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More businesses accepting cryptocurrency.

Following their civil ceremony, David Mondrus and Joyce Bayo decided to register their union in the blockchain, where the following message is now recorded: “For better or worse, ’til death do us part, because the blockchain is forever.”

Recent Bitcoin price drops have been met with the usual mixture of pessimism and staunch defense, but the physical reality looks altogether rosier – and a look at the investment scene will no doubt buoy your mood.

Back in August, Block.io launched a tool to streamline the process of incorporating Bitcoin into applications. The goal was to give low-skilled developers a chance to easily integrate cryptocurrency payments into applications and websites.

Draper University of Heroes, venture capitalist Tim Draper’s eponymous entrepreneurship school in San Mateo, announced in a release Tuesday that it would begin to offer a free online course in Bitcoin.

Keynoting at the Inside Bitcoins Conference in Las Vegas, Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne wowed the crowd by announcing a stock market based on the Bitcoin block chain protocol.

ZeusMiner recently launched its own cloud hashing service, ZeusHash, and within a week of going live the company had already signed up thousands of users, according to CryptoCoinsNews.

Mycelium 2.0 has released to the public today, bringing new privacy and usability features.

Not only are Bitcoin ATMs going live at an ever-increasing rate, but state backlash is picking up, too: The Portuguese government issued the EU-standard warnings about cryptocurrencies right as country’s first Bitcoin ATM, which we reported on last week, went live.

Mobile software provider Acromobile partners up with digital commerce platform provider Bitnet, to offer merchants the ability to be paid in bitcoins.

Swedish payment processor Klarna has announced the test phase of its Bitcoin implementation following a review of its stance on the digital currency.

CryptoThrift is a popular eBay like site that uses Bitcoin and Litecoin. This weekend it suffered an attack that cost it more than 15 BTC.

Every year there is the Oktoberfest in the Bavarian capital, Munich. Millions of people from every country in the world travel here to secure a place in one of the fourteen marquees or huge covered tents. Undoubtedly, out of these 6.4 million visitors, there will certainly be some visitors who would be happy to pay with their beloved bitcoins for beer at Oktoberfest. And now this is possible!

Russia is being quick to implement the now-published small print of its anti-cryptocurrency mandate – but some of its policies are altogether more unappetizing.

A price crash lays bare some of the strangest aspects of people’s personalities.

Serbia’s Central Bank warns consumers against “virtual currency” such as Bitcoin, stating that digital currencies weren’t backed by any Central Bank and that users weren’t protected from trade-related risks.

Recently, it became big news that the Federal government sued and temporarily shut down the notorious bitcoin mining company, Butterfly Labs, but a federal judge ruled on Thursday that the company can resume limited operations. We tried to find out what the vague limited operations included, but we were unable to come up with anything.

Filipino lawmaker and representative of the 5th District of Pangasinan Kimi S. Cojuangco, pushes the proposed “E-Peso Act 2014” to be immediately enacted, as the Philippines is lacking an “official medium of exchange or money for the internet,” reported The Philippine Star.

Since its release, Darkcoin appears to be experiencing its ups and downs similar to many other cryptocurrencies. But while there is currently no reason to begin panic selling just yet, there is still some concern from Darkcoin investors over the last few weeks about the coin’s future viability, especially after the release of its open source code.

Students from the University of British Colombia (UBC) create the UBC Bitcoin Club to educate their friends and classmates about cryptocurrencies.

Max Keiser sat down with the fireball Dark Wallet developer Amir Taaki in a far-reaching interview that touches on a number of cool topics: The anonymity-minded Bitcoin wallet as subject of a recent BBC piece, emerging political movements, and Apple’s encryption scheme decried by the FBI. Mad about the state of democracy, bro? Curious about the future of Bitcoin? They discuss that too. Let’s dig into it.

Now that PayPal merchants are allowed to accept Bitcoin as payment, the list of Bitcoin merchants is presumably expected to expand significantly. Since the announcement last week, there have been a dozen new merchants that have added cryptocurrencies as a new payment option for customers.

Every couple of weeks, Cointelegraph will do a roundup of all the new businesses and altcoins we have added to our catalogs.

There has been a great deal of speculation in the Bitcoin community about the sinking prices of Bitcoin and what its causes. There are people saying that margin trading is the culprit while others are putting the blame on mining difficulty or large corporations accepting Bitcoin and then converting it immediately for fiat currency.

Weekly Roundup by Cointelegraph October 5th, 2014

Pro-democracy protesters, part of the Umbrella revolution, have started accepting Bitcoin donations. Redditors of /r/bitcoin started a search for a QR-code that belonged to the Hong Kong protesters so they could donate Bitcoin but ended up empty handed.

The week of October 4th Bitcoin Analysis by Tone Vays.

Let’s face it: the risk of money laundering, which is often cited in statements on cryptocurrencies by numerous central banks across many countries does not affect the average person. The overwhelming majority is not “terrorists” and doesn’t seek to procure illegal drugs nor deal in weapons or human trafficking.

The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin debuted at the Tribeca Film Festical earlier this year to high acclaim. The Documentary is scheduled for its official release Friday October 10th, and pre-orders are already available on iTunes.

Belizean cryptocurrency exchange platform 247exchange.com adds Sofort Banking as one of its payment methods, allowing its customers to make instant purchases of bitcoins from more than 400 banks in 10 different European countries.