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There’s always room for an exception in Russia, and PutinCoin is it.

The Texas Department of Banking (DOB) has announced that it will not treat Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as money in a memo, whose pdf document version, interestingly enough, is no longer available here.

As Bitcoin’s popularity increases day by day, the word “Bitcoin” itself is becoming a buzzword.

Featured in a recent SKY magazine article, British entrepreneur Richard Branson gives a nod to Bitcoin, viewing it as a step towards a global currency of the future with the potential to unite humanity.

Robocoin Bitcoin ATMs are slowly but surely spreading around the world – and now they have reached Japan.

Are political campaign contributions in Bitcoin just around the corner?

Dogecoin is looking to cut a cyber-rug next week at the first annual Dogecon Conference SF in San Francisco, CA.

Bitcore has been able to provide a 100% compatibility with Bitcoin Core test data.

Despite losing a considerable amount of money on the Mt. Gox exchange, Australian Bitcoin Association Vice President Pantelis Roussakis is convinced that crypto-currencies are the way of the future.

Why don’t people trust Bitcoin? Why should you wait to buy? When talking about crypto currencies, we often hear such words as “mining” or “hash” that leave most people scratching their heads. So we decided to see which aspects present a roadblock for cryptocurrencies on their path into the mainstream.

Cointelegraph interviewed Bitcoin Foundation member, Igor Chepkasov, who founded www.BitcoinRussia.org along with the newly established Crypto Currencies Foundation (CCFR) in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Former congressman Ron Paul shared his opinion on Bitcoin and the future of virtual currencies in a Q&A session on the Quora site on Wednesday – as usual, Paul brought his own libertarian flavor to the discussion.

A video from last weekend’s Bitcoin Expo 2014 in Toronto surfaced on Wednesday of Andreas Antonopoulos’ talk, “The Future of Cryptocurrency.”

Following up on Andreas Antonopoulos’ metaphor of cryptocurrencies as apps, Coingen would be like an automated app developer.

Austin, Texas’ bow-tied Bitcoin evangelist Paul Snow has been working with computers for more than 30 years. So perhaps we can forgive him for scooping up a bunch of Bitcoins back in 2011 at 77 cents apiece and then promptly forgetting about his investment until 2013.

Who doesn’t love a good breakdown of how Bitcoin works? Barry Silbert, CEO and Founder of SecondWatch, recently broke down the development and strengths and weaknesses of investing in Bitcoin at a recent MarketWatch event.

Marijuana vending machines have long been a pipe-dream of cannabis smokers everywhere. Now, not only are they are finally becoming a reality for residents of Colorado, where recreational cannabis use is legal, but they will also be Bitcoin-friendly.

Today digital currency strives to become valuable and trusted just like any mainstream fiat currency. However, some people still doubt currency they cannot “see and feel”. That is also why physical minted coins are so popular.

Yesterday, Coinfloor, the only UK-based Bitcoin exchancge, announced a series of new services including over-the-counter (OTC) market for institutional Bitcoin traders as well as a “proof of solvency” audit system.

The Centre for Forensic Linguistics at UK’s Aston University has completed a comprehensive analysis to draw the conclusion that Nick Szabo’s texts show the most similarities with the original writings of the Bitcoin inventor.

April 15 has come and gone, and now US Bitcoin users who want to stay on the right side of the law have some serious accounting to do.

Over the weekend, The Economist offered its take on Bitcoin’s (and other altcoins’) China problem.

“The Bitcoin situation in the United States is a riddle wrapped inside a mystery inside an enigma.”

The price of Bitcoin has been steadily climbing upwards in the past two days as the April 15 deadline for Chinese-based lenders and payment companies to close the trading accounts of more than 10 domestic Bitcoin exchange platforms, has come and went.

Cointelegraph is honored to be named a Media Partner of the inaugural Bitcoin Conference and Expo (BitFin 2014) on July 3-4.

Digital currency is the talking point of future of modern economics and business.

Cointelegraph had a chance to sit down with Pantelis Roussakis, Vice President, Australian Bitcoin Association, who lost an undisclosed yet ‘substantial’ sum as a result of the Mt Gox collapse.

Alongside the Bitcoin ‘gold rush’, another race is heating up: to find the cheapest source of electricity to power it.

Australia’s first two-way Bitcoin ATM opens today in the Westfield Sydney shopping centre.

Altcoin Worldcoin, a fork from Litecoin known for its rapid transaction confirmations, is set to receive major improvements and a dedicated Android wallet by the end of April.