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Can bitcoin conquer Argentina? CoinDesk explores the evidence in an attempt to discern whether the digital currency can really take off.

A fork in the bitcoin network has raised issues regarding how key participants in the payment network process and confirm transactions.

Customers affected by Mt Gox's insolvency have been given more time to file their online bankruptcy claims.

Travis Patron argues that bitcoin is an intrinsically valuable form of money because it is regulated through time-bound algorithms.

Customers in Canada will be now able to deposit Canadian dollars into their Bitstamp accounts following the exchange's partnership with Vogogo.

As Greece gets to grips with its upcoming bailout referendum the media has taken its coverage of bitcoin to a whole new level.

London-based bitcoin exchange Coinfloor has announced the launch of a broker-based peer-to-peer marketplace.

The Chamber of Digital Commerce, a digital currency advocacy group, has appointed former Wall Street executive Blythe Masters as an advisor.

BitGo has announced the release of Verified by BitGo, a tool aimed at allowing customers to provide greater financial transparency.

Kraken has become the latest US-based bitcoin exchange to launch services in the Canadian market.

A bitcoin poker website operator has agreed to plead guilty to a charge of operating an unlicensed gaming website in Nevada.

Some investors have abandoned the bitcoin sector altogether, while others have chosen to buckle in for the "long road ahead".

Ben Parker, co-founder of IRIN, a humanitarian news service spoke to CoinDesk about bitcoin's potential in fragile states.

Bitcoin could do no right this week as its use cases took a back seat to its still-prevalent association with the dark web.

Santander's head of research and development and innovation will speak about the Spanish megabank's work with blockchain tech at Consensus 2015.

Kleiner Perkins, one of the most storied VC firms in Silicon Valley, has named a bitcoin startup founder to the staff of its new seed fund.

Tatiana Cutts, a university law lecturer, examines the subject of bitcoin ownership and whether it impacts the fungibility of the digital currency.

Digital money researcher Travis Patron explains why the late American mathematician John Nash may have influenced the creation of bitcoin.

A political action committee pushing for US Vice President Joe Biden to seek the presidency has announced it will accept bitcoin donations.

Bitcoin has been scrutinised in the past, but this week's criticism took a rather unexpected – and perhaps questionable – sense of humour.

Russia's central bank will meet representatives from the financial markets to discuss bitcoin regulation next week, a local news source claims.

In our latest research report, out today, CoinDesk reveals who is using bitcoin, who isn't and why it matters.

UPDATE (9th June 10:49am BST): Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has bought the company’s first cryptobond for $500,000. “I intend to demonstrate my belief not just in Overstock, but in the TØ.com platform that we built and, indeed, in the cryptorevolution itself,” he said in a statement. E-retail giant Overstock has announced it will utilize colored coins to […]

Former Wall Street executive Blythe Masters says distributed ledgers will change the way the financial world operates. Speaking at the Exponential Finance conference in New York, Masters who joined bitcoin trading platform Digital Assets Holdings as CEO in March, said: “Distributed ledger technology does have the potential to be disruptive of certain business models. But it has […]

Intercontinental Exchange CEO and NYSE chairman Jeffrey Sprecher voiced his support for bitcoin in a CNBC interview yesterday.