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Code to Inspire just launched an Indiegogo campaign for the first coding center in Afghanistan of women, for women, by women, with the goal of prepping Afghan girls for careers in programming.

Cointelegraph reviews three of the most promising alternatives to Skype that guarantee end-to-end encryption and greater privacy for its users.

The U.S. federal government is trying to steer people toward visiting sites that give step-by-step instructions on how to encrypt digital communications.

BitPay and Coinbase have publicly defended an increase in the block size limit as proposed by Bitcoin core developer Gavin Andresen.

Bitcoin regulation looks imminent in Ukraine, with the release of its own BitLicense draft. Initial reception has been described as “surprisingly positive” by the country’s Central Bank and financial sector.

The UK’s Emerging Payments Association (EPA) has announced the launch of the Catalyst, an incubator dedicated to early stage payments companies.

Case Wallet raised US$1.5 million, Polish payment processors and at least one bank have closed the accounts of several local bitcoin exchanges and more news

While several global headlines have declared that millennials are increasingly disinterested in banks, the owners of BTC.sx exchange have launched Magnr, “the first savings account for Bitcoin.”

Elliptic, a Bitcoin analytics and security firm based out of London, announced ‘The Bitcoin Big Bang’ on Thursday.

The Canadian Senate has decided to protect Bitcoin from massive government regulation opting to approach the new technology with “a light regulatory touch – almost a hands-off approach.”

Analysis of the biennial Payment Innovations Report 2015 from June 17 has described an increasingly successful FinTech sector in Asian and African countries.

When Erik Voorhees decided against serving consumers using New York state IP addresses, he also founded a new website: PleaseProtectConsumers (PPC).

JoyStream is a new BitTorrent client that incentivizes users to make file-sharing both faster and monetarily rewarding.

Interview with Rain Lõhmus about experimenting with the blockchain via colored coins, bitcoin-based certificates of deposit, and the country’s attitude toward technology and innovation.

You can still become a crypto and FinTech SuperWriter with Cointelegraph – and win up to 5BTC per month, every month!

One of the agents with stealing bitcoins from Silk Road will plead guilty; the European Banking Authority believes a 51% attack is Bitcoin’s biggest threat and more news

Inside Bitcoins Conference and Expo is coming to Chicago July 10–11 and the list of confirmed speakers and sessions has now been revealed

Bitcoin payment processor BitPay has announced at the Money Conf Belfast 2016 that the startup will shift its focus from merchant payment platforms and services to working with large financial institutions and banks.

Ledger, a smartchip-based Bitcoin hardware wallet, will be compatible with the authentication features of Fido Alliance – namely external dongles and fingerprint readers.

Stripe, one of the hottest payments startups, has announced it is expanding to Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland

Dash has implemented their “masternode” system, which involves dividing the block reward into three parts: 45 % goes to the miners, 45 % goes to masternodes, and 10 % is being set aside for Dash project funding.

Falconwing Media is looking for 682 people to write three-sentence news summaries, embed them within images that are immune to blocking, and to distribute them using social media.

Augur, the decentralized prediction market, launched its alpha version on Tuesday

KPCB launches investment fund to boost emerging technologies startups; Augur releases alpha version; MonetaGo launches in 40 Countries and more news.

Coinbase announced on their blog today that they’ve launched a new Instant Exchange feature

Bitcoin has finally broken above the noted 50 day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) at US$233 and done so with force.

The highly anticipated comedy “Dope” will be the world’s first movie to accept bitcoin for its ticket sales through a partnership between Movietickets.com — which supports over 900 cinemas in the U.S.

Denmark based exchange CCEDK will be the world’s first exchange to make its order books and solvency transparent following a partnership with Cryptonomex.

The British Library recently conducted a survey with about 3,000 participants with the purpose of creating a digital “Magna Carta” for the Internet age.

Five of China’s biggest mining pools — AntPool, F2Pool, BTCChina, BW Mining, and Huobi — have agreed to raise the block size limit to 8 MB.