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Remember those cartoons from the 90s where someone in a chat room who thought he was talking to an attractive woman was actually talking to an old fat dude in a tank top?

Daniel Cawrey at CoinDesk has a piece up that questions whether banks are concerned at all by the disruptive technologies that are Bitcoin and other digital currencies. And if so, what will the banks do about this?

As their country has imposed strict capital controls amid years of double-digit inflation, Argentines have shown a significant interest in Bitcoin.

By the end of 2013, the Royal Canadian Mint will implement a pilot project called MintChip that could facilitate easy digital money transfers.

A Utah couple has overcome a serious obstacle in their quest to live on nothing but Bitcoins for 90 days. Austin and Beccy Craig were recently able to pay for a hotel and buy plane tickets with Bitcoins.

Swiss Socialist Party parliamentarian Jean Christophe Schwaab submitted a request to the Swiss National Council seeking a report on Bitcoin, particularly on the digital currency’s potential and risks.

Ripples owners, OpenCoin, have announced that they will make the payment system available on an open source license beginning September 26.

Jonathan Heusser writes at The Genesis Block that Bitcoin markets now offer enough data that we can make some interesting predictions of the currency’s price movement.

Bigpoint, an online German game developer, is not making Bitcoin purchases for virtual goods available to its 330 million users.

Garry Pasfield had heard enough about Bitcoins and wanted to be the city’s first brick-and-mortar business to accept the currency.

On September 15, the Bitcoin network hit an important milestone, with total estimated computational speed reaching 1 PH/s.

Jonathan Stacke over at The Genesis Block has a fine op-ed on financial privacy to commemorate September 11.

Adam Penn, owner of Veggie Planet and Veggie Galaxy in Boston, was just trying to add a new payment method for his customers when he began accepting Bitcoins in May.

The California State Senate and Assembly passed a bill in early September that amends the state’s Money Transmission Act.

There is no secret in the fact that politicians, parties and organizations receive donations regularly and especially intensively during the preparations for elections or other remarkable arrangements.

Russian ASIC miner manufacturer Bitfury has begin shipping their Full Kits to customers in the US and Europe. Each machine has 400 GH/s of mining power.

In the latest round of updates to its online reference, the Oxford Dictionaries Online has created a new entry for Bitcoin.

ASICMiner, which had been able to charge a premium for its ASIC mining hardware because it was the only company with miners in stock, has lowered the price of its blade hardware down to 3.5 BTC.

Washington has moved a little closer toward the regulation of digital currency, as representatives from the Bitcoin community met in a closed-door session with US officials on August 26.

Get ready for a huge mining operation to drop onto the Bitcoin mining network.

Daniel Cawrey at CoinDesk has a must-read piece on wealth transfer and the effect Bitcoin has on this.

Alydian, a Bitcoin mining startup of grand scale, announced its launch August 7.

We have enough examples now to know that Bitcoin has become more of a priority on Capitol Hill.

A flaw in the Blockchain.info wallet allowed thieves to make off with 50 Bitcoins, and the site’s operators are offering refunds to users who had their money stolen as a result.

Washington Post blog The Switch has a piece by Timothy B. Lee called “Five surprising facts about Bitcoin” that would be good for newbies to catch up with the currency’s big year so far.

Proponents of online anonymity, or at least the access to it, might have high praise for Trsst, an encrypted blogging and messaging platform that will even allow the sending of anonymous messages.

FinCEN has called a meeting with a few federal agents to discuss Bitcoin and consider ways to regulate it.

An official statement out of Berlin is one big step toward legitimacy and acceptance for Bitcoin.

Ars Technica reports that a weakness in Java Cryptography Architecture leaves Android users exposed, which Google has confirmed.

The New York Times reports that American officials at the state and federal levels are concerned about whether digital currencies can police themselves and have begun “broad investigations.”