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Early last month, the central bank of Bolivia El Banco Central de Bolivia released a resolution officially banning the use of any currencies not endorsed by the government, including cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, which it called out by name, along with Namecoin, Ixcoin, Devcoin,...

Canadian-based BetMoose launched last week, claiming to be the world’s “first distributed, truly P2P prediction/wagering/betting exchange.” BetMoose allows users to “bet on anything” by wagering Bitcoin on their online betting platform. BetMoose was created with the intent of...

Once a key tactical point in the brutal wars between the French and the English, the Isle of Jersey (a tiny, five-by-nine-mile island located in the channel off the coast of France) has found a new role in recent years as a tax haven for Europe’s wealthy. The semi-sovereign...

Last Saturday, during the D.C.-hosted “Bitcoin in the Beltway” conference, the CEO of OverStock.com, Patrick Byrne, announced during a keynote that his company, Overstock.com, in light of its booming Bitcoin sales, will be donating three percent of its profits from...

Bitcoin crowdfunding resources are all the rage these days, many of them powered by the CounterParty protocol. Today, a new crowdfunding platform called Swarm launched and began funding itself with considerable success, raising more than 1200 Bitcoins in just eighteen hours (the...

BitPay, the world’s largest Bitcoin payment processor, said in a press release sent to CoinReport this morning that it had purchased branding rights to the St. Petersburg College Bowl. The event will now be called “Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl.” “Attention College #Football Fans!...

snapCard, a currency-changing service that allows users to spend Bitcoin online, has launched a new sports competition organized around the world cup. The deal works like this: Anyone who predicts a perfect bracket for the 2014 world cup (estimated odds of winning the prize: 1 in...

TigerDirect has extended the Bitcoin payment option to its Canadian customers also, according to a press release sent out on Monday. Customers will now be able to choose Bitcoin as a method of payment when purchasing any of the 300,000+ products available for sale on...

Alongside the frankly embarrassing Mt. Gox collapse, a wild rodeo of speculation-driven price changes, and the seizure of the Silk Road, Bitcoin has spent the last few months quietly going legitimate, and gradually finding new niches in which it is actually useful to real people...

In the opening sequence of the 2006 film “Casino Royale,” James Bond earns his rank by murdering a fellow agent who was caught selling state secrets to the enemy. This is a leak in a very cold-war sense — there is an Enemy, and there are secrets of Real Military Importance,...