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Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke offered both muted praise and criticism when discussing bitcoin in a new interview, suggesting that government oversight of blockchain transactions could counter perceived risks. Speaking ...

Brazil’s House of Representatives held a hearing this week to discuss a bill that would give the country’s central bank oversight of digital currency activity in the country. JusBrasil reported ...

Financial services giant State Street is touting the blockchain experience of its newly appointed executive vice president and global CIO. In a press announcement yesterday, State Street revealed Antoine Shagoury, ...

The European Union’s top law enforcement agency, Europol, is seeking an intern with the skills to trace bitcoin transactions, according to a job posting on its website. The posting seeks applicants for the ‘Open Sources Collection and ...

Australian bitcoin firm Bitcoin Group is hiring a bitcoin expert after the country’s top regulator raised fresh concerns amid the firm’s bid to launch an initial public offering (IPO). Bitcoin ...

Digital currencies could disrupt the ability of central banks to exercise control over the economy or issue money should the technology scale, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said in a new ...

ConsenSys has added a new decentralized application (Dapp) to its Ethereum blockchain-as-a-service toolkit available on Microsoft’s cloud computing platform Azure. Called the Ethereum Total Return Swap (eTRS), the application aims ...

Post-trade technology services firm Kynetix is seeking to assemble a consortium of commodities market stakeholders to explore the collaborative use of blockchain technology. Kynetix announced today that it has so far assembled ...

Bitcoin industry startups are facing backlash over a new series of articles in which they have been portrayed as pivoting away from the digital currency and toward more general FinTech applications. ...

West Virginia University’s (WVU) Student Government Association (SGA) is debating whether to use a blockchain-based voting platform for its upcoming elections, according to the college’s student-run newspaper, The Daily Athenauem. ...