GoldMoney Announces New Storage Facilities
GoldMoney has two new storage facilities, one in Canada and another in a secure zone of Zurich Airport.
Breif Digital Currency Tech Update
New stuff from Open Transactions, Bullion Vault and the ever evolving Bitcoin.
Rumour has it the CFTC may drop its silver market investigation
The Financial Times has just released an article claiming that several people familiar with the CFTC’ silver investigation are saying that the regulator has not found enough evidence to pursue a legal case and will soon drop the investigation.
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A House Subcommittee holds an interesting hearing, including some testimony you can’t miss
I once again subjected myself to a House Subcommittee hearing; this time I was pleasantly surprized.
Yesterday the House Subcommittee on Financial Services, held a hearing titled “Sound Money: Parallel Currencies and the Roadmap to Monetary Freedom”. There were an excellent group of witnesses, some intelligent questions from the committee members and testimony from Mr Rob Grey of The American Open Currency Standard that you don’t want to miss.
Breaking Bitcoin Development News
I have recently heard, from a seemingly very knowledgeable source, that Bitcoin’s Android client is getting offline abilities. This means a transaction can be completed with only the merchant connected to the internet.
Silver Manipulation Probe to End This Year??
Well…possibly, “hopefully”, “in the not-too-distant future”, maybe even “in September or October”. This according to a Bloomberg.com article quoting a member of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission here.
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A Brief ‘Prepaid Access’ Update
I recently sat down to review the ‘prepaid access’ issue and look for any new developments. Here are a few notes on what I found…
Small gold shops in Vietnam adapt to gold trading ban
The Vietnamese government recently enacted Decree No 24, which essentially shuts down small gold shops and creates a state monopoly where only state-appointed organizations are allowed to trade gold.
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The Canadian Mint does something cool…Kind of
The Canadian Mint is working on an interesting project called MintChip, described on their web site as “the evolution of currency”.
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