied statement that cryptocurrencies are not illegal – amongst others that affect the legal status of cryptocurrencies moving forward. Russian Blockchain...

    Smart Contracts Startup Hires Cryptographer Lisa Yin

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    By Stan Higgins, Smart contracts startup Symbiont has hired a cryptographer best known for her work in detailing how to break the SHA-1 hashing algorithm as its new chief security officer. Dr. Lisa Yin, who will also serve as chief cryptographer, was one of three...

    Developers Respond to Ethereum’s Unexpected Fork

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    By Alyssa Hertig, An unintentional split of the network was the latest event to shake ethereum. By now, you might have heard the back-and-forth about so-called hard forks, a particularly contentious way to update a public blockchain. Some view it as a sometimes...

    R3’s Corda Code Debut: Mixed Response

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      By Michael del Castillo, R3 released the code for its Corda distributed ledger platform earlier this week, and market observers were quick to weigh in. The Corda codebase launched Wednesday to public consumption is an early-stage distributed ledger platform...
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