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A beautifully animated new video entitled Bitcoin Properly seeks to ease this frustration. The result of a collaboration between designers Patrick Loonstra and Sebas van den Brink, and entrepreneurs Lykle de Vries and Rutger van Zuidam, Bitcoin Properly points to the blockchain’s ability to replace trusted third parties, a necessity for worldwide commerce, as the key component in what makes this such a revolutionary discovery.

In a Quarter 3 conference call with investors, CEO of Overstock Patrick Byrne expanded on his plans to team up with Counterparty to create a decentralized stock exchange called Medici. Once developed, Byrne says Medici will be a “tollbooth” between the worlds of traditional finance and crypto finance.

I suspected we were dealing with a whole new breed of medical practice from the very first day.

As happens in all brand-spanking-new industries, the first actors who come to market aren’t vetted yet. The vast majority of merchants in the cryptocurrency space don’t have lengthy records of successful service—in fact, most of them haven’t even existed for more than a year or two. The buyers, too, are all relatively new to the digital money marketplace.

Later today, the first ever cryptocurrency trading fund will close its funding period for its first venture: now, you can allow experts to trade your bitcoins on your behalf, while you watch.

BitAngels has named the winners of its startup competition, which was held earlier this month at the CoinAgenda conference in Las Vegas:

An Australian Silk Road drug dealer was sentenced today to 11 years of prison for commercial trafficking. Local authorities are about to sell at auction nearly 25,000 BTC seized in 2013.

The Uro Foundation announces the expansion of the URO ecosystem at the Urose 2014 Conference, held in Hong Kong on October 29.

The Bitcoin Foundation announced yesterday that Jon Matonis would be stepping down as Executive Director. The position would be filled by Patrick Murck who had formally worked as the Foundation’s General Counsel. The Foundation stated that a new General Counsel would soon be announced.

This week of the Alt-Cracks brings you all the altcoin news that fell through the cracks, as well as a list of all the newly added coins.

Wall of Coins is a new service that gives users the ability to purchase Bitcoin at their local bank. There are a lot of ways to obtain Bitcoin. Buying them from traders or in face-to-face (OTC) are the most common.

While even the Bitcoin Foundation seems to be skeptical of increasing Bitcoin merchant diversity, an existing start-up has come forward to deliver some unadulterated good news on the Bitcoin ecosystem.

What do you get when you cross Dungeons & Dragons with blockchain technology? - A deckmaking fantasy game that rewards its players in actual crypto tokens.

Interview with Mike Gropp, BitBays Co-Founder

Now 2001 Odyssey is upping the discretion to new levels by allowing online patrons to rain money on dancers and pay with Bitcoin.

BitPay’s CEO Stephen Pair recently announced an innovative new program that could very well change the way the internet works on several levels. The new program, called Foxtrot, was designed to give internet users the security and privacy offered by the Bitcoin blockchain technology in everything they do online. While the new system is still in the early stages, foxtrot is currently available for download and BitPay plans on using it to empower their own systems.

Coinbase is launching a multi-signature vault service, finally giving security conscious users an option to control their own private keys and therefore, their own funds.

In a release sent out on Wednesday, cryptocurrency payments processor GoCoin announced it had partnered with ecommerce platform Shopify, whose 120 thousand-plus merchants will now be able to sell to customers in Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin.

The Capitalist versus Communist debate has been going on for generations. As Blockchain economies emerge, the answer becomes “neither” and “both.”

Bay BitHack is more than just a hackathon; it’s a statement of the recent strides that the nascent Bitcoin has made in its evolution towards an understood legitimacy amongst the tech crowd and Bitcoin community.

BitPay and Vaurum announced the addition of a seasoned regulatory adviser. Former Securities and Exchanges Commission Chair Arthur Levitt oversaw the U.S. agency for half a decade and is well-versed in U.S. financial regulations.

Interview with LibraTax CEO, Jake Benson

Popular exchange Bittrex was experimenting with Blackcoin pairs, but today they announced they will be dropping both BlackCoin and Litecoin pairs.

Evgeny Volovik is the head of the Information and Communication Department at Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service Resource Center.

The law, known as “civil asset forfeiture” was structured to not only track deposits made by suspected criminals but to seize them as well. But anyone who knows how bureaucracies operate knows that laws such as this often result in a slippery slope, sweeping up the innocent along with the guilty more often than not. This might not be much of a concern for members of the Bitcoin community except for two things: the IRS ruling that Bitcoin is property instead of currency and Structuring (31 U.S. Code § 5324), also known as “smurfing.”

I studied economics and this doesn’t make sense to me. From an academic standpoint all I see is vast potential for this technology. Here are the top 4 reasons why economists should love Bitcoin:

ATOMIC is a blockchain that seeks to act as a ledger for any and all cross-chain transactions. It’s billed as a Decentralized Autonomous Corporation and can also be used as a decentralized exchange for all cryptocurrencies.

In the last 24 hours, a couple of developments coming out of the US have shaken up American cryptocurrency communities.

A researcher has found that at least one Tor exit node has been acting maliciously.

Investors were happy when CannabisCoin developer Delta9 burned the coin’s premine, but do any questions remain?