Agatha Bookchin

On the 5th of April, the O2 also known as the North Greenwich Arena in London will host the first Bitcoin Fight Night in history. The goal is to bring the Bitcoin community and martial arts together. The event will include an 8 man K-1 kick boxing tournament. The winner will receive prize in Bitcoin equivalent to 5,000 British pounds.

On 24th March Gyft has officially announced that their gift cards are now accepted in shopping venues of the Walmart Company, including the discounter Sam’s Club. The arrangement palpably increases the amount of venues accepting Bitcoin and the variety of products to be exchanged for the virtual asset.

Bitcoin promoters and enthusiasts often mention among the basic virtues of the currency libertarian principles, mercy, giving a hand to those in need and support of good deeds. It is dramatic when it comes to testing of these characteristics, as often charity and donations are able only to reduce the pain, physical or mental, for some short time.

Cointelegraph has already reported on the occasion of Bitcoin receiving its personal and particular smell in form of BitCologne. Today, we are glad to present the fact that the most famous and favorable cryptographic coin is able to inspire creation of fine art, literature and other forms of masterpieces.

Exactly in 72 days the Central European Bitcoin Expo of 2014 is going to be launched. The planned event will be open for visitors for two days – the 31st of May and 1st of June, exactly on the shift between spring and summer. The conference claims to be the first to introduce the ideas of Bitcoin to the Central Europe.

Leafing through offline or scrolling down online magazines, skimming the regular articles on Bitcoin-related news, one might often notice the authors mentioning the primary principles of the virtual asset making it an attractive alternative to fiat currencies or online payment systems.

After rough criticism and declarations of war from the Two-Bit Idiot, P.J. Delaney without hiding the identity tried to compartmentalize the responsibilities, faces and perspectives of the Bitcoin Foundation. As the first warrior promised to reveal something that might revolutionize the online environment, Delaney has done his best to observe the situation from various angles being outside the system.

If we reject to use the term “speculation” in the case of Mt.Gox, then the details scraped up by hackers and hobby detectives definitely can be called so. The officially approved facts state that Mt.Gox collapsed leaving not serviced customers with lost funds. The assumptions, estimations and hypotheses provide more information that any official spokesperson.

The cryptographic environment has seen many implementations of online matters in real life. Pendants, smartphone cases and other items carrying the Bitcoin logo, paper wallets and hardware comprising virtual funds are all kinds of physical presences of the currency in the everyday life. Education and information acquisition is mostly completed online, but some activists from the US are going to access the part of society free from virtual bonds.

In case You have some brilliant idea and capable to develop the corresponding product that can be touched, used and distributed – then You should have went to the Texas Bitcoin Conference. This year David Johnston offered 1 million dollars as a reasonable reward for the winners of the competition. Read more about one of the most interesting Bitcoin events from North America.

The Two-Bit Idiot is a nickname of an entrepreneur and former VC, who calls himself also a truth-teller. This characteristic is going to be crucial for the remaining members of the Bitcoin Foundation board.

At first glance Mt.Gox seemed to be a great and very beneficial fraudulence scheme. It would be out of law, but still understandable if Mark Karpeles would leave the industry with pockets full of money.

Micky Malka born in Latin America has gone an epic way to the most influential person in the Bitcoin environment, becoming a board member of the Bitcoin Foundation and leading investor in startups and experienced businesses.

In the beginning of the 20th century Constantin Stanislavski, a famous Russian actor and theater director stated: “Theatre begins at the cloakroom”.

As summer events of the Bitcoin environment are already announced, spring meetups open details and populate up-to-date schedules. The Bitcoin Alliance of Canada is holding Bitcoin Expo in April; it is perfect timing to provide attendees with exact agenda and speakers’ list.

On the 19th February the team of TechCrunch announced that they are accepting Bitcoin payments for the upcoming Disrupt New York event in May.

Those, who are attentive readers of the Cointelegraph, might remember that they have already heard this surname – Itireleng.

The simplest explanation of the term “Local Currency” might sound like an alternative to virtual currencies like Bitcoin or Dogecoin, and a double alternative to the fiat currencies like the Sterling Pound or Dollar.

It is not supposed that Sheridans is a household name for the most of us, but one of its main clients one could definitely hear about – the Mojang Company, better known as the developer of the popular game Minecraft.

On the 2nd of February Reggie Middleton, also known as “Chief Provocateur!” has populated a text on the network that first appeared on his blog.

The Bitcoin enthusiasts are really devoted people to the idea of cryptocurrencies. They not only spread the information on the matter online and offline.

Old-fashioned meets modern when US Postal Service (USPS) announces its interest in provision of Bitcoin exchange services along with more traditional activities and well-known products.

As long as governments and authorities argue on the fluid nature of Bitcoin, compare it to money surrogates, big market players easily determine advantages of the virtual coin and try to make a use of them.

The large and reputable online Casino Vera&John can be considered as the first licensed and regulated venue to accept deposits in form of Bitcoin.

Litecoin users are bothered by global environmental problems and were able to raise 10000 dollars to provide solution to a vital problem of Madagascar.