OKCoin Denies Manipulating Bitcoin Trading Volumes

The issue of trade volume authenticity on Chinese exchanges has surfaced again, with one user accusing the country’s busiest exchange OKCoin of manipulating volumes after bitcoin statistics sites displayed a sharp drop in a short period

First ‘Live’ Bitcoin Exchange Opens in Vietnam

Bitcoin continues to grow in Vietnam with last week’s launch of the country’s first live open-order book trading bitcoin exchange, VBTC.

Philippines Startups Aim to Fulfil Bitcoin’s Remittance Promise

Jon Southurst (@southtopia) | Published on July 9, 2014 at 11:21 BST

One of bitcoin’s promised ‘killer apps,’ and one regularly cited as a use case whose time has come, is overseas remittances – providing cheaper and improved services for foreign workers sending money back to their home country.