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French investment banking firm AXA is eying to use bitcoin for remittances; Australia-based Bitcoin mining operator Bitcoin Group is closer to being listed on the Australian stock exchange ASX, and more news

The original online payment platform, PayPal, has decided to leave the populous island of Puerto Rico next month. The US territory has imposed a 2 percent take on any money transmission, forcing Paypal’s hand.

As those in the finance industry are just now starting to realize, Bitcoin and its associated technology can be a boon to faster, more efficient business

Research indicates that blackmailers may have extracted thousands of dollars in bitcoin from those seeking to buy silence in the Ashley Madison hack and more news

Ethereum took its first steps towards simplifying its user experience this week with the release of an EthereumWallet beta, a RushWallet version for the Bitcoin 2.0 platform.

Cointelegraph spoke with Dumitriu Gabi, the founder of Cryptospaceinitiative.org, an organization that aims to create the first “constellation of satellites” running a grid network in space

Bitcoin never had a clear future, but it looks even cloudier in the midst of the unpleasant, yet weirdly magnetic, blocksize debate.

Safaricom, the mobile network operator behind M-Pesa has released an Application Programming Interface (API) for all developers who want to create solutions tied directly into their payment systems.

Sonny Singh, the CCO of BitPay looks to build a coalition of leading Bitcoin com-panies to boost Bitcoin’s public image and bring Bitcoin’s talents to the masses.

Simon Dixon, entrepreneur, former investment banker and author of the book Bank to the Future, explained in an interview with Epicenter Bitcoin that our financial problems are derived from money.

CoinWallet ran a “stress pre-test” on the Bitcoin network in preparation for the real “stress test” next week, the MtGox story might be adapted as a movie, and more news

There have been many smaller mainstream uses of the public recording infor-mation into Bitcoin’s Blockchain.

Over the past year, investment money has been flowing out of China’s markets at a record pace, creating great instability in not just China, but globally

The latest version of California’s “BitLicense” adds new reporting requirements to licensed businesses, Coinbase expands its services to Singapore, and more top stories for September 3.

The world’s number one user-edited reference guide, Wikipedia, has suffered an extortion scandal due to “undisclosed paid advocacy.”

Bitcoin developers representing some 90 percent of the commits to Bitcoin Core in the last years have written and signed an open letter to the Bitcoin community and more news

The developers of Darkwallet, the intentionally controversial and OBPP award winning Privacy Bitcoin client are believed to have abandoned the project.

Shaun Bridges, former US agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration plead guilty on August 31 to charges of wire fraud and money laundering.

Benson Samuel is the CTO & Co-Founder of Coinsecure, a start-up focusing on solving the liquidity problem of bitcoin in India.

Former Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges plead guilty to stealing over US$800,000; a Goldman Sachs global investment research analyst praised blockchain technology, and more news

Time is money. Which is why Indian startup SearchTrade is looking to change how the Internet functions today by rewarding people with bitcoin for their time spent using search engines.

Ukraine may soon legalize Bitcoin. The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) is seriously looking into the possibilities of implementing Bitcoin’s technology into the financial system according to Ukraine’s Bitcoin Foundation (BFU).

Barclays announced that it will allow people to make donations to charities in bitcoin; bitcoin exchanges and wallet companies are developing strategies to deal with the CoinWallet’s upcoming “stress test”, and more news

The U.S. and Cuba transact in bitcoin, Coin (the all-in-one credit card) has revealed the second iteration of its card, Coinbase allows users to purchase bitcoin with debit and credit cards, and more top stories from this week in FinTech.

Bitpay Chief Commercial Officer Sonny Singh led a discussion about bitcoin, the importance of the block chain technology to banks and the rapid growth in VC investments

The battle rages on within the Bitcoin community on how to move forward with potential hard fork changes designed to accommodate larger block sizes.

Bitcoin mining pools BTCChina, BitFury, KnCMiner and 21 Inc. are now publicly backing Core developer Jeff Garzik’s BIP100 block size limit proposal, and more top stories for August 28.

Cointelegraph spoke with Genesis Mining head Marco Streng on the current state of the mining industry, the Life Inside a Bitcoin Mine project that aims to make cloud mining transparent, and how he sees the Bitcoin industry moving forward.

Data intelligence provider Funderbeam is set to launch the world’s first blockchain based investment trading platform over the next few months, through a partnership with colored coins developer ChromaWay.

California is working to stop businesses from moving out of the state in its version of the BitLicense; Patrick Byrne signs US$30M deal to bridge the gap between Bitcoin technology and Wall Street; and more news