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Missed anything from the cryptospace? MadBitcoins and Cointelegraph present the top stories from last week in a way which is sure to stick in your head.

Or did you ever pay a babysitter, yard raker, or house cleaner without handing them tax paperwork along with the cash?

At the end of October, Cointelegraph spoke to Sandeep Goenka, a co-founder of Indian Bitcoin startup Zebpay, about his team’s plans after taking home top prize in the CoinAgenda conference’s startup competition.

Popular wallet and online payment platform Coinbase has raised US$75 million in a series C funding round.

Messaging app SendChat, aims to boost mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies by allowing users to send and receive Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Darkcoin and Sendcoin - its own cryptocurrency - in a seamless manner.

Bitcoin Analysis from Cointelegraph.

While in Amsterdam during my vacation in Holland, I did not miss the opportunity to visit almost every local Bitcoin-friendly business participating in the Bitstraat program in the city.

UK-based Bitcoin exchange Netagio, announces the launch of its credit and debit card payment options for trading accounts, enabling users to deposit funds using their Visa, Visa Electron, Visa Debit, MarterCard, MasterCard Debit, or Maestro cards, and trade them in exchange for bitcoins.

A newly released U.S. government study called encryption vital to protecting personal data, according to The Guardian. The leak comes hot on the heels of UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s anti-encryption comments.

The Bitcoin Embassy in Amsterdam opened its doors just last month on December 12, 2014, and it is already hosting regular events for such companies as OpenBazaar and BitPay, as well as organizing social get-togethers several times a week.

Bitcoin trading platform Bitfinex announces the availability of Tether, a token backed 1-to-1 by its corresponding fiat currency withdrawal and deposit method, for verified users.

Bitcoin Weekend Roundup from Cointelegraph.

It’s a new year and a new crop of obituaries for bitcoin, following a dramatic price decrease over a 48-hour period starting in the wee hours of January 13, almost immediately following a dire warning by ex-Wall Streeter George Samman in this very publication a few days earlier predicting such a collapse was necessary to find the bottom of the current bear market and that the recent price declines were far too orderly.

This article will explore 2 questions: Has bitcoin bottomed yet? And, what does the aftermath of major bubbles bursting look like and its implications for price?

Paul Koster, Director of the Netherlands Stockholder’s Association (Vereniging van Effectenbezitters), went on a rant against Bitcoin in a January 15 article calling for the Central Bank to completely ban the cryptocurrency.

It is one day before TNABC kicks off officially and some major changes have just been announced.

BlockCypher, a blockchain web services company, has announced closure on a US$3.1M seed-funding round.

Bitcoin value in USD took a nosedive over the first couple weeks of 2015. The price dipped well under US$200 earlier this week but is back over that mark at the time of writing.

Andreas Antonopoulos is a Bitcoin expert, host of Let’s Talk Bitcoin and author of Mastering Bitcoin. The charismatic thought leader is known for his testimony at the Canadian Senate Hearing and for delivering a phenomenal introduction to Bitcoin.

Oftentimes in sports, the competition is so fierce that the tiniest advantage decides who’s victorious.

The number two spot for the most hated man in Bitcoin has changed a lot. Currently, it might just be Josh Garza as many PayCoin investors are not happy with the results of that investment. For a while it was Butterfly Labs CEO Sonny Vleisides, and for a while it was that NewsWeek reporter. But the number one spot has never been up for debate. It has been and may always be, former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles. Losing or stealing 300 million dollars worth of Bitcoin will do that to you.

The European Union introduced legislation in November 2014 that implemented a new Value Added Tax (VAT) to virtual purchases.

The website DNAinfo ran a story on January 13 about a murder in NYC with the headline “Bitcoin Trader Accused of Murder.”

South Korean exchange Coinplug is set to drive a rollout of Bitcoin gift cards, which anyone will be able to purchase from convenience stores imminently.

At the start of the New Year, we reported that ChangeTip was adding Facebook and Slack integration. The Facebook integration was already there for some users, but Slack had not yet been rolled out to the public.

Mining is going through some changes, that much is clear. The increasing difficulty, along with the low price of Bitcoin, is causing all sorts of interesting news events. The next step might not simply be more hashing power, but using that power more effectively. Tools, rather than brute strength, may be where we see the next big growth.

In a less than graceful tweet, Jeffrey Smith, the CIO of CEX.io, announced that the company would be pausing mining for its users.

Bitcoin OTC trading platform BitQuick, announces the integration of pay-to-script-hash (P2SH) multisignature addresses through BitGo to increase security of customer funds.

Tuesday, the Brookings Institution slipped in a blog post that compared Bitcoin to the Internet.

A few days ago bitcoin reached the Denial phase of the famous cycle, now it appears to be at a point of Fear and Desperation going into Panic.