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The Bitcoin Investment Trust announced that it has won the majority of the auction, 19 of the total 20 “blocks” were picked up by the trust, totaling 48,000 bitcoins, worth roughly US$16.6 million at press time.

Cointelegraph has partnered with Coin ATM Radar, which regularly updates a helpful and navigable Bitcoin ATM map, to get the most comprehensive data about new BTMs as they go online.

Venezuelan congressman, Guido Ochoa, and president of the country’s Science Technology and Innovation Commission has decided to buy all of the assets of HashFast, a bankrupt Bitcoin mining equipment manufacturer.

The city of Madeira Beach, Florida, became the first municipality in the world today to officially embrace Bitcoin, following a resolution by the city council.

An estimated 250 bitcoins have been “lost” by Blockchain.info following a security lapse during an update yesterday, it has emerged.

A failure in its consensus system has caused Stellar to fork, requiring a roll back. Stellar claims that the issue affects Ripple as well, something Ripple denies.

Mathematician Charles Hoskinson pulls it off. The former CEO of Ethereum gave a short and sweet TED talk describing his vision for Bitcoin and decentralization.

In light of the Murray report released in November, the Australian Digital Currency Commerce Association (ADCCA) welcomes the several recommendations issued by the Financial Systems Inquiry, including broadening the types of entities that qualify for an Australian Financial Services License and have access to the Government’s Document Verification Service, as well as developing a national strategy group, dubbed the “Innovation Collaboration.”

Don’t get me wrong—I think LocalBitcoins is a great service. But for someone who’s using Bitcoin for the very first time, it’s way too complicated.

For Arnhem Bitcoincity’s six-month anniversary, the Arnhem Bitcoin Metropolis event gathered nearly 100 people, who made 176 Bitcoin transactions. The team is now seeking governmental support to expand the project.

Australian bankers are feeling the pinch as the Bitcoin community grows ever larger in the country, and the banks are planning to spend AU$1 billion on an upgrade that will decrease processing time.

Bitcoin, as the best ledger of all time, would be great at forever recording the details of all our transactions for personal accounting purposes. “Third installment to Ray Peterson on personal loan.” “Payment for monthly Viagra refill.” “Purchase of ‘How to Save Your Marriage’ lecture series.”

In the latest episode of Epicenter Bitcoin, Brian Fabian Crain and Sebastien Couture were joined by Daniel Gallancy, CEO and Founder of SolidX Partners Inc. With his company that recently raised a US$3 million funding round from Liberty City Ventures and Wall Street investors, he aims to make Bitcoin accessible to financial investors that have so far been excluded from the Bitcoin market.

Singapore-based Ernst & Young LLP Partner Jan Bellens believes “cryptocurrencies are a great innovation with great upsides for the long-term,” as long as the two keys issues, named as security and KYC, get resolved in the short-term.

After issuing a bill that would protect bitcoin U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) gave a speech at the New York City Bitcoin Center. He issued a rallying cry encouraging the room to get involved and lobby for bitcoin.

California’s Department of Business Oversight has concluded that they have the authority to regulate virtual currencies.

A major mobile payment processor in Romania, Netopia mobilPay, has just added Bitcoin support to its payment platform. That means that all 6,000 Romanian merchants who are set up with mobilPay are now accepting cryptocurrency overnight, with no development or strategy costs on their part.

A recent video released by MasterCard has people laughing from Boston to Bangladesh.

The United States Marshals have auctioned off the second batch of coins allegedly seized from the Silk Road and its alleged operator.

Tor may not have had the best past couple of months, with news releasing late in the summer that, with enough work, someone could theoretically discover user identities.

Align Commerce recently made headlines at Money 2020 in Las Vegas when their CEO, Marwan Forzley, spoke at one of their panel discussions about cross-border invoicing using the blockchain technology as a transport rail. Cointelegraph sat down with him afterwards to talk more about this new settlement rail and his thoughts on its future in the financial services market.

Vizor.io wants to be the YouTuve of Virtual Reality, and they want Cryptocurrencies to play a big role.

Throughout history, disruptive technologies have always faced widespread criticism and fearmongering. One such example happened with the nascent VCR technology back in 1982.

The US Marshals Service is auctioning off another 50,000 bitcoins seized from last year’s Silk Road bust. The auction for eligible bidders closes at 2 p.m. EST Thursday, and a winner will be announced Friday afternoon.

United States Representative Steve Stockman (R-Texas) kept his promise and recently introduced a bill in Congress that would not only extend substantial protections to cryptocurrencies, but would also require that cryptocurrencies be classified as a “currency.”

Union Square Ventures’ Joel Monegro believes Bitcoin has the potential to change much more than just finance, and will likely disrupt current business models.

A school based in Indonesia is using Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and the blockchain to teach a group of 10-year-old children about environmental sustainability.

What do BitFX, Tesla and Apple have in common? They all entice buyers to try new technologies by offering staff-packed, hands-on, attractive retail stores.

In the spirit of our previous installments on Bitcoin price predictions, Cointelegraph readers will now have a chance to not only submit their own predictions, but also get their hands on some digital gold (MIT scientists are not eligible).

As the full list of comments on BitLicense is revealed, the list of contributors and their requests makes for interesting reading – even including a potentially prominent new critic of the scheme. Western Union and Amazon feature notably among the several thousand contributors, whose full texts were released yesterday and confirmed by Benjamin Lawsky on Twitter.