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We reported last month that high-speed network company Perseus Telecom was working on a big cryptocurrency exchange project. They launched it yesterday.

Music streaming service that inhabits the mobiles of people from North Africa and Middle East has gone beyond the traditional payment and joined the cryptocommunity.

If we reject to use the term “speculation” in the case of Mt.Gox, then the details scraped up by hackers and hobby detectives definitely can be called so. The officially approved facts state that Mt.Gox collapsed leaving not serviced customers with lost funds. The assumptions, estimations and hypotheses provide more information that any official spokesperson.

Bitcoins take more and more place in our lives every day. There, the fashion is set by celebrities firstly.

There is no doubt that the statement issued by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) of Luxembourg is the first constructive step towards the consensus with the Bitcoin environment and entrepreneurs. Law Library of Congress in cooperation with BitLegal proves this writing to be the first from the country on the corresponding matter

The Chief Information Officer of the platform CEX.IO Ltd. Jeffrey Smith has given an extensive interview to the Bitcoin News about the innovative approach of the company, evaluation of Bitcoin and reasons behind the hurdles on the way to global acceptance of the virtual currency.

Before it allied with Coinplug, Nautilus Hyosung was the most demanded manufacturer of local ATMs, though not the Bitcoin ones. In addition, the company over the years earned a fourth place among the others ATM manufacturers.

At least that’s the position Google’s Director of Ideas Jared Cohen, who believes that Bitcoin has rooted itself onto the global internet community.

The cryptographic environment has seen many implementations of online matters in real life. Pendants, smartphone cases and other items carrying the Bitcoin logo, paper wallets and hardware comprising virtual funds are all kinds of physical presences of the currency in the everyday life. Education and information acquisition is mostly completed online, but some activists from the US are going to access the part of society free from virtual bonds.

To be more precise, allow us to mention that the idea belongs to a particular French minister – the minister of finance Pierre Moscovici. He has revealed his intentions on the 4th of March in form of a request towards European regulators to review the existing policy. The aim is to unify the approach in all member countries and to simplify the mechanisms of reaction.

Ron Paul, a former US Congressman from Texas and presidential candidate, has long rallied libertarians in the United States behind ideas that, honestly, many in the Bitcoin community would embrace but that fail to resonate at the mainstream level.

Many experts have named 2014 the year of Bitcoin – time, when the virtual currency is going to enter all possible spheres of life and provide its dedicated users with comprehensive products and services. Although the online entertainment has excessive offers from gambling to gaming, online activities are still missing. Several festivals are going to change it.

A Finn who made a fortune in Bitcoins and silver has purchased a 15th century manor in the north of Estonia with the hopes of turning it into an international Bitcoin supercenter.

Even knowing about the controversy status of Bitcoin in Russia, remembering the fuzz around the issues from the Central Bank of the country showing extraordinary polarity from negative to almost positive.

As the new generation of cryptocurrencies is beginning to show its face, another digital coin accelerator rose up to attend the next level of natural Bitcoin evolution.

In case You have some brilliant idea and capable to develop the corresponding product that can be touched, used and distributed – then You should have went to the Texas Bitcoin Conference. This year David Johnston offered 1 million dollars as a reasonable reward for the winners of the competition. Read more about one of the most interesting Bitcoin events from North America.

Jimmy Wales, president of Wikia, Inc. and co-founder of Wikipedia, took to Reddit on Monday morning to discuss Bitcoin.

Marketwatch.com reported that Mt. Gox had filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection in the United States. Chapter 15 is typically the chapter filed for when a company is dealing with insolvency issues in multiple countries.

The term “spring” is very mental as it includes many pleasant pictures, smells, feelings, thoughts and hopes. The Bitcoin society opting for more possibilities for people is going to incorporate these positive emotions to launch the so-called Bitcoin Boulevard in Hague, the Netherlands.

The Two-Bit Idiot is a nickname of an entrepreneur and former VC, who calls himself also a truth-teller. This characteristic is going to be crucial for the remaining members of the Bitcoin Foundation board.

Poloniex – online trade for the most popular cryptocurrencies has suffered a hacker attack, making it lose 12.3% of all Bitcoin it held.

While Mark Karpeles has insisted the Bitcoin protocol has a flow that can wound the system, but the society has called him incompetent, some hackers and IT specialists succeeded to determine a real drawback of the code. It is a vulnerability in Linux gnuTLS package, capable to reduce the level of security and affect stored online coins.

Russia’s central bank offered a formal response to a letter written by a Russian citizen in February asking for more information on why the government allegedly banned cryptocurrencies earlier this year.

The ruling party in Japan, the Liberal Democrats, have formed an investigative committee that will look into Bitcoin from a governmental perspective, the party said in a statement.

To improve protection of any system one needs to know its fracture points and the best way to find these is to attempt to break the system. The combined efforts of computer security researchers from The University of Adelaide (Australia) and University of Bristol (UK) in show that it is possible to use timing side-channels for Bitcoin private key stealing.

The great irony in Newsweek reporter Leah McGrath Goodman’s story outing Dorian Nakamoto as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto revolves around the role of trust in her reporting.

The shock from Mt.Gox crash and some statements made Mark Karpeles has ceased. The pain from the loss of money has not gone, but it does not bother the users so powerful and painfully. The investigation goes on; enthusiasts on the web push forward new bizarre speculations to understand the reasons behind the obscure self-destruction of the exchange platform.

As we reported Thursday, Newsweek magazine dropped a bomb on the Bitcoin community by either outing Satoshi Nakamoto or doxing an innocent man in California...

Following the news of the new NVidia architecture, AMD answered with its new High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) chip.

On Wednesday, London’s first Bitcoin ATM, a Lamassu machine, launched at the Old Shoreditch Station cafe. The cafe is run by an arts collective called Jaguar Shoes, and they have been accepting Bitcoin payment themselves since last summer.