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Bit-X Financial Corp. announced today it has concluded an agreement ANX to develop a white-label digital currency exchange based on ANXPRO’s trading platform.

An executive order signed by President Barack Obama has enabled US authorities to become the first to confiscate cryptocurrency holdings without warning.

ChangeTip just announced a product called ChangeTip SCAN that offers a new way for people to convert dollars to Bitcoin.

There’s still time for you to win 5 bitcoins by sharing your Bitcoin story with Cointelegraph and Share The Bitcoin – but hurry, the competition to win our biggest prize yet closes April 6!

Symbiont.io has bridged the gap between Bitcoin and Ripple by introducing a Ripple gateway for Counterparty.

Crypto underwriters Lamb&Cooper are exploring a new era of game development and funding.

With bitcoin’s price volatility causing a lot of cryptocurrency start-ups to pivot, the world’s leading bitcoin processor BitPay has already jumped the gun ahead of its competitors and launched a new and controversial move into the bitcoin mining space.

Ben Lawsly retracts BitLicense, North Korea launches “KimCoin,” ShapeShift Integrates Winklecoin, Bitcoin creator unveils real identity, and more top stories that happened on April 1.

From Canada to Hong Kong to Spain, this past week saw multiple Mycelium Entropy devices arrive to their new owners in a less-than-shiny condition.

After a year in the making, the cryptocurrency NEM (New Economy Movement) has officially been launched. Cointelegraph had the chance to site down and discuss the ambitious project with one of the lead developers, Makoto, to find out more.

For the past couple of days, a proposal for a new kind of fully decentralized and potentially anonymous digital dark market has been circulating the Cryptography mailing list – the mailing list used by Satoshi Nakamoto to first publish the Bitcoin white paper.

Cryptostorm, the VPN (virtual private network) service providers, revealed to Cointelegraph that they’ve been using Bitcoin and Namecoin to power their portal to the Darknet for months, announcing native access to Tor, I2P and .bit websites.

Cointelegraph is partnering with not one but two blockchain services by revered crypto 2.0 startup CoinDaddy. Together, these tools bring enhanced opportunities to both readers and advertisers alike courtesy of the Cointelegraph Media Group.

The task force DEA agent who worked on the Silk Road case allegedly extorted hundreds of thousands of dollars from Ulbricht, two-thirds of bitcoins have now been mined and more top stories for March 31.

Following Ross Ulbricht’s Silk Road conviction, extraordinary details have emerged about two of the investigating federal agents charged with extortion, fraud, and theft of bitcoins from the marketplace.

Popular social network Reddit, has been requested, by subpoena, to hand over personal data of five users linked to Evolution, a dark net marketplace that vanished with millions of dollars worth of bitcoins belonging to users. The writ order suggests that the apparent scam might be the target of a federal investigation.

In its most concrete investigation into emerging technology so far, IBM has announced it will spend up to US$3 billion in a specialist unit revolving around the Internet of Things.

ZapGo aims to revolutionize how young South Africans spend their cash online. The new mobile money start-up by South Africans Michail Brynard and Helghardt Avenant (currently halfway through the Boost VC accelerator program in Silicon Valley), uses the Bitcoin network as the underlying mechanism to transfer value.

iNation and the International Bitcoin Real Estate Association (IBREA) are joining forces to allow real estate deeds to be copied to the blockchain in full for backup and storage.

In the latest hurdle to beset the cryptocurrency sphere in Australia, a new government tax paper has listed Bitcoin among the methods which make it difficult for authorities to track tax avoidance.

The United States SOCOM has outlined how it views Bitcoin, admitting to monitoring and tracking transactions. A proposal for a decentralized local dark market has been published aiming to use the blockchain itself to share offers and requests for purchases. T-Mobile Poland installs its own BTM and much more news for March 30.

Continuing its open ear policy towards digital currency, the Canadian Senate last week held an in-depth Q&A with an industry spokesperson on the topic of handling Bitcoin in the long-term.

La’Zooz – a blockchain-based ridesharing app. Eitan Katchka is La’Zooz’s Israel-based head developer, and has shared the project’s most recent news with Cointelegraph.

Cointelegraph SA recently attended the African Cards & Payments Conference in Sandton, Johannesburg, where local bitcoin payment processing company PayFast stood out as a technology company with a vision.

Online banking fraud rocketed 48 % to £60.4 million in 2014 compared with 2013, according to a report released by Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK).

Weekend Roundup from Cointelegraph

ChangeTip, the self-titled “love button of the Internet,” has been integrated into yet another social network – this time, with the comment service Disqus.

Being a Kenyan, who uses both the mobile money service and bitcoin, it made me think about how the two technologies compare.

Bitcoin Embassy Amsterdam “forks” into two versions

With over 600 cryptocurrencies out there, each with their own branding and identity, do we need a better unifying brand to represent them all?