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Dilip Rao, Managing Director of Ripple Labs in Sydney, has announced that Ripple will continue to expand its “highly demanded” real-time settlement protocol in the Asia-Pacific region.

Distributed identity database Onename, has announced Passcard, a new identification method for the digital era that holds the ambition of becoming our “all access pass to everything.”

The Blocknet is adding Ethereum to its suite of supported currencies, bringing Ethereum’s smart contract and VM features to the Blocknet.

The fourth Savannah Fund accelerator class is underway. BitFinance, a bitcoin exchange in Zimbabwe, is one of four startups selected from a list of over 150 applications from across Africa.

The White House has appointed Ed Felter as the Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer; BitFilm has released a trailer for an upcoming movie about Satoshi Nakamoto and more news.

It takes more than a Bitcoin address to accept Bitcoin payments as a merchant.

This week’s crisis in the Indian Bitcoin market involves BTCXIndia’s re-cent closure due to the loss of its banking partner.

The Baltic region has been noted for its high output of tech start-ups over the last few years. Now the focus of these companies is increasingly turning towards the digital currency sector.

ItBit becomes the first US regulated exchange, but the EU might be about to harmonize digital currency law for 500 million people.

Gas Stations in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia operated by Lukoil will now accept Bitcoin through a service called SpectroCoin, which allows them to pay with Bitcoin at the pump.

In just the past few months, Cointelegraph has expanded its reach to a wide range of local markets throughout the world via the Cointelegraph Franchise Program.

Stock exchange operator NASDAQ is experimenting with blockchain, Rand Paul has named Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne as a member of his tech council, and more news.

Bitcoin Price Analysis from Cointelegraph, Week of May 11

According to owner and president Dave Bradley, Bitcoin Brains is perhaps the world’s first full-service, brick-and-mortar Bitcoin store in the world — certainly in Canada.

Bitcoins can now be traded on the public markets. After a long wait, Grayscale Investment’s Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT) received formal approval on March 26 and began trading in May with the ticker GBTC.

Weekend Roundup from Cointelegraph

The controversial section 215 of the Patriot Act which has allowed mass collection of American’s phone call metadata is set for reform or expiry by the first of June, does it really matter?

Daniel Ternyak, CEO and founder of the “no nonsense” .bit domain name registrar GetDotBit, launched his project on April 23.

Suril Desai is an analyst at Nishith Desai Associates, one among a handful of law firms in India trying to develop a way to present the Bitcoin framework effectively so that its legitimacy comes from the fact that it is decentralized, rather than regulated.

French Finance Minister Michel Sapin has announced increased control of “the use of cash in France.”

Global interest rates are at their lowest levels in decades. This has baffled many leading economists and global fund managers.

What causes some people to tire and give up on crypto?

Core Developer Gavin Andresen announced a request to increase the Bitcoin block size next year, which could mean significant changes to the Bitcoin code.

Ripple Labs sold “magical Internet money” to convicted felon Roger Ver without sending a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) to the U.S. state.

Bitcoin exchange ItBit opened its doors on Thursday to US customers, BitPagos announced a partnership with e-commerce solutions provider Entrepids, and more news.

Filipino Bitcoin startup Satoshi Citadel Industries (SCI), has raised an additional US$100,000 as part of its ongoing seed funding round.

A court in Ekaterinburg, Russia has set a hearing for May 15 regarding the Russia’s crypto community representatives’ complaint against the government’s ban of Bitcoin-related websites.

If not for DNS (domain name systems), very few people would be able to visit Cointelegraph.com. They’d have to know that our server’s IP address is something like 192.24.2.58.

The United States’ Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has announced it is working to investigate a string of digital currency businesses, assessing whether they meet financial regulations for the sector.

As the digital currency sector faces increasing scrutiny from law enforcement and regulatory authorities, are the days of peer-to-peer services numbered?