Digital currencies

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Slock.it says its current project will enable people to exchange the ownership of devices connected to the internet of things.

Accenture has agreed to acquire First Annapolis Consulting in an effort to add payments expertise in several international markets.

Brave, founded by JavaScript creator and former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, intends to issue a cryptocurrency to fund the development of a new way to buy and view digital ads.

BloqLabs, created by the startup Bloq, wants to help developers get their projects in front of enterprise clients.

If the Federal Reserve and other central banks began issuing their own digital currencies, they could benefit consumers, boost the economy and fight financial crime. But not without risks to cybersecurity, individual privacy — and possibly bank profits.

U.S. regulators rejected an exchange-traded fund based on bitcoin, wiping out weeks of gains for the digital currency as investors speculated the Securities and Exchange Commission would approve the security.

The question is more than academic. At stake is the role blockchain technology can play in lowering the costs of raising money.

Banks have signaled bullishness for blockchain tech. But some say ignorance is leading to ill-informed choices.

Banks have traditonally lagged behind in embracing innovation, though blockchain provides the opportunity to quickly ramp up digital services.

Blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin, is increasingly seen as a way to cut costs for international payments.

The fast-moving innovations enabled by blockchain technology defy the ability of state governments to regulate the distributed ledger space constructively and efficiently.

China's role in the in bitcoin market has increased in recent years as its citizens are among the virtual currency's leading traders and miners.

The goal of Deloitte's new blockchain-focused lab in New York is to turn proofs of concepts into real solutions.

In the headlong rush to revolutionize modern finance, blockchain enthusiasts are overlooking one potentially costly problem: their applications, built on open-source code, may actually belong to someone else.

Sudden jolts in the currency market may be becoming more frequent, with at least three flash crashes over the course of 14 months. But there is some hope in finding out their causes more quickly.

Stellar, a Silicon Valley-based non-profit organization and blockchain platform that connects banks and payments systems, has gone global with partnerships in India, the Philippines, Africa and Europe.

The bank consortium R3 CEV has released its Corda platform as open source to encourage innovation and interoperability in the industry's development of blockchain technology.

The Internal Revenue Service's internal watchdog Tuesday called on the agency to develop a concerted strategy to address the possible use of virtual currencies in tax evasion or money-laundering schemes.

The leading US bitcoin exchange, Coinbase, has begun using Jumio’s face match software for digital identity, adding another layer of legacy financial services on top of something that was created as an alternative to the traditional system.