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South African online retailer Takealot, which has raised more than $100m in funding, is now accepting bitcoin.

Wireless provider RingPlus is the first US-based telecom to offer digital currency support.

The Openbaar Ministerie, a public prosecution service within the Dutch judiciary, can now seize bitcoins from criminals.

The city of Pittsburgh has denied reports it is seeking to accept bitcoin for tax payments.

The Vancouver-based group claims to be the first hospitality company to accept bitcoin in Canada.

Tensions have eased following the mining industry's summit, but we're still in an ASIC arms race, argues Jon Matonis.

New York state has released its long-awaited guidance for licensed bitcoin businesses.

The US financial crimes agency has published a new analysis covering positive and negative aspects of bitcoin.

CEO Jeff Klee speaks to CoinDesk about the company's bitcoin sales success, the arrival of Expedia, and more.

The company specialises in enabling third parties to deliver online training courses and has now started accepting bitcoin payments.

A World Bank policy research working paper on Ponzi schemes mentions bitcoin as a market-driven bubble.

Big data analytics firm TradeBlock has raised $2.8m in new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and Barry Silbert.

Trucoin has officially opened its bitcoin buying service to US consumers in eight states.

Organized by GHash.io and CEX.io, attendees failed to agree on a fix but laid the foundation for possible solutions.

Cryptographic keys are confusing to use and proving ownership is tricky, but a solution is in the pipeline.

Russian hacking group wOrm, which managed to steal CNET’s user database, offered to sell the information for 1 BTC.

The Isle-of-Man-based firm has barred transactions related to 'virtual currencies' in revisions to its customer agreement.

The UK-based bitcoin storage firm has announced $2m in new funding led by Octopus Investments.

Open-order exchange VBTC launched in Ho Chi Minh City recently, saying bitcoin's economic benefits outweigh the authorities' concerns.

Online commerce platform specialist Shopify is now offering Coinbase integration to its merchants.

A man using at least two aliases has defrauded both investors and a Tampa-based industrial bitcoin mine.

ING Bank has issued a new video assessment of bitcoin that suggests how it can be improved.

Google's search engine has been updated to display bitcoin prices in response to certain queries.

CoinDesk takes a look inside La Maison du Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency education centre in Paris.

The peer-to-peer used-car marketplace has started to accept bitcoin payments and will hold onto its cryptocurrency.