Taiwanese Kidnappers Receive $1.68M Bitcoin Ransom from Billionaire Yuk-Kwan

The family of billionaire Pearl Oriental Oil chairman Wong Yuk-Kwan paid Taiwanese kidnappers US$1.68 million in bitcoin after they threatened to “dig out the eyeballs or chop off the legs” of Yuk-Kwa

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Study: Only 3% of Bank CEOs Have Tech Experience

The latest study from Accenture shows that only 6% of board directors and just 3% of CEOs of the world’s biggest banks have any technology experience, reports Business Wire.

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Bitcoin Price Tops $300: To the Moon or Blowoff Top Forming?

The Bitcoin price is back above US$300 where it hasn’t been since the summer’s Grexit fiasco. This has been a strong up move, in which the last 7 days have been positive (green candles).

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Nasdaq’s Blockchain-Powered Platform Linq Attracts First 6 Clients

Nasdaq announced the first six inaugural clients of its new blockchain-enabled platform “Nasdaq Linq.” The first participants will include Chain.com, ChangeTip, PeerNova, Synack, Tango, and Vera.

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Mt. Gox’s Karpeles: Embezzled Funds ‘Spent on Prostitutes’

Shamed Mt. Gox former CEO Mark Karpeles allegedly used suspected embezzled funds to pay for prostitutes, new reports claim.

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Bitcoin Awareness Campaign Launches Across Major U.S. Cities

I often sit and consider what I would do on the off chance that I had a million dollars. When I chat with people about Bitcoin, they understand very little about it.

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JP Morgan Partners with Walmart & Best Buy to Crush Apple Pay

American multinational banking and financial services holding company JP Morgan Chase & Co. has announced the launch of its own version of a mobile payment system

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‘Cheap Money’ Means Expensive Bitcoins (Op-Ed)

It's no secret how the world's economy works - it's a balance of supply a demand. Little money is bad; a lot of money is bad; but it's always necessary to print more so that a dollar will buy what it

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Bitcoin Investment Slows in Q3; Startups Feel the Pinch

2015 has been a banner year when it comes to Bitcoin venture capital investment.

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Visa & Bitcoin's Blockchain to Turn Cars into Mobile Wallets

Many people dread the process of buying a car. Selecting the car itself can be fun, but the pressure to test drive, the forced banter with the sales rep, and the dreaded negotiation are major turn-off

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Multi-Million Dollar ‘Grandmother Scam’ Using Bitcoin Ends in Miami

A Canadian man who devised an elaborate scheme to defraud elderly U.S. citizens while using monetary transmitters like Western Union and Bitcoin has been caught.

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Bitcoin Price Analysis: Price Thwarted at Key Resistance! Stay Bullish?

Bitcoin Price Analysis from CoinTelegraph

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