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Embattled CEO of GAWminers and PayBase, Josh Garza, has helped launch a new wallet and exchange service while relocating operations to Hong Kong.

In light of a sudden “executive order” issued by Barack Obama in America, many Bitcoin redditors surmised that it’s now illegal to donate money to people like Edward Snowden.

The Swiss banking giant UBS is about to dip its toe further into cryptocurrency related technology. The bank will open a blockchain research lab in London later this month.

A little more than a week after release of NeuCoin’s technical whitepaper, an intense debate been sparked between the proponents of the two main crypto technologies, proof-of-work (PoW) and proof-of-stake (PoS).

Cointelegraph is proud to announce the launch of our new regional website in the Czech Republic.

Next-generation decentralized social network Synereo has announced its partnership and integration with US social communications platform Splicious following the unveiling of its first tech demo.

The proposed law to ban Bitcoin in Russia is expected to be passed in August of this year, as a crypto-legal expert recommends businesses “get out of Russian jurisdiction.”

Shaun Bridges, the secret agent charged with extorting bitcoins during the Silk Road investigation, is also suspected with targeting Bitcoin Shop “for personal gain.”

Leading Swiss bank UBS has announced that it will open up a lab to study blockchain technology in London; Bitcoin April Fools Day Joke roundup; and more top stories for April 2.

Bit-X Financial Corp. announced today it has concluded an agreement ANX to develop a white-label digital currency exchange based on ANXPRO’s trading platform.

An executive order signed by President Barack Obama has enabled US authorities to become the first to confiscate cryptocurrency holdings without warning.

ChangeTip just announced a product called ChangeTip SCAN that offers a new way for people to convert dollars to Bitcoin.

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Symbiont.io has bridged the gap between Bitcoin and Ripple by introducing a Ripple gateway for Counterparty.

Crypto underwriters Lamb&Cooper are exploring a new era of game development and funding.

With bitcoin’s price volatility causing a lot of cryptocurrency start-ups to pivot, the world’s leading bitcoin processor BitPay has already jumped the gun ahead of its competitors and launched a new and controversial move into the bitcoin mining space.

Ben Lawsly retracts BitLicense, North Korea launches “KimCoin,” ShapeShift Integrates Winklecoin, Bitcoin creator unveils real identity, and more top stories that happened on April 1.

From Canada to Hong Kong to Spain, this past week saw multiple Mycelium Entropy devices arrive to their new owners in a less-than-shiny condition.

After a year in the making, the cryptocurrency NEM (New Economy Movement) has officially been launched. Cointelegraph had the chance to site down and discuss the ambitious project with one of the lead developers, Makoto, to find out more.

For the past couple of days, a proposal for a new kind of fully decentralized and potentially anonymous digital dark market has been circulating the Cryptography mailing list – the mailing list used by Satoshi Nakamoto to first publish the Bitcoin white paper.

Cryptostorm, the VPN (virtual private network) service providers, revealed to Cointelegraph that they’ve been using Bitcoin and Namecoin to power their portal to the Darknet for months, announcing native access to Tor, I2P and .bit websites.

Cointelegraph is partnering with not one but two blockchain services by revered crypto 2.0 startup CoinDaddy. Together, these tools bring enhanced opportunities to both readers and advertisers alike courtesy of the Cointelegraph Media Group.

The task force DEA agent who worked on the Silk Road case allegedly extorted hundreds of thousands of dollars from Ulbricht, two-thirds of bitcoins have now been mined and more top stories for March 31.

Following Ross Ulbricht’s Silk Road conviction, extraordinary details have emerged about two of the investigating federal agents charged with extortion, fraud, and theft of bitcoins from the marketplace.

Popular social network Reddit, has been requested, by subpoena, to hand over personal data of five users linked to Evolution, a dark net marketplace that vanished with millions of dollars worth of bitcoins belonging to users. The writ order suggests that the apparent scam might be the target of a federal investigation.

In its most concrete investigation into emerging technology so far, IBM has announced it will spend up to US$3 billion in a specialist unit revolving around the Internet of Things.

ZapGo aims to revolutionize how young South Africans spend their cash online. The new mobile money start-up by South Africans Michail Brynard and Helghardt Avenant (currently halfway through the Boost VC accelerator program in Silicon Valley), uses the Bitcoin network as the underlying mechanism to transfer value.

iNation and the International Bitcoin Real Estate Association (IBREA) are joining forces to allow real estate deeds to be copied to the blockchain in full for backup and storage.

In the latest hurdle to beset the cryptocurrency sphere in Australia, a new government tax paper has listed Bitcoin among the methods which make it difficult for authorities to track tax avoidance.

The United States SOCOM has outlined how it views Bitcoin, admitting to monitoring and tracking transactions. A proposal for a decentralized local dark market has been published aiming to use the blockchain itself to share offers and requests for purchases. T-Mobile Poland installs its own BTM and much more news for March 30.