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One of the stated goals of the Bitcoin Foundation is to assist members of the Bitcoin community in getting legal help.

The Cryptocoin Revival Foundation took over lead development on Quarkbar and then discovered over 15 million Quarkbar that were not a part of the original blockchain.

The problem with mixing money and online publishing, it now appears with 20-20 hindsight, is that dollars simply represent the wrong economic paradigm: they are the medium of impersonal, low-resolution transaction economies, not highly personal, high-resolution relationship economies.

Online cryptocurrency marketplace Bitcoin Shop has announced that its head, Charles Allen, has been appointed to the advisory board of payment processor GoCoin.

While Africa’s first Bitcoin ATM is installed in Johannesburg, the city is also host to a company that allows its electricity customers to use Bitcoin to top up their prepaid meters.

In a statement released Thursday, data center developer Server Farm Realty announced that the company would begin accepting Bitcoin payments.

Open-source encryption program TrueCrypt appears to have been compromised, with a strange website update warning users that the product was no longer secure and distributing a new version of the software that some analysts called suspicious.

Experts’ average prediction for Bitcoin exchange rate

The Argentinean Central Bank has joined the ranks of other central banks across the globe to issue a warning on cryptocurrencies.

Italy’s first Bitcoin ATM was a Lamassu machine, installed in Udine, a northeastern city nestled between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea.

It’s all the rage in politics. Democrats are doing it. Federal-level politicians are doing it, and state-level politics are trying to get on it too. Hell, even some Republicans are taking a stab at it.

Fresh off a funding round of US$200,000 from business accelerator 500 Startups, the newly incorporated Neuroware has set out to rapidly develop “full-stack turn-key solutions for digital currencies” and blockchain apps.

If a blockchain can facilitate peer-to-peer transactions without a central authority, the same can be done for contracts: Two people can agree upon something and enforce it with cryptography.

In an exclusive to Cointelegraph, 58 high-flyers from the Bitcoin community attending Amsterdam Bitcoin2014, predict where Bitcoin will be on Christmas day 2014. While some experts compared the task to attempting to forecast the weather on Christmas day – the time of year gives us a pretty good indication what the weather will be doing, and the predictions of some of our experts make a lot of sense given the current Bitcoin climate.

NYC Bitcoin Center is fast becoming a mecca for hip Bitcoin-related events with the launch of a contemporary art exhibition by Jenna Lush this week.

Imagine a city where every business accepts Bitcoin. Walk down the street and buy a hot dog from a street vendor, enjoy a few beers at the pub next door, and take a cab home – all paid for with cryptocurrency. No more coins jangling around in your pocket, no more credit card or overdraft fees.

Thought Bitcoin was a currency? Think again…Definitions are useful. They help us understand what we are talking about and by being specific and precise we can understand more about our actions and our behaviour. So let’s look at Bitcoin and find out what Bitcoin really is.

Now that bitcoins are trading at more than US$500 again, there has been renewed interest among speculators and cryptocurrency users slightly higher up the left side of the adoption curve.

Vault of Satoshi, the Canadian based exchange of Bitcoin, Litecoin, Peercoin and various fiat currencies, is dropping all of its trading and deposit fees starting today until Canada Day weekend on July 1st.

A new player serving the youthful US legal cannabis industry is rising – and this time, it seems the sky’s the limit.

As previously reported by the Cointelegraph, Dark Wallet is an ambitious project that is aiming to provide a higher level of anonymity for users and change the way you look at privacy. It has even been named by Wired magazine as the top technology that could make Bitcoin “far more anonymous.”

Today is an historic moment for Cointelegraph – with much excitement, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Spanish version of our website.

California-based hair stylist Bee Bond has announced that she is now accepting Bitcoin for cuts, color, and all your hair-based needs.

QuickCoin is taking its shot at mainstream Bitcoin adoption with the launch of an app which allows BTC transfers to be made on Facebook.

Was Bitcoin’s spectacular surge in November 2013 the result of fraudulent market manipulation by a bot that serious traders are calling “Willy”?

Beer! Music! Bitcoin! At the Budweiser Made in American festival this August, you’ll be able to combine all three.

The Danish cryptocurrency exchange we covered last week, CCEDK, launched Monday. To promote the exchange’s commitment to “transparency as the new way of doing business,” founder Ronny Boesing made available a starting volume of 1000 bitcoins.

In April, the think tank Overseas Development Institute that Africans lose out on $1.8 billion every year to remittance transfer fees.

Well, this is ironic. At least one leaked copy of upcoming console game Watch Dogs (whose main character is a hacker) apparently contains Bitcoin mining malware. If you’re stealing video games, this virus will steal computer processing power from you!

Now that federal-level political candidates have gotten the all-clear (more or less) from the Federal Election Commission to accept Bitcoin, state-level candidates want into the cool kids’ club too.