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John Law explores the past week of Bitcoin news, from Rosicrucians and credit unions to overheated hardware and the new generation of swashbucklers.

Canada comes out on top in the number of Bitcoin downloads per capita so far this year, followed by Australia, the UK, the US and Germany.

Rumours suggesting the Chinese government was moving to block Bitcoin related traffic on its networks have been dismissed.

The Seasteading Institute shares many of Bitcoin's ideals.

A company is promising to launch a decentralized exchange that's all about the client software, rather than the server. What are regulators going to do now?

A new trading platform, BTC.sx, is offering investors the chance to take short and long positions on future bitcoin price movements against the dollar.

Let's look at five countries where citizens might have more than the usual reasons to adopt Bitcoin.

Coinpunk offers a roll-your-own Bitcoin wallet service that can be hosted on your own web server, or a hosting provider's one.

A Welsh teenager has been found guilty of computer misuse offences relating to the theft of virtual currency from a RuneScape account.

This may be the first time we've seen a country adopting it as a currency. The Principality of Sealand has expressed an interest in adopting bitcoin.

Lamassu's Bitcoin Machine isn't exactly a Bitcoin ATM -- instead, it's designed to enable one-way exchanges only: cash to bitcoins.

The following trailer offers a sneak preview of the coming documentatry, "The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin," which is still in production but was previewed at Bitcoin 2013.

For all the fuss about Bitcoin, its most important impact might have nothing to do with money at all.

Anyone who’s spent more than 12 seconds browsing the Bitcoin forums could be forgiven for concluding that the digital currency is inherently a guy thing.

What happens when Bitcoin meets Minecraft? BitVegas, an online casino for lovers of digital currency who are also fanatical about Minecraft.

A new venture that aims to connect Bitcoin technology startups with investors calls itself the "world's first distributed veteran entrepreneur and angel investor group."

Bitcoin Card will offer a way to transfer bitcoins without a smartphone or laptop, say the founders of the Mycelium network, which is backing the idea.

Online content delivery is all about speed, but for one content delivery network provider, it's also about keeping developers happy by accepting bitcoin.

The Bitcoin community has adapted to verbal, criminal and cyber attacks on the currency, an academic paper due for release tomorrow, reveals. The attacks – whether from hackers, fraudsters or government regulators – seem to be strengthening the community, the research Breaking Out of the Bank in Europe – Exploring Collective Emergent Institutional Entrepreneurship Through Bitcoin suggests. […]

A British business school professor believes Bitcoin needs to go on a charm offensive to win over worried national regulators.

CoinDesk sat down with Gavin Andresen, chief scientist for the Bitcoin Foundation and lead developer for the Bitcoin open-source project.

Some Canadian Bitcoin exchanges reportedly received letters from financial regulators saying they do not have to follow the rules required by US regulators.

While covering Bitcoin 2013 this past weekend, CoinDesk sat down and talked with Tony Gallippi, co-founder and CEO of the payment processing firm BitPay.

Fancy a little bitcoin wager? Online games are now appearing designed to let people play with bitcoins, in the hope of winning big.

Largely untapped markets such as global remittances represent a huge opportunity for Bitcoin, BitInstant founder Charlie Shrem said at Bitcoin 2013.