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MSN Money spoke with Bitreserve’s new CEO, Anthony Watson, on Tuesday to talk about the business model of the Bitcoin startup he now heads, and the “challenges and long-term goals” of both his company and Bitcoin.

SWIFT Innotribe released a white paper entitled “Power Women in FinTech Index: Bridging the Gender Gap” at the Digital Finance Conference 2015 in Vancouver on June 3.

Israel-based GetGems mobile wallet and messenger app earned the title of the “most visionary social solution” for “instant payments across social platforms” in the Citi Mobile Challenge in Europe.

The Open Bitcoin Privacy Project (OBPP) met their initial goal with the May 19 release of their first wallet ratings.

Daniel Ternyak, CEO and founder of the “no nonsense” .bit domain name registrar GetDotBit, launched his project on April 23.

U.S. Customs personnel may seize electronic devices “without a warrant and without suspicion,” download their entire contents, and declare the right to confiscate digital currency holdings.

ChangeTip just announced a product called ChangeTip SCAN that offers a new way for people to convert dollars to Bitcoin.

Airbitz has developed a way to make two-factor authentication (2FA) “dirt simple” for everyone. The mobile wallet provider has invented a one-step process that merges the functionality of an app like Google Authenticator directly into their Bitcoin wallet.

CoinDaddy is making Bitcoin 2.0 technology user friendly. Cointelegraph interviews developer Jeremy Johnson about how the project started and where it is going.

The team behind the “blockchain-based anti-counterfeit solution,” Block Verify, wants to have a global, positive social impact by using blockchain technology to “make the world more honest.”

UK-based LazyCoins announced its official launch on March 2. Lazycoins is a digital currency exchange offering fully licensed platforms for both trading and merchant payments in GBP and euro markets.

CoinOutlet, Inc. announced they have acquired the ATM network of LibertyTeller. LibertyTeller is the same company that, according to Cointelegraph and co-founder Chris Yim, won the controversial race to install

Bitrated has spent the last year in stealth mode, quietly developing version two of their consumer protection platform. They launched it on February 18, adding a new reputation layer on top of multisignature (multi-sig) technology, essentially creating the possibility for Bitcoin chargebacks.

The subjects of filmmaker Calvin (C.H.) Tran’s videos speak highly of his work. The two with whom Cointelegraph spoke regarding Tran’s upcoming documentary series “People In Bitcoin” say they are “happy to be a part of it” and, “It’s really cool what he is doing.”

In the spirit of lovebirds who like Valentine’s Day, and those who don’t, ChangeTip, Newegg and BitPay have announced a Valentine’s Day contest.

Emilio Pagan-Yourno says he has a strong drive to succeed, which is why he decided to create the first company to place Bitcoin ATMs (Bitcoin transaction machines, or BTMs) in New York, Vermont and New Hampshire.

Large European companies may eye Bitcoin as an option for securing their data and keeping it private from the United States, reports the Logistics Viewpoints blog.

Mobile apps and touch-screen POS software programs are changing the US tipping culture, as ChangeTip changes tipping in the cryptocurrency world.

Google has added Coinbase support to their Google Now app, enabling Android users to receive updates about Bitcoin price fluctuations and other information about their Coinbase accounts in a card via their phone.

Adam B. Levine calls “The Age of Cryptocurrency” by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey “a very positive book about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.”

Earlier this month, Cointelegraph readers voted to choose the people, places and companies who deserved the most recognition for their achievements in our 2014 Bitcoin Industry Awards. After the votes were counted, I reached out for comments and gathered facts about the year’s highest achievers.

We have counted the votes and you, our readers, have spoken. The winners of Cointelegraph’s 2014 Bitcoin Industry Awards are:

We at Cointelegraph would like to invite you, our readers, to participate with us in choosing the winners of our 2014 Bitcoin Industry Awards.

Magma Venture Partners has invested a US$400,000 seed fund in GetGems, the project and team which created the social messaging app of the same name. CEO Daniel Peled and the GetGems team made the announcement yesterday, January 4.

First, people came up with the idea of seasteading in order to challenge laws of jurisdiction and protect themselves and their property from government. Now a group of developers has come up with a similar idea, but in space, and for cryptocurrencies—a plan called Space Vault.

After a year-long market test with Peercover on the Ripple protocol, Providence is relaunching the peer-to-peer (P2P) insurance platform as part of a five-product suite.

On December 9, investment writer Martin Tiller wrote for NASDAQ that the biggest danger to Bitcoin comes from libertarians who will “hurt the very cause that they are championing.”

Would you like to attend the Texas Bitcoin Conference, courtesy of Cointelegraph? Watch the video to view the riddle provided by CT General Manager Maria Jones. Solve it, and you could win free tickets.

Just about everyone in the Bitcoin community agrees that there aren't enough women in cryptocurrencies. The developers of the Gems app are betting that “female adoption is a key milestone” for Bitcoin to go mainstream.

More than 1500 Bitcoin community members will soon be converging on Miami for a direction-setting conference aimed at driving the currency from speculation to mainstream. Building on the recent success of The North American Bitcoin Conference (TNABC) in 2013 and 2014, TNABC Miami will hit Miami Beach on January 16–18, 2015 at the historic Fillmore Theatre in Miami Beach.