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A bill placed before the North Carolina Senate could see the Old North State implement mandatory licensing for companies operating with digital currency.

Interview with the Founder & President of BitCharities and Bitlanders, Francesco Rulli

A Canadian university will sell books for bitcoins and has installed BTMs to get students accustomed and more involved with financial technology services (FinTech).

A new anonymous Bitcoin wallet has entered the crypto universe. It’s called Samourai wallet, and its main focus is security and privacy.

Unredacted Adult FriendFinder hacked Data is on offer for 70 Bitcoin, a 1959 IBM Model 1401 mainframe can mine bitcoin, and more news.

In a region where 80% of residents have never heard of cryptocurrency, the digital news source Forklog emerged in 2014 to report daily crypto news in Russian.

The Open Bitcoin Privacy Project (OBPP) met their initial goal with the May 19 release of their first wallet ratings.

Cryptocurrency exchange PS Coin rebrands as Laissez Faire as it continues its mission to correctly incentivize trading.

As previously reported, OKCoin has announced that the company will no longer be managing the domain bitcoin.com, due to a dispute with the domain-owner, Roger Ver.

OKCoin has announced that the company will no longer be managing the domain bitcoin.com, due to a dispute with the domain-owner, Roger Ver.

Bitcoin Price Analysis from Cointelegraph

Max Kaye has launched an Australian political party that utilizes Blockchain tech; Ross Ulbricht has asked the judge of the Silk Road trials to impose the most lenient sentence possible, and more news.

Western secret agencies partnership known as the “Five Eyes” launched a surveillance unit called NTAT to spy on smartphone users as well as a major Chinese mobile web browser.

The sudden death of John Nash, an icon of 20th century mathematics, has prompted speculation about his work on the concept of “money” and his possible role in the emergence of Bitcoin.

Cointelegraph spoke to William Thomas, the founder of the UK’s recently launched CryptoMate exchange, who explained why decentralized, peer-to-peer (P2P) exchanges could be the future

The number of bitcoin merchants surpassed the 100,000 mark in 2015 and has grown across Europe and Asia due to the expansion of well-established bitcoin startups.

Weekend Roundup from Cointelegraph.

One of the driving factors behind cryptocurrency is the fact that it is decentralized, meaning that no individual or group controls it. Instead, it is controlled by everyone participating in the particular cryptocurrency’s network.

In a bold move, BitGold has just acquired Goldmoney.com for CA$51.9 million (US$42.3 million), incorporating more than 135K of the website’s “gold bugs”

Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending is positioned to reach US$77 billion this year, a 15-fold increase from 2012. It’s the fastest-growing asset in finance, claims Bloomberg

The Millennial generation is proving to be a large force behind the transformation and disruption of the banking industry.

FinTech Digest from Cointelegraph

According to the Financial Times (FT), cash transactions in the UK fell to 48% of overall payments last year, down from 52% in 2013.

The Office of the Hon Charles Mok and the Office of the Hon Kenneth Leung joined hands and organized a seminar to discuss the opportunities and regulatory challenges that are surrounding financial innovation startups.

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has described how financial regulation can prevent FinTech startups challenging the investment bank, acting as a “moat” around their business.

Five years to the day programmer Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 bitcoins for pizza, the event is being marked throughout the Bitcoin industry, drawing in the likes of Snapcard and BitPay.

BitcoinTalk has been taken offline following a social engineering attack, Streamium launched a fully decentralized paid video streaming application that uses bitcoin for payments, and more news.

BitFinex’s hot wallet has been compromised. The hack may have resulted in the loss of only 0.5% of the total funds, however, according to the exchange.

The FinTech industry has had over 45 venture capital investments, equivalent to US$3 billion in global ventures in 2013.

Bloomberg has released the latest edition in its Bloomberg Briefs series, in the form of a special report dealing solely with Bitcoin and its future.