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Newly established venture capital firm Block26 has made its first dive into the Bitcoin space with a US$450K investment in Bitcoin wallet Airbitz.

The Swift Institute offers a €15,000 grant for research into the development of blockchain technology, and more news

Greece debt crisis appears to have been averted, or at the least delayed. A €50 billion bailout package has been offered, if the Greek parliament agrees to implement extensive reforms that have been demanded by the eurozone.

Bitcoin 0.11.0 includes several improvements over older versions, making the software easier to use and better adapted to current network needs.

Founded by Ruben Galindo and Antonio Garcia of Mexico City, AirTM is a service that depends on the Bitreserve API to make transfers from the “new money” in the cloud to the “old money” of the cash system.

Bitchain, a Spanish bitcoin ATM, NFC and Card solutions provider and cryptocurrency counseling company, announced on July 11 that they launched Greece’s first two-way Bitcoin ATM at The Cube Athens, a Greek coworking space.

While global banks and financial institutions search for ways to integrate blockchain technology into their existing systems, here are eight ways governments could implement the technology to improve efficiency.

The Bitcoin Core development team has released the latest version of Bitcoin Core; Cloud mining service Cloudminr.io has been hacked; and more news

Litecoin buying power dropped like a light switch had suddenly cut all energy, and within hours it was approaching its Monday values once again.

Bitcoin promptly lost over 10% of its value in minutes Monday morning as news of a Greek bailout deal surfaced

Bitcoin Price Analysis from Cointelegraph

The Chinese government along with its Central Bank have taken extraordi-nary measures to halt the free-fall of its stock markets.

Ellen Pao, the CEO of Reddit whose November 2014 hiring was quickly following by the shelving of the website’s short-lived Bitcoin project, resigned on Saturday.

Geopay, a new crypto-business bringing a “universal commerce platform” to the financial tech world, is planning to help Greeks with their sovereign debt crisis.

The NYSE, flights of United Airlines and the Wall Street Journal all suffered from “technical glitches” on July 8, the same day that the Chinese Stock market plummeted.

Five years ago, the notion of paying for items via your smartphone was seen as something of a novelty.

Here are fifteen reasons why the future of money is changing due to the technological innovations of Bitcoin.

American Express rolls out a new online checkout service, FinTech is the reason for record hikes in venture capital flooding into the London startup scene, and more FinTech news

Drachmae Connect, a tourism business network, is using NXT technology in attempt to help ease liquidity problems and business-to-business trade in the Island of Agistri.

Call Levels, a Singaporean startup providing real-time financial monitoring and notification service on the mobile cloud, has added bitcoin prices from itBit following “overwhelming request from users.”

Following an unprecedented day of trading for Litecoin at a higher daily USD volume than bitcoin, suspicions of a ‘pump-and-dump’ scheme in China have arisen following a correction in price.

Visa Europe believes existing payments companies and new players should cooperate more openly; BitFury announced that it has raised US$20 million in its third venture capital round and more news

BlockTrail yesterday launched its Mint exchange, which swaps “old” coins for newly mined ones. In a first of its kind, users can buy bitcoins that came straight from a mining pool.

China’s stock market woes have been part of the reason for bitcoin’s recent rise in price.

Senior columnist Michael Casey is leaving his 18-year old seat at the Wall Street Journal to advise the MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative.

A new L.A based startup Verisart has announced its future plans to launch a decentralized platform that will help artists and collectors to document, verify and certify artwork.

The 24-hour Litecoin trading volume is edging close to overtaking that of Bitcoin, as traders and developers investigate alternatives to BTC’s backlog, while fears of a pump and dump rise.

A security expert is expected to unveil a new app that is able to crack remembered passphrases, Los Angeles startup Verisart will use the Blockchain to verify artwork authenticity, and more news

This past weekend, bitcoin miners lost up to US$50,000 as the Bitcoin network was affected by the generation of invalid blocks due to the appearance of two separate versions of the blockchain or a “fork.”

On July 7, Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin (LTC), wrote a post on Reddit to offer a fix for the current spam attack to the Bitcoin network.