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The Bitcoin Foundation announced Wednesday that a number of updates had been made to Bitcoin Core and that v. 0.9.0 was now available.

Cointelegraph has already reported on the occasion of Bitcoin receiving its personal and particular smell in form of BitCologne. Today, we are glad to present the fact that the most famous and favorable cryptographic coin is able to inspire creation of fine art, literature and other forms of masterpieces.

Nothing has changed since the funds in our possession have travelled from physical wallets made of leather and textile or porcelain piggybanks to online wallets created from intangible matters. The keeping principle is still the same – the secret and even intimate carrier has to be reliable, safe and private. No holes, especially cryptographic, can be tolerated.

We’ve reported before on Sean’s Outpost, the homeless center in the Florida Panhandle financed through cryptocurrencies, and we here at Cointelegraph are big fans of the work they’re doing.

A rather interesting question was raised on one of The Wall Street Journal blogs giving cryptography an orthography twist. So, should it be Bitcoin or bitcoin?

The decentralization boom has now reached the process of exchange. MasterCoin with a help of a public fundraiser made almost 5 BTC and spent it on creating a feature that would even further increase the privacy of cryptocurrency exchange.

Exactly in 72 days the Central European Bitcoin Expo of 2014 is going to be launched. The planned event will be open for visitors for two days – the 31st of May and 1st of June, exactly on the shift between spring and summer. The conference claims to be the first to introduce the ideas of Bitcoin to the Central Europe.

BitcoinExpo China 2014 will be a three-day conference and exposition in September in Shanghai. According to event organizers, “It aims to provide the bridge for many startups, service providers and established traders to cross the Asia gap.”

Human beings commonly have 5 senses, which are enough to form an impression from an object met in real life. Considering Bitcoin – the currency was long a matter providing no palpable feelings, particularly having no smell. If You have just wondered what the odor might be like, enthusiasts from Canada have already embodied the idea.

Embattled exchange Mt. Gox has a simple sign-in option on its website now with an invitation to “see your wallet(s) balance.”

Even though countries of both East and West are slowly isolating Russia due to its willingness to annex Crimea, the RF, instead of using cryptocurrencies as a backup plan, really wants to ban them.

Leafing through offline or scrolling down online magazines, skimming the regular articles on Bitcoin-related news, one might often notice the authors mentioning the primary principles of the virtual asset making it an attractive alternative to fiat currencies or online payment systems.

Often preparing articles on a new service or company working online, the Cointelegraph provides links on the corresponding smartphone applications. The reason behind this is very plain – many businesses and everyday activities are done not just online in front of desktop computers, but mostly in motion and on the run. Let us observe the most interesting and popular apps forming a must have of every Bitcoin and Android user.

The Middle East is catching up with Bitcoin, as Iran’s National Center of Cyberspace (NCC) has been intensively working on the issue lately. At least, that’s what report from the Fars News Agency website suggests.

March 14, a sad day for users of the Bitcurex, when hackers made an attempt to break the service and steal digital coins.

Bitcoin can be regulated in a number of ways and control of the operators is the choice that Singapore officials decided to make.

Bitcointalk.org forum member keccak512 announced in a post on March 8 a currency called Heavycoin, an altcoin that puts specific focus on security.

Dorian Nakamoto, in a statement released via his attorney, has said that he “unconditionally” denies Newsweek’s story the identifies him as the creator of Bitcoin.

GHash.IO, the mining pool that almost created a 51% attack back in January, recently announced some big changes, including a Scrypt mining pool that allows customers to mine Litecoin, Dogecoin, Auroracoin and Feathercoin.

Finally, after trials that Dogecoin community went through, great news arrive for the famous crypto. Finally, DOGE’s client is being fixed to prevent hacking and “unethical” mining.

It is easy to make the mental jump between Bitcoin and gold. Both have served as attractive ways to squirrel away wealth and to hedge against the volatility of fiat currencies.

Another weekly review is here! Time for us to see some changes and new steps that have been taken in order to develop and widen use of digital currency in modern life.

Just a day ago the representatives from various media from Internet magazines to spoken sources have attacked Jeffrey Smith with questions on the basic resource of the enterprise – the CEO.IX – representing a platform for trade of mining power. Just now the most recent and, allow us to use the term “fresh”, release was able to surpass any news provided by other parties.

Scrypt miners can finally rejoice as Mining Asics Technologies B.V. (MAT) have started taking pre-orders for the Scrypt ASIC rigs from 12th of March 2014.

Most of us know the feeling: You hire a professional decorator to design the living room of your dreams and outfit it with the coolest design furniture around, but when you take a look around the completed room, you think to yourself, “Something is missing. I need a pair of woolly mammoth tusks in here.”

Reuters is reporting that the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced it would look into whether it has the authority to regulate cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

Xapo Ltd. announced Friday that it had secured a first round of funding worth $20 million, Bloomberg reports.

Big Fish Games decided to widen their horizons by starting the acceptance of Bitcoin as one of the payment methods for their products. The company is a well-known developer of gaming software compatible with the most operating systems present. One of their 3000 games might be found on desktop machines, smartphones or browsers. Just check Your own list – maybe You are using their developments unconscious.

After rough criticism and declarations of war from the Two-Bit Idiot, P.J. Delaney without hiding the identity tried to compartmentalize the responsibilities, faces and perspectives of the Bitcoin Foundation. As the first warrior promised to reveal something that might revolutionize the online environment, Delaney has done his best to observe the situation from various angles being outside the system.

Bitcoin miners CloudHashing.com have announced that they plan to launch a mining operation that should be worth about $20 million, according to the company’s calculations.