IRS: Bitcoins are property, not currency
Bitcoin will be treated by the Internal Revenue Service as property, not currency, the IRS said in an announcement on Tuesday. “For federal tax purposes,...
Posts Tagged: "Currency"
Bitcoin currency could be crashed by colluded attack, researchers claim
Cornell University researchers say they’ve discovered a theoretical attack on the Bitcoin network that has the potential of...
Court officially declares Bitcoin a real currency
A federal judge has for the first time ruled that Bitcoin is a legitimate currency, opening up the...
Bitcoin starts to grow up with a quasi peg
I got lots of flak from the Bitcoin community when I suggested a currency peg to ease the transition for universal acceptance of bitcoin. From...
Hollow spy-coins milled out of real currency
A company called "Covert Coins" mills hollow coins out of real currency and turns them into hidden, spook-tastic...
US prosecutors: Liberty Reserve ran $6bn money-laundering scheme
The United States government has shut down a digital currency website and jailed its executives for allegedly operating...
Scientist Predicts 60% Market Collapse
Chris Martenson is a world-renowned expert on identifying dangerous, yet hidden, exponential growth patterns in global economies, energy demand, and food consumption... And he is...
Indisputable Proof Paper Gold Markets are Massively Manipulated
What would you think if someone told you the following? “Three times this week, I am going to...
Why Are The Banksters Telling Us To Sell Our Gold When They Are Hoarding Gold Like Crazy?
Michael Snyder Activist Post The big banks are breathlessly proclaiming that now is the time to sell your...
Digital ‘bitcoin’ currency surpasses 20 national currencies in value
By Maxim Lott More than $1 billion dollars worth of a digital currency known as "bitcoins" now circulate...
World’s First Bitcoin ATM Is Announced First Location: Cyprus
While European politicos negotiate in Brussels, deciding the fate of other people’s money in Cyprus, the free market has already moved in to help Cypriots...
Bitcoins Surge After Cyprus Bank Raid
Activist Post Is Bitcoin now a safe haven currency? It wasn't long ago when it was considered merely...
Electricity As Currency? 10 Reasons It Could Work
Activist Post Remember the good old days when gasoline only cost $1.50/gallon way back in the ancient times...
Money Is A Form Of Social Control And Most Americans Are Debt Slaves
Michael Snyder Activist Post Is America really "the land of the free"? Most people think of money as simply a medium of exchange that makes...
Crumbling Global Economy Passes Point of No Return
Source: Lee Rogers, BlacklistedNews.com As bad as the global economy is right now, it is unfortunately going to...
Let’s end currency war with gold standard!
Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss ending the currency war with a gold standard. (more…)
Could Amazon’s New Virtual Currency Rival Bitcoin?
J.P. Hicks, Contributor Activist Post Last week Amazon announced a new way for customers to buy and sell goods on its massive online retail platform:...
Venezuelan currency devalued by a third
The Venezuelan government has devalued the country's currency, the bolivar, by a third. The fifth devaluation in nine...
When Your Paypal, Dollars, Gold and Silver Are Not Accepted what next? Bitcoin!
By Anne Chandler New, secure platform available, making global, online payment easy and without restrictions. Finally, there is...
China Makes Move To Collapse U.S. Dollar: Gold Back Currency For Global Trade
The People’s Bank of China has already reduced its holdings of US treasuries below those of Japan and...
Investors propose $1B to purchase island-park from Detroit and secede from USA
As the broken city thinks big and radically about its future, a developer is stepping forward with a revolutionary idea: Sell the city's Belle Isle...
Euros discarded as impoverished Greeks resort to bartering
It's been a busy day at the market in downtown Volos. Angeliki Ioanitou has sold a decent quantity...
Electrical Current Unlocks The Seriously Good Drugs In Your Brain
Trying to get high but don’t want to go through the hassle of conducting monetary transactions with some...
Germans hoarding mountains of gold
Like Scrooge McDuck or the dragon Smaug in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, Germans are gathering vast quantities of gold - a study showed...