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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.

The Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities, issued a note identifying the ‘top emerging threats facing investors in 2015,’ where the state agency warns investors of the risks associated with digital currencies.

Bitcoin Analysis from Tone Vays on Cointelegraph.

John Bailon is Co-Founder and CEO/CTO at Satoshi Citadel Industries (SCI), a Filipino Bitcoin startup aiming to improve the lives of Filipinos with smart and innovative products related to Bitcoin.

Brawker, the site that connects Bitcoiners who want to purchase things currently only available for fiat with willing buyers, has just implemented multisignature escrow as a default for all transactions.

Spanish Bank Bankinter has made history in becoming one of the first banks in the world to invest directly in a Bitcoin business, in this case in domestic decentralized exchange Coinffeine.

A major standard-setting body has called for all Internet applications to be encrypted by default. Heeding this advice would make it difficult for unauthorized parties to scoop up data.

Cindy Gallop is the founder of MakeLoveNotPorn, a site dedicated to establishing the difference between porn and “real world” sex, while further enabling people to share and profit from their own lovemaking videos.

New weekend roundup from Cointelegraph

Gustav Nipe of New Technology Today indicated that the Swedish banking system is extremely resistant to new technologies, despite the many problems that it has been experiencing, such as the policy of a zero percent interest rate, which never came to be at all.

In a November 6 interview in Dublin, Ireland, recorded at this year’s Web Summit, Gavin Andresen called Bitcoin “shady.”

G. Heni is Chief Communication Officer at the newly launched French Bitcoin exchange Bitcoin-Wave. In an interview with Cointelegraph, the executive shares his company incentives and motivations, and discusses its future plans, as building the largest Bitcoin e-commerce platform in the world, while offering a full package for traders, made of in-house applications only.

Now an open-source identity protocol provider called OneName is attempting to extend more open source software in an attempt to disrupt the current online authentication process.

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As of January 2014, VK.com had at least 239 million accounts. VK is ranked 8th (as of August 1, 2014) in Alexa’s global Top 500 sites and is the 2nd most visited website in Russia, after Yandex.

On November 13, Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins gave a speech at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, on ‘Money in a Digital World,’ where she tackled the topic of ‘e-money,’ dissecting both the benefits and risks of such innovations, and said that Canada’s central bank was “undertaking research on the potential merits of issuing e-money.”

The war between authorities and Dark Net website operators seems to be heating up after the announcement today that at least one website, the well-known Doxbin, has been taken back from the control of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The new program, called Bitcoin4Gold, also allows users to trade gold for Litecoin, Dogecoin or Darkcoin. DigitalTangible launched its crypto 2.0 exchange service in September and it allows users to move freely between bitcoin and gold using cryptographic tokens that are used to represent the physical gold.

Bitcoin Analysis from Tone Vays on Cointelegraph.

Research analyst of French financial institution BNP Paribas, identifies 5 ways cryptocurrencies could shake up finance and asset servicing, and suggests banks to “invest time and energy to understand how they can best make use of them.”

Love him or hate him (I frequently do both), philosopher Stefan Molyneux makes an interesting point when he says that while many stand to see incredible lifestyle gains from Bitcoin, others stand to lose. And it’s those who stand to lose who will try to foil Bitcoin at every turn.

In August, London-based VIRTUS Data Centres released a case study on the company’s experience working with ASIC Runner, a supplier of cryptocoin mining hardware.

Instant cryptocurrency exchange service ShapeShift has launched a new service aimed specifically at simplifying payments across different currencies.

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.

Senator Ted Cruz compared Net Neutrality to Obamacare, he could hardly be further from the truth.

The Bitcoin community usually revels in the news when large companies like Overstock.com and Expedia announce that they are accepting Bitcoin. But while these companies definitely have large customer bases, Bitcoin needs to be accepted by small to medium sized businesses if it is ever to become a mainstay mode of payment.

Counterparty has added the open sourced smart contract features previously only found in the yet to be released Ethereum project

The G20 Summit usually draws protestors by thousands from around the world most of whom are angered at what they see as global economic policies that benefit only a few at the expense of the many.

One of the biggest questions with cryptocurrencies is where to actually store your Bitcoin so that they are secure. Well, entrepreneur Martijn Wismeijer, who is also known as “Mr. Bitcoin,” thinks that he has a possible answer.

New Zealand deputy governor Grant Spencer says New Zealand’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, is not threatened by Bitcoin, but is eventually planning to tighten regulation.