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According to a survey carried out in July by Bitkom, a German association for IT, only a few top managers in local finance believe bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency will ever gain any wider adoption as compared to current stance.

US-based international bank Goldman Sachs has applied to the US Patent and Trademark Office seeking for patenting its proprietary cryptocurrency-based system for settlement of securities. The cryptocurrency dubbed SETLcoin, according to the application, is intended for p2p-exchange of digital tokens, which in their turn act as instantaneous replacement for actual securities being traded.

The Supreme Court of Estonia has made a request addressed to local central bank, two government departments, the Bank of Estonia, and the country’s financial regulator, to clarify their views on legal stance of digital currencies in regard to AML policies and general essence of cryptocurrency and the underpinning technology thereof.

Former employees of the Central Bank of Barbados have issued a paper titled ‘Should Cryptocurrencies Be Included In The Portfolio Of International Reserves Held By The Central Bank Of Barbados?’ where they suggest that the island’s regulator should consider using cryptocurrency as its foreign reserve. However, according to the authors, the amount of the reserve […]

Last week Cyber.fund announced a crowdfunding round to attract 42 BTC for the project’s development. In return, the supporting investors will obtain 3% of CFUND tokens. Cyber.fund was founded one year ago, and on November 17, 2015, the organization registered in bitcoin’s blockchain by signing the genesis agreement. ForkLog (FL) talked with the project’s co-founder […]

For the past number of years cryptocurrencies have come and gone. Thousands of cryptocurrencies, commonly referred to as alternate currencies or simply “alt coins” have been created, and many have already perished into the deep hole of crypto scams, abandoned projects and forgotten dreams and ambitions. After the dust settled the community was left with […]

Any activity having something romantic around it, will inevitably grow a mythological network. Most of those myths can be classified as urban legends, even though there might be no city involved. American urban legends are known to everyone – even those who never saw America with their own eyes.

Having known about bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies some may think: why not creating mny own fork? Bitcoin community is abundant with experimentation fans, so ForkLog decided to cover the issue in details.