Bitcoin Weekly: Bitcoin in Europe and blockchain financial news from China and the Middle East

In this week’s Bitcoin Weekly Circle, a competitive Bitcoin web-wallet, added Euro currency support for numerous European customer and Bitcoin hardware wallet TREZOR has teamed up with European Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp.
In international financial technology and blockchain news, the Chinese government has published a whitepaper on the current status quo and future of blockchain development and the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange just launched a suite of blockchain-based tools for financial management, including voting, securities exchange among others.
As for the Bitcoin market value, the price of BTC is hovering around $631.50 (BitcoinAverage.com). This is a little bit of a dip since last week, where the BTC price remained around $640 for the past seven days, but suddenly dropped early this morning (October 19, 2016).
Circle adds Euro currency support
Customers of Bitcoin wallet service Circle (Circle Internet Financial Limited) in Europe and in the UK can now link bank cards from many European countries. As a result, customers from some of these countries will be able to hold Euros in their Circle account wallets as well.

This post was published at Silicon Angle on Oct 19, 2016.