BitAccess, CaVirtex to Speak Before Canadian Senate Committee Today
Canada's Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce is set to meet today (9th April) as part of a hearing that will aim to study the use of digital currency and feature notable members of the local community. In attendance will be Haseeb Awan, co-founder of bitcoin ATM provider BitAccess. Joseph David, CEO of Calgary-based digital currency exchange CaVirtex; and Kyle Kemper and Victoria van Eyk, partners at Bitcoin Strategy Group, an organisation dedicated toward helping Canada's bitcoin businesses develop their public image. The in-person meeting is meant to educate the Senate....
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Ottawa, ON - Locally owned and operated BitAccess announced today that it will be appearing before the Canadian Senate's Standing Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce on April 9th, 2014. Co-founder Haseeb Awan is expected to present the ATM's unique capabilities and hopefully assist Senator Irving Gerstein in purchasing some bitcoin from the machine. Mr. Awan will also be discussing the benefits of their technology. The in-person demonstration by BitAccess to key government decision makers is expected to educate the Senate committee on bitcoin's accessibility and ease of use. This will....
What is Canada's place in regulating bitcoin? This is the theme running through the Canadian Senate's Standing Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce's study on the use of digital currency. The Bitcoin Strategy Group, BitAccess and CAVirtEx sat before the senators on 9th April to demonstrate how bitcoin is purchased and stored. Their representation marks the first presence of bitcoiners in the Senate sphere. The Canadian Senate has already heard from the Bank of Canada, the Department of Finance, economic historians and other academics. On Thursday, April 10th, the committee will hear....
While Robocoin was this week busy demonstrating their bitoin ATM on Capitol Hill, a similar occurrence is taking place up North in Canada. BitAccess, Canadian bitcoin ATM manufacturer, is demonstrating their kiosk before the Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Banking today. According to Bitcoin Magazine, the company's co-founder Haseeb Awan will be showing off the machine's features and even assisting Senator Irving Gerstein in acquiring some bitcoin of his own. According to Awan, this move is necessary to help lawmakers understand the technology before they try to regulate it. As the....
See update below. Canadian bitcoin exchange CAVIRTEX took to social media on Tuesday to tease a little something our Canadian bitcoin friends might find exciting. The company is apparently planning to deploy a small network of bitcoin ATMs in Canada. With little other information, the company posted two images on their official Twitter account. The first image depicted a lone unit branded with the famous Canadian flag. The second, a series of units. Eight of them to be exact. Not a terrible lot more is known about the deployment of the network, thought he company did indicate that one of....
Canadian bitcoin exchange CAVIRTEX is looking to get into the bitcoin ATM space. We already had an indication of this happening, when the exchange teased a picture of a line of BitAccess ATMs in a warehouse at the end of July. At the time, we didn't have a whole lot of information, but we're learning that at least six of the machines have launched today, and another four will be launching shortly. It effectively makes Canada the country with the most bitcoin ATMs in the world, beginning with the first two-way ATM installed by Las Vegas-based Robocoin last year in a downtown Vancouver....