I am interested. But is it legit? I do not want to get banned on Hotmail for buying an account.

SAW Inspired Bitcoin Ransomware Deletes Files Every Hour

A group of online hackers is using their sense-of-humor – and an indisputable love for Saw movie series – to rob people off their Bitcoin.
The said group has launched a notorious ransomware attack on personal and private computer networks all across the world. Amusingly, the ransomware is named after the antagonist of the SAW series – the trike-riding menace known as Jigsaw.

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Decentralized Tech Could Help with South Africa’s Economy and High Crime Rates
Decentralized technologies like Bitcoin and emergency response app Cell 411 could help with South Africa’s economy and high crime rates.
http://cointelegraph.com/news/decentralized-tech-could-help-with-south-africas-economy-and-high-crime-rates

Dynamic Fees For Blockchain.info Users Are A Welcome Change
Dynamic Fees For Blockchain.info Users Are A Welcome Change   Blockchain.info has been under a lot of stress in recent times, as the platform has been facing several outages over the past few months grinding services to a halt.
http://www.altcointoday.com/dynamic-fees-blockchain-info-users/

Not only the States. Same to Europe and Asia.

Spreadcoins new developers attempt to incentivize Bitcoin nodes

The notion is largely borrowed from project DASH, formerly darkcoin, which implemented a related two-tier node technique.

http://crypto-news.com/darkcoin/spreadcoins-new-developers-attempt-to-incentivize-bitcoin-nodes

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing! The collapse of world economy is right infront of us. The will be apocaliptic.

Take a look a the debt worldwide and you will realize that this is not just a correction. It is the start of the bust of the biggest bumble in history.

Scalability Debate Continues As Bitcoin XT Proposal Stalls

As a key date for a proposed bitcoin scaling solution passes, CoinDesk looks at the current state of industry debate.

http://www.coindesk.com/scalability-debate-bitcoin-xt-proposal-stalls

I do not know if it is what you are looking for but I have currently read that IBM is developing smart conracts function based on Bitcoin.
However, I have not the slightest idea whether it will be released open source.
http://www.coindesk.com/ibm-developing-new-blockchain-smart-contract-system/