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ChangeTip is adding Facebook and Slack to its suite of Social Media apps, but they aren’t quite ready for primetime, yet.

A new paper explores how Bitcoin could transform the way we manage personal life insurance. Namely, the blockchain could provide a global, secure and public record of personal health information.

Bitcoin can offer many solutions to the Middle East, from fostering youth entrepreneurship to enabling farmers to receive loans in the digital currency, says BitOasis’ Ola Doudin.

As most Bitcoin fans know, Roger Ver recently gave up his US Passport, so for the time being he is unable to set foot on US soil. His presence in the US, however, will not be stopped.

The blockchain has been called the “Internet of money.” But what if there were an “Internet of blockchains?”

There is now another, more traditional method of buying PC games with Bitcoin. Green Man Gaming quietly began accepting the digital currency early last month.

Edward Snowden now accepts donations in Bitcoin for his legal defense fund.

Political instability in Greece could elect an anti-austerity party in the coming weeks, looking for new financial solutions, perhaps Bitcoin. With a weakened economy and risk of exit from the euro-zone, the Greek party needs new economic policy to solve the country’s deficit.

Emin Gün Sirer, the Cornell professor who recently said that ChangeTip needed to die a quick death has returned to the offensive on the issue of privacy. ChangeTip CEO Nick Sullivan recently criticized Sirer´s statements saying that it felt “like a charity being yelled at”. What Sullivan did not do though was to explain how ChangeTip could even remotely be considered a “charity”.

Anthony Di Iorio, the founder of the Bitcoin Alliance of Canada (BAC), has resigned from its position as Executive Director and member of the Board to focus on his businesses. He will continue to help support the organization in an advisory position.

I see a lot of cryptocurrency-related press releases. I research many different crypto companies and coins. I comb through a lot of their websites and wikis. It’s part of the job. And about a month ago, Nxt started to stand out to me.

The major cryptocurrency event, Inside Bitcoins, will be held next year in Singapore on January 29-30, 2015.

There has been much conjecture on the role China has played in the rise and fall of Bitcoin’s price. Most in this space recognize that China has been leading the Bitcoin marketplace in terms of trading and volume.

The digital currency wedding industry is taking off with iDIAMONDS offering diamond rings for Bitcoin. Following the first blockchain wedding at Coins in the Kingdom in late 2014, the wedding industry is taking note, as everything from rings to wedding dresses becomes savvy to the spending power of Bitcoin.

At the nexus of North America and Latin America, Miami Beach’s historic Fillmore Theatre will stage The North American Bitcoin Conference (TNABC) on January 16–18, 2015.

The proliferation of BTMs around the world continued last week, even with the Christmas holiday giving billions of us an excuse not to do much work at all.

Bitreserve has become the second largest crowdfunded digital currency company by hitting US$9.5 million in a public Series-B investment round.

Jeff Ward has been welcomed as the new lead UI engineer at TradeBlock, where he will be in charge of optimizing human-computer interactions on the TradeBlock Professional platform.

Bitcoin Analysis from Tone Vays.

Poor cryptocurrency devotees would love to know, are they good investments? Or not? Many believe that a few good soldiers—or maybe many—could endure the storm of investments. But the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute is notorious for offering an unequivocal “appcoins are snakeoil.”

Hashie.co was a cloudmining site that claimed to have over 40,000 users. Its owners disappeared and users are missing their funds, but the scammer has stuck around to tease the victims with an Alternate Reality Game

The Governor of the Reserve Bank of India has said he has “no doubt” that digital currencies will play a role in India’s future society. Drawing a comparison between the rise of debit and credit cards in the country, the Governor argues digital currency will help pave the way to a cashless society.

A few days ago we announced the winners of Cointelegraph’s Christmas Price Prediction contest sponsored by Virtex and EgoPay. It has since come to our attention, however, that those named as winners did not in fact have the closest predictions.

A company based out of New York City called HyprKey aims to accomplish a three-factor level of security that credit cards, Apple Pay, CurrentC and Bitcoin haven’t.

The Federal Reserve Bank in Washington, D.C. has issued a report entitled Bitcoin: Technical Background and Data Analysis. The recently released report, dated October 7, is a technical analysis of Bitcoin and the Bitcoin protocol. While mostly accurate, it contains a number of assumptions and self-serving statements suggesting that, despite a great deal of empirical research and terabytes of data, the Federal Reserve lacks a fundamental understanding of Bitcoin.

Banco Central del Ecuador (BCE) announced it has officially entered into the first phase of the establishment of its own electronic cash system, asking citizens over 18 years old to open an account using their smartphones.

Coinbase has recently been demonstrating why consumer regulation is such a problem.

Here’s a breakdown of the main points of the full piece, written by redditor aliensyntax.

Bitcoin Weekend Roundup from Cointelegraph.

Politicians rarely think about the long-term implications of policy proposals and nowhere is this more evident than in the Russian Federation.