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If You feel the potential of a hacker, but feel frightened to commit a crime and to travel to jail?

You let Christmas creep up on you again this year, didn’t you? It’s December 20, and you’ve bought nothing but some Xbox credits for yourself.

It looks as if Dutch brewery Heineken has taken a page out of the Snoop Lion guide to viral marketing.

This week the company with the household name in IT and computing gave present to the community its initiative to receive a patent for a very creative and innovative idea, called “E-Currency Validation and Authorization Services Platform”.

The BitTorrent network principles are very similar to the basic rules of bitcoin – the sharing of information is decentralized, the users are protected with randomly generated symbol lines being mostly the only identification criterion.

The FinCEN warned companies working with bitcoin or providing crypto currency services of the necessity to correspond to the federal money transmission laws.

Positive news was brought from Denmark. The Denmark’s Financial Supervisory Authority or the FSA issued a statement in some points similar to the warning published by the European Banking Authority (EBA).

One of the companies located in Russia plans and has started to the process to register Bitcoin and its graphical sign as its property.

The CPU of the computer is busy with solving mathematical tasks with the help of a special, available free, software and the successful result is in form of a bitocin or its part.

Russian discount bar franchise Killfish has just announced that it will begin accepting Bitcoins.

According to reliable and trustworthy source the Chinese authorities and the People’s Bank of China has continued the warfare against bitcoin and other crypto currencies. The recent warning was given to the third-party payment companies.

During the last months bitcoin has outgrown the virtual world and entered the market of goods and service of the physical world. The first pioneers of this activity – merchants accepting the coin as a payment method – offered to the customers very plain items, from burgers and wine to antiques.

Identity-theft protection company LifeLock recently announced that it had acquired Lemon Wallet’s company, Lemon Inc., for $42.6 million.

The last two weeks of 2013 are a great opportunity to draw a line between past and present, draw some conclusions and set up goals for the next period of work, life and development. Definitely, the evaluation of the results and analysis of the mistakes might bright on a higher level every initiative

Writer and professor of global affairs Marc Chandler has a piece up on his blog that examines a bit further what we’ve already reported on as an oligarchy of Bitcoin owners.

Sweden’s Pizza24, a service that allows customers to order pizza locally through a single online platform, has announced it has begun accepting Bitcoin payment.

The first comment from the Russia was voiced by the CEO of Sberbank Herman Gref. The bank can be considered as the biggest and leading bank, setting the trend for the rest financial institutions in the country.

The idea if bitcoin and other crypto currencies can be described in three simple words – peer-to-peer. The Sabra sisters are interpreting this principle as child-to-child and launch a series of books about bitcoin, all written in a simple manner, exciting and colorfully illustrated.

This article presents the review of the day two of the conference “Inside Bitcoin” is the next issue in the series including articles “Inside Bitcoin: Day 2 (11th December)” and “Entertainment Capital of the World to Host “Inside Bitcoins Conference” Next Week”.

Clea Benson at Bloomberg reports that less than half of Americans even know what Bitcoin is.

In the meantime, Christian Holte, the above-quoted director general of taxation, said the Norwegian government would coordinate certain legal implications of Bitcoin with other governments.

The official Bitcoin 0.8.6 update was released this week, and some of the tweaks include bug fixes and updated limits on block sizes.

The Australian authorities, or allow to precise, the financial institutions – the banks – have voiced their opinion on bitcoin and its use. Similar to the spokespeople for China, North America and several European Union countries the attitude cannot be interpreted in a single way...

The European Banking Authority (or the EBA) has issued an official statement describing the position of the organization in questions considering crypto currencies and their separate examples – the bitcoin.

Friday evening is the best time to relax and take a look behind on the events of the past week. In the world of digital currency and especially in the world of digital currency this week could be described in words – rise and fall, and rise again.

Bay Area company Coinbase raised $25 million in series B funding and got a ton of press as Time magazine’s No. 2 most exciting startup of 2013.

The Baltimore Business Journal reported earlier this week that a local bar, ominously named Bad Decisions, has begun accepting Bitcoin payments.

Andrew Torba known on the Twitter network as @torbahax has recently established an experiment, he calls describes it as a social one. The rules of it are rather simple...

Using calculations presented by Risto Pietilä on Bitcointalk.org and early Bitcoin developer Martti Malmi, Wile shows that of the 12 million Bitcoins in existence, just 927 people own half of them, and just 47 people own more than a quarter.

Mel B announced this week that she definitely will be accepting Bitcoin for sales of her new single, “For Once in My Life,” which will go on sale directly through her website on Christmas Day.