Sabina Laska

Bitcoin enthusiasts in New Zealand are in the process of putting together the country’s first official cryptocurrency conference, to be held in the southern resort town of Queenstown at the end of November.

They say that knowledge is power, and starting this week, you can support one of the Internet’s most powerful intellectual resources with Bitcoin.

Alakanani Itireleng, a Bitcoin enthusiast from Botswana, says she is fundraising Bitcoins for SOS Children’s Villages.

A project to accept Bitcoins in exchange for citizenship to the tropical island nation St. Kitts & Nevis has been derailed by the local government.

Leading South African payment processor PayFast has teamed up with the country’s biggest Bitcoin exchange BitX.

An international mining manufacturing company is recruiting partners to host sites for scrypt-based coin mining farms.

A politician running for a seat in Swedish parliament has pledged to accept no money but Bitcoin donations in his campaign.

A Vietnamese and an Israeli Bitcoin startup have joined forces to launch Vietnam’s first live-trading Bitcoin exchange

As usual, the potheads know what’s up: the group working to legalize marijuana in Oregon this fall is now accepting Bitcoin donations.

The two day Inside Bitcoins Conference and Expo, held at Hong Kong’s SkyCity Marriot Hotel on June 24-25, featured a line-up of over 50 speakers.

A Bitcoin user who accidentally sent 800 bitcoins to a wallet belonging to defunct exchange Mt. Gox last month said on Reddit Friday that he has recovered the money.

The newest album by American progressive metal group Mastadon has debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart.

BitPesa ended its beta testing phase to celebrate its official launch last week.

Bitcoin exchange Coinbase has several security flaws in their Android wallet and Coinbase Merchant applications, but the company is refusing to fix the errors, a Canadian software engineer claims.

Add artificial life extension to the list of things payable in cryptocurrency: an Arizona cryonics lab is taking donations in Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is catching the attention of traditional suit-and-tie financiers, at least enough for them to attend a $US 695-a-head conference about it.

Whether it’s from hackers, thieves, or simple carelessness, one of the biggest threats to Bitcoin safety is wallet security.

An award-winning documentary filmmaker and a Portland writer are teaming up to create a feature-length documentary about cryptocurrencies.

A dispute over a California company’s attempt to trademark Doge has roiled the Internet into a fury of confusion and argument over the move’s implications for the popular Internet meme and its offshoots, such as Dogecoin.

Redditor TheDJFC had mistakenly sent 800 bitcoins (roughly $520,000) to the wrong wallet address.

Bitcoin is a “wannabe” asset hindered by price volatility and security concerns, a recent report by Citi’s analysis project said.

Marvel at the wave of the future as it is 3D-printed in front of you and paid for in bitcoins.

A major US insurance company, the Great American Financial Group, has become the first in the sector to offer Bitcoin coverage to commercial and governmental clients.

Bitfury, a major Bitcoin infrastructure provider, has announced that it raised a whopping $20 million last week in financing during an investment drive.

Canadian regulation of Bitcoin is favorable so far, but several more conditions have to be met for the cryptocurrency to meet its potential, a new report by a Canadian research institute found.

"No strength without unity" That’s the motto of Irishcoin, a new peer-to-peer digital currency aimed at boosting the Irish tourism sector.

Online cryptocurrency marketplace Bitcoin Shop has announced that its head, Charles Allen, has been appointed to the advisory board of payment processor GoCoin.

Open-source encryption program TrueCrypt appears to have been compromised, with a strange website update warning users that the product was no longer secure and distributing a new version of the software that some analysts called suspicious.

If not to the moon, then at least to the TV set. Satellite TV network DISH announced Thursday it will start accepting Bitcoin, becoming the first subscription-TV provider and the largest company in the world (so far) to do so.

It’s all the rage in politics. Democrats are doing it. Federal-level politicians are doing it, and state-level politics are trying to get on it too. Hell, even some Republicans are taking a stab at it.