Bitcoin in the Headlines: UK Regulation Trumps Dark Market Collapse
Bitcoin in the Headlines is a weekly look at global bitcoin news, analysing media coverage and its impact. The UK Treasury set the tone for a positive, if quiet, bitcoin news cycle this week with the publication of a lengthy report that promised the industry will soon be regulated domestically. As the UK-based bitcoin community revelled in the news, others were left reeling at the sudden dissolution of a black market that seems to have sent the price of bitcoin into a tailspin. Once again we will bear witness to the good, the bad and the ugly as we take a look at this week's top headlines....
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