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Coinbase joins powerful DC special interest group “The Internet Association” alongside Google and EBay. Coinapult teams up with Factom in technical collaboration. Internet sleuth tracks down one winner of the Federal Marshall’s Bitcoin auction, and much more news that happened on March 11.

Popular chatter has it that Bitcoin will be most helpful to people in “developing countries,” because they’re “unbanked” and “undocumented.” Poor souls.

Proof that Bitcoin can empower the minority, independent of political will or regulatory circumstance, is coming to light in 2015 – in Cuba.

T-Mobile Poland has entered into a partnership with local payment processor InPay S.A, allowing customers to top-up their cellphone credit using bitcoins.

The world’s most visited Bitcoin news site has decided to implement a deal section full of “exclusive” offers. The problem is, they don’t accept Bitcoin and the offers don’t appear to be exclusive.

Bitcoin is a virus spreading with no cure. It transmits itself through the ideas of others and travels via digital networks of information. Eating up the processing power of computer systems and decaying the roots of analog money, Bitcoin is the spread of a benevolent virus.

FibreCoin, which has been a member of the Blocknet community since October 2014, developers of anon-centric OS, and anti-key-logger password interface, has left the 2.0 platform to join the SuperNET.

Secretive Bitcoin company 21 Inc., becomes the world’s most funded digital currency startup, founders of Counterparty announce the first issuance and trading platform for “smart securities,” former JP Morgan Chase & Co. executive and high-profile Wall Street banker joins digital currency startup, and more top stories for March 11.

BitPay the Bitcoin payment processor continues building on its relationship with Ayden, the payment processor behind AirBnB, Facebook, Uber, Spotify and Facebook. Its latest integration is with 3D Hubs.

21 Inc., formerly 21e6, announced it had raised US$116m in venture capital, the largest investment yet accumulated by a startup in the digital currency industry.

A list was recently published by the Crypto Economics Consulting Group (CECG) of all the dangerous men who are currently (or may soon be) in prison for bitcoin-related crimes.

Every major global currency is down against the US dollar for the past 200 days. This has been intentionally engineered by central banks and governments in order to stimulate their weak economies by devaluing their currencies in order to become competitive in global trade.

When it comes to Bitcoin regulation, Africa is uncharted territory. Indeed, none of the 54 African countries makes it to any of the legality-of-bitcoin-by-country lists found online.

Factom and Tether enter into a partnership to share each other’s Bitcoin 2.0 tech, Reddit announces that its merchandise store is now accepting bitcoin, and more top stories for March 10.

Surreptitious mining ware planted on user PCs by torrent site uTorrent has created a backlash and could even be behind this week’s 3000% increase in Bitcoin Wikipedia requests.

The Walker Sands 2015 Future of Retail survey of 1,400 online consumers across the United States found that study participants consider mobile wallets and applications the least secure form of payment, ranking behind personal checks and cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

A group of six researchers from the City University of New York, Princeton University and Stanford University, released a paper on March 8, introducing the first threshold signature scheme compatible with Bitcoin’s ECDSA signatures.

Nowadays, we deal with computer networks all the time. We chat and talk on networks. We get in-formation on networks and we spend our free time on networks. Perhaps we even get our food from networks. Not only do we use these networks, but we have come to fully rely on them. It’s getting tough to live these days without an internet connection and a mobile phone and at the same time these networks are becoming an integral part of our lives.

Even though we may make the argument bitcoin is a poor store of wealth, as some have recently contested, could it simultaneously be a valid hedge against economic uncertainty?

With a service based around the idea earning Bitcoins by telling new people about the world of digital currency, Share The Bitcoin has been expanding the user base of Bitcoin itself since its arrival in 2014.

µTorrent has pulled a controversial LiteCoin mining program from its latest update to the popular torrenting client in face of strong protests. 10,000 Spanish ATMs will now pay out Euros in exchange for Bitcoin following a partnership with BTCPoint. MIT Bitcoin Expo wraps up with glimpse of the future over discussion of threshold signatures, and other top stories for March 9.

A bill aimed at getting the state of Utah to accept bitcoin for states services passes its first reading in the Senate. The bill has now passed its first Senate reading having already passed through the House of Representatives with a slim majority of 38 Yes votes against 36 No’s.

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In the chatter about the “decentralization of all the things,” one hears about many exciting ideas: self-owning cars, peer-to-peer lending networks, and even mesh nets. The demands for replacements of existing centralized systems grows stronger by the day.

March 8 is synonymous around the world as International Women’s Day, and as of 2015 cryptocurrency now has its own version, Bitcoin Women’s Day, with sponsorship from major players including BitPay and the Bitcoin Foundation.

Miles Kimball, who is a Professor of Economics and Survey Research at the University of Michigan tells Cointelegraph about negative interest rates, the future of paper and electronic money, and how cryptocurrrency fits in.

There is an old joke to the effect that you will always know a Kenyan in a foreign city because the first thing they will ask right at the airport is where they can find an M-Pesa agent in town. Of course, this is an exaggeration, but it goes to show how the service is entrenched in Kenyan society.

A group of researchers in miTLS team have found a new vulnerability in the SSL/TLS protocol. This vulnerability is called FREAK, and it concerns Apple and Android users. The remedy has not been found yet, but decentralized networks on the blockchain model could prevent similar cyber security attacks in the future.

Abine and Coinbase are using Blur to give Bitcoin users the ability to shop anywhere MasterCard is accepted. The service also comes with enhanced privacy tools.