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Synereo, a next generation decentralized and distributed social network, will commence its crowdsale of AMPS on March 23, 2015 at 8:00 PM GMT.

Brazillian Bitcoiner will attempt to place the BTC flag at the Everest base-camp; the 50th Bitcoin obituary has been recorded in the press; Koinify teams up with Clef for a new form of secure 2FA and other top stories for March 23.

Antiwar.com, an alternative media organization that has been covering war crimes and American interventionism for over a decade, was recently dropped by Google adsense. The context advertising service claims Antiwar.com has displayed content that was “too gory.”

Bitt, the Caribbean’s first bitcoin exchange company, is looking to provide more efficient and cost-effective payment solutions to the region’s locals.

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Fresh Bitcoin start-up Zebpay recently held their launch event called “The Future of Money” in Ahmedabad on March 19, 2015.

Bitcoin and the Indian market being a rare combination, especially after early central bank dis-approval makes Sunny Ray and Sathvik Vishwanath, the co-founders of Unocoin, amongst the few in the league of Bitcoin entrepreneurs in India.

Even the contact information listed for MasterCard in their annual SEC report seems old-fashioned.

South Korea’s development during the last half century has been nothing short of spectacular.

Intel has posted a job announcement for a new researcher to join its special innovation projects group to investigate decentralized ledgers, Ukraine will block the Bitcoin accounts of separatists in the country’s east, and more top stories for March 20.

ChangeTip, the crypto-coin micropayment service that allows users to send tips across the internet is coming to Twitch.tv, the San Francisco-based company announced in a press release.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently surveyed its readers on what they thought of Bitcoin. The survey came after a WSJ MoneyBeat poll revealed that 83 % of respondents believed “there is a future for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.”

Ukraine will block the Bitcoin accounts of “separatists” in the country’s east. Such was the statement of the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Valentyn Nalyvaychenko.

The rise of online drug markets have led to a new form of drug dealing. Rather than gravitating to dark alleyways, dealing can now be done sitting in bed in one’s underwear. That doesn’t mean drug dealing is any less of a risky businesses though. People get cheated all the time. Case in point: on Tuesday, leaders of Evolution, one of the largest online drug markets, shuttered the drug market and ran off with all user funds.

Ledgers of information shower us with examples from the past. The Bitcoin blockchain is no different. Indeed, it shares many parallels with both the printing press and the Babylonian cuneiform. When we study these artifacts, we can get a glimpse of what Bitcoin as an information technology will bring.

Juniter’s prediction of 5 million Bitcoin users by 2019 sounds lackluster, but if current activity in Africa is sustained, it could also be proven meaningless.

Christopher Ellis sits down with Cointelegraph for an in-depth interview on ProTip, the present and future of Independent media and more.

A week ago, many Bitcoin enthusiasts were watching and waiting for the cryptocurrency to once again cross the US$300 per BTC price point. 7 days later, and price is down to as low as US$250.

Airbitz has developed a way to make two-factor authentication (2FA) “dirt simple” for everyone. The mobile wallet provider has invented a one-step process that merges the functionality of an app like Google Authenticator directly into their Bitcoin wallet.

Ex-Chief of the Department of Justice joins BitFury’s strategic advisory board. Austrians able to anonymously buy bitcoins at local tobacco kiosks after Coinfinity deal with Trafik. 18,500 BTC stolen on average every month since 2011 research shows, and much more news that happened on 18 March.

Edward Snowden calls on tech companies to come up with encryption solutions that can secure communication from end to end. Mr. Snowden is the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a massive of US classified information making worldwide headlines and is currently wanted by the US government.

150 BTC, worth around 41,300 USD, was stolen from Coinapult’s hot wallet March 17. Coinapult announced the compromise via its Twitter account, and warned customers not to send Bitcoin to existing Coinapult addresses.

The UK government announced a US$14.6 million research fund to look into opportunities in digital currencies.

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne is expected to announce the government’s digital currency plans following the new budget.

Facebook Messenger adds a new payment feature, Coinapult gets hacked for 150 BTC, MGT Capital Investments suspends merger discussions with Tera Group, ‘Evolution’ Dark Net marketplace turned out to be a scam, and more top stories that happened on March 18.

Whether you live in a sizeable city or just visit one occasionally, you may wonder about the local Bitcoin scene. There are five reliable metrics for teasing out the crypto action anywhere you are.

Without a doubt, mobile payment is hot topic these days. Google, Facebook, Apple, Samsung, are only a few that have stepped into the mobile payment battle, determined to create the next killer mobile wallet and payment system.

Synereo, a next generation decentralized and distributed social network, has released its whitepaper in which it reveals in great detail how the technology and network model work.

Visual cryptocurrency reference service MapofCoins has announced updates to its site to improve usability and the power of its unique coin mapping system.

Japan’s largest Internet company Rakuten Inc. has started to accept Bitcoin as a payment option on its American portal Rakuten.com, MasterCard describes cryptocurrencies as an innovative competitor, and more top stories for March 17.