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Discount rates are the bane of merchants around the world. Simply put they are the percentage paid by merchants for each transaction that involves credit or debit cards. These fees can range from about 1% to as high as 5% for each transaction.

Isle of Man digital currency startup Crypto Next PLC unveils public beta global exchange platform at Inside Bitcoin Conference in Tel Aviv.

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First there were social networks, then came Bitcoin. Then Bitcoin 2.0. Now, directly over the horizon, comes a new platform—a “social network 2.0” called Gems.

“Young people are so integrated with the Internet [...] to introduce a currency that exists only online really makes sense for young people like us.”

Will Hammer is the Libertarian candidate for the United States House of Representatives from the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Sixth District. The 27 year old candidate is running against incumbent Bob Goodlatte, an extremely conservative Republican.

As Singaporean Bitcoin startup CoinHako approaches demo day at accelerator Boost, Silicon Valley eyes Singapore as a Bitcoin hub.

Two computer scientists from MIT claim to have developed a “machine learning algorithm” that can potentially be used to predict the price of Bitcoin.

Six months ago a Reddit user by the name gramsadmin posted on /r/DarkNetMarkets to announce the launch of a new darknet search engine, Grams.

Many things that can be said about Brazil, but income equality is not one of them. The recent troubles during the World Cup demonstrated that the great majority of the population has been anything but happy at the government’s (mis)management of the country’s money. The good news is, however, that Bitcoin is making a strong attempt to fill the gap left by Brazil’s Central Bank.

Jonathan Chester, founder of BitWage, sees the role of BitWage in bringing modern banking tools to this emerging segment of electronic money users.

Florida Law Firm, Silver Law, has filed lawsuits against two Bitcoin companies on behalf of users who claim damages due to either company negligence or intentional intent.

There is an old Hindi saying that goes “money begets money,” which in English usually translates to “it takes money to make money.” This seems to be holding very true for Blockstream according to recently filed SEC documents. According to these documents, Reid Hoffman now sits on the company’s board of directors.

The very first Bitcoin 2 Business Congress kicked off on October 16 at a very nice looking location in Brussels: the B19 Business Club.

Twitch.tv starts accepting Dogecoin, BlueCoin needs a mascot, KoreCoin makes it so the NSA can’t snoop on your phonecalls, and a potential scam tries to piggy back on the success of Marijuana-backed coins.

It’s fitting that the world’s first college degree in cryptocurrencies is offered in Cyprus — one of the first geographical regions that widely embraced Bitcoin. The University of Nicosia in Cyprus has decided to offer a Master of Science in the study, and the program’s first course, Introduction to Digital Currencies, is available free online.

BitFury Capital, the VC arm of the multifaceted BitFury Group, announced Wednesday it had invested an undisclosed amount in payment processor GoCoin. BitFury also said it would use GoCoin as the default payment processor for its worldwide network of vendors.

The tiny South American nation of Ecuador has begun its experiment with virtual currencies. The government announced earlier this year that they would be creating a government backed virtual currency in as a way to shore up a sagging economy that is currently being buoyed up by the US dollar.

Bitcoin ATM manufacturer Lamassu Bitcoin Ventures partners up with IdentityMind Global to offer integrated Anti-Money Laundering and Compliance platform within Bitcoin ATMs.

With such an extensive track record and experience in pioneering digital payments in Russia, Cointelegraph could not pass up the opportunity to ask Victor some questions on Bitcoin in Russia and get his thoughts on the proposed legislation banning cryptocurrencies and all related information in the world’s biggest country.

Recently Side Chains released a teaser about an innovative new technology called pegged sidechains that would allow public ledgers of various cryptocurrencies to transfer between multiple blockchains. The whitepaper describing this new technology has just been released by Side Chains.

Blocknet combines the features of several coins into one super network

Tealet is an online farmers market for tea founded by food scientist Elyse Petersen. With an extensive background in the tea industry and with a dream of solving tea the production and distribution problems Elyse explains why tea is a good place to start Bitcoin adoption and tells us how she sees BTC payments shaping the future of agriculture as a whole.

You know that friend who always tries to score indie snob cred by saying he thinks a specific band’s “early stuff was better?” P2P music startup PeerTracks might have devised a way for your hipster friend to monetize his early adopter status.

When CoinFest started in 2013 as a relatively small gathering of 100 or so Bitcoiners, celebrating the adoption of Bitcoin at a Waves Coffee House in Vancouver, it was conceived as a way to incentivize cryptocurrency acceptance while educating the public about its importance and use. Its popular success prompted the Bitcoiniacs (now CoinTrader) to place the world’s first Bitocin ATM there.

On Wednesday, October 15, Andrew Wilkinson was out of patience. He and his business partner had ordered a Robocoin ATM to place in a pub in Canada...

George Samman encourages everyone to quickly go through the slide deck to check the pulse of the global economy. The macro environment looks like one of deflation rather than the inflation that central banks were trying to create.

PayPal co-founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel believes Bitcoin has succeeded as a currency, but still lacks as a payment system.

Back in August, the New York Department of Financial Services pushed back the deadline for public commentary on its proposed BitLicenses. That deadline, October 21, is here.

Peter Gelardi Mikkelsen currently serve as the managing director of the Copenhagen Bitcoin Center. The center conducts a large range of activities, ranging from bitcoin trading, ATM services and educational initiatives seeking to promote public awareness of the crypto community and its developments.