Edmund Moy, the former director of the United States Mint under the Bush administration, first learned about bitcoin in the form of a footnote embedded in a coin demand forecast report.
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The Bank of Russia has signaled it is ready to legalize the world’s first mainstream cryptocurrency, despite the big risks and setbacks the digital money has experienced. The Bank’s recognition means it can better regulate it, and even collect tax. 
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Almost exactly one year ago, the state of California told The Bitcoin Foundation to stop trading or face hefty fines.
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According to reports California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday signed a bill that clears away possible state-level obstacles to alternative currencies like Bitcoin. The new law now repeals an outdated California law that prohibited commerce using anything but USD.
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Although increasingly popular, Bitcoin has long been troubled by the ogres of criminal activity and poorly secured exchanges. But regulation continues to be a highly controversial topic, as a group of researchers in The Netherlands recently discovered.
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California lawmakers passed bill AB-129 on Monday which will create opportunity for the legal use of cryptocurrencies in the state.
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The go ahead was received following recent uncertainty about the status of bitcoin ATMs in the country.
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The California state legislature’s effort to effectively legalize bitcoin — along side a host of other alternative stores of value — as forms of money cleared an important procedural stage on Wednesday as it moved closer to becoming law.
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If there’s a lesson to be learned from the Bitcoin furor, it’s that just because an investment is trendy and cool, that doesn’t mean you should abandon all common sense and sink your money into it.
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Following the implosion of Japanese exchange Mt.Gox, the Japanese government wanted to clarify its stance regarding the cryptocurrency. According to the Wall Street Journal, the government doesn’t consider Bitcoin a currency. Companies and individuals using Bitcoin don’t need to obtain a banking license or comply with regulatory standards. In other words, Japan could have become a Bitcoin haven for companies willing to avoid regulation at all costs.
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The U.K.'s tax authority is near to issuing rules that would treat bitcoin and other virtual currencies much like regular money. (The U.K.
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A leading Bitcoin exchange completed its weeks-long collapse Friday with a public apology and a bankruptcy filing, fueling calls for regulators to rein in the innovative virtual currency worth billions of dollars.
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In Tokyo, where Mt. Gox is based, Japan’s top government spokesman, Yoshihide Suga, said on Wednesday that agencies including the Financial Services Agency, the Finance Ministry and the police were collecting information on the Bitcoin trade in Japan, with an eye toward regulatory action.
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Bitcoin may be thriving as a relatively unregulated currency, but governments are beginning to pay it more heed as it grows in popularity. On Thursday, a group of nine state regulators formed the Emerging Payments task force; it is charged with studying virtual currencies and learning "how new entrants and technologies affect the stability of payment systems and the broader financial marketplace." Thus far, the move has been met with support — The Hill reports that Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) called the task force an "important step" toward protecting existing financial institutions from unregulated currencies.
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Bitcoin is facing significant growing pains as it struggles to move beyond a stormy adolescence.
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A denial-of-service attack, in which a website is flooded with massive requests for data, obstructed Bitstamp's ability to check account balances, the exchange said in a statement. Customers can withdraw cash but not Bitcoins, as the company works to fix services, Nejc Kodric, Bitstamp's chief executive officer, wrote in an e-mail.
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New York’s financial regulator will adopt rules to govern virtual currency firms with a view to combatting money laundering. The move comes in the wake of a series of hack attacks that have halted bitcoin transactions across the globe.
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