Doug Coughlin

The digital currency world will be trekking to London this summer for the second CoinSummit of the year and third overall. The previous CoinSummit convention was held in March in San Francisco and featured a plethora of speeches and panel discussions from leading cryptocurrency entrepreneurs, VC and angel investors, hedge fund professionals, and bitcoin enthusiasts. The London convention will feature nothing less.

Connie Gallippi is the Founder and Director of BitGive, a California-based non-profit charity. Connie has expressed how BitGive not only raises donations for charities but demonstrates Bitcoin’s social value by giving back and making a positive, global impact.

Digital currency, whether it drops off the face of the earth tomorrow or stuffs our digital wallets until the end of time, has already cemented itself in monetary history.

The world’s third Bitcoin Embassy and first in Europe is slated to open tomorrow in Warsaw, Poland.

Yesterday was day one of China’s first-ever Global Bitcoin Summit in Beijing. Despite some setbacks both before the start and at the last minute, the summit is so far a success.

Bitcoin is continuing its conquest into the tourism sphere. As Companies such as GuestLeader, BTCTrip and CheapAir allow their clients to pay for services with BTC, travelling with Bitcoin becomes easier than ever.

A recent study conducted by Venda polled UK consumers on their thoughts about Bitcoin. A whopping 71% of respondents said that they would avoid Bitcoin if given the option to shop with it.

In late April, the Federal Election Committee (FEC) began its rulings on how to regulate contributions to US political campaigns, if at all. Now the FEC ruled 6-0 allowing Bitcoin donations to campaigns.

A Japanese drug importer has been arrested after allegedly purchasing narcotics from his Mexican drug runners. The kicker? He apparently bought the drugs via Bitcoin.

As digital artists try to spruce up selling GIFs and videos, some of which remain online for free, the challenge remains on how to put a price on digital art that can easily be duplicated.

Five years into the Bitcoin phenomenon and the US Securities and Exchange Commission has given its verdict on the digital currency: No dice. The SEC issued a warning on Wednesday to potential bitcoin investors.

A two-way Bitcoin ATM has found itself in Saskatchewan courtesy of Bitcoin Solutions, an Edmonton-based company.

Vienna is gearing up to host the first Bitcoin Conference in Central Europe. The Central European Bitcoin Expo (CEBE) 2014 will be held in Austria’s capital from May 31-June 1.

CoinFinance.com is a commendable website when it comes to checking the analytics of some 353 digital currencies, which allows to track data concerning latest prices and more.

Minacoin, a new cryptocurrency that will fully launched by June, is going into unchartered digital waters by backing the currency with gold.

While China has been making the Bitcoin headlines for all the wrong reasons lately, the Global Bitcoin Summit (GBS) 2014 in Beijing should help to reverse investor fears.

A peek at Catherine Bleish and John Bush’s resume and you might wonder when the sustainable living activists ever find time to sleep. The couple raises their two young children and 100 chickens on a farm in Southeast Austin and are diligent advocates of agorism and crypto currency.

India’s first Bitcoin exchange launched this morning.

The US Department of Defense is launching a new project to investigate the threat posed by new technologies that could threaten national security which includes research into the potential dangers posed by virtual currencies.

The Future Capital Bitcoin Fund (FCBF) is a $30 million global investment fund aimed at companies leveraging services based on Bitcoin and other digital currencies.

You could say it’s been a rough week for Bitcoin users in China. Not one, not two, but three major banks, along with another Paypal-like payment service, have banned bitcoin accounts in the country.

A Bitcoin payments system solution provider is looking to bring an SMS wallet to Singapore – paving the way for new opportunities for mobile device users.

Mark Karpeles has dealt with a lot of criticism since the collapse of the Mt Gox Bitcoin exchange earlier this year – and the original creator of the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange, Jed McCaleb, is trying to make sure he is not lumped into the same category as Karpeles.

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has continued its crackdown on trading in digital currencies.

DarkMarket, billed as “opensource, uncensored, and private” for the next generation of digital black markets, has taken a note from the reddit community and changed its name to “OpenBazaar” in order to improve its public image.

Hype can be bad. Overhype can be embarrassing.

It’s a common misconception that signing up for Bitcoin means your wallet and transactions are completely anonymous. In fact, Bitcoin works more like a pseudonym. Levels of anonymity can be achieved if you know how to work the rods and cones correctly, but a digital money trail can usually be traced back to your wallet and thus, your identity.

Boredom got you down? Loneliness getting the best of you? Well hell, crack into your bitcoin savings and see if you can land that lucky someone. Bitcoin users looking to comb the dating scene are in luck as dating websites have begun accepting digital currencies for their services. And to make things even sweeter, there’s a dating site geared specifically towards Bitcoin enthusiasts.

The Bitcoin world can seem so stuffy at times. Tech specs, market quotes, the newest in digital wallets? It’s healthy to lighten up about the whole cryptocurrency world sometimes. We hope our “Who’s Who” in the Bitcoin community, a la Rage Comics, comes to you like a breath of fresh air. Enjoy!

In late 1999, the online consumer fashion website Boo.com launched on the world wide web. Hampered by problems such as a bandwidth-heavy site trying to strike it big when internet-users had dial-up modems, exclusion of Mac users in general, and poor customer service, the website was liquidated by May 2000. So how much venture capital did the company blow through in that 6 month period?