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legendary
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legendary
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February 12, 2014, 12:33:05 PM
Anyone know about the standard bank news?? Will I be able to send BTC to that bank from sweden and store them safe??
Changed my opinion.
http://www.coindesk.com/africas-largest-bank-trials-bitcoin-integration-system/

If anything comes of it it will need SA Reserve Bank approval. SA has a exchange controls more stringent than China.
legendary
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February 12, 2014, 11:16:39 AM
Anyone know about the standard bank news?? Will I be able to send BTC to that bank from sweden and store them safe??
full member
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February 12, 2014, 11:10:53 AM
pretty cool coming from a Citigroup strategist....

http://blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2014/02/reflections-on-bitcoin.html
legendary
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Hide your women
legendary
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February 11, 2014, 07:17:39 PM
The irony is these compliance costs (partially responsible for the losses) were lobbied for to keep competition out. Just the cost of maintaining a monopoly.
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February 11, 2014, 06:56:34 PM
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Why the long face?
February 11, 2014, 04:17:37 PM
I miss this TL/DR thread of bitcoin.

For those who have been too busy watching the Olympics to keep up with bitcoin since February 6th:


Over the weekend Mt Gox halted BTC withdrawals, effectively cutting themselves off completely, which made their price fall below those of the other exchanges and also be irrelevant.

https://www.mtgox.com/press_release_20140207.html

On Monday they blamed their withdrawal problems on the malleability of bitcoin transaction ids and said they wouldn't give back their clients coins until the "bug" was fixed.

https://www.mtgox.com/press_release_20140210.html

It turns out that somebody is broadcasting duplicate transactions with different ids to the bitcoin network, either to be malicious or simply to correct transactions that do not conform to the most recent protocol rules.  Mt Gox appear to be the only people whose wallet software can't handle this.

http://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2014/02/the-embarrassing-fact-mtgox-left-out-of-their-press-release-their-bad-code-hygiene-was-the-direct-cause-of-problems-2550398.html

Meanwhile people are panicking, exchanges are halting withdrawals, random market orders are causing flash-crashes to $100/BTC.

You know... Tuesday.
full member
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February 06, 2014, 05:05:21 PM
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/high-speed-link-provider-perseus-to-accept-bitcoin-2014-02-06?link=MW_latest_news

"Bitcoin has taken another step toward inserting itself into the global financial system as Perseus Telecom, a provider of heavy-bandwidth telecommunications connections for securities exchanges and their customers, said it will accept payments in the digital currency."
hero member
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February 06, 2014, 12:53:02 PM
Montreal just got an ATM machine.
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📱 CARTESI 📱 INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SCA
February 06, 2014, 08:56:48 AM
You Can Now Pay Cash For Bitcoin at 28,000 UK Stores

http://www.coindesk.com/can-now-pay-cash-bitcoin-28000-uk-stores/
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📱 CARTESI 📱 INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SCA
February 05, 2014, 06:12:50 PM
legendary
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February 05, 2014, 02:43:20 AM
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/3147952575001/regulations-coming-to-bitcoin/#sp=show-clips

Ben Lawsky is starting to get it - I'd say this is good news....

Yes. Now its just a matter of whether they get those regulations out in 2 months or 10. I'm rooting for 2.
legendary
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Hide your women
February 04, 2014, 08:00:52 PM
legendary
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You're never too old to think young.
February 04, 2014, 07:21:11 PM
living the american dream
Wage slave? More like a nightmare.

 Wink
legendary
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February 04, 2014, 06:53:27 PM
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/3147952575001/regulations-coming-to-bitcoin/#sp=show-clips

Ben Lawsky is starting to get it - I'd say this is good news....

wow, good old ben sounds like a btc enthusiast. when did he buy ? 2011 ?
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February 04, 2014, 06:14:05 PM
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/3147952575001/regulations-coming-to-bitcoin/#sp=show-clips

Ben Lawsky is starting to get it - I'd say this is good news....
legendary
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February 04, 2014, 05:24:04 AM
http://www.coindesk.com/government-report-not-lagging-bitcoin/

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The chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
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“This report has some good news – namely that the United States may not be as far behind the curve on virtual currencies as some have argued,” Carper said. “In fact, the United States might be leading the way for a number of nations when it comes to addressing this growing technology.”


no "we will ban it" rap here. in fact it sounds more like an approval.





newbie
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February 03, 2014, 03:24:30 PM
I'm not much of a thread starter, so please go ahead. In the meantime this might also be interesting (if true):

Patrick Byrne retracts statement that Overstock.com will not hold bitcoins, also announces personal investment

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1wl7xp/patrick_byrne_retracts_statement_that/

reddit is blocked by my employer for some reason  Cheesy
can anyone cut and paste?

I see Im not the only whos at work. lol, living the american dream
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Giga
February 03, 2014, 02:30:28 PM

USPS accepting Bitcoin as a financial service will be massive. But maybe 2015 not this year
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