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With the help of Bitcoin, a new kind of license transforms the usage rights to copyright-protected digital artworks into limited and tradable virtual properties.

Bitcoins are widely called “digital gold,” so it’s fitting that many crypto fans like their physical gold, too. Several companies have sprung up in the last two years to serve this bitcoins-to-gold market.

Toronto’s industrial rock band 22HERTZ, created by Ralf Muller, is set to encode a copyright of the band’s new single into the Bitcoin blockchain.

Watch as maybe-cutting-edge technology and retro-80s-machine collide.

Kim Dotcom, the superstar entrepreneur and labeled by Wired as the “Internet’s most wanted man” (before Snowden), has been allowed to regain a decent portion of his war chest, from funds seized by the New Zealand government.

Bitstamp, one of the leading Bitcoin exchange platforms, has announced a new partnership with Canadian compliance and risk management startup Vogogo.

FinCEN fines Ripple Labs a penalty of US$700K, Bitstamp partners with Vogogo, ShoCard allows you to store your identity on Bitcoin’s blockchain, and more news.

Airbitz impressed judges last week in the Inside Bitcoins startup competition, and the wallet walked away as the winner.

Ponzi is a type of scam where you promise people earnings while you don’t produce anything, and pay them with newcomers’ money.

Ripple Labs, Inc. has been handed a US$700K civil enforcement action on behalf on the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).

Ron Paul started talking about the serious problems of the Federal Reserve system in the 1970s.

The world of digital currencies is so rooted in the emerging ideas and developments of the tech world.

Perhaps Nepali “finance minister” Ram Mahat has been taking advice from U.S. politician Rahm Emanuel, who said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. [...] It’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”

Halsey Minor, an American serial tech entrepreneur widely known to have founded CNET in 1993, has set his sights on the Indian market with Bitreserve, his latest venture that he unveiled in 2014.

Cointelegraph spoke to Peter Todd about the issue, along with the topics of centralized blockchains and Bitcoin core development funding.

Bitcoin exchanges are a risky business to dive into. But they’re growing easier to build. Companies AlphaPoint and IdentityMind just partnered up to help Bitcoin exchanges to get off the ground in days.

The publicly traded shares of the Bitcoin Investment Trust have officially started trading on the public markets, Bitcoin startup Case has launched its Bitcoin hardware wallet on-stage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, and more news.

Picture a parallel virtual world that collects information on our virtual identities in real time, tracks our behavior, and is smart enough to interpret this data to simulate a virtual YOU on its own.

The Bitcoin price continues to be range-bound. This appears to be looking like the top of that range.  Last week the price was ~$225 USD as of this writing.

According to mathematician Meni Rosenfeld, Israel is a Bitcoin “forerunner.” With large numbers of users in the country, the number of startups and merchants continues to grow.

The domain name belonging to Tesla Motors was hijacked this past week, and visitors to the website were treated to a juvenile display of fake photos on the homepage.

Melotic exchange has announced it is closing down , Kim DotCom has been awarded US$96,000 monthly living expenses, CNET founder Halsey Minor wants to bring Bitcoin to India, and more news.

In order to boost the Lebanese startup scene, the United Kingdom, in collaboration with Lebanon’s central bank, the Banque du Liban (BDL), has launched the UK Lebanon Tech Hub.

Bitcoin API provider Blocktrail has discovered a bug in BitGo’s security platform that causes Bitstamp’s transaction data to be identifiable on the blockchain.

Bitcoin Shop (BTCs) announced on April 28 that it signed a letter of intent (LOI) to a merge with Spondoolies Tech, an Israeli mining hardware manufacturer.

Weekend Roundup from Cointelegraph

Modest, Inc. is an interesting name for a company started by someone who proclaims himself to be “probably one of the coolest guys ever,” but the company is rising and worth keeping an eye on.

Virgin Mobile’s Pitch to Rich competition invites startups to compete with each other to win a share of more than £1,000,000 in prizes.

Despite being a decentralized project, which presumably should result in faster and more efficient development, Bitcoin has been experiencing a decline in its development pace in 2015.

TransferB, a startup looking to disrupt the international money transfer market using Bitcoin, has won the 2015 Deloitte Top Technology Talent Competition, Deloitte Ireland announced on Tuesday.