SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean cryptocurrency exchange said on Tuesday it is shutting down and is filing for bankruptcy after it was hacked for the second time this year, highlighting concerns about security as trade in bitcoin and other virtual currencies boom.
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service said on Tuesday it does not consider bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to be currencies of any kind and would not seek to regulate their trade beyond rules announced last week.
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Tuesday that bitcoin had not been proven as a credible currency.
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NEW YORK/LONDON/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Bitcoin futures got a muted reception after their debut on CME Group late on Sunday, with volumes in the tens of millions of dollars in the first 12 hours of trading, as warnings about the risks of bitcoin sounded ever louder.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Potential investors in bitcoin should steer clear of a dangerous gamble and not complain to financial regulators if things do go wrong, Denmark’s central bank governor warned.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – CME Group Inc, the world’s largest derivatives exchange operator, began trading bitcoin futures on Sunday, with the contract opening at what is currently its session high and dropping over 6 percent within the first half hour.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – CME Group Inc, the world’s largest derivatives exchange operator, became on Sunday the second exchange to launch bitcoin futures trading, seeking to capitalize on the mania for the booming digital currency.
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PARIS (Reuters) – France will propose that the G20 group of major economies discuss regulation of the bitcoin virtual currency next year, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bitcoin investors expect futures volumes to perk up when CME Group Inc, the world’s largest derivatives exchange operator, launches its own contract to wager on the cryptocurrency on Sunday.
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(Reuters) – Retail brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp said on Friday it will allow clients to trade bitcoin futures on the newly minted CBOE Futures Exchange from Dec. 18.
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