This article was first published on April 27th in CoinTelegraph by Allen Scott. Bitt, the Caribbean’s first bitcoin exchange company, is looking to tap the region’s potential for remittances and banking services by providing faster and cheaper payments using bitcoin. CoinTelegraph spoke to the CEO and co-founder of Bitt, Gabriel Abed, about Bitt’s plans, as... Read More

This article was first published on April 27th in CoinTelegraph by Diana Ngo. The National Bank of Ukraine held a meeting last week to discuss ways of “[improving] the performance of international payment systems in Ukraine” and easing up regulatory constraints for new market entrants. The conference, which gathered representatives from the National Bank of... Read More

This article was first published on April 27th in CoinTelegraph by Joseph Young. The Bitcoin industry has grown rapidly across the globe. The number of Bitcoin merchants has risen, the value of Bitcoin startups has increased and most importantly, awareness of Bitcoin has increased in countries with poor banking or financial systems. These are the... Read More

This article was first published on April 26th in CoinTelegraph by Guest Author. CoinTelegraph correspondent Dan Simon had the opportunity to speak with David Berger, CEO and founder of the Digital Currency Council. They discussed the challenges facing Bitcoin, the importance of the people building businesses atop the blockchain, and the critical nature of trust... Read More

This article was first published on April 26th in CoinTelegraph by Omar Bessa. Does Bitcoin Have Anyone to Defend It? In the event of an attack, who would defend Bitcoin? The fast answer would be its users—a distributed collective of like-minded individuals. But would they be enough? In his classic book, Art of War, Sun... Read More

This article was first published on April 26th in CoinTelegraph by George Samman. Chris Mountford is a senior software developer at Atlassian and one of the company’s earliest employees. For those who don’t know Atlassian, it is one of Australia’s great success stories. “Bitcoin shows us that there are a class of things we previously... Read More

This article was first published on April 25th in CoinTelegraph by Amanda B. Johnson. Jackson Palmer, creator of the eternally-inflationary Dogecoin, recently made a monumental announcement toCoinDesk: he’s disgusted with people like himself. After making lots of money off a cryptocurrency that’s lately fallen into decline (since not even a dog joke is cute forever),... Read More

This article was first published on April 25th in CoinTelegraph by Catherine Bleish. Catherine Bleish, MPA, (@thebitmom) writes about her family and their “Uncoinventional Bitcoin Bus Tour” across the USA. The self-styled “Blush Family”—John Bush, Catherine Bleish and their two children—traveled from Philadelphia to Texas using only cryptocurrency for payments. Flying to New Hampshire My... Read More

This article was first published on April 25th in CoinTelegraph by Joseph Young. Representatives of Smile Expo and BTCsec.com, two of the many websites that have been blocked by the Russian government in 2014 attended the first session of Sverdlovsk Oblast court, for an attempt to free the websites from restricted access in Russia. In... Read More

This article was first published on April 24th in CoinTelegraph by Alireza Beikverdi. Hourglass is yet another promising project by BitcoinJ developer and former Google engineer Mike Hearn, which has already surpassed the crowdfunding goal for its initial design. Once the initial design is done, Hearn is planning to move forward to implement a real prototype... Read More