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Mimetic Markets announced today it has released the source code of its Sputnik Exchange Engine in an attempt to democratize Bitcoin exchanges and motivate developers in contributing to software development.

Chris Mountford is a senior software developer at Atlassian and one of the company’s earliest employees. For those who don’t know Atlassian, it is one of Australia’s great success stories.

In the event of an attack, who would defend Bitcoin? The fast answer would be its users—a distributed collective of like-minded individuals. But would they be enough?

Cointelegraph correspondent Dan Simon had the opportunity to speak with David Berger, CEO and founder of the Digital Currency Council.

Catherine Bleish on her family’s “Uncoinventional Bitcoin Bus Tour” across the USA. The self-styled “Blush Family” - John and Catherine Bleish and their two children traveled from Philadelphia to Texas using only cryptocurrency for payments.

Weekend Roundup fro Cointelegraph.

The first time I heard about Bitcoin I wasn’t very impressed. As an anarchist with an Austrian economic background, it didn’t make much sense to me right away.

Representatives of Smile Expo and BTCsec.com, two of the many websites that have been blocked by the Russian government attended the first session of Sverdlovsk Oblast court.

Catherine Bleish on her family’s “Uncoinventional Bitcoin Bus Tour” across the USA. The self-styled “Blush Family” - John and Catherine Bleish and their two children traveled from Philadelphia to Texas using only cryptocurrency for payments.

Jackson Palmer, creator of the eternally-inflationary Dogecoin, recently made a monumental announcement to CoinDesk: he’s disgusted with people like himself.

Next-generation proof-of-stake altcoin NeuCoin has seen unprecedented interest in its April 28 presale since its announcement last week.

CoinHako, a Bitcoin wallet and exchange based in Singapore has announced today that their bitcoin reserve is insured by BitGo Inc’s web-based, multisig institutional wallet protection service.

Chinese bitcoin exchange platform Huobi, has announced a new collaboration with Tsinghua University for a new “Digital Asset Research Initiative.”

Hourglass is yet another promising project by BitcoinJ developer and former Google engineer Mike Hearn, which has already surpassed the crowdfunding goal for its initial design.

The growth in the bitcoin-funded debit card world shows a future path for the digital currency.

Interpol develops its own altcoin for conducting crime research, Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul believes Bitcoin should not be feared or regulated, and more top stories for April 24.

Catherine Bleish on her family’s “Uncoinventional Bitcoin Bus Tour” across the USA. The self-styled “Blush Family” - John and Catherine Bleish and their two children traveled from Philadelphia to Texas using only cryptocurrency for payments.

Vinay Gupta recently gave a video interview in which he questioned the security of Intel processors.

Having filed its registration application in New York, ItBit is looking to become the first regulated Bitcoin bank in America.

Bitcoiners are a particular breed of human. They like their private keys kept in a safe place, and they are more than likely to enable privacy settings on their Facebook account.

OpenBazaar has released beta version 0.4.0 for Linux and Mac users, with Windows users once again left waiting for executable binaries, which are promised to be released soon.

BitSIM is a small, dual-chip overlay that is physically placed atop a phone’s regular SIM card. Once there, the BitSIM turns that phone – even if it’s a “dumb” phone – into a Bitcoin wallet.

Blockchain-based record keeping service Factom has today announced its latest partnership with major US medical services provider HealthNautica.

Latin American Social Networking Giant Taringa! has started Taringa! Creadores a revenue sharing program to start paying its users bitcoin for their content contributions.

The self-styled “Blush Family” - John Bush, Catherine Bleish and their two children - has embarked on their third “Uncoinventional Bitcoin Bus Tour” in the United States.

Put the word “blockchain” together with the acronym “DNS” and what do you get?

NYDFS Superintendant Benjamin Lawsky has suggested that the BitLicense bill will be finalized by the end of May; a registration-free online faxing service has launched taking payments per fax in bitcoin and more news

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is investigating the use of digital currencies and blockchain technology for investment products, notably financial assets and derivatives.

The three Bitcoin core developers who were, up until now, funded by the Bitcoin Foundation will join the MIT Media Lab’s newly established Digital Currency Initiative.

Cointelegraph spoke with Dr. Charles Evans— the first expert witness in a criminal case to be paid with bitcoin.