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OKCoin: 1535.14 Kraken: 211.60 Coinbase: 238.22 ItBit: 237.77 BitStamp: 237.77 Bitfinex: 237.90

CheckLockTimeVerify, or How a Time-Lock Patch Will Boost Bitcoin's Potential

As the Bitcoin Price Rises to New 2015 Highs, Investors Seek to Explain Recent Gains

Bitcoin Finally Gets an Approved Unicode Character Point

Around the Block

1 Bitcoin Venture Capital Markets Heating up as Five Bitcoin Startups Raise $45 Million By Joseph Young

2 An Open Letter to the Bitcoin Community from the Developers By Bitcoin Magazine

3 Investors Weigh Bitcoin’s Prospects as Fear Levels Rise Across Global Markets By Matthew Daniel

4 Nick Szabo on ‘Permissioned Blockchains’ and the Block Size By Giulio Prisco

5 Nine Top Global Banks Pool Resources to Fund R3 to Develop Digital Currency Standards By Giulio Prisco

Bitcoin Price Hits 2015 Highs Led by Chinese Exchanges

Publicly Traded Bitcoin Instruments See High Volumes amid Price Rise

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong: BIP 101 is the Best Proposal We've Seen So Far

Top 4 Reasons Banks Should be Excited About Blockchain

Microsoft Partners with Ethereum Company, Offers Cloud-Based Blockchain Application Development Platform to Its Clients

Breaking Down the Block Size Debate

The Decentralist Perspective, or Why Bitcoin Might Need Small Blocks

Everything You Need to Know about the Proposed Changes to the Bitcoin Block Size Cap

Gavin Andresen on the Block Size: “It’s Hard to Find a Signal above All the Noise”

Bitcoin XT Big Block Fork Spurs Debate and Controversy

U.S. Marshals Will Hold the Final Auction of the Silk Road Bitcoin This Week

Bitcoin Doesn’t Waste Electricity, It’s Used for Security

New Data from OTC Trading Desks Reveals Millions of Dollars in Bitcoin Traded Off Public Markets

It's Much Too Soon to Regulate Bitcoin, Says Deloitte Exec

Bruce Fenton: Blockchain Alliance is a Profoundly Bad Idea

BitFury Looks to Go Green With 3M’s Novec 7100 Engineered Fluid

Wall Street Embraces the Blockchain

Nine Top Global Banks Pool Resources to Fund R3 to Develop Digital Currency Standards

UBS to Develop Yet Another ‘Permissioned Blockchain’ for Banks

Blythe Masters and Wall Street Opt for ‘Permissioned’ Non-Bitcoin Blockchains

Nick Szabo on ‘Permissioned Blockchains’ and the Block Size

Chinese Exchanges Agree: Bitcoin Price Has Nothing to Do With Capital Controls

Former Mt. Gox CEO Karpeles Re-arrested for Embezzlement Mainstream Media Misreports ‘Bitcoin CEO Arrested’

Don Tapscott, WEF Senior Advisor, Joins Chamber of Digital Commerce’s Advisory Board

Silbert's Digital Currency Group Announces Major Fundraise from MasterCard, CIBC, and Others

BTCC Announces Launch of Pro Exchange Allowing 20x Margin Trading

CardCash to Start Rolling out Mobile App for Gift Cards, Offer Bitcoin-Only Discounts

Bitnet Willing to Adopt Alternative Block Increase Proposals, Too

Barry Silbert on Bitcoin’s Future: “The Bitcoin Price Will be Higher”

College Crypto Hackathon Invites Students to Create Unique Bitcoin and Blockchain Applications