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Cointelegraph has compiled a list of some of the most notable banking giants experimenting with Bitcoin’s underlying technology.

South Koreans get a first look at Samsung’s new mobile payment solution, P2P lending company BLender secures new funding and more top stories from this week in FinTech.

The proof-of-work concept allows network nodes to reach consensus on which version of the blockchain should be considered correct.

Bitcoin Core developer Jeff Garzik has submitted a proposal to raise the block size limit from 1MB to 2MB.

This article will cover the necessary steps that need to be considered when creating and maintaining a bitcoin wallet.

The most popular Swedish news site, Dn.se, has reported the European Court of Justice as stating, “Bitcoin is a means of payment and that the exchange should therefore be exempted VAT obligations.”

Bitpay has released figures showing a huge spike in transactions in Latin America, surging from 638 in February all the way up to 3,509 monthly in June 2015.

The legal adviser to the EU’s highest court said that digital currencies like Bitcoin should be exempt from value-added tax, the Factom Foundation has launched a first release candidate, and more news

A Bitcoin real estate remittances company is working to lower the bureaucratic complexity of buying American real estate for the Chinese middle class.

On Tuesday, Andy Shroder posted on Reddit that eBay Inc. had removed his merchant listing because he accepted bitcoin for his products.

On July 15, the birthplace of democracy descended into Molotov cocktails, teargas and violent thugs riding motorcycles and swinging billy clubs on behalf of Greek law enforcement.

Иeureal is the first decentralized open-source protocol designed to produce a distributed artificial intelligence (AI) architecture that is incentivized, maintained and housed within a cryptocurrency.

On July 15, Coinbase released a half-year report on Bitcoin trends in 2015. They included information about increases in such activities as the creation of wallets, daily transactions, Github repositories and investments.

Here are the six caveats that will help startups get off the ground in this volatile landscape.

A group of 10 lawyers and academics from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany has published a book on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency law in all four of these jurisdictions.

Spanish national police have arrested 20 people involved in massive Ponzi scheme, Unetenet.

Merchants can now receive bitcoin payments in seconds with Bitnet’s ‘Instant Approval’ tool; Blockchain Investment Firm Coinsilium to IPO in London and more news.

Few markets have seen activity like the Philippines Bitcoin space in recent years. The country is now home to a whole ecosystem of crypto-focused startups, offering unparalleled flexibility for its users.

Motherboard has pieced together that the FBI likely used Hacking Team software to de-anonymize a user of the anonymizing Tor software.

While large-scale national economies are slipping into default and long-term indebtedness, the Bitcoin economy couldn’t be more robust in 2015.

LA-based financial services and investment firm Wedbush Securities released a report in which it predicts that bitcoin will trade for US$400 by next year.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has funded Ghana based blockchain startup Bitsoko in a startup competition called Gran Challenges Explorations, which focused on promoting wide spread acceptance of mobile money by small merchants.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has stated that use of Bitcoin “as some kind of unit in some account” is “possible” in a surprisingly supportive gesture towards the currency

Vladimir Putin has addressed Bitcoin and other digital currencies for the first time; a legislative bill to regulate bitcoin and digital currency related business activities has advanced in North Carolina and more news

Drug Enforcement Administration agent, has been ordered to forfeit around US$500,000 in cash and bitcoin that he “confiscated” while investigating the Silk Road case.

The first instant remittance service to the Philippines has launched, using Bitcoin to facilitate near-real time funds transfer to the country.

A new report by the Berklee College of Music and the Institute of Creative Entrepreneurship Rethink Music estimates that around 20 to 50 percent of money generated by streaming is never returned to the artists.

Torsten Hoffmann’s “Bitcoin: The End Of Money As We Know It” was released on several video-on-demand platforms today.

If you use the latest encryption technology for your online banking, Bitcoin wallet, or protecting your military secrets, get ready for a little bout with depression.

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis spills the beans on what really happened behind closed doors, and how Greece was never supposed to get above water again.