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In the run up to his appearance at the Virtual Crypto Summit, Cointelegraph spoke to Roger Ver who said 2015 will be the year Bitcoin integrates with the traditional finance system, the Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF probably won’t be the first and more.

Education and bitcoin seem to be on a roll. First, there was Canada’s McGill University students receiving free bitcoins and bitcoin education. Next, there was a Princeton professor giving free Bitcoin classes in a virtual classroom.

Jon Matonis and Roger Ver on the solutions Bitcoin offers to the gaming industry, Bitreserve’s Halsey Minor announces new customer, and ‘decentralized gaming’ with Credits.

Darkleaks’ black market for data, Inside Bitcoins coming to Berlin, 600 merchants in Austria started selling Bitcoin over night, BitPay partnering with Adyen, and much more news that happened on February 4.

Chinese exchange OKCoin is looking to develop a stronger community and will be multiplying initiatives both locally and on social media to raise Bitcoin awareness and promote its brand within the industry, Emily Shanahan, international marketing manager at OKCoin, told Cointelegraph.

Large European companies may eye Bitcoin as an option for securing their data and keeping it private from the United States, reports the Logistics Viewpoints blog.

The operator of Austria’s first Bitcoin ATM, Coinfinity, has unveiled a voucher scheme enabling Bitcoin to be purchased from over 600 merchants nationwide.

Continuing the largest Bitcoin event series worldwide, Inside Bitcoins is headed to Berlin March 5-6, 2015 with Cointelegraph as the official media sponsor.

The future of the African economy is closely connected to digital money. The potential and opportunities of using cryptocurrencies on the continent will be the focus of a special event, organized by ON21 in partnership with the Global Entrepreneurship Center, where thought leaders in entrepreneurship, finance, and nascent digital currency systems will gather in New York City on February 4.

Another week, another chance to catch up with the best Cointelegraph news in the most entertaining of ways thanks to MadBitcoins.

The Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) announces new digital currency features, including the so-called “World of Bitcoin” exhibit showcase, at industry’s major event, Transact 15.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation just released the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. It features 1 GB of RAM and will perform “at least 6x” faster than the previous model, the B+. It sells for about US$35 and can be bought for bitcoin.

Facebook, Spotify, and Airbnb are among thousands of merchants who may accept Bitcoin after Bitpay’s integration with giant payment processor Adyen.

Andreas Antonopoulos blocked from being an expert witness at the Silk Road trial, Bitpay proposes new protocol to create zero-confirmation instant payments, Capetown to host first Afircan Bitcoin conference and much more news that happened on February 2.

Swedish Bitcoin mining outfit KnCMiner has announced closure of a US$15million series B funding round led by Accel Partners, as well as existing and private investors.

The popular Bitcoin wallet Blockchain.info, which was targeted by a white hacker late last year, is boosting its security lineup. Kristov Atlas, of Open Bitcoin Privacy Project is joining Blockchain.info as Security Engineer. He accepted the position in December.

NXT is showing off a voting system that could in the near future be used to create a new breed of democratic charities and organizations. The coming 1.5 NRS update will launch the voting system on the NXT TestNet and will also come with two-phase transactions. Additionally, the legal incorporation of the NXT Foundation should be coming sometime this week.

Mobile apps and touch-screen POS software programs are changing the US tipping culture, as ChangeTip changes tipping in the cryptocurrency world.

Block.io, SoChain and Dogechain.info will each diversify the scope and outreach of the Cointelegraph Media Group. New consumers in new areas of industry will now benefit from the best news and opinion that the cryptocurrency community has to offer through Cointelegraph.com and its international subsidiaries and partners.

The first Bitcoin conference to take place in Africa will be held in Cape Town this year, on April 16 and 17.

Arnhem Bitcoincity has enrolled its fiftieth participant. The newest addition to the impressive list of brick and mortar locations to accept bitcoin in the Dutch city of Arnhem is a local dentist by the name of C.A. Sriram.

Bitpay proposes zero confirmation solution for faster Bitcoin transactions and introduces clearing operator between the two interacting parties. Bitpay has taken aim at solving the issue of slow confirmations on the Bitcoin network by proposing an open-standard “Impulse” system based on multiple payment channels. Designed to be “as trustless as possible,” the network would gather immediately available funds through previously confirmed payment channels.

Bitcoin Analysis from Cointelegraph.

Banking suspension for Bitcoin service in Poland, Google news feed partnership with Coinbase, Antonopoulos called up for Silk Road trial, and many other events in Cointelegraph news roundup for Sunday 1st February.

According to a study conducted by Coin Center using Google Consumer Surveys, around 65 % of Americans have no idea what Bitcoin is. Of the respondents who said they knew what Bitcoin was, more than 80 % said they have never used it.

A new study reports that over the last four years, approximately US$11 million in Bitcoin has been stolen from its rightful owners in one way or another. While this may leave you feeling a bit sorry for Bitcoin users, closer examination reveals that they actually came out far, far ahead of dollar users, who suffered a whopping US$4 trillion theft during the same four years.

Bitcoin Weekend Roundup from Cointelegraph.

Coinbase used to be great. You signed up with an email address, bought bitcoins with dollars, or sold bitcoins for dollars. It was pretty simple. I recommended their service to literally every person who ever asked me how to buy Bitcoin.

The Silk Road trial is heating up as sittings have entered the third week. Most importantly, the first hints of an alleged murder-for-hire plot are now surfacing, while the Federal prosecutors have added new proof to the already overwhelming stack of evidence suggesting Ross Ulbricht and Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR) are one and the same.

Google has added Coinbase support to their Google Now app, enabling Android users to receive updates about Bitcoin price fluctuations and other information about their Coinbase accounts in a card via their phone.