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The closure of Mt. Gox and the investigation of its founder have turned into a national scandal involving the Japanese government after it was revealed that the defunct exchange was bankrupt six months prior to its collapse.

For outsiders, Venezuela is a big unknown. For insiders, the country is a subsidiary of economic hell. Everybody knows Venezuela’s struck with hyperinflation, but that’s like knowing someone with Ebola has a fever.

Defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox is said to have ran out of money six months before it filed for bankruptcy; an Australian government inquiry has set the stage for Bitcoin to be treated like a national or foreign currency, and news

July 31 saw participants such as the World Bank and other financial elite from Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan gather in Argentina and Brazil to witness the potential of Bitcoin and blockchain technology, particularly for the Latin American region.

One of China’s top three exchanges Huobi explains why it is looking to take bitcoin (and litecoin) trading mobile with the upgrade of its mobile app that allows users unprecedented power to trade, deposit and withdraw funds at the touch of a finger.

In 1997, an Australian teenager created one of the web’s first viable p2p programs. What happened to it can teach us a lot about emergent technologies today and where we may be going in the future.

BitDefender, an award winning internet security Software Company based in Romania has fallen victim to a data breach which leaked the company’s customer data including usernames and passwords to an anonymous hacker.

In the ongoing debate regarding Bitcoin’s block size limit, Bitcoin Core developer Pieter “sipa” Wuille has published a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) to increase the maximum block size by 17.7% per year, starting in January 2017.

Mark Karpelès is believed to have manipulated his own account on the bitcoin exchange by millions of dollars Overstock has sold a US$5 million “cryptobond” to New York-based trading firm FNY Managed Accounts, and more news

Counterparty and Dogeparty are similar protocols built on top of Bitcoin and Dogecoin blockchains, the function of which is to allow any individual user to issue his own store of value or token.

You must have at least wondered once “How does Cointelegraph do their artwork?” Surely it’s not just the Bitcoin’s sub-redditers asking. We sure get asked this a lot: think Cointelegraph, think illustrations.

As the final legal chapters close on Ross Ulbricht’s Silk Road website held within the “Dark Web”, the proliferation of many, many more dark markets is making in-ternational news.

Considering the varying patchwork of today’s global regulatory landscape regarding cryptocurrency, Bitcoin’s greatest ally will not be a judge but technological innovation that will enable it to be one step ahead of anti-competitive laws and unfriendly jurisdictions.

Sam Patterson from the OpenBazaar core team released a user interface demo prototype this week with configurations, customizations and samples.

London’s FinTech scene continues to boom as startup iwoca raises £20 Million; ING Netherlands has rolled voice-activated payments within its mobile banking app; and more news

The first live release of the Ethereum project called “Ethereum Frontier” was released this week, but leaked communications between developers suggest that the project’s future may be under question.

President Obama has released an executive order entitled “Creating a national strategic computing initiative” issuing demands to build the world’s first exascale computing system

Visa Europe’s Collab has begun searching for bitcoin startups within the digital payments scene with the hopes of creating “an Apple App Store” of Bitcoin startups.

Mark Karpeles has been under investigation by Japanese authorities since Febru-ary of 2014 and is soon expected to face charges of fraud at Mt. Gox.

The Tokyo police is reportedly charging former Mark Karpelès on suspicions of fraud; the long-awaited app network Ethereum has finally launched, and more news.

Bitcoin to Ripple gateway service btc2ripple.com has announced it is cutting service for its US customers from September.

In a crowded marketplace, businesses are developing innovative features to differentiate their offers from the rest, and attract the investment.

In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, technology consulting firm Accenture directors Owen Jelf and Sigrid Seibold argued that blockchain technology will reshape the financial sector.

A British Reddit user wishing to thank a fellow-user in the US got drunk and mistakenly bought £300 worth of pizza for strangers in the States using bitcoin.

Rick Perry says Bitcoin needs “regulatory breathing room”; George Gilder calls Bitcoin “the Gold of the Internet” and more news.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron supported the new FinTech manifesto.

A former senior White House advisor has become the latest authority to speak out in favor of Bitcoin and blockchain technology.

Benjamin Lawsky denied allegations from the Bitcoin community suggesting he created the BitLicense as a setup for his newly established legal firm, The Lawsky Group.

Funderbeam, an Estonian company that offers data-intelligence on startups for angel investors, has announced it will launch a blockchain based trading platform for startup-investment.

In another splash into the Bitcoin space for Microsoft, the tech giant’s Civic Innovation team organized a Bitcoin event in New York earlier this week.