Gene Okerlund

Stripe, the online payments processor that graduated from Y Combinator in 2010, announced last week that it was testing Bitcoin support and would be opening up to beta testing in the near future.

The Bitcoin Foundation announced Wednesday that a number of updates had been made to Bitcoin Core and that v. 0.9.0 was now available.

Embattled exchange Mt. Gox has a simple sign-in option on its website now with an invitation to “see your wallet(s) balance.”

Bitcointalk.org forum member keccak512 announced in a post on March 8 a currency called Heavycoin, an altcoin that puts specific focus on security.

Xapo Ltd. announced Friday that it had secured a first round of funding worth $20 million, Bloomberg reports.

We reported last month that high-speed network company Perseus Telecom was working on a big cryptocurrency exchange project. They launched it yesterday.

Jimmy Wales, president of Wikia, Inc. and co-founder of Wikipedia, took to Reddit on Monday morning to discuss Bitcoin.

Russia’s central bank offered a formal response to a letter written by a Russian citizen in February asking for more information on why the government allegedly banned cryptocurrencies earlier this year.

On Wednesday, London’s first Bitcoin ATM, a Lamassu machine, launched at the Old Shoreditch Station cafe. The cafe is run by an arts collective called Jaguar Shoes, and they have been accepting Bitcoin payment themselves since last summer.

President Obama is on record as a fan of the TV show “The Wire.” In that series, Baltimore drug dealers would constantly purchases new prepaid cell phones (“burners”) to keep their telecoms activity anonymous and almost untraceable.