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On Wednesday, Bitcoin Foundation welcomed Slovenia to its international network of chapter affiliates. The southern-central European country is home to Bitcoin Foundation Slovenia, or “Bitcoin Institut.” According to a Foundation blog post, the Slovenian chapter is also the first...

Overstock.com announced today it has launched an updated international checkout system that now provides customers all over the world with the option to pay in Bitcoin, making it the first major online retailer to accommodate Bitcoin worldwide. This is another first for the...

Digital wallet provider Coinbase announced Wednesday that it is now available in 13 European nations: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Finland, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, and Spain. That brings the total number of countries where Coinbase...

Global News reports that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is exploring means of solving and preventing crimes that involve cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, according to emails obtained from the Financial Transaction Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC), Canada’s anti-money...

Today, we’re going through a few of the most common Bitcoin myths newcomers to the digital currency get presented. To start us off, a question you hear often from recent adopters of Bitcoin is something along the lines of… “But wait, there are only 21 million coins! How...

On Tuesday, at the TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Bitcoin startup Gem announced the launch of a Bitcoin platform for developers. The Venice, California-based company’s “full-stack API (application programming interface) now provides developers with a complete solution that...