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The national assembly of Ecuador (the law-making branch of the nation) has voted to ban Bitcoin. The move comes after Bolivia, the only other South American nation to issue specific cryptocurrency regulation, chose to ban Bitcoin last month. The bill explicitly bans companies and...

Early yesterday morning, Alienware tweeted that they had added Bitcoin as a payment option on their site, and were offering substantial discounts for users of the payment option. Alienware is a high-end PC gaming hardware company, which has been in business since 1996. The...

The Wall Street Journal reports that, in a closed meeting with creditors in Tokyo, a Mt. Gox trustee responsible for the dispensation of the failed exchange’s remaining resources disclosed that he was considering paying creditors out of the remaining resources in the form...

A large number of people enthusiastic about the Bitcoin space are heavily invested in cryptocurrencies – and often in more than one, since swapping one cryptocurrency for another to exploit arbitrage opportunities is easier than swapping between cryptocurrency and USD. This...

The Winklevoss Index (referred to as the WinkDex), which launched back in February, is a blended Bitcoin index that they hope will become the canonical Bitcoin price for Bitcoin companies all over the world. The index is run by the Winklevoss twins: investors who were involved in...

Princeton CS and CITP professor Arvind Narayanan was issued a grant by the National Science Foundation late last month, for the purpose of finding ways to “[Address] the challenges of cryptocurrencies: Security, anonymity, stability.” The $500,000 grant is the smallest...

Computer science, despite being the most modern academic discipline, is still generally taught in remarkably old-school, low-tech ways: dry textbooks and pencil and paper problem solving. The good news is that private industry is rapidly growing to fill the dead spaces left by...

BitPay, the world’s largest Bitcoin payment processor, announced via a news release sent to CoinReport today that it would sponsor the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Athletic Association, the sports program of the company founders’ alma mater. The deal will...

Blockchain announced today at The North American Bitcoin Conference that it’s releasing a new version of its open source wallet. Blockchain provides one of the most popular Bitcoin wallets, as well as a series of tools to explore the blockchain and get statistics about the...

The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has released a preliminary draft of its upcoming regulations around Bitcoin – and, surprise, surprise, they’re a huge mess. The new regulations, which would apply to the New York State region, place a number of...