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Bitwage, a California-based Bitcoin payroll firm, has released the first international Bitcoin payroll debit card. With the release of this card, employees and contractors using the Bitwage system can withdraw and spend US dollars, Euros, and British Pounds directly from the...

Note: Some users of igot have complained they cannot withdraw Bitcoins or cash out funds to their bank accounts after selling their Bitcoins on igot. The latest complaint made on Reddit’s /r/bitcoin can be read here. All complaints made on /r/bitcoin in the past, however, seems...

Gem, a developer API platform that simplifies integrating Bitcoin into apps and services, announced last week it has raised an additional $1.3 million, bringing its total raised to $3.3 million. Gem will use the new funding to accelerate feature development and scale its services...

The Swiss global financial services firm UBS is set to open this month a technology lab in London to examine how blockchain technology can be used in financial services, reported the Wall Street Journal. The lab will bring together technology experts from UBS and the wider...

Overtstock.com has invested $5 million into PeerNova, a San Jose-based Bitcoin technology startup, as part of the second tranche of Series A funding, reported SiliconANGLE. Describing itself as an “innovator and thought leader” in distributed trustless systems based on Bitcoin...

Bitt – a Barbados-based digital asset exchange, remittance channel, and merchant-processing gateway – announced last week that it closed a $1.5-million seed round from Avatar Capital, a Caribbean investment group based in Trinidad and Tobago. The investment will allow Bitt...

Buttercoin, a bitcoin exchange supported by Google Ventures and Y Combinator, is closing this month after failing to raise more capital, reports TechCruch. “So long friends. Buttercoin will be turning off April 10th at 11PM PDT. Be sure to move your bitcoins to another service...