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Need to catch up on what’s been going on in cryptocurrencies? From clumsy authoritarianism to Bitcoin user research, here are the top five stories that made news this week.

American journalist and podcaster David Seaman posted a scathing critique of the IRS’s newly announced stance on Bitcoin earlier this week. The IRS has said it will be taxing Bitcoins, and any other digital currencies, as property.

Slater has been working all around the world these past few years, trying to develop software for mutual credit economies and eventually uniting all such economies.

Chinese news outlets reported that the government would penalize any banks dealing in Bitcoin after April 15, and the news spread like wildfire.

We have already reported on the American government’s exploration of cryptocurrencies — and the supposed threats they pose — back in the mid-90s.

Swiss winery Cave In Bec has been holding its art & wine event, myFINBEC, for a few years now, and Bitcoin users are able to get in on this cool project.

We’ve reported before on Sean’s Outpost, the homeless center in the Florida Panhandle financed through cryptocurrencies, and we here at Coinpectra are big fans of the work they’re doing.

It is easy to make the mental jump between Bitcoin and gold. Both have served as attractive ways to squirrel away wealth and to hedge against the volatility of fiat currencies.

Bitcoin miners CloudHashing.com have announced that they plan to launch a mining operation that should be worth about $20 million, according to the company’s calculations.

A lawyer for Mt. Gox speaking at the Tokyo District Court on Friday said the exchange had outstanding debts of $63.6 million and that the company had filed for bankruptcy protection.

A professional soccer club from the south of Poland has become the first to accept Bitcoin. This means fans can now pay for merchandise and tickets to matches with the digital currency.

The Mt. Gox exchange is offline, and no statements from the company have been released. In fact, the official Twitter account has had its tweets deleted.

Spanish company Bbank has announced plans to introduce 100 Bitcoin vending machines throughout the country over the next three months.

We reported just a couple of days ago that Robocoin would be launching America’s first Bitcoin ATMs in Seattle and Austin, but Bitcoin machine maker has apparently beaten Robocoin to the punch.

Novacoin was launched in February 2013 under the symbol NVC. It was designed to be an improvement upon Peercoin. But fear-mongering almost caused it to suffer crib death.

The embattled Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox issued a statement Monday to let users know that withdrawals will become available again “soon.”

The 2013 Crunchies ceremony hit an awkward snag when it came time to present Bitcoin with the Best Technology Achievement Award: Who should accept an award on behalf of Bitcoin? Satoshi? Not likely.

A fascinating 18-year-old report from the US government shows that cryptocurrencies have been making officials nervous for quite some time.

Sir Richard Branson announced last November that Virgin Galactic would accept Bitcoin payments for its space flights, and Business Insider is reporting that six people have already signed up.

Dogecoin improved the cryptocurrency user experience.

Jamaica had overcome its 12-year drought in Olympic bobsledding, finally qualified, and raised the money needed to get to Sochi. Team #CoolRunnings was in business.

We reported in January that UK-based company PrivateFly.com had begun accepting Bitcoin payments for its private jet charters. Before January was through, someone took them up on the offer.

HKCEx, a new Bitcoin exchange that claims it will be the world’s most secure, announced this week that it had secured $2 million in funding from both private investors and local financial organizations.

The world’s largest Bitcoin exchange is once again accepting the currency of its home country.

On Tuesday, Charlie Shrem was released from custody after posting a $1 million bond, despite arguments from prosecutors representing the State of New York that he was a flight risk.

The office of the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, announced today that BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem was one of two people arrested for and charged.

Czech company Marlyle Ltd. recently invested 56,000 euro into designing an ATM that will allow users to both buy and sell Bitcoins.

In an interview this week with Bloomberg, Olof Wallin from the Swedish taxation agency said he believes his country will classify Bitcoin as an asset, not a currency.