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It was a long time ago in a place far away from home. The classical banking system was still in full charge of all financial stuff and no one was even questioning their de-facto authority. It was during these ancient days back in 2007 where I was a young and innocent student that simply did what most compliant, hard-working and smart students do: Move abroad to the United States to go for some months of paid internship in “prospering” Detroit for a big car manufacturer.

At the end of October, Cointelegraph and Epicenter Bitcoin announced their partnership. Every Saturday, we have been bringing you weekly summaries of the latest EB episode, recently covering shows with David Johnston, Daniel Peled, Arianna Simpson, and other important figures in the Bitcoin space.

An unnamed employee of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) who allegedly used the organization’s supercomputers to mine bitcoins at two different universities should be “debarred,” recommends the most recent NSF semiannual report to Congress.

The newly renamed Bitcoin Bowl is due to kick off December 26, with the UCF Knights playing North Carolina State—and ticket sales for the event have been unprecedented.

In a growing trend, Bitcoin exchanges have recently begun expanding their business into mining. An example of this is the BTC mining pool recently launched by BTC China, which now accounts for 7% of all hashing power. Another China-based newcomer is Digcoin — a Bitcoin mining company owned by the Beijing based Huobi exchange.

Would you like to attend the Texas Bitcoin Conference, courtesy of Cointelegraph? Watch the video to view the riddle provided by CT General Manager Maria Jones. Solve it, and you could win free tickets.

Former global head and managing director at JPMorgan Chase, Paul Camp, joins Circle Internet Financial as corporate treasurer, executive vice preside of financial operations, and CFO.

American Express CEO says he recognizes the value of Bitcoin’s technology, among statements which demonstrate an industry still nervous about digital currencies.

Back in November, the Bitcoin Foundation announced that it would solely focus on Bitcoin core development. They also mentioned “two critical, long-standing, unmet needs,” which included “somebody dedicated to ongoing security review of changes to the core code,” said the announcement.

There is no doubt that China and its huge economy has had a tremendous effect on Bitcoin and its price fluctuations. On the other side of the coin, we also know that the Chinese are accustomed to testing their government and news came out earlier this week that an organization similar to the Bitcoin Foundation is taking shape in China.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation took down The Pirate Bay website on December 9, delivering another blow to the file-sharing community.

Signed contracts have been released today declaring a partnership between payment processing specialist Vogogo Inc. (TSX VENTURE:VGO) and Bitcoin exchanges QuadrigaCX and BitMEX.

On December 8, Blockchain.info—a Bitcoin web wallet provider and block explorer—announced that they’d misfired a software update. The faulty update resulted in insecure private key generation for “less than 0.0002%” of their users for a few hours, and about 250 bitcoins were consequently reported stolen.

A group of State Duma representatives are expected to submit their own version of the bill to penalize cryptocurrency users within the next few days

This story happened back in late 2011. I had my Unionbank VISA card since 2007 at that point and have never had a problem with it, using it for both work and personal purchases. It had a PHP 300,000 limit (about US$6,800) and I used it a lot. Needless to say, I was a dream customer for VISA, paying the predatory 3.5% per month in interest that they charge here in the Philippines, keeping high balances for months and using the card constantly, and paying them without fail.

Microsoft surprised everyone today by accepting bitcoin without much of an announcement.

David Seaman is an independent journalist who has been advocating for civil liberties and the rollback of the unconstitutional post-911, surveillance-state measures such as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and Patriot Act. David hosts one of the most popular news podcasts on iTunes called the David Seaman Hour.

Just about everyone in the Bitcoin community agrees that there aren’t enough women in cryptocurrencies. The developers of the Gems app are betting that “female adoption is a key milestone” for Bitcoin to go mainstream.

Bitcoin Black Friday has come and gone, and the sales results in comparison to 2013 make for interesting reading.

Bitreserve made waves when it added gold to its system, soon they will let their customers hold their value in oil.

One organization that wants to improve the situation is the Dream Bitcoin Foundation, a non-profit organization created by a young Ghanaian Bitcoin enthusiast, Philip Asare, to empower young crypto entrepreneurs in Ghana.

The following piece was submitted as part of Cointelegraph’s Tell us your bank horror story article contest presented to you by Shapeshift.io

Reuters reported Monday that Ethan Burnside, owner of BTC Trading Corp., was fined more than US$68,000 by the US Securities Exchange Commission as part of an agreement “to resolve claims that he did not register the exchanges.”

Cointelegraph attended Money20/20 this year, an event that brings together players in financial services from all over the world, and even some state central bank actors. This year marked the second year that Bitcoin was officially included among topics covered, and Cointelegraph asked a slew of fiat’s bigwigs what they thought of Bitcoin.

The Bitcoin Investment Trust announced that it has won the majority of the auction, 19 of the total 20 “blocks” were picked up by the trust, totaling 48,000 bitcoins, worth roughly US$16.6 million at press time.

Cointelegraph has partnered with Coin ATM Radar, which regularly updates a helpful and navigable Bitcoin ATM map, to get the most comprehensive data about new BTMs as they go online.

Venezuelan congressman, Guido Ochoa, and president of the country’s Science Technology and Innovation Commission has decided to buy all of the assets of HashFast, a bankrupt Bitcoin mining equipment manufacturer.

The city of Madeira Beach, Florida, became the first municipality in the world today to officially embrace Bitcoin, following a resolution by the city council.

An estimated 250 bitcoins have been “lost” by Blockchain.info following a security lapse during an update yesterday, it has emerged.

A failure in its consensus system has caused Stellar to fork, requiring a roll back. Stellar claims that the issue affects Ripple as well, something Ripple denies.