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It's lunchtime at Glasgow Chambers in later November, and Councillor George Redmond is getting worked up at the prospect a Glasgow Pound. "We would be Glasgow-centric about it," he says conspiratorially, as though there is any other way to be about it...

As the cryptofinancing world continues to expans and the roster of minted altcoins is approaching one thousand, marketing has become one of the most relevant parts of a new coin’s birth. There are coins of almost every hue on the market and… so – what...

The Town Hall of Barcelona has recently announced working on the design of a local digital currency that will be used by local businesses with the aim of stimulating commercial activity in the city. One of the motives underlying the new scheme is enabling...

Recapping the week’s biggest Bitcoins stories from around the web. Virtual currencies could encourage terrorism financing. As Grace Caffyn of CoinDesk writes, a recently released report by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) entitled “Emerging Terrorist...

1 April 2014 Last updated at 20:41 A virtual currency designed to be a “local digital currency”, has been launched by Hull City Council. In the form of digital “tokens”, HullCoins can be used to pay council tax and for goods...