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Robert Viglione makes possibly the first recorded bitcoin transaction in Afghanistan.

CoinDesk visits Butterfly Labs and looks at the factors involved in the bitcoin mining arms race.

Citizens of Iran now have their own bitcoin market website, CoinAva, to buy and sell bitcoins.

Blockchain-based betting game SatoshiDice has been sold for 126,315 BTC, which is currently worth around $11.5 million.

Boost VC's summer program is well underway, helping seven bitcoin-related companies to transform their ideas into working businesses.

CoinDesk visits Butterfly Labs and reports on how they've managed customer expectations and why they don't mine themselves.

A Portland hardware hacker wants to put bitcoins in your local laundromat. It's a loftier goal than it sounds.

Namecheap have announced that it will now take zero-confirmation bitcoin for its services.

Jeff Garzik, one of Bitcoin's core developers, shares his thoughts on alternative currencies, ASIC miners, and bitcoin usability.

The Bitcoin Foundation has created three legal committees to offer help and guidance to those involved in digital currency.

BitInstant, the international bitcoin payment processor, has temporarily shut while the next version of the service is worked on.

CoinDesk takes a look at some of the weirdest alternative currency stories over the past few years.