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CEX.IO and Ghash.IO have announced several major upgrades including the ability for customers to make purchases using fiat currency for the first time.

Less than two weeks after we reported on XCurrency’s trustless mixing service, the currency’s developers on Wednesday announced plans to form a corporation, sell shares and submit its code to outsider scrutiny to see whether anyone can break through its privacy features.

Mike Hearn is one of Bitcoin’s most polarizing figures. I wanted to learn more about this core developer who has helped Bitcoin grow but still holds reservations about its future so I forwarded him a few questions. He was kind enough to respond and you can read the results below.

One of the most notorious bitcoin companies around will finally be facing legal consequences.

The excitement around PayPal’s first foray into Bitcoin via Braintree is barely over, but now the company has announced its merchants will be able to opt to accept Bitcoin as payment – from today.

Bitcoin conference “for the whole family” at Disney World Florida will play host to a one-of-a-kind event on October 5 – the world’s first blockchain marriage.

Asset management company Global Advisors announced on Monday that it had deployed its first round of client capital to buy up bitcoins for its Bitcoin investment fund:

Vietnam’s first and leading Bitcoin broker Bitcoin Vietnam Co. Ltd. announces the launch of its new ‘Bitcoin Vietnam Wallet’ functionality.

Jeremy Gardner is the cofounder and Executive Director of the College Cryptocurrency Network - an international non-profit dedicated to blockchain education, innovation, and development that has taken root at MIT and has since then grew into a global network.

Kryptokit, the Toronto based makers of the instant Bitcoin wallet “RushWallet” announced the release of a new video showcasing its newly released crowd-funding tool and demonstrating how their brainwallets can be used as both digital wallets and marketing tools.

The true innovation occurs with less competition, not more, because not all great ideas are strong right out the door.

The environmental activist group Greenpeace is accepting Bitcoin donations

Banks have suggested to the Fed that they should regulate Bitcoin, but it was the other things said during the meeting that should interest us

Cryptocurrencies have been promoted on racecars before, but never anything that moves this fast before.

On Friday, the developers of the former altcoin duckNote announced they had rebranded their coin, which is now going to be known as darkNote.

Igot.com announced on its Facebook page on September 11 that it had introduced a new bill-payment feature for users in New Zealand and Australia that would allow those customers to pay things such as rent, utility bills and council rates in bitcoin.

BBC Click releases an interview of Dark Wallet developers, a footage that raises much emotions among the community as it is broadly qualified as ‘biased’ and ‘fear mongering drivel.’

With a combination of external punitive measures and internal strife, Russian financial turmoil looks set to continue – and the mood about Bitcoin’s future role is definitively mixed.

A US Federal Judge has ruled in case is SEC v. Shavers et al, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, No. 13-00416 that the Bitcoin Savings and Trust was indeed a criminal enterprise and Shavers was guilty of running a Ponzi Scheme.

UK Bitcoin and gold exchange Netagio has confirmed its successful ISAE 3000 audit, becoming the first Bitcoin entity in the industry to achieve the distinction.

The long awaited documentary “The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin” will be premiering at the Cedar Lee Theatre in Cleveland Heights, Ohio on October 3, 2014.

The Spanish Government releases new rulings identifying Bitcoin as an electronic payment system.

Every week, Cointelegraph will do a roundup of all the businesses and the altcoins we have added during the week to our catalogs.

What does an altcoin need to survive these trying times? Sterlingcoin is betting it is merchant adoption.

Michael Jackson is an engineer, entrepreneur and investor at Mangrove Capital Partners.

Darryl is the first presidential candidate in the US to accept Bitcoin

At the age of 14, Dmitriy said he discovered the Internet. At 15, he began to earn money online by promoted the successful development of social network groups and advertising a variety of goods. At the moment, he is developing a media project called “CR! PTO Travel” and developing Android applications.

The Bitcoin Foundation has, after only two years, retained Monica Monaco to assist in establishing working relationships with political leaders in the European Union.

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The Hunt for Satoshi comic just got a big boost by what is perhaps the biggest name remaining in the Bitcoin industry.