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Old-fashioned meets modern when US Postal Service (USPS) announces its interest in provision of Bitcoin exchange services along with more traditional activities and well-known products.

After the decision by D.C.’s officials to finally notice an elephant in the room and assign some status to Bitcoin, others began to follow the example.

Liberty Games have provided a new interface for the arcade machines that would allow players to pay for a game by scanning a QR code, thus sending digital coins to the cabinet owner’s wallet.

It is supposed that many of You, dear readers, know that the first Bitcoin ATM that received the name Robocoin from its developers was installed and launched at the end of October of 2013 in Vancouver, Canada.

You know these moments when you want to crack your head just a little bit, not in a slasher-movie sense but  in a “how-the-hell-do-I-solve-it” way.

Last week, Argentina began to allow its citizens to purchase US dollars through official channels for the first time in two years.

One developer in Cyprus is selling luxury beachfront apartments for about 120 BTC each.

Peter Ward argues that the 100 Bitcoins seized from him in the US government’s raid on the Silk Road last year were taken unlawfully, and he has announced a plan to lawyer up and try to get them back.

HKCEx, a new Bitcoin exchange that claims it will be the world’s most secure, announced this week that it had secured $2 million in funding from both private investors and local financial organizations.

Another week has passed and it is time to draw a line to look back on the most interesting and determining events of these past five days.

The world’s largest Bitcoin exchange is once again accepting the currency of its home country.

After such a request from a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, the Land Rover of Redwood City dealership sold its first Land Rover for Bitcoin.

Are cryptocurrencies a real cyber threat of the future or real accomplices for terrorists? On the first glance it definitely seems ridiculous.

A representative from the Estonian central bank referred to Bitcoin this week as “a problematic scheme” and warned Estonians about getting involved with the currency.

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In case You are going to find and install the mentioned application, do not forget to type “Bitcoin” before the word “Kraken”, as there are many similar app names of games and other software.

MadBitcoins Live held a Google Hangout after the digital currencies hearing in New York on Wednesday that included, among others, Andreas Antonopolous from Blockchain.info.

On Tuesday, Charlie Shrem was released from custody after posting a $1 million bond, despite arguments from prosecutors representing the State of New York that he was a flight risk.

The potential of Coinbase was recognized in late 2013, while not only the Forbes magazine has praised the company, but venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz decided to invest 25 million dollars.

Andreas Antonopoulos, the newly minted Chief Security Officer at Blockchain.info, went on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast Monday to talk about Bitcoin.

In light of his arrest and conspiring-to-launder-money charges, BitInstant Charlie Shrem has stepped down as vice chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation.

First, currency started to become decentralized; now there are plans for internet to be given such honor.

The Central Bank of Russian Federation has issued an official statement on the matters of the so-called “virtual currencies”, including Bitcoin as the most well-known and widespread type of cryptocoins at present time.

“Money” means a medium of exchange that is authorized or adopted by the United States or a foreign government or other recognized medium of exchange.

The Bank of Russia remarks that so-called “virtual currencies”, in particular Bitcoin, have received a definite distribution in the world recently.

The BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem together with Robert M. Faiella were arrested and the current accusations of breaking several federal laws include money laundering, turnover of narcotics and support of criminal activities.

As reported yesterday, BitInstant CEO and Bitcoin Foundation Vice Chairman Charlie Shrem was arrested at JFK Airport in New York and charged with conspiring to launder money.

The office of the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, announced today that BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem was one of two people arrested for and charged.

Representative Steve Stockman, a Texas Republican, wants the Bitcoin community to reach out to politicians and lawmakers.

The system is named Agora Voting and it takes its root in 2008 project called Agora Ciudadana, when a team of programmers was trying to find an alternative for polling stations.