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Another day, another Bitcoin entrepreneur charged with fraud.

Crypto-currency fueled online marketplace CryptoCafe.com is now open to more of the community than ever. The company announced in a press release that users can now use Dogecoin as well as Bitcoin to make purchases.

A user in the r/Bitcoin subreddit shared his wife’s complaints about their house being cold after selling off his Bitcoin miners.

The recent revolution in Ukraine has brought up many questions about the country’s future but produced so few answers.

Today, the embattled CEO of Neo & Bee, Danny Brewster, went to reddit to refute accusations of fraud and embezzlement, which led to the Cypriot police issuing a warrant for his arrest last Friday.

Mark Karpeles, the founder and CEO of Mt.Gox exchange service has refused to come to the USA after receiving a subpoena to give evidence on the bankruptcy case, according to an announcement made by lawyers involved in the matter.

A reddit user recently asked the $800 question: who bought their bitcoins at this higher price, where are these coins now and how do they feel about it?

Cointelegraph had a chance to sit down with David Irvine, CEO, Maidsafe.net limited.

For those that don’t know, Max Keiser is an independent broadcaster with a thrice weekly program on Russia Today, and he appears occasionally on the BBC and elsewhere. He amplifies all the reporting on financial fraud and rages and sneers at the financial terrorists, attempting to educate us about how things really work.

The Bitcoin ATM phenomenon is growing at a rapid pace. Bitcoin ATMs allow clients to convert dollars into their Bitcoin account or withdraw cash from their Bitcoin wallet, without the kinks that come with online transactions. As news pours in daily of the technological advances in Bitcoin ATMs, skeptics of the electronic currency will find it harder to argue with the cheaper models, improved safety, and overall convenience of the machines. Here is a tutorial on the who, what, when, where, and wow of the Bitcoin ATMs popping up across the globe.

Akalanani Itirleng has been named Botswana’s first Bitcoiner. She believes that the fledgling digital currency has the potential to lift her country out of the current economic quagmire and abject poverty that plagues most sub-saharan African nations.

“It’s a challenge to change people perception of money.” -Stefan Molyneux

The seasonal veggie frenzy intensifies in Spring/ Autumn when we all strive to get hold of more vitamins and minerals to improve our health and spirits.

Digital currency is no longer just for IT developers and progressive merchants. People in the arts and showbusiness more and more often are choosing it both as a tool in everyday life and to promote their works and albums sales.

Danny Brewster, the CEO of Neo & Bee - the first physical portal for exchanging Bitcoins - is wanted by the Cyprus police on suspicion of fraud.

Bitcoin got a humorous makeover this week with a sketch on CollegeHumor dedicated to it. The site is one of the most well-known in online comedy trafficking over 7 unique million visitors monthly.

When you hear the term “software developer,” one usually thinks of brilliant-minded 20-something techies arduously pounding away on their keyboards and playing billiards on their breaks at some gleaming campus in Cupertino or Mountain View, Silicon Valley.

Artistically expressive and aesthetically beautiful cold storage is now available from CryptoArt.com. This is an ambitious and innovative project where developers and artist collaborate as purveyors of fine art paper wallets for Bitcoin.

For this year, the annual The Europas: European Tech-Startup Awards has introduced a new category for “Best virtual currency startup.” This year, the event will take place on June 10 in London.

Today, at the Boao Forum for Asia 2014, the President of the Central Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, announced: “Bitcoin is more like tradable assets rather than payment currency, the issue of PBOC banning it or not doesn’t ever exist.”

As Bitcoin education attracts more and more interest each day, almost everyone wants to know what Bitcoin really is, how it works and what the future holds for this crypto-currency.

The Internet Party, an unregistered political party in New Zealand founded by German-Finnish entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, earlier this year, has made clear that, along with cheaper internet and more tech jobs, the party wants to introduce a cryptocurrency for international transactions that would work in parallel with the existing New Zealand dollar.

“A picture is worth a 1000 words” goes the old saying. But for LA artist Alex Schaefer, a picture is worth a few visits by the Los Angeles Police Department, an arrest, and a spike in sales of the painter’s works.

National Australia Bank (NAB) terminates account processing for Bitcoin operators such as exchangers, trading platforms and other units of the online economy.

Ben Dyson from Positive Money has recently wrote a critical piece on Bitcoin’s “3 Fatal Design Flaws” for a panel debate at the O2 in London.

The plethora of altcoins appearing on the market is unceasing and may even seem endless to some users. And if yesterday’s Bitcoin Conference in New York was anything to go by, the features they provide could allow customers to do almost anything.

Ideas populated by Kim Dotcom (Kim Schmitz) very often resemble pranks; on April 1st the doubts double. On the Internet Party the multifaceted talent voiced the necessity to create a local state-backed up cryptographic currency that will co-exist with the present fiat NZ dollars.

eBay is the most popular online auction and marketplace in the world. Its first version was founded in the mid-nineties by Pierre Omidyar.

Bitcoin’s move into mainstream in the US is happening now – and it’s starting with pizza in Reno, Nevada.

Davi Barker is highly active in advocating Bitcoin as a real alternative. One of the driving forces behind Bitcoin Not Bombs with M. K. Lords, whom Cointelegraph also interviewed this week, he is paving the way for greater consumer understanding – and not just at home in the US.