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Every major global currency is down against the US dollar for the past 200 days. This has been intentionally engineered by central banks and governments in order to stimulate their weak economies by devaluing their currencies in order to become competitive in global trade.

When it comes to Bitcoin regulation, Africa is uncharted territory. Indeed, none of the 54 African countries makes it to any of the legality-of-bitcoin-by-country lists found online.

Factom and Tether enter into a partnership to share each other’s Bitcoin 2.0 tech, Reddit announces that its merchandise store is now accepting bitcoin, and more top stories for March 10.

Surreptitious mining ware planted on user PCs by torrent site uTorrent has created a backlash and could even be behind this week’s 3000% increase in Bitcoin Wikipedia requests.

The Walker Sands 2015 Future of Retail survey of 1,400 online consumers across the United States found that study participants consider mobile wallets and applications the least secure form of payment, ranking behind personal checks and cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

A group of six researchers from the City University of New York, Princeton University and Stanford University, released a paper on March 8, introducing the first threshold signature scheme compatible with Bitcoin’s ECDSA signatures.

Nowadays, we deal with computer networks all the time. We chat and talk on networks. We get in-formation on networks and we spend our free time on networks. Perhaps we even get our food from networks. Not only do we use these networks, but we have come to fully rely on them. It’s getting tough to live these days without an internet connection and a mobile phone and at the same time these networks are becoming an integral part of our lives.

Even though we may make the argument bitcoin is a poor store of wealth, as some have recently contested, could it simultaneously be a valid hedge against economic uncertainty?

With a service based around the idea earning Bitcoins by telling new people about the world of digital currency, Share The Bitcoin has been expanding the user base of Bitcoin itself since its arrival in 2014.

µTorrent has pulled a controversial LiteCoin mining program from its latest update to the popular torrenting client in face of strong protests. 10,000 Spanish ATMs will now pay out Euros in exchange for Bitcoin following a partnership with BTCPoint. MIT Bitcoin Expo wraps up with glimpse of the future over discussion of threshold signatures, and other top stories for March 9.

A bill aimed at getting the state of Utah to accept bitcoin for states services passes its first reading in the Senate. The bill has now passed its first Senate reading having already passed through the House of Representatives with a slim majority of 38 Yes votes against 36 No’s.

Bitcoin Price Analysis: Week of Mar 9

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In the chatter about the “decentralization of all the things,” one hears about many exciting ideas: self-owning cars, peer-to-peer lending networks, and even mesh nets. The demands for replacements of existing centralized systems grows stronger by the day.

March 8 is synonymous around the world as International Women’s Day, and as of 2015 cryptocurrency now has its own version, Bitcoin Women’s Day, with sponsorship from major players including BitPay and the Bitcoin Foundation.

Miles Kimball, who is a Professor of Economics and Survey Research at the University of Michigan tells Cointelegraph about negative interest rates, the future of paper and electronic money, and how cryptocurrrency fits in.

There is an old joke to the effect that you will always know a Kenyan in a foreign city because the first thing they will ask right at the airport is where they can find an M-Pesa agent in town. Of course, this is an exaggeration, but it goes to show how the service is entrenched in Kenyan society.

A group of researchers in miTLS team have found a new vulnerability in the SSL/TLS protocol. This vulnerability is called FREAK, and it concerns Apple and Android users. The remedy has not been found yet, but decentralized networks on the blockchain model could prevent similar cyber security attacks in the future.

Abine and Coinbase are using Blur to give Bitcoin users the ability to shop anywhere MasterCard is accepted. The service also comes with enhanced privacy tools.

Cointelegraph spoke to Miranda about his plans for the newly launched exchange, Bitcoin’s “untapped potential” in Latin America, and the increasing popularity of BTC in the world’s 7th largest economy, Brazil.

The US Marshals Service announced that 14 bidders participated in yesterday’s auction of 50,000 BTC, a university study suggests that most BTC miners lose money, and more top-stories for March 6.

Hong Kong police arrested five suspects on Thursday, March 5 in connection to the MyCoin alleged Bitcoin scam. Authorities are still searching for the directors and shareholders of the investment company involved in the case.

The past couple of weeks have seen some interesting statements made regarding Bitcoin and terrorism. And no, it wasn’t another hilarious attempt by Haaretz News to paint Bitcoin as a terrorist’s favorite Internet app (though if it were, is that really a problem? Must orange juice be damned if a terrorist drinks it, too?).

Toronto’s Decentral is moving its meetups to MaRS incubator as their partner in their new Fintech branch. Andreas Antonopoulos is scheduled to keynote at the inauguration event on March 17.

Chinese lawmakers have delivered long-awaited clarification on foreign tax policy, leading to speculation that further concrete financial statements and possible clarification of its stance on Bitcoin could be imminent.

Japanese startup Tech Bureau Inc. launches a new cryptocurrency exchange, dubbed Zaif exchange, supporting Bitcoin as well as the “Japanese Dogecoin,” Monacoin, in a bid to become “the hub that connects Japan to the global cryptocurrency market.”

The teenage co-founder of an Arabic language cryptocurrency exchange and editor at Coin Brief has been arrested over a suspected link to assisting a man travelling to fight alongside ISIS. Ross Ulbricht’s seized coins will be up for auction today and other top stories for March 5.

Blizzard, one of the biggest game producers, announced the release of an in-game digital currency tradable as tokens in their upcoming patch of World of Warcraft.

Taking their lead from a group of Bitcoin enthusiast customers and a “serious, public conversation” on Facebook, Europe’s military surplus giant, Varusteleka, now accepts bitcoin payments.

On March 23-25, 2015, over 300 decision-makers including banks, mobile network operators, merchants and regulators will gather from across the American continents to share strategy and insight at the 6th annual outing of the thought-leading Mobile Money & Digital Payments Americas 2015 Conference and Expo.