Bitcoin in the News : 2016-07 More++

I'd be surprised if anyone noticed, but I skipped my previous weekly post on this blog for reasons explained on another one of my blogs in Site Available Again:

It's been a week since my previous post on this blog, Site Unavailable, where I noted, 'I'm suspending new posts until the [m-w.com] site is available again. Apologies for the interruption!'

In this post, I'll continue with Bitcoin in the News : 2016-07 Halving. That was already the third consecutive 'Bitcoin in the News' post -- making this the fourth -- and since I'm talking about events from last month, the word 'news' is a stretch. Along with the 'Halving', there were a number of other recurring topics in July.

Brexit:-

• 2016-07-06: How The Post-Brexit World Could Belong To Bitcoin (forbes.com)
• 2016-07-10: Pound sterling becomes more unstable than Bitcoin following Brexit (independent.co.uk)
• 2016-07-14: How Brexit Is Affecting The Bitcoin And Blockchain Industries (forbes.com)

ETFs:-

• 2016-06-30: Winklevoss choose BATS over Nasdaq for bitcoin ETF (uk.businessinsider.com) • 'BATS Global Markets'
• 2016-07-13: New Bitcoin ETF Challenges Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust by Offering Insurance (cointelegraph.com) • 'A new Bitcoin ETF called SolidX Bitcoin Trust '
• 2016-07-18: As Race To Offer First Bitcoin ETF Heats Up, New Company Files To Create An Ether ETF (forbes.com) • EtherIndex LLC; 'The move comes on the heels of the SEC opening a proposal for a Bitcoin ETF by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss of Gemini for public comment, and a filing last Tuesday by SolidX to launch a Bitcoin ETF.'
• 2016-07-15: CME Exec: Bitcoin ETFs Signal Digital Asset Maturity (coindesk.com)

Miami:-

• 2016-07-25: Bitcoin Is Not Money: Miami Judge (fortune.com)
• 2016-07-25: Bitcoin not money Miami judge rules in laundering case (miamiherald.com)

Ethereum DAO:-

• 'Website is offline': Bitcoin Core Developers Comment on The DAO Disaster (coingecko.com) • DAO = Decentralized Autonomous Organization
• 2016-07-28: Ethereum Fiasco Justifies Principled Decisions of Bitcoin Developers (cointelegraph.com)

The Donald:-

• 2016-07-05: Donald Trump Presidency Could Be a Boost to Bitcoin (coindesk.com)
• 2016-07-08: Bitcoin's Price Impact From Trump Presidency (pymnts.com)

While none of the above topics casts a particularly favorable light on bitcoin -- except perhaps the ETF news -- other stories were distinctly negative.

• 2016-07-03: Bitcoin Ransomware May Soon Become a Thing of the Past (newsbtc.com)
• 2016-07-06: New partnership aims to clamp down on use of bitcoin for child porn (reuters.com)
• 2016-07-17: EUIPO Finds Bitcoin Hinders Anti-piracy Efforts (themerkle.com) • EUIPO = European Union Intellectual Property Office
• 2016-07-20: Bitcoin Evangelist Charlie Shrem Released from Prison (cryptocoinsnews.com) • 'convicted on charges of money laundering and acting as an unlicensed money transmitter'
• 2016-07-21: Texan gets one-and-a-half years in prison for running bitcoin Ponzi scheme (reuters.com) • Trendon Shavers

No summer doldrums for bitcoin!