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The usual weekly series will still be out this weekend, but movements over the last few days warranted some attention.

While Bitcoin can be used by almost everyone to buy almost anything online, we were interested in discovering which countries are the most accommodating when it comes to locations where people can spend Bitcoin.

A new advocacy group seeking to be the great mediator in the world of Bitcoin regulation officially launched yesterday – but what could this really mean for the currency?

On Wednesday, Roger Ver announced the launch of a new project, BitcoinBountyHunter.com, a site that rewards people with anonymous bitcoin bounties if they can prove they have submitted evidence that leads to the conviction of wanted criminals.

Much time has passed, and finally, XCurrency has released the final component of its privacy-centric payments solution: trustless ad hoc mesh networking.

Luxembourg-based Bitcoin startup CoinPlus raises €172,500 in a first round of funding, and waits to meet with Luxembourg’s financial regulator at the end of September.

Venice-based Bitcoin API developer Gem announces the completion of a $2M seed funding round, and welcomes former Paypal executive Ken Miller as Chief Operating Officer.

Syscoin is poised of the most innovative cryptocurrencies to be introduced, possibly since the introduction of Bitcoin itself and through it we can begin to see the potential of virtual currencies.

Dozens of Bitcoin companies have commented on the BitLicense proposal, but what does a regulatory compliance company think about it?

Ivan Tikhonov is the founder of the BTCsec.com and Bitcoin expert. Moreover, he is a Bitcoin activist since 2011, and helps people learn about Bitcoin technology and benefits. We were able to get an exclusive interview with him.

IBM and Samsung are busy realizing the first application of block chain technology by major corporations – and fast.

Australian exchange CoinJar has confirmed the launch of its Swipe prepaid Bitcoin debit card, the first specifically designed for the Australian consumer spending infrastructure.

We have seen bitcoin conferences in the past, as well as the upcoming conference in China which starts tomorrow, but there is a new type of Conference emerging in the cryptocurrency world.

European cryptocurrency exchange The Rock Trading announces a partnership with security centered Bitcoin wallet provider GreenAddress to implement multisignature and instant transaction confirmation.

In a follow-up to our previous interview with OKcoin, this time we got the chance to talk with the CTO of the Beijing-based exchange, Changpeng Zhao.

If Scotland votes to secede this should be extremely positive for Bitcoin.

The music industry, along with print journalism, is one of the most obvious examples of the Internet completely flipping something on its head.

In a fun coincidence, a pair of organizations — one in Canada, one in the US — launched this week with the goal of separating cryptocurrency experts from the rest of us via certification procedures.

Pioneering gold and Bitcoin investment firm DigitalTangible has announced it is diversifying into the market afresh – by offering peer-to-peer exchange for gold.

Capital Treasury Services, part of the Capital International Group’s financial empire, announced that as of next month they would no longer be doing business with digital currency businesses.

Bitnation is taking on the state in a much different way: It’s trying to compete head-on by offering the same basic benefits a modern nation-state would, but Bitnation’s primary technology is a blockchain rather than a border.

On its first anniversary, Chinese Bitcoin exchange Huobi expressed its intention in becoming one of the leading Bitcoin company in the ecosystem by tackling all parts of the industry as it unveiled three unexpected new offerings: BitYes, DigCoin and DangPu.

Fantasy sports has always seemed like a promising area for Bitcoin acceptance. An industry dependent on online payments with over US$1 billion bet in the U.S. each year on fantasy football alone, fantasy sports would benefit greatly from the ability to send money without being subject to PayPal fees.

The ATM Industry Association (ATMIA) believes Bitcoin isn’t a threat to neither cash nor established electronic payments methods, but recommends increased control and support among the Bitcoin ATM network.

CryptoCoinsNews has been doing some great reporting in the last several months. Recently, we reached out to that site’s editor, Caleb Chen, to get his thoughts on some of the bigger-picture details of reporting on cryptocurrencies.

More and more Bitcoin ATMs are popping up in various locations all over the world.

Having launched just back on March 29 of this year, Bitbay is not a well-known Bitcoin and Litecoin exchange but it is already considered the most developing and promising exchange in its region, gradually attracting more and more traders from all over the world.

The largest private charity in the world, United Way Worldwide, will be accepting Bitcoin for donations.

XCurrency’s Xmixer looks to be one of the most anonymous ways to make transactions on the web, and helping out might net you a few extra coins.

The FBI says it obtained the information through a leaky CAPTCHA, but what do the facts say?