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BBVA: We Wanted to Better Understand the Bitcoin Opportunity

In a new interview, BBVA Ventures' Jay Reinemann discusses his firms investment in Coinbase and what his means for its parent bank.

BBVA

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Investors Sound Off on Coinbase’s Record-Setting Fundraising

CoinDesk takes a look at how Coinbase's investors are framing their participation in today's record-setting fundraising.

Coinbase funding

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Markets Weekly: Seeking Answers After The Crash

The bitcoin price crashed below $200 last week, leaving market watchers trying to figure out just what had happened.

Coins, accounting

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Federal Reserve Bank VP: We’re a Protocol Just Like Bitcoin

Talking to CoinDesk, St Louis Fed VP David Andolfatto suggests the bitcoin network isn’t that much different from the Federal Reserve.

St Louis Fed

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IBM Reveals Proof of Concept for Blockchain-Powered Internet of Things

IBM has debuted ADEPT, the distributed, blockchain-powered Internet of Things proof of concept designed in partnership with Samsung.

Internet of Things

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11 Top Responses from Andreas Antonopoulos' Reddit AMA

Noted security expert Andreas Antonopoulos recently took to Reddit as the latest influencer in bitcoin to host an AMA.

andreas antonopoulos reddit ama

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Research: Hackers Could Install Backdoor in Bitcoin Cold Storage

A researcher in Berlin has described a way to compromise a core algorithm underpinning bitcoin so that transactions leak private-key data.

Binary Code Landscape

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Bitcoin's Price Drop in the Headlines

The world's mainstream media offered a wide variety of opinions yesterday following bitcoin's price drop. CoinDesk has rounded up the top stories.

Newspapers

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How Credit Card Fraud Sank One Bitcoin Exchange

Credit cards are the easiest way to buy bitcoins, but exchanges that don't handle them properly can be hit by chargebacks. What can they do?

Avoiding credit card chargebacks

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Inside Buttercoin's Drive to Shape the US Bitcoin Marketplace

CoinDesk speaks to Buttercoin CEO Cedric Dahl about his US bitcoin marketplace and its drive to become the Amazon Web Services of the industry.

Web services