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San Francisco-based payments company Stripe has officially launched its bitcoin payments integration following months of beta testing.

The bitcoin services provider has launched Xapo Institutions, a suite of products aimed at big business.

Dell has announced it has expanded its bitcoin payments program to consumers in the UK and Canada.

Bitcoin hardware wallet startup Ledger has raised €1.3m in an investment round led by French VC fund, XAnge Private Equity.

Email-forwarding service Composed aims to help the global fight against spam by making senders pay a small fee in bitcoin.

Parking rewards startup Parkt now offers users the choice of cashing out local area loyalty points in bitcoin, as well as parking discounts.

Patrick Murck, executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, has joined BTCJam's board of advisors to help spread crowdfunded bitcoin loans worldwide.

PokerStars, the world's largest poker site, issues official denial that it will soon accept bitcoin, quashing persistent rumours.

Located in San Francisco, Nakamoto's offers customers 10% savings on Amazon items when paying in bitcoin.

Porn.com reports that bitcoin now accounts for 5% of its total sales, just over a year after first accepting the payment method.

The MIT Bitcoin Expo will be held on 7th and 8th March at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a bitcoin company from issuing statements on its proposed initial public offering (IPO) until a formal prospectus has been lodged. The ban was imposed following a post by Melbourne-based Bitcoin Group on social media platform Wechat to gauge interest from investors if the company were to be listed on the […]

A Singapore company has created a way for customers to buy gold and silver directly from a Lamassu bitcoin ATM.

New Hampshire residents are the most likely to pay for Overstock items in bitcoin, according to new data released by the e-commerce giant.

The Bitcoin Foundation hosted a development conference in Boston yesterday, featuring panelists from prominent bitcoin companies and organizations.

Lighthouse, the bitcoin-powered crowdfunding application, raised its target of 3.5 BTC for Medic Mobile during its first 24 hours.

An event expected to involve the distribution of bitcoin to 70,000 residents of the Dominica has been canceled.

The SWIFT Business Forum comes to New York next month with a panel of payments and cryptocurrency professionals.

CoinDesk looks at the nominees for this year's Bitcoin Foundation elections, set to begin next week.

UATP, an airline payment network owned by major international airlines, has partnered with bitcoin payment processor Bitnet.

Australian bitcoin finance company CoinJar has introduced pegged accounts in an attempt to shield customers from bitcoin’s volatility. The new accounts, which CoinJar is calling “Hedged Accounts”, will allow users to peg the price of bitcoin against fiat currencies, such as the US dollar, Australian dollar, pound and euro. Asher Tan, CoinJar‘s CEO, explained that the new option would benefit those […]

BitX is expanding into the world's second-fastest growing economy, Indonesia, bringing a fixed-price bitcoin exchange to its 252 million inhabitants.

Kenya-based bitcoin services provider BitPesa has raised $1.1m in funding led by Pantera Capital and including Bitcoin Opportunity Corp.

A bootstrapped payment processor called ChainPay wants to take on giants Coinbase and BitPay from its Isle of Man base.

Robocoin has simplified the registration process for new users of its ATMs, enabling them to first create an account online before ever visiting a machine. By verifying an email address and phone number, customers will now be able to sign up and create a wallet via the firm’s website. This initial registration enables the user to transact with bitcoin only, however. To use fiat currency […]