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You must have at least wondered once “How does Cointelegraph do their artwork?” Surely it’s not just the Bitcoin’s sub-redditers asking. We sure get asked this a lot: think Cointelegraph, think illustrations.

As the final legal chapters close on Ross Ulbricht’s Silk Road website held within the “Dark Web”, the proliferation of many, many more dark markets is making in-ternational news.

Considering the varying patchwork of today’s global regulatory landscape regarding cryptocurrency, Bitcoin’s greatest ally will not be a judge but technological innovation that will enable it to be one step ahead of anti-competitive laws and unfriendly jurisdictions.

Sam Patterson from the OpenBazaar core team released a user interface demo prototype this week with configurations, customizations and samples.

London’s FinTech scene continues to boom as startup iwoca raises £20 Million; ING Netherlands has rolled voice-activated payments within its mobile banking app; and more news

The first live release of the Ethereum project called “Ethereum Frontier” was released this week, but leaked communications between developers suggest that the project’s future may be under question.

President Obama has released an executive order entitled “Creating a national strategic computing initiative” issuing demands to build the world’s first exascale computing system

Visa Europe’s Collab has begun searching for bitcoin startups within the digital payments scene with the hopes of creating “an Apple App Store” of Bitcoin startups.

Mark Karpeles has been under investigation by Japanese authorities since Febru-ary of 2014 and is soon expected to face charges of fraud at Mt. Gox.

The Tokyo police is reportedly charging former Mark Karpelès on suspicions of fraud; the long-awaited app network Ethereum has finally launched, and more news.

Bitcoin to Ripple gateway service btc2ripple.com has announced it is cutting service for its US customers from September.

In a crowded marketplace, businesses are developing innovative features to differentiate their offers from the rest, and attract the investment.

In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, technology consulting firm Accenture directors Owen Jelf and Sigrid Seibold argued that blockchain technology will reshape the financial sector.

A British Reddit user wishing to thank a fellow-user in the US got drunk and mistakenly bought £300 worth of pizza for strangers in the States using bitcoin.

Rick Perry says Bitcoin needs “regulatory breathing room”; George Gilder calls Bitcoin “the Gold of the Internet” and more news.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron supported the new FinTech manifesto.

A former senior White House advisor has become the latest authority to speak out in favor of Bitcoin and blockchain technology.

Benjamin Lawsky denied allegations from the Bitcoin community suggesting he created the BitLicense as a setup for his newly established legal firm, The Lawsky Group.

Funderbeam, an Estonian company that offers data-intelligence on startups for angel investors, has announced it will launch a blockchain based trading platform for startup-investment.

In another splash into the Bitcoin space for Microsoft, the tech giant’s Civic Innovation team organized a Bitcoin event in New York earlier this week.

The following article was chosen for publication as part of Cointelegraph’s Super Writer contest

Benjamin Lawsky claimed he is not working in the digital currency space; a new CoinTape service lets Bitcoin users find optimum transaction fees, and more news.

Blythe Masters has spoken out in support of the “gigantic potential” of Bitcoin and blockchain technology.

The problem of spying in Internet is about to be solved due to Hornet.

American National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three year grant worth US$162,117 for research on the science and applications of cryptocurrency.

The following article was submitted as part of Cointelegraph’s Super Writers Contest

Ethereum has announced the official release date of the first ‘Frontier’ version, and provided a specific ‘how to’ guide for setting up mining clients, clarifying some confusion about the release process.

Peter Randall and Anthony Culligan have announced to launch blockchain startup SETL.

Bitcoin growth is outpacing that of the early stage internet by almost 25%; an Estonian Angel List service will utilize Bitcoin’s blockchain and more news.

Digital payments processor Stripe has announced “collaboration” with Visa following a US$5 billion dollar valuation.