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A campaign aimed at popularization of cryptocurrencies kicked off in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, on February 10. Any customer of local natural goods store, which accepts Bitcoin already, and customers of a local cafe, who had made a purchase for more than 100 hryvnias ($3.86 at the time of writing), will get a symbolic one-dollar-worth bitcoin […]

According to a leak from the Steam Translation Server posted on the Steam subreddit, the platform intends to introduce purchasing for Bitcoin. As for now, Steam works only with credit cards, its own pre-paid gift cards, and PayPal.

There are few things known about Bitcoin in Belarus. Local officials can hardly be blamed for jumping into conclusions, and their statements, if any, are quite general. One of the rare instances is an official note from Belarusian Ministry of the Interior issued in 2014, where the department warns the citizens to avoid operations with […]

Freelance labor exchange Freelancehunt.com became Ukraine’s first platform to announce settlements between customers and contractors in Bitcoin. Earlier the exchange carried out a research to find preferrable payment method for Ukrainian customers, which turned out to be online banking provided by PrivatBank. 25% of customers use its services, with Visa preferred by 17%, MasterCard and […]

Sanne Kiljan, 23, a Dutch psychology student and an active bitcoiner holds a research project on broad acceptance of bitcoin in order to graduate as a bachelor of psychology at his university in Eindhoven, Netherlands. According to the press-release to the project, it seeks to investigate – using a quantitative methodology – various factors influencing […]

Kyrgyzstan’s subdivision of international news agency Sputnik is willing to join the bitcoin community and pay bitcoin wages to its employees. Recently the agency published a long form piece describing advantages of bitcoin transactions over those traditional in detail. This is a burning issue for Kyrgyzstan citizens as many of them have to work abroad […]