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Microsoft Inc. has just added bitcoin as a payment option for a variety of its content, including games and mobile content.
The hacker, who had stolen money from Blockchain.info, has returned all the funds back to the company, claiming the bitcoins were taken to protect the users.
Cryptonator releases an all-in-one online cryptocurrency wallet which supports Bitcoin and many altcoins and allows fast direct transactions and instant exchange between different cryptocurrencies in one personal account.
The U.S. Marshals Service has announced that a syndicate of investors organized by the trading division of SecondMarket and its Bitcoin Investment Trust won 48,000 of the 50,000 bitcoins recently auctioned by the service.
Bitcoin developers believe Sidechains that allows creating new currency within the bitcoin network could turn bitcoin in the main Internet reserve currency.
New startup, called ShitExpress, allows people to anonymously send horse poop for anyone in the world in exchange of digital currency.
Bitwatch Limited has launched the Cryptomatic collection of luxury timepieces specially for bitcoin fans.
American venture capital investor Tim Draper won a part of 50,000 bitcoins, put out to tender by the US government on December 4th.
Problems of digital currency taxation, following IRS’s decision to treat it as property.
The MasterCard representative has expressed his opinion considering that bitcoin protocol cannot be trusted and shortly got an argumentative response by James Duchenne.
The New York Department of Financial Services revealed all the BitLicense comments the department received from all over the world.
LibertyX installed its bitcoin ATMs in 33 states, allowing consumers to acquire the digital currency at more than 2,500 locations.
Bitreserve has created a new gold standard, linking its bitcoin currency exchange and payment services with gold with the help of Gold Bullion International.
MasterCard filed a submission to a Senate inquiry into digital currencies, arguing that Australian regulators should strengthen control over the cryptocurrency.
According to initial metrics, Bitcoin Black Friday 2014 sales reduced if compared with 2013.