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The economist explains what gives bitcoin value, its worth as an investment and the purity of the protocol.

The company says bitcoin is just a promising payments technology. It is that, and much more, says Ariel Deschapell.

Square is now allowing merchants to accept bitcoin payments online at Square Market.

Mining equipment makers are notorious for their long delays and poor customer service. But is this actually the case?

David Gilson reports on the very first UK local government operated cryptocurrency, HullCoin.

All you need to know about national cryptocurrencies – a new trend in altcoin development.

Jackson Palmer tells CoinDesk why he founded dogecoin and why it is more appealing than bitcoin.

KnCMiner has bumped up the specification of its upcoming Titan scrypt miner, at 250MH/s, up from 100MH/s.

Outspoken Reddit boss Yishan Wong issued some frank views on bitcoin, libertarians and altcoins this week.

In the future, will we tip with dogecoin, spend 'loose change' with litecoin and make big payments with bitcoin?

Binary options offer an easy way to hedge bitcoin volatility and several operators stand poised to fill the demand.

CoinDesk reviews the ups and downs of auroracoin's official launch, and what they mean for country-based digital currencies.

Third-party service developers want bitcoin's developers to open up the blockchain.

Starting with tomorrow's Airdrop, Icelanders can claim 31.8 auroracoins in one of digital currency's most ambitious experiments.

The wallet focuses on mobile security as well as privacy protection for bitcoin but doesn't let you send BTC.

The new program will allow customers to send money to debit and select credit cards issued internationally.

KnCMiner announced its first scrypt miner yesterday and today it's reporting that it already has $2m worth of pre-orders.

Coinbase has headhunted Facebook's Ryan McGeehan and Amazon's Todd Edebohls for their security and business acumen.

Alydian has announced it is now accepting bids for three mining systems with a combined 218TH/s output.

Blockchain experienced a long outage this week, but launched a commendable press push to stem the damage.

Core developers have renamed the bitcoin reference client Bitcoin Core to reduce confusion between the network and the software.

KnCMiner has announced its first rig dedicated to scrypt mining, the 100MH/s 'Titan', priced at $9,995.

Prices for second most popular digital currency litecoin surged today, in anticipation of Chinese exchange Huobi officially trading it.

Bitcoin investment and management company DigitalBTC will soon be working closely with the cloud mining provider.

Blockchain.info has been down since late yesterday with a database issue – no users' funds have been affected.