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It’s getting easier and easier to pay your day-to-day expenses in cryptocurrency. Now you can add to the list gas, electric, cable, and cell phone bills.

Leading global bank Citi has called on the government of the United Kingdom (UK) to adopt a digital form of legal tender to reduce the cost of moving money, increase consumer spending and add greater liquidity to the market.

Benjamin Lawsky is leaving New York’s Department of Financial Service, five banks to pay US$5.6 billion fine for rigging markets, and more top stories for May 21.

Philippines-based bitcoin exchange Coinage has graduated from the Boost VC accelerator program in Silicon Valley

Elliptic, an enterprise services company focusing on digital currency, has announced a new partnership with Bitcoin API developer Gem.

Coinapult partners with Crypto Capital to reopen in the U.S., meeting state financial regulations.

If you add microfinancing, you are reaching anyone with a [friggin’] cell phone who wants a [friggin’] loan.”

Overstock takes steps toward issuing blockchain-secured stocks by purchasing a 25% stake in trading firm Pro Securities.

No sane person can deny the many benefits of cryptocurrency compared to fiat, and certainly the government can’t deny them, either. The age of e-money seems to be taking off.

There’s a business opportunity gleaming in the Indian market, perfectly ripe for ecommerce disruption.

The Europas – the European tech startup awards - has announced a “Best Crypto Currency Startup” category for the second year running with the winners being chosen by a panel of industry voters and judges.

Overstock buys a 25% stake into PRO Securities, the New York Stock Exchange launches a BTC pricing index, MasterCard deploys new P2P money transfer service in the U.S., and more news

MasterCard has announced a “P2P” debit card-based remittance system which it says customers will find “more appealing” than the Bitcoin protocol.

Berlin-based production company Bitfilm released a teaser and launched a three-tiered funding campaign on May 14 for the first feature-length, Bitcoin-inspired fiction film, called Satoshi’s Last Will.

Bitcoin Shop, Inc. (BTCS), a U.S.-based bitcoin transaction verification service, announced it has invested US$1.5M into Israeli digital currency server manufacturer Spondoolies-Tech

Abigail Scarlett, a photographer from London, has been making headlines for a recent challenge she’s plunged herself into, to sell her photography and photo shoots for only Bitcoin

Ripple Labs raised a US$28 million series A funding round, Ross Ulbricht’s defense urges judge in Silk Road case to consider the dark market’s potential for harm reduction, and more news.

NordOvest Energie, a Turin-based utility company that supplies electricity and gas to Italian households and companies, has partnered with local startup Tinkl.it to enable consumers to pay their bills with bitcoins.

The most secretive startup in cryptocurrency, 21 Inc., has finally come out of the shadows, announcing intentions to facilitate a rollout of Bitcoin mining chips to a wave of consumer devices.

One and a half months after launch, NEM (New Economy Movement), has open-sourced their project and released their technical reference.

A North Carolina convenience store owner whose entire savings were mistakenly seized by the US Internal Revenue Service in July 2014 has finally won the right for the US$107,000 to be repaid to him.

Bitcoin payments startup Yellow has launched a bitcoin voucher service in Egypt, as an alternative solution for “costly and inconvenient” payment platforms.

XBT Provider has issued the world’s first bitcoin tracker to be used on a regulated exchange; Mexican Bitcoin Exchange Volabit launches ‘Whatsapp Personal Assistant’ and more news

Are you building a decentralized app (Dapp)? If so, the Corona Dapp Network wants to help!

Bitcoin Price Analysis from Cointelegraph

The government of Honduras will partner with Houston-based Bitcoin 2.0 startups Factom and Epigraph to build a land registry database for the Central American nation using the Bitcoin blockchain.

A week after the announcement by the Central Bank of Denmark to abolish the printing of cash by 2016

Weekend Roundup from Cointelegraph

There are the Bitcoin pics that make news headlines, and then there are the Bitcoin pics that make the social rounds.

More than half a year ago, I became the first citizen on the blockchain, which was the second pilot project of Bitcoin 2.0 platform Bitnation.