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19 July 2014 / Tech Crunch – Popular bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain.info is releasing a major new version of its Android app, allowing you to store, receive and send bitcoins directly from your Android phone. The key thinking behind the update is to make bitcoin more accessible.

18 July 2014 / Tampa Bay Business Journal – Honestly, when the call came in, the bowl game official could have told me the sponsor was going to be Jaguar or CSX or even The Melting Pot and I would have said “ho-hum” and written a nice

18 July 2014 / Wall Street Journal – PayFast, a leading South African payment processor, on Thursday started offering the digital currency bitcoin as a payment option, making it available to the firm’s 30,000 merchant customers. It becomes the first payment processor in South Africa, and one

18 July 2014 / PC World – In case the headline didn’t tip you off: Yep, you can buy Dell products with Bitcoin now, as Michael Dell himself proudly trumpeted on Twitter earlier today. A post in the Dell blog revealed some of the finer details. Just

11 July 2014 / Jewish Business News – Russian Billionaire investor and the founder of Digital Sky Technologies (DST) Global and co-owner of Mail.ru Group Yuri Milner, has made a strong statement of support in the virtual currency known as Bitcoin. He has reportedly invested an undisclosed

11 July 2014 / International Business Times – Venture capital investment in bitcoin increased 28% sequentially in the second quarter, signalling investors’ increased enthusiasm and confidence in crypto-currencies. CoinDesk’s State of Bitcoin report for the second quarter showed venture capital investments in the digital currency totalled $73m (£42.6m,

11 July 2014 / The Drum – Online currency Bitcoin has been touted to surge in value from $615 a share to $1,200, a 226 per cent increase on current estimates – according to a venture capitalist. Bitcoins, which are earned by volunteering computing power to process the firm’s

09 July 2014 / ForexMinute – Villas in the Loresho Ridge area of Nairobi are now available for Bitcoin through the online Bitcoin market place BitPremier. According to the advertisement on BitPremier the villas on sale i.e. Fahari Villas are situated on a cul-de-sac on the highest