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Itson.me allows users to pay for literal drinks, coffee or food at local restaurants from anywhere in the world. Soon, it will be incorporating cryptocurrencies.

In light of Alibaba’s success story, the chief administrative authority of the People’s Republic of China, the State Council, is looking to boost entrepreneurship and attract venture capital funds to lift Chinese startups.

The US Dollar, which has been in a massive uptrend since July 2014, has been sliding in recent days after last week’s Federal Reserve meeting. It is now being assumed by market pundits that the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates later than expected.

NASDAQ has agreed to provide the New York-based startup Noble Markets the core technology to power a marketplace for trading bitcoins, Russia’s Ministry of Finance is expected to take measures against the usage of monetary surrogates such as bitcoin, and more top stories for March 24.

Dutch bitcoin and altcoin brokerage Anycoin Direct expands its instant buying and selling service to an additional fourteen – predominantly Eastern European – countries. The move is the result of a new partnership by Anycoin Direct with the European payment institution TrustPay.

Paybase and GAW Miners founder Josh Garza has defended accusations his exchange has “gone full Mt Gox” after withdrawals were suspended without notice for a week.

Cointelegraph launches a dedicated site for Greek crypto news as the importance of digital currencies grows around the world.

Cyber•Fund says that Bitcoin will lead to a new cybernetic economy. In a quirky new report, the fund explores how far along this new economy has come and makes some interesting predictions.

A global trading competition with a 20 BTC funded trading account as a prize begins 23 March

Once upon a time, transactions between people were more or less done in person. The druggist you bought methamphetamine from at the pharmacy (yes, meth) had a name and a face. The chap you bought a car from had a name and a face, too. So did the florist, grocer, doctor, mechanic, and everyone else you might transact with.

Speaking at the All-Russian Banking Conference, Deputy Minister of Finance Alexey Mioseev stated that the bill proposing penalties for using “monetary surrogates” will finally become law this year.

Synereo, a next generation decentralized and distributed social network, will commence its crowdsale of AMPS on March 23, 2015 at 8:00 PM GMT.

Brazillian Bitcoiner will attempt to place the BTC flag at the Everest base-camp; the 50th Bitcoin obituary has been recorded in the press; Koinify teams up with Clef for a new form of secure 2FA and other top stories for March 23.

Antiwar.com, an alternative media organization that has been covering war crimes and American interventionism for over a decade, was recently dropped by Google adsense. The context advertising service claims Antiwar.com has displayed content that was “too gory.”

Bitt, the Caribbean’s first bitcoin exchange company, is looking to provide more efficient and cost-effective payment solutions to the region’s locals.

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Fresh Bitcoin start-up Zebpay recently held their launch event called “The Future of Money” in Ahmedabad on March 19, 2015.

Bitcoin and the Indian market being a rare combination, especially after early central bank dis-approval makes Sunny Ray and Sathvik Vishwanath, the co-founders of Unocoin, amongst the few in the league of Bitcoin entrepreneurs in India.

Even the contact information listed for MasterCard in their annual SEC report seems old-fashioned.

South Korea’s development during the last half century has been nothing short of spectacular.

Intel has posted a job announcement for a new researcher to join its special innovation projects group to investigate decentralized ledgers, Ukraine will block the Bitcoin accounts of separatists in the country’s east, and more top stories for March 20.

ChangeTip, the crypto-coin micropayment service that allows users to send tips across the internet is coming to Twitch.tv, the San Francisco-based company announced in a press release.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently surveyed its readers on what they thought of Bitcoin. The survey came after a WSJ MoneyBeat poll revealed that 83 % of respondents believed “there is a future for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.”

Ukraine will block the Bitcoin accounts of “separatists” in the country’s east. Such was the statement of the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Valentyn Nalyvaychenko.

The rise of online drug markets have led to a new form of drug dealing. Rather than gravitating to dark alleyways, dealing can now be done sitting in bed in one’s underwear. That doesn’t mean drug dealing is any less of a risky businesses though. People get cheated all the time. Case in point: on Tuesday, leaders of Evolution, one of the largest online drug markets, shuttered the drug market and ran off with all user funds.

Ledgers of information shower us with examples from the past. The Bitcoin blockchain is no different. Indeed, it shares many parallels with both the printing press and the Babylonian cuneiform. When we study these artifacts, we can get a glimpse of what Bitcoin as an information technology will bring.

Juniter’s prediction of 5 million Bitcoin users by 2019 sounds lackluster, but if current activity in Africa is sustained, it could also be proven meaningless.

Christopher Ellis sits down with Cointelegraph for an in-depth interview on ProTip, the present and future of Independent media and more.

A week ago, many Bitcoin enthusiasts were watching and waiting for the cryptocurrency to once again cross the US$300 per BTC price point. 7 days later, and price is down to as low as US$250.

Airbitz has developed a way to make two-factor authentication (2FA) “dirt simple” for everyone. The mobile wallet provider has invented a one-step process that merges the functionality of an app like Google Authenticator directly into their Bitcoin wallet.