Bitcoin offers privacy and, perhaps most important, an easy way to transact business across borders.
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At the same time the Internet offers a splendid new medium through which to transact business.
Dark pools are a private or alternative trading system that allows participants to transact without displaying quotes publicly.
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The convenience of being able to transact anywhere, anytime is often offset by unsatisfying and unproductive customer experiences.
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"The implication here is that many smokers would be similarly willing to transact with criminals, " he wrote in his paper.
She said 'I'm very sorry, there's no way in, we will have to transact your business here in the street'.
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We currently have over three million active users on M-Pesa and over eight million customers registered ready to transact with M-Pesa.
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These resources are thus available for use by others, perhaps by the entrepreneur who borrows my gold to transact for them.
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Taobao made it basically free to end users to transact consumer to consumer. eBay tried to import the American model.
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It doesn't solve the problems of how to transact with the government.
It was excellent for 5000 years, and today we have in use already (via goldmoney.com and others) the ability to transact electronically.
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That has made consumers increasingly comfortable relying on them to transact business.
As a result, there may be an incentive to transact more often or recommend investment products that have higher commissions, trailers, or embedded fees.
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This requires trades to be channelled to the stockmarket offering the best price, even if the trader would prefer to transact elsewhere more quickly.
Unlike online payment services that give people with credit cards easier ways to transact business, Bitcoin works best when avoiding the traditional financial system completely.
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"With insufficient liquidity to meet its obligations, WaMu was in an unsafe and unsound condition to transact business, " the Office of Thrift Supervision said Thursday night.
One ultimate goal: to let machines talk to machines to transact business for you (or your company), without your ever having to go online to issue the orders.
Often this involves concealing information that would cause potential transacting partners to refuse to transact with them or to demand better terms as a condition of doing so.
It would then be cheap for depositors to house money with well run banks, and then more expensive to transact with ones thought to take on too much risk.
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To transact with Wal-Mart or any other business entity is ultimately a voluntary act, and as such, Wal-Mart should be allowed the opportunity to set up shop wherever it desires.
Supporters of Bitcoin, which was created in 2009 by a person or group that goes by the name Satoshi Nakamoto, say it offers anonymity and a cheap way to transact business across borders.
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It would cost too much for executives to pull together skilled workers each morning, or to find an appropriate factory floor, or to transact regularly with someone to answer calls at the switchboard.
In other words, the generators were ready to run, but they had no access to natural gas because neither the gas commodity nor the gas pipeline market were open to transact supply or schedule deliveries.
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Attempts in South Dakota or elsewhere to artificially limit the ability of companies and investors to transact with foreign firms according to their local law or custom is an unnecessary impediment to economic growth and common prosperity.
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Banks want us to transact, transact, transact.
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There are plenty of ways to transact digitally with traditional currency too, but Mr. Andresen describes the "huge mess" he encountered when he tried to rent a house in France and was buried in fees and delays in wiring the money.
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This seems especially true given consumer demands to have an experience they value, on their terms, on the bank interaction channel of choice online, mobile, ATM or branch, irrespective of the type of business a consumer wants to transact with the bank.
And while LBO transactions aren't threatened by tax changes, those who engage in this kind of activity face the threat of tax increases when it comes to "carried interest" that would reduce the incentives for those in this space to transact at all.
The links that Bitcoin-Central, and other exchanges who have also applied to be PSPs, will have to the global banking system will make that much easier as it will become possible to transact with a bitcoin account just like any other bank account.
Previously, it was cumbersome for bitcoin account holders to transact in national currencies because they had to go through one or more exchanges and then wait further for funds to arrive in a bank account or other intermediary like the formerly bitcoin-friendly Paxum.
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