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When Will Bitcoin Be Truly Inclusive?

The Bitcoin Foundation is trying to make bitcoin more inclusive. That's a tall order.

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Banks, Corruption and Crypto: Can Bitcoin Change India?

Decentralized payment systems like bitcoin could influence financial innovation in India – whether the government likes it or not.

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Is Bitcoin a Digital Currency or a Virtual One?

How can we best describe bitcoin - is it a digital currency, or a virtual one, or both?

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Western Union CEO: 'First-World' Bitcoin Not Ready for Global Use

Western Union CEO Hikmet Ersek critiqued bitcoin today, suggesting it is currently ill-equipped for cross-border payments.

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Bitcoin's Growing Role in US Politics

With US midterm elections approaching, bitcoin's role in campaign donations will bring it further into the political spotlight.

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A Taxonomy of Bitcoin Mixing Services for Policymakers

As policymakers come to terms with bitcoin, privacy-enhancing protocols seek to maintain fungibility and user-defined privacy.

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Seeing Through Regulation, Banking on Bitcoin, and a Sheer Art Attack

John Law discusses revolution in regulation, putting competition back into banking and shares his outlandish bitcoin art ideas.

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Why Regulation Could Help Bitcoin

Many believe regulation would ruin bitcoin, but are there ways in which it could aid cryptocurrency?

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What the UK's Tax Reversal Means for Bitcoin

Indeed, getting the bitcoin community to agree what regulation is welcome will likely be a challenge all in itself.

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How Bitcoin is Changing Everything

Bitcoin isn’t just challenging business models, it's challenging entire generations of established political and economic theory.

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