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Much like your Dad whipping out the phrase “YOLO” in front of your friends to prove how hip he is to the kids these days, American politicians are jumping on the Bitcoin bandwagon to show the young-and-cryptocurrency-minded how in touch they are with technology (while, of course, making money at the same time).

Africa is set to receive its long-awaited first Bitcoin ATM this month.

Mastercoin has announced a partnership with Bountysource to continue its expansive development process.

Starting May 25, soccer fans will be able to use Bitcoin to not only buy tickets but also fan gear and refreshments such as beer and hot dogs at the San Jose Earthquakes’ Buck Shaw stadium when they host Houston Dynamo on Sunday.

Stemming from its recent US$30 million investment led by Index Ventures with Richard Branson and Jerry Yang, Bitpay has announced that it will be trebling its workforce.

The American Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued an FAQ sheet to provide guidance on how US taxpayers should report their transactions in Bitcoin, in accordance with the government’s recent decision to treat the cryptocurrency as property instead of money.

David Goode is an artist of portrait and figurative sculptures from bronze who accepts Bitcoin payments in United Kingdom.

Crypto-currency is used to battling an ever-increasing surge of malware infiltration, but now a ‘light-hearted’ example has been causing some Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) users some heartache.

Bitcoin exchange LocalBitcoins.com is struggling to regain functionality as problems with network hardware have crippled its website since Saturday night.

Olivier Janssens who call himself an early digital currency adapter and Bitcoin millionaire recently proposed a $100,000 bounty to develop a software platform that could replace the Bitcoin Foundation.

Gone are the days of laboriously scanning a passport or driver license, saving it to your computer, emailing it off to a Bitcoin exchange, and waiting (as long as it takes) for your identity to be confirmed to go ahead with your trade. Swedish Bitcoin exchange Safello is now making good use of computer vision technology to streamline identity verification for its customers in Sweden and across the rest of Europe, making the purchase of Bitcoin as easy as possible for users.

The storyline in the mainstream media is that Bitcoin is too volatile to be a successful long term currency. While it is true that Bitcoin isn’t as stable as the world’s major currencies, it also has much smaller market and has proven its resiliency over the past few months. Yes, it has fallen over 50 percent from its $1,000+ high, but it has held relatively steady at the $350 - $500 range now, despite numerous exchange failures, media attacks and overzealous regulation in major markets like China and Russia. The story should be about a currency that is only a few years old and only just gained widespread popularity last year and how it has weathered those storms. With that being said, perception is a reality for many people and the perception that Bitcoin is too volatile still exists.

Time to congratulate Brisbane’s residents – Genesis 1 installed the first Bitcoin ATM in Brisbane city, Australia.

While UK chain CeX experiments with Bitcoin-only payments in one of its stores, New Zealand has gone one better with the opening of an online crypto-currency supermarket.

Further to our previous review of ten Bitcoin exchanges’ FAQ and language availability as part of a wider series, we now take a further look at the customer support on offer, as well as the exchanges’ API capabilities.

Lap dances. Horseback rides. Wine tours. A night with a Las Vegas escort. You can buy just about anything with Bitcoin these days. Now, you can add citizenship to that list.

Bitcoin’s block chain has become well known for its use as a public ledger for digital currency transactions. By harnessing a decentralized network that is now more powerful than the top 500 supercomputers combined, it has removed the need for third parties like banks to verify online transactions, vastly reducing the costs of doing business. The extension of this technology has the potential to revolutionize the way people forms contracts, register domain names, and now, even prove ownership of intellectual property.

An ad hoc group of US state regulators - the Emerging Payments Task Force - has begun to draw up the first Bitcoin rule-book according to the head of the group, which aims to protect crypto-currency users from theft and fraud while simultaneously providing much needed guidance amidst the uncertainty and confusion whirling around the nascent industry.

Google Glass and Bitcoin, two technologies that have yet to achieve mainstream appeal in their individual capacities, have crossed paths in a new app called Nod to Pay, which allows Glass users to make payments instantly wherever Bitcoin is accepted.

Popular Dogecoin wallet Doge Vault confirmed its announcement earlier this week that it had been hacked, posting a statement on its website late Thursday that said that nearly three-quarters of its 400 million dogecoins were stolen in the attack last Sunday.

Banks are eyeing Bitcoin’s technology more closely than ever, the community says, as the technology behind it becomes a source for innovation outside crypto-currency.

Peeper Ranch is the largest equestrian facility in Kansas City area that accepts Bitcoin payments.

Belize-based exchange Bitsource.org has announced it will accept Mastercard, Visa and a host of other payment options beginning immediately.

BitPay has just announced a partnership with Toshiba to integrate Bitcoin acceptance into VisualTouch Software.

Energycoin, the ‘energy-saving’ crypto-currency that focuses on saving energy in digital currency transactions, put on a successful launch this week, distributing free shares to over 800 stakeholders in its IPO that ended Wednesday.

Cloud computing provider BizCloud has become one of the first in the field to accept Bitcoin payments for its services.

Coinbase will be giving $10 worth of Bitcoin to students who create a new Coinbase account using their .edu email address. The project was inspired by the MIT Bitcoin Project of MIT reported by Cointelegraph.

The saga of miner manufacturer Butterfly Labs’ troubles continues for its alleged failure to fulfill orders and use of customers’ prepaid machines, and the scale of the problem is becoming apparent.

Bitcoin has received much attention from big name investors recently, and now one has come out to speak about its practical future and likely relationship with fiat currency.

Canadian officialdom’s critical stance on Bitcoin continues, and now it is tangibly affecting components of the Canadian Bitcoin network.