U.S.-based Bitcoin exchange set to open

San Francisco-based Coinbase, which opened in June of 2012, has until now solely been a platform where merchants and their customers can conduct transactions using bitcoins. – Chicago Mercantile Association:…

The upside of dealing with the ‘enemy’?

“The sanctions are having an effect now,” says Jimmy Robertson, who leads Angus Dundee in Russia, until recently one of the single-malt specialist’s best markets. “Customers are having to negotiate…