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Bitpay Blog seems to be blocked by at least on Latvian ISP, but no one seems to know why.

Alternet Systems Inc. announced a new strategic partnership with BitPay, one of the world’s leaders in business solutions for Bitcoin and digital currencies.

Chamber of Digital Commerce is announcing that they are the first benefactors of Overstock’s commitment to spend 4 % of its Bitcoin revenue on increasing adoption of the digital currency.

Andreas M Antonopoulos joining the Board at Blockchain

As Singapore is emerging as a regional Bitcoin hub and attracting more and more venture capital investments from the West, its neighbors, Indonesia and the Philippines, are following the city-state’s pace and initiating ambitious projects striving to bring Bitcoin to the locals.

After the August Trading challenge was a smashing success, the crypto-currency derivatives exchange BitMEX has just started round two, with the winner taking home two bitcoins just for trying out the system.

Sweden’s Bitcoin Party (“Bitcoinpartiet”) has published its election manifesto for what it aims to achieve in Sweden’s general election on September 14.

DigitalTangible in a partnership with dealer Amagi Metals, who recently made headlines with their announcement to eventually stop accepting USD as payment for precious metals, are introducing a marketplace that will allow investors to exchange bitcoins for gold in real time.

r/Rad_Decentralization is hosting a Strojcoin X giveaway right now that is available to anyone with a relatively active Reddit account.

Swiss doctoral students released an open source tool that relaxes mobile payment process. The mobile payment wallet can still be useful when one user has a patchy Internet connection.

An untouchable Internet-based market is on the verge of release. OpenBazaar, once just a proof-of-concept for a decentralized marketplace run on Bitcoin, entered beta 1.0 Tuesday morning.

Fran Strajnar is a serial-entrepreneur, he is also the founder of bravenewcoin.com, additionally, Fran is the organizer of Bitcoin South, the first ever Cryptocurrency conference in New Zealand slated for November 29-30.

In a recent interview with Success Council, Bitcoin core developer Mike Hearn expressed misgivings about the currency’s stability – but they’re not cutting much ice in community, it seems.

Believe it or not, there’s a way to avoid using a paper wallet by using one of the most conventional means of diffusing information – sound.

In cooperation with Hong Kong cryptocurrency startup incubator Seedcoin, Jetcoin will sponsor Italian Serie A club A.C. ChievoVerona, making it the first pro football team to be sponsored by a cryptocurrency.

Several members of the community are accusing CoIntellect.com of being a scam, based on a series of evidences that should attest so.

Bitcoin has gained tremendous popularity in the last year, and it’s safe to say that it has become one of the world’s most convenient ways of buying, selling and trading things over the internet.

Since it implemented its Bitcoin payment option in November 2013, payroll firm Wagepoint says there are a growing number of workers dishing Canadian dollars for bitcoins.

Nigeria is moving to a MasterCard sponsored National Electronic ID Card that opens up financial institutions to the unbanked, but is it really a good thing?

ProtocolTV has released a trailer for its already completed Bitcoin documentary, Bitcoin: Buenos Aires which focuses on Bitcoin’s rise in Argentina’s capital city.

According to Bitcoin ATM Map, a website providing a service that tracks Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency ATMS around the world, there are 208 Bitcoin ATMS operating on six continents.

XCurrency on its own is an exciting technology for many people (as the nearly 1,200 pages on its Bitcointalk.org thread demonstrate), so CT reached out to the team’s lead developer, Dan Metcalf, to get a better understanding what XCurrency was poised to create.

Congressional Bitcoin Education Day was this past Friday in Washington D.C. but the important question needs to be asked, did it accomplish anything?

Apple’s widely-expected announcement of mobile payments technology is a step closer to confirmation, but once it debuts, just how flexible will the advancement actually turn out?

In February, Finnish silver investor and Bitcoin millionaire Risto Pietilä, purchased Malla Manor, a 600-year-old castle located in North Estonia. 6 months after, the Bitcoin entrepreneur talks of the reasons that lead him to such an unusual project.

Can the Average Person Use Bitcoin?

Bitcoin has come a long way. Decentralized currency is still largely stigmatized and rarely fails to confuse beginners. But interest has expanded quite a bit since it only touched the radar of skeptical cryptography mailing list readers.

When we hear about the early development of Bitcoin we usually think of Satoshi Nakamoto. But the truth is that no one really knows who Nakamoto is but we do know who Hal Finney is and how much he meant to the development of Bitcoin.

Jad Mubaslat is a senior student in biomedical engineering and avid entrepreneur based in Colombus, Ohio. He founded BitQuick, an over-the-counter (OTC) Bitcoin trading platform in February 2013.

U.S. v. Faiella, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 14-cr-00243, which involved two defendants, Robert Faiella and Charlie Shrem, was at least halfway settled on Friday when Charlie Shrem agreed to a plea deal with US prosecutors.