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New service called Bitphone is attempting to reinvent and improve how we communicate by using bitcoin as low-cost infrastructure and payment method for encrypted calls

Stephen Tual of Ethereum has confirmed speculation about the soon to be ‘launch’ of the project leading to the controversial third party traded ‘Ethercoin’ to skyrocket in price.

Singapore and New York based bitcoin exchange itBit has introduced its itBit Global OTC Agency Trading Desk, a service that specializes in facilitating over-the-counter (OTC) transactions.

The NEM (New Economy Movement) has managed to secure and undisclosed amount of funding just a few months after their launch.

BitPervy, an adult entertainment site, which enables users to share porn for digital currency had its soft launch for users to test out its bitcoin revenue sharing system.

National Fraud Intelligence Bureau has issued a warning for TorrentLocker ransomware disguised to look as if it’s sent from UK institutions and corporations.

A startup local currency has just launched the Ithaca dollar in Ithaca, NY, designed to not only promote investment in local businesses and bring the community together

Operators of Coin.mx have been charged for working without a money transmission license; New York-based bitcoin exchange itBit launched its Global OTC Agency Trading Desk and more news

Classified ads site Backpage.com has filed a lawsuit against the County Sheriff who led a successful campaign to have Visa and MasterCard cut its payment processing.

Cointelegraph spoke with the CEO of Coinsetter and CAVirtex, Jaron Lukasiewicz, about their new margin trading program, their plans following the purchase of Canada’s largest crypto exchange

Keybase, a cryptographic message and verification startup, has raised US$10.8 million in a Series A funding round

A newly published Cornell University paper suggests that Bitcoin mining pools should eventually become smaller in size

NXT, the finance 2.0 blockchain platform, has voted unanimously to implement CoinShuffle, a coin mixing anonymity technique to NXTcoin and other ‘Monetary System’ tokens.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke about the resurgence of the platform.

BitX has raised a US$4 million in its Series A funding round led by the South African media firm Naspers through its payments subsidiary PayU.

BitX Raises US$4M in Series A Funding; OpenBazaar plans to launch their platform by November of this year and other news

After Apple Pay’s much-hyped payment system’s launch in the United Kingdom has already encountered some problems with a double-spend issue.

World-first decentralized exchange Coinffeine has announced its launch in over 70 countries in the largest international expansion program ever undertaken by a Bitcoin startup.

Bitcoin Core developer Jeff Garzik’s proposed compromise to double the block size limit to 2MB as a temporary solution is still far from reaching consensus

Deloitte has announced its partnership with the Australian Digital Currency Commerce Association (ADCCA).

Cointelegraph reached out to Coinsilium to get some more details on its milestone IPO.

Bitcoin-based service Bitreserve has launched the voucher app Easy.money.

Bitcoin is the fastest growing sector for startup investment; Keybase raises over 10 million in investment round Led by Andreessen Horowitz and other news.

Bitcoin Price Analysis from Cointelegraph.

Ethereum, the decentralized application and smart contracting platform prepares to shoot the starting gun, as their Frontier release reaches 99% completion

Bitcoin payments processor Bitnet has launched a new tool that allows merchants to mitigate the risk of accepting bitcoin payments without confirmations.

The Factom Foundation has launched its Release Candidate One (RC1) on the Bitcoin Testnet.

Spain passed a law enacting fines of up to US$33,000 for peaceful protest and filming of police.

TradeBlock announced on July 18 that it will collaborate with Boston-based incubator FinTech Sandbox.

United States military is considering using Bitcoin tipping as a platform for providing bounties in combat and terrorist hot zones.