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24 July 2014 / Institutional Investor – By Mark Pey: “By now I think we can agree that the absence of an official, rules-based, cooperatively managed monetary system has not been a great success. In fact, international financial crises seem at least as frequent and more destructive

24 July 2014 / Money Morning – A tsunami of disruption – courtesy of Bitcoin – is headed directly for several sectors of the financial services industry. Some of these companies may adapt to a world in which the digital currency plays a major role, but most

23 July 2014 / Payment Source – Zuman, a cloud-based human resource outsourcer, has partnered with BitPay to allow its business clients to pay their employees in bitcoin. Human resources “is frankly kind of broken, especially for the changing demographics of the workforce of tomorrow,” said Doug

23 July 2014 / siliconANGLE – Near the end of 2013, Apple decided it was going to have nothing to do with Bitcoin, and immediately yanked various Bitcoin-related apps from its App Store. Because of this, many apps were stripped of their Bitcoin functionality so they could

22 July 2014 / IEEE Spectrum – This September, if all goes according to plan, the Bitcoin blockchain will take to the radio waves in Finland. The project is called Kryptoradio. It’s the result of a partnership between Koodilehto, a Finnish co-op specializing in open technology development,

21 July 2014 / Coindesk – Latvian airline airBaltic may be the first to accept payments in bitcoin, according to a Twitter post issued by the company. Although no formal press release was made, airBaltic’s website quietly began displaying the offering on 17th July. The company later acknowledged the

21 July 2014 / Independent Business Times – The first trade association for digital currency has been announced at the National Bitcoin Conference in Chicago, signalling a significant step towards bitcoin breaking into the mainstream. The Chamber of Digital Commerce – also referred to as the “Digital Chamber”

21 July 2014 / Leader Post – The next time you’re at Trifon’s Pizza on Kramer Boulevard, you may have the option of paying for your pizza and beers with Bitcoin. And conveniently enough, there’s now a Bitcoin Teller Machine (BTM) there for easy access to the