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“Real Users”: In This Italian Mountain Town, Everyone Knows About Bitcoin
Aaron van Wirdum introduces us to some of the people who are making Rovereto, Italy, the heart of Bitcoin Valley.
Lightning’s First Implementation Is Now in Beta; Developers Raise $2.5M
lnd 0.4-beta release marks a milestone in the development of the Lightning Network.
Russian IT Giant Mail.Ru Enables Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash Payments
Using BitPay, users can pay and be paid with bitcoin and bitcoin cash on Mail.Ru sites, as well as on social networks Odnoklassniki and Vkontakte.
Circle Leaps Into Exchange Business With Poloniex Acquisition
Circle, a mobile payment app company backed by Goldman Sachs, has announced it is buying cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex Inc.
Study Suggests 25 Percent of Bitcoin Users Are Associated With Illegal Activity
In a newly published paper on the use of bitcoin for illegal activity, researchers from the University of Sydney, the University of Technology Sydney and...
Blockstream Releases Lightning Charge, Launches Test E-Commerce Store
Following the release of the first Bitcoin Lightning Network white paper, published in February 2015, developers have been working on Lightning Network implementations to...
Japan’s GMO Internet Group Will Pay Thousands of Workers in Bitcoin
Blockchain development companies and the cryptocurrency press have been paying their workers in cryptocurrencies for years, but one realizes that the times are truly...
Out of Steam: PC Gaming Platform Ends Bitcoin Payment Option
The utility aspect of Bitcoin faced a setback yesterday as PC gamers heard from Valve Corporation’s Steam Team in a blog post that Bitcoin...
This New Scaling Layer Could Make Payment Channels Ten Times More Effective
There is no disputing the fact that the Bitcoin network has scalability problems. Micropayment channels are a solution to increase the transaction rate and...
Infographic: The Rise of Cryptocurrencies in Malaysia
According to a new survey conducted by Luno, the rate of cryptocurrency adoption in Malaysia is on the rise, with bitcoin emerging as a clear favorite. The infographic...
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