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Reports are emerging of Chinese Bitcoin exchange 796 mistakenly losing 1000BTC of customer funds in a botched customer service request.

Bitcoin Fun Fair is not your typical Bitcoin meetup or conference event where businesses and experts talk, “network” and exchange business cards.

In the wake of Coinbase unveiling the US’s first licensed Bitcoin exchange, across the water in the UK, another operation is adopting a different, but no less official, approach.

Charlie Shrem accuses Mark Karpeles of not having cared about Mt. Gox’s users, and calls the former digital currency exchange a ponzi scheme.

TipUp.me, a new service allowing users to top-up their ChangeTip accounts using credit or debit card, is surfing on the popular tipping movement to boost mainstream adoption.

Coin Loft finds a workaround to an Australian GST law that had previously meant a tax was applied to the total value of bitcoin exchanges in the country.

New global Bitcoin ATM installations appear to have tapered off slightly since the beginning of the New Year.

Bitcoin trader Burton Wagner has been arrested and may face 5 years in prison for his money transmitting activities dating back to 2012.

Ripple Labs, the creator and developer of the Ripple payment protocol and exchange network, will soon be closing a US$30 million Series A funding round.

One of those sites, Oldpiratebay.org, was launched by the ever-popular ISOhunt team.

Coinding is launching a hackathon contest that focuses on putting Bitcoin into gaming.

Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange Cryptosigma has developed multi-signature desktop and mobile wallets that are set to ease users’ fears common at this stage of development in cryptocurrency. Many customers are still hesitant to use bitcoins because they are afraid of losing out on transaction fees and price fluctuations while selling in and out of the still-volatile digital money.

DarkWallet is inching another step closer to its first beta version, as it has released its eighth and – probably - final alpha version this past week. Most notably, this newest edition of the anonymizing Bitcoin wallet software includes the option to withdraw cash from thousands of ATM’s throughout Spain.

Bitcoin Analysis from Cointelegraph.

The price of a Bitcoin is trending upwards once again in light of an announcement by US-based processor Coinbase that it will launch the first licensed Bitcoin exchange today.

So you want a job in Bitcoin? Or Dogecoin or Darkcoin or ATOMIC? Disclosure: as someone who has a job in cryptocurrency, I give you my congratulations. Joining the future sooner than later is a smart move, not to mention a thrill.

This past Thanksgiving, our family put the Bitcoin-travel economy to the test. We spent three weeks living on bitcoin only, as we explored ten states in our family minivan.

Following this week’s announcement of Paymium’s partnership with leading POS payment terminals manufacturer Ingenico Group, Paymium CEO and co-founder Gonzague Grandval, said similar initiatives and partnerships are expected to occur during the year, in order to consolidate Paymium’s position as a European leader in the Bitcoin industry.

Bitcoin Weekend Roundup from Cointelegraph.

ziftrCOIN enters the final few hours of a presale round that ends tonight at midnight GMT.

Earlier this month, Cointelegraph readers voted to choose the people, places and companies who deserved the most recognition for their achievements in our 2014 Bitcoin Industry Awards. After the votes were counted, I reached out for comments and gathered facts about the year’s highest achievers.

As predicted, 2015 has seen the continued fall in value of the currency that was supposed to fuel an advanced economy. In the last 3 days alone, it has lost 12% in value against Bitcoin.

As sittings on the Silk Road trial entered the second week, federal prosecutors presented a pile of evidence detailing the early days of the iconic digital black market.

CoinFire’s executive editor announced just after 2 p.m. EST on Friday that the site’s domain “was stolen” and that the team was trying to get it back.

BitPay—one of, if not the world’s largest Bitcoin payment processor—is heading to Capitol Hill with the Treasury Department in its sights.

Ripple has added Gene Sperling to their Board of Directors, according to a press release emailed to Cointelegraph by Ripplelabs.

NXT’s subreddit was graced recently with a pitch that few entrepreneurs would turn down.

Bitspark Limited, a digital currency startup based in Hong Kong, announces a partnership with Indonesian startup PT ArtaBit Indonesia to enable end-to-end remittance services from Hong Kong to Indonesia, targeting the 165,000 overseas Indonesian workers present in the city-state who commonly send funds to their families and loved ones.

The speculation about the Swiss National Bank (SNB) knowing something when they de-pegged the Swiss Franc from the Euro proved true today as the European Central Bank (ECB) launched its own QE today in the form of a 1 trillion euro government bond buying program.

Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has long criticized Wall Street, calling the system “rigged.” He announced at Inside Bitcoins in Las Vegas that he was going to do something about it.