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BitMarkets is an already-launched P2P marketplace similar to the much-touted OpenBazaar.

Michael Bumann has been in Nairobi, Kenya for several months updating himself on the tech scene there.

Cryptonomex is a company which offers “custom blockchain development” to businesses. Its specialty is to craft products, which live in the Graphene blockchain library.

What happened this week in crypto innovation? Here's all the news that's fit to print

Cointelegraph spoke to three of LBRY's team members to find out more about their software project.

Lead Dash developer Evan Duffield recently gave a presentation for Bitcoin Wednesday. After an introduction to Dash's core protocol functions, Duffield went on to give a pre-announcement of a series of upgrades called “Evolution.”

What happened in cryptocurrency innovation this week? You asked, and The Daily Decrypt has answered. Here's a recap of the top headlines we reported on this week.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are for the unbanked – and those who'd like to become unbanked.

The India-based Trestor Foundation — maintainer of the Trestor digital currency — has offered all “credit-worthy” Grecians a loan for 2,000 euros’ worth of trests.

If a day trader and a gamer had a lovechild, it would be Crypto Collider, the new “e-money sport” that lets peers compete against one another to “hedge” their crypto holdings.

The personal ad site Backpage has just had its payment processing terminated by both Visa and Mastercard, following termination by American Express last year.

Many people are extremely wary of a one-world currency. I didn't know until recently that this fear among Christians is due to a passage in the Bible itself.

Password manager service LastPass announced last week that they experienced a data breach that exposed users' email addresses, encrypted passwords and cleartext password reminder hints.

There was a time in human history without war. Really. It also just so happened to be the most decentralized period of human history.

Readers of Cointelegraph are likely to be among the increasing hordes of people who make their livings sitting behind a computer screen from four to nine hours a day.

Secure Quick Reliable Login (SQRL, pronounced “squirrel”) is a free and open-source program designed by Steve Gibson

BitMD is a company that combines point-of-sale (POS) terminals, wallet software and Bitcoin Teller Machines (BTMs) to enable patients to pay medical providers in Bitcoin right at the counter.

Joining CheapAir and Expedia in offering hotel bookings for Bitcoin, Travgenius differs in one significant way: their bookings are for businesses only.

BitLicense requirements were said to be “in effect,” two Bitcoin mining pools have been forced to deny their services to New York IP addresses, and one exchange has done the same.

The U.S. federal government is trying to steer people toward visiting sites that give step-by-step instructions on how to encrypt digital communications.

While several global headlines have declared that millennials are increasingly disinterested in banks, the owners of BTC.sx exchange have launched Magnr, “the first savings account for Bitcoin.”

When Erik Voorhees decided against serving consumers using New York state IP addresses, he also founded a new website: PleaseProtectConsumers (PPC).

JoyStream is a new BitTorrent client that incentivizes users to make file-sharing both faster and monetarily rewarding.

Ledger, a smartchip-based Bitcoin hardware wallet, will be compatible with the authentication features of Fido Alliance – namely external dongles and fingerprint readers.

Dash has implemented their “masternode” system, which involves dividing the block reward into three parts: 45 % goes to the miners, 45 % goes to masternodes, and 10 % is being set aside for Dash project funding.

Startup BuyAnyCoin (BAC) wants to hang a prepaid crypto card next to prepaid phone and debit cards in convenience stores.

Justus Ranvier proposed in an essay that the idea of block size limits is based on economic fallacy.

The hardware wallet Trezor has been integrated as a password-less login option to Bitex, Coinpayments, CoinSimple, Osclass, and Strip4Bit.

In a region where 80% of residents have never heard of cryptocurrency, the digital news source Forklog emerged in 2014 to report daily crypto news in Russian.