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Increasing awareness of the Bitcoin remittance market has put mounting pressure on extant fiat-based money transmitters to adapt their business models. Western Union has received much negative attention this year due to its corporate reaction to Bitcoin, so Cointelegraph spoke to MoneyGram’s Peter Ohser to see how its competitors view the current market.

First, people came up with the idea of seasteading in order to challenge laws of jurisdiction and protect themselves and their property from government. Now a group of developers has come up with a similar idea, but in space, and for cryptocurrencies—a plan called Space Vault.

Back in May, Coinffeine formed a company and blueprint for a decentralized exchange. The team has been testing for months. Friday, the team showed their decentralized exchange to a crowd for the first time.

After a year-long market test with Peercover on the Ripple protocol, Providence is relaunching the peer-to-peer (P2P) insurance platform as part of a five-product suite.

Bitcoin Analysis from Tone Vays.

Andrew Kalleen is a street musician (busker) who performs regularly in subway stations in New York City. While subway riders enjoy the musical relief he provides from the monotony of state-run transportation, there are some individuals who do not enjoy Kalleen’s performances: New York police employees. Especially Michael Franco.

In the latest episode of Epicenter Bitcoin, our guests were none other than Cointelegraph’s Chief Editor Allen Scott, and frequent contributor Ian DeMartino. This was their first time on the show since we announced our partnership back in October.

In January, the Christmas and holiday craze will mostly be over. Wouldn’t it be great to receive one late Christmas gift? How about a free entrance to the biggest Bitcoin conference in London?

Social networking service reddit, announces new decentralized digital asset project based on Blockchain technology, the “reddit notes.” Amounting of 950,000 units, the company said it will be giving them away in the fall of 2015.

New weekend roundup from Cointelegraph

Arguments have been made for deflation, which is a decrease in the general price level of goods and services. Deflation technically occurs when the inflation rate falls below zero, causing a negative inflation rate.

Fullnode.co relaunched this week. The service launched earlier this year to automate the process of deploying full nodes—an important piece of the Bitcoin network.

The North American Bitcoin Conference Miami today announced its full schedule for the upcoming event that will be held from January 16 to 18, 2015, in Miami Beach.

It seems that over the last six months the debate of whether proof of work (PoW) is the right long-term consensus protocol has been intensifying.

As is becoming the norm, the newest announcement from Nxt is not about a product “in development,” but one that’s available as of today.

Hello friends, loved ones and everyone who helped me fund my one-way flight ticket so I could participate in the first Dream Bitcoin seminar in Ghana, Kumasi.

At this year’s Money20/20 event held in Las Vegas, Cointelegraph had a chance to catch up with Marco Santori, chairman of the Regulatory Affairs Committee at the Bitcoin Foundation.

The Swarm funded Bitcoin-themed comic book ‘The Hunt For Satoshi’ is now available on Comixology

The world of Bitcoin is coming to the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show, sponsored by a huge partnership between BitPay, Circle, Kraken, Bitmain, Blockchain, Bitstamp, Private Internet Access, Robocoin, and yBitcoin. The world of Bitcoin show will feature ten different brands that are shaping the Bitcoin and virtual currency industries.

The community supporting OpalCoin, an anonymous cryptocurrency offering decentralized storage, was recently under siege of a fake-wallet attack. A hacker stole almost 17% of the coin supply, most of which has been recovered.

In a blow to Bitcoin’s international presence, Australia has confirmed it will keep its controversial sales tax policy for certain Bitcoin transactions. Following the Australian Tax Office (ATO) issuing the initial legislation earlier this year, considerable community opposition arose, with domestic exchange Coinjar even forced to relocate to the UK to preserve its operations.

Today, the National Bank of Belarus announced that it will implement an immediate 30% tax on purchases of foreign currency for individuals and legal entities.

A student in the Netherlands, as part of a class project, may have found a way to prevent censorship of text messages by enlisting the aid of the Bitcoin blockchain.

BlockTrust launches the first all-inclusive funding platform for Blockchain projects with project certification and ClearingHouse notarization services, along with multi-sig Bitcoin escrow.

A newly announced accelerator program for blockchain ventures is set to launch in January in the Cayman Islands, aiming to take advantage of the location’s heavenly landscapes and favorable tax regime.

In a surprise move, eGifter, one of the two biggest online gift card providers that accepts bitcoin, added Ebay giftcards as an option for its customers.

The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has updated its proposed Bitcoin regulation known as the BitLicense.

The Conference of State Banking Supervisors (CSBS) recently released their “Draft Policy on State Virtual Currency Regulation.”

Changing your mind is usually a wonderful thing. If we never did it, we’d never learn.

Coming off a powerful speech and singing performance to close out the Bitcoin South Conference in gorgeous Queenstown, New Zealand, Tatiana Moroz is solidifying her stature as a sought after presence at Cryptocurrency and Liberty events.