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Carl Force who plead for for an agreement with prosecutors back in June is set to be sentenced on October 19, at the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

BitcoinPay has announced the launch of plugin for stores using the OpenCart Online Shopping Solution that allows integrating digital money payments into their e-commerce platforms.

The UK’s Royal Bank of Scotland has announced it could take a blockchain-inspired service “to market” in 2016.

Online investment platform BnkToTheFuture has officially launched a fund to invest in the shares of Bitcoin Group Limited, Australia’s largest bitcoin mining operator, and the first Bitcoin company slated for an IPO

International premium gourmet coffee producer Pihatt Coffee has officially begun accepting bitcoin payments on the company’s online store.

Being a startup in the Bitcoin space can be a bumpy ride, and just like in any mainstream industry, the percentage of startups that make hay right from the start is pretty low.

Payment processor Square has filed for an IPO to list its stock on the New York Stock Exchange.

The Bitcoin debate of the year has been about how the blockchain block size matters. Whether to increase block size, how to do it, and when to do it, everyone seems to have an opinion.

On October 13, Blockstream announced its first sidechain project: Liquid. The first production sidechain is a platform that will allow rapid liquidity between Bitcoin exchanges and brokers.

Bitshares, the currently fifth ranked crypocurrency by market cap, has evolved to version 2.0 as of October 13.

The Price has not only broken through the 50 day EMA, but has now moved above the 100 day EMA as well. A test of the 200 day at ~US$256 should occur. However, a lot of energy has been spent and the RSI is getting near an oversold level.

Hacking scandals have swept the commercial retail and digital currency sectors for the least three years, and it doesn’t seem to be letting up.

NSA whistleblower and American fugitive Edward Snowden has revealed information on the scope and capabilities of the United Kingdom’s GCHQ intelligence agency.

Back in May, New York District Court Judge Katherine Forrest sentenced Silk Road website founder Ross Ulbricht to life in prison.

While there is much discussion of how far cryptocurrency exchanging has come in its short history, a question mark still hangs over its future.

2015 is turning out to be the Year of The Blockchain, as the business world, particularly the banking industry, has seen the light of this advanced technology.

The National Bank of Ukraine has issued a warning to the country’s regional banks, global financial institutions and its executives regarding the financial risks involved in the use of digital currencies like bitcoin.

Andy Haldane recently proposed that the UK should switch from a fiat to a digital currency based economy to support the UK’s economic growth.

MasterCard has been feeling the heat of Bitcoin for over a year now. Bitcoin has become big enough worldwide so that it can no longer be ignored as a viable payment option and currency.

NeuCoin (NEU), a cryptocurrency specifically designed to aid the implementation of online microtransactions and tipping within online products and services, finally launched September 23

Joel Monegro, partner of Fred Wilson’s Union Square Ventures has recently launched a Telegram Bot that allows users to purchase mobile minutes with bitcoin instantly.

The U.S. Marshals Service has announced the final auction of 44,341 BTC seized from Ross Ulbricht during the Silk Road investigation, which will take place during a six-hour period on November 5.

US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Internal Revenue Service, FinCEN, Department of Homeland Security, and other government agencies have officially launched multiple investigations into Cryptsy

In recent weeks there has been noticeably more volume on two of the major bitcoin exchanges: Bitstamp & OKcoin. The two charts below show the big increase in volume with very little price movement on both of these exchanges.

The Gemini bitcoin exchange, which seems to have been caught up in red tape for-ever, has finally won regulatory approval from the NYDFS, according to the company’s blog this morning.

Australia, one of the world’s biggest and most promising Bitcoin markets, has seen a major drop in Bitcoin demand due to a coordinated attack by the banking system against Bitcoin exchanges

The new global Bitcoin consumer ATM Mecca has shifted to Eastern Europe near the hotly-contested military crossroads of the Ukraine.

Over the past 72 hours, the Bitcoin protocol has been suffering from a malleability attack. The attack has been happening to quite a few users moving funds on the network.

SEC has ceased a US$32 million cryptocurrency investment scam created by Steve Chen, who misled hundreds of investors to raise millions of dollars

The Linux Foundation released a white paper titled “A $5 Billion Value: Estimating the Total Development Cost of Linux Foundation’s Collaborative Projects”