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Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne discusses the vulnerabilities of our current financial system, and explains how “blockchain trading” could solve these flaws, at CATO Institute conference.

Despite the continuing mystery on the regulation issues that face the Bitcoin community, many businesses continue to add Bitcoin as a payment option for their customers.

New weekend roundup from Cointelegraph

In the latest Epicenter Bitcoin episode, Brian Fabian Crain and Sebastien Couture were joined by Arianna Simpson, an Account Specialist at BitGo. A pioneer in multi-signature hierarchical deterministic wallets, BitGo develops enterprise-grade software, which it describes as “The World’s Most Secure Wallet.” Their web-based multi-sig wallet is also available for free for individuals.

John Bush and Catherine Bleish were traveling in Los Angeles, on the 10th day of their second all-Bitcoin road trip, when I spoke with them on November 19.

Uwe Cerron, Irvin Steve Cardenas, Juan Daniel Alvarado, and Daniel Doherty, a fourth student from another college, came together to become finalists in the Citi Mobile Challenge, a global competition that invited developers to reimagine digital banking and present solutions.

Tether, a new private beta that opened this week, is designed to allow Bitcoin users to interact with fiat currencies in a way that is revolutionary.

Anyone who thinks that social media is free has never been on Facebook. Sure, you can post pictures of your cats and argue with strangers without opening your wallet, but you still pay by opening up your life

Halsey Minor was worth Billions after founding C|Net and investing in SalesForce, but he went broke after the 2008 banking crisis. Now he is back. He wants to fix Bitcoin’s volatility problem, but he could end up doing much more.

The Digital Currency Council’s recently released study on UK citizens reveals that Bitcoin’s biggest challenges are around adoption and communications, and that digital currencies have got a persistent reputation problem.

Entertainment news is buzzing with reports of Taylor Swift’s controversial decision to pull her music from online streaming site Spotify. We have reached a tipping point where artists are beginning to rebel against both legal and illegal downloading and the resulting shrink of their bank balances.

Hong Kong based exchange ANX has announced its acquisition of Norwegian exchange Justcoin, expanding its presence in the European Bitcoin market.

Bitcoin.info has officially announced its launch in a move to improve the way Bitcoin’s price is determined.

Coinbase announced a handful of nifty partnerships and tools over the past couple days.

Bitcoin continues its publicity bull run in Finland, with the Pirate Party of Finland announcing it is accepting Bitcoin donations in the run-up to the 2015 general election.

The days of Mt. Gox are long behind us, and with the slaying of the giant, there was plenty of room for competitors to fill the void and spread the wealth. The scope is brought home when you see the Global Price Index by BraveNewCoin is being comprised from 60 of the world’s most liquid Bitcoin exchanges.

Hong Kong-based Bitspark has just announced the world’s first end-to-end cash remittance service that’s transferred via Bitcoin using ReBit. The service caters to Hong Kong’s large population of Filipinos who regularly use services like Western Union and Money Gram to send funds back to the Philippines.

The American city of Detroit has been suffering serious financial problems for a number of years, and now it seems to be under attack by cybercriminals, as well.

Going only by the name Richard, a computer science student attending Mount Royal University in Canada has launched FlixForCoins.

Joseph attends meetups in London and hosted the city’s first-ever Dogecoin meetup and party.

There are three problems that surround this debate, and each problem comes from a different group:

Australia headquartered Bitcoin exchange Igot, experiencing rapid growth, planning to launch in Saudi Arabia and Egypt in December.

Cointelegraph and ShapeShift have launched a competition for the best anecdotal banking horror stories – it’s your chance to vent your anger and win 3BTC into the bargain!

Vitalik Buterin has been awarded the prestigious IT software prize at the 2014 World Technology Awards, beating out the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and others.

It would be difficult to find a nonpolitician to agree that the United States has anything close to a functional Congress. The conservative wave that seems to be sweeping the United States political world actually does little to defend an entity that does not contribute heavily to its political ambitions. The new Congress, now completely controlled by conservatives, seems to be bent on continuing its attacks on regular citizens with this suggested new proposed legislation that would ban gambling on the internet.

Software provider AlphaPoint could very well be the most important Bitcoin company you’ve never heard of. After first making waves with the announcement of US$1.35 million in funding raised via VC firms and angel investors, they followed up by partnering with Bitfinex to run the Hong Kong-based exchange’s back-end technology.

Bitcoin hardware wallets are an area of digital currency security still very much in its experimental phase. Developers are striving to offer the most advanced security features in the most accessible way possible, but the complexity of the undertaking often results in misunderstandings on the part of the consumer.

Canada-based DailyDealy is kind of like Groupon, but the deals aren’t city-specific and don’t require a threshold of buyers for the “deal” to go through. As of November 1, 2014 they have been accepting Bitcoin for all the products they offer: electronics, housewares, gadgetry, apparel and jewelry.

The struggle between US regulatory agencies about who can act in cases involving Bitcoin continues as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, an independent United States Federal agency determined that it has enforcement powers against price manipulation in Bitcoin markets.

Philippe Lemoine reveals his report on ‘The Digital Transformation of the French Economy’ where he suggests as much as 180 proposals in order to shake up France’s technology sector, among which figures the need of developing a secure, cost-effective and anonymous payment solution based on the blockchain technology.