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The notorious “Bitcoin Baron” hacker has been remanded in custody in Arizona following a six-month police investigation.

Infosys Ltd., an Indian IT multinational developer of Finacle, has started to work on ways of incorporating the blockchain into its core banking software.

Startup accelerator Startupbootcamp FinTech, announced on Monday the top 10 finalists to join its Singapore program, among which are blockchain-based startups Otonomos, CryptoSigma and DeBuNe.

Bitrefill is connecting bitcoin to the second-most modern form of electronic money — prepaid phone credits. The service lets users punch in their mobile number, select the amount they wish to add, and then pay in bitcoin.

U.S. Customs personnel may seize electronic devices “without a warrant and without suspicion,” download their entire contents, and declare the right to confiscate digital currency holdings.

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The big news in bitcoin lending has always been the removal of the bank. Services like BTCJam facilitate peer-to-peer (P2P) loans using borrowers’ real-world identities.

Hillary Clinton has not followed in Rand Paul’s footsteps to accept bitcoin donations; BTCGAW.com is accused of fraud and intimidation; and more news.

The Philippines’ first Bitcoin exchange, Buybitcoin.ph, has been sold to resident universal Bitcoin service Satoshi Citadel Industries (SCI) with a view to expanding remittances in the country.

As someone who’s gotten two mothers to use Bitcoin, I thought I’d offer up a few tips on what seems to entice the maternal amongst us.

Blockchain is just a distributed ledger, a database of sorts. Being simplistic, games can be thought as a database too, one with a very fancy UI. Why would any game need the blockchain?

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) could become an important pillar for Bitcoin in the near future, as director of the MIT Media Lab Joi Ito has proposed hosting a Bitcoin standards body at the institution.

While Bitcoin pundits were sure 2014 was going to be the year Wall Street came to Bitcoin, their predictions may have been a year too early.

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Cointelegraph has assembled a research report on the regulatory environment for cryptocurrency across the globe.

Thai police have arrested four executives of UFun Store Co. Ltd., a business that operates an alleged pyramid scheme.

It is quite common to argue that Bitcoin violates a king’s or nation’s privilege: the mint. We heard less noise when another public monopoly, the mail postal service, was privatized.

Cointelegraph has assembled a research report on the regulatory environment for cryptocurrency across the globe.

The Internet is one of the most underestimated inventions. At the very moment when it seems it has come to a point beyond which it can offer something new, the new appears.

After Rand Paul became the first major presidential candidate to accept bitcoin, some users theorized that the move could be used by his opponents to attack him.

With no banks or international payment systems currently servicing the 3.8 million residents living in secessionist territories of eastern Ukraine, Bitcoin transfers remain one of the few options.

Finnish company Denarium, owner of the country’s largest exchange Bittiraha.fi and ATM network Bittimaatti, has announced an international rollout of “next generation” physical bitcoins.

Foldapp is a website that allows you to get 20% off Starbucks purchases by paying with Bitcoin. They are looking to expand to other retail companies that accept gift cards.

JP Morgan Chase & Co., the largest bank in America and one of the world’s major provider of financial services, recently issued its 2014 annual report.

New Jersey has clarified the position of merchants accepting bitcoin as payment; mobile operator Orange is searching out digital currency start-ups in Silicon Valley; GAW mining sued for US$500,000 and more news

PayPal has formally indicated that its merchants may now begin accepting bitcoin as one of their integrated payment methods.

The elephant in the room of any discussion about the future of Internet is the mesh network. How can we bypass the faulty mega-ISP model, and network peer-to-peer (P2P) instead?

Knowledge-sharing network Liberty.me’s embracing of cryptocurrency continues today with the third of the service’s celebrity Bitcoin podcasts.

If bitcoin acceptance reaches a critical mass where necessities of food, shelter, and clothing can be bought with it, it will likely have reached a tipping point where it displaces national currencies.

Max Keiser is the co-founder of StartJOIN, a crowdfunding platform and launch pad for business ideas and projects that leverages on cryptocurrency such as StartCOIN and Bitcoin.