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BitPay Releases Bitcore Playground, LedgerX Endorsed for CFTC Approval and more.

Co-Founder and CEO of BItmagnet, which is a digitally disruptive South African based cryptocurrency startup based on 3 principles and 3 key focus areas which the company wholeheartedly believes are fundamental to the mass adoption of Bitcoin/Blockchain/Crypto’s: ADOPT.EMPOWER.CHANGE.

In the spirit of lovebirds who like Valentine’s Day, and those who don’t, ChangeTip, Newegg and BitPay have announced a Valentine’s Day contest.

Amid a spate of services promising instantaneous confirmation of Bitcoin transactions, core develop Jeff Garzik has spoken out against the concept, calling them “by definition not secure.”

Businesses operating a digital currency automated teller machine (ATM) or an exchange platform in Quebec must obtain the appropriate license from the financial regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), in accordance to the Money-Services Businesses Act.

DarkSend releases InstantX payments update. Allows for sub five second confirmation of transactions of DarkCoin.

An American survey conducted by the Boston Retail Partners, suggests that 8% of North American retailers are planning on accepting Bitcoin within 12 months, and 5% within 1 to 3 years.

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis debates Bitcoin with Andreas Antonopoulos as a 2014 radio show resurfaces, Utah considers bitcoin for the payment of state services, Cointelegraph turns one and much more.

A reclassification of how Value Added Tax (VAT) is to be applied in the EU will force merchants to log user’s location, and make the user pay VAT twice.

A resolution put before state lawmakers in Utah could see the Beehive state legitimize Bitcoin as a le-gal payment method.

It was almost a year ago – MtGox had just collapsed and Newsweek pointed to Dorian Nakamoto as Bitcoin’s creator – that Andreas Antonopoulos come onto the Australian radio show Late Night Live to debate Bitcoin with a professor of economic theory at the University of Athens. The professor’s name: Yanis Varoufakis.

Take for instance BitMesh, which is asking: Why not take the sharing economy to purchasing Internet? Most people don’t use up their entire data plans. People work from 9 to 5 during the day or go on vacations, and even while using the Internet there is often extra bandwidth floating around.

Admittedly, I will lose a lot of purchasing power if the price of a bitcoin falls to US$5. Hell, I’ve already lost money in Bitcoin – I didn’t really get interested in it until the fall of 2013. Yeah, I repeat: that fall of 2013, the famous run up to the US$1,000 bitcoin.

We are delighted announce what is a rather significant event for us. Today, February 11, CT is celebrating one year since it was founded.

We are delighted to announce what is a rather significant event for us. Today, February 11, CT is celebrating one year since it was founded.

Coinbase expands to further European countries and announces shutting down its tipping button, BitQuick planning to ‘kill LocalBitcoins,’ Bitnet partnering with UATP to enable Bitcoin payments for 260 airlines, and more news from February 11.

While practical Bitcoin applications continue to gather speed in the developing world, a Canada-based businessman has been quietly working on an alternative he says addresses many of the current challenges facing the market.

It’s time to announce the winner of the 2015 Cointelegraph and Ziftr competition for the best answer to the question of “what will it take for Bitcoin to gain mass acceptance?”

Glenn Beck is what some might call a controversial figure. Known for his bombastic rants and crying fits while hosting his own, now defunct, show on Fox News, the conservative pundit now hosts his own radio show on the Radio/TV station he help found, BlazeTV. Recently, he expressed a belief that Bitcoin, and more specifically the blockchain could be a great tool in the fight for freedom.

After the Big Bang, the universe was in chaos where everything down to the smallest particle was under the influence of a mysterious force known as Dark Matter. But with time, the emergence of counterbalancing force known as light brought about life, e-commerce, travel and finance as the Dark Matter’s grip on all activity began to weaken.

Tipping itself has been a staple of the Bitcoin community for years now and was one of the first use cases that mainstream audiences found Bitcoin to be suitable for.

New Daily Digest on Hong Kong Issues Bitcoin Warning, Russia Reconsiders Stance, and BitPesa Raises US$1.1 Million

Universal Air Travel Plan (UATP), a global payment solution for the airline industry, announces it had partnered with Bitnet as a payment processor in order to accept Bitcoin payments.

In the past two weeks, there has been a clear surge in the number of Bitcoin ATMs going live around the world, according to our content partner, Coin ATM Radar. This recent push has seen the number of active BTMs hit the 350 mark as of February 8, 2015.

Emilio Pagan-Yourno says he has a strong drive to succeed, which is why he decided to create the first company to place Bitcoin ATMs (Bitcoin transaction machines, or BTMs) in New York, Vermont and New Hampshire.

20Mission, a co-working space dedicated to art and technology creators, announced the launch of Nakamoto’s electronics, the first Bitcoin retail store in San Francisco.

After scraping together a 12 minute video for Glenn Greenwald on how to use PGP email encryption (which the then-Guardian reporter admits he ignored), Snowden was left trying to leak documents for which the proper security did not yet exist.

Bitcoin Analysis from Cointelegraph.

Hong Kong investment firm MyCoin may have lost US$387 million amid allegation of it being a pyramid scheme, Andreas Antonopoulos says to give Bitcoin “two years” following 2014’s record investment in the technology, IBM plans to give away US$18,000 worth of bitcoins in a “rain” of the digital currency at a São Paulo event, and much more news that happened on February 7 and 8.

Hong Kong-based Bitcoin trading and investment outfit MyCoin.hk has allegedly entered sudden bankruptcy, reportedly losing customers up to HK$3 billion (US$386.9 million) in bitcoins.