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Europe's first regulated bitcoin product launches in Gibraltar
LONDON Europe's first regulated bitcoin product - an asset-backed exchange-traded instrument that will invest exclusively in the digital currency - begins trading this week on the Gibraltar Stock Exchange and Germany's Deutsche Boerse. The Web-based currency can be used to send money instantly Read More...
Investors increasingly use their dollars to create change
Investing in the future means more than making money for retirement. Among everyone from millennials – who make up 34% of the workforce and recently became the largest age group employed in the US – to baby boomers, there’s a growing trend of “impact investing”. Practitioners of this Read More...
Here's why fintechs are turning to equity crowdfunding for investment
Equity crowdfunding refers to when investors, including the general public, invest in an unlisted company in exchange for shares. It's usually facilitated through a digital platform. Recently, we've seen a number of fintechs leverage equity crowdfunding platforms for funding rounds — and investor Read More...
The central bankers’ bold new idea: Print Bitcoins
When it comes to bitcoin and digital currencies, central banks might be considering the adage: “If you can’t beat them, join them.” In a research paper published on Monday, economists at the Bank of England advocated that central banks issue their own kind of digital currency. Read More...
Blockchain technology helps Brooklyn inhabitants use their neighbors' solar energy
TransActive Grid is a small community energy market in Brooklyn, NY, that's a test run for both the idea of a clean-energy local microgrid and the use of blockchain technology to enable its transactions. TransActive Grid is a new way to trade solar energy among neighbors. The project runs on a Read More...
Newsstands in Australia are going to sell Bitcoin for cash
Digital “cryptocurrencies” like Bitcoin are going to transform our societies even more fundamentally than sharing economy initiatives as Uber and Airbnb are already doing because we all use money every day. Digital money still seems far away. However, Australians will soon be able to Read More...
A crowdfunded venture fund with $150 million virtual capital challenges investing as we know it
Digital money driven by the power of the Internet is going to upset traditional finance much like the online sharing economy is transforming the taxi and hotel industries. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are the first examples of a wave that’s gradually building and that has the potential to Read More...
$1 billion Apple sharing economy investment in Chinese Uber rival Didi Chuxing
Apple has invested $1 billion in Didi Chuxing, the car-hailing app that has a greater market share than U.S. rival Uber in China. Didi Chuxing provides more than 11 million rides a day and claims to have 87 percent of the Chinese market share. Apple CEO, Tim Cook, said that the move would help Read More...
Swiss council to accept Bitcoin payments
A council in central Switzerland will soon accept the digital currency Bitcoin as payment for some public services. The trial scheme, in the town of Zug, will begin on 1 July and run until the end of the year, the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation reports. Residents will be able to make payments of up Read More...
U.S. begins allowing equity crowdfunding for small companies
Crowdfunding is helping many initiatives becoming realities. The scope of the system could reach even further if companies could use crowdfunding to attract investors. That is now going to happen as this month the SEC, the U.S. securities and exchange commission, will allow small companies to sell Read More...