A Brazilian city, Fortaleza’s (state capital of Ceará), Ceará Co-operative of Autonomous Passenger Transporters (COOTRAPS) has announced that Fortaleza public transportation service will soon begin to accept Bitcoins as a method of payment. A finance officer, Carlos Roberio commented, “This is an attempt to reduce bureaucracy by making the system easier for the user.”

The Venezuelan government headed by President Nicolás Maduro has been facing American sanctions as part of their plan to to evade economic sanctions, they are turing to leveraging tax revenue and cryptocurrencies. Maduro and his associates were using a digital wallet app to turn tax revenue from domestic airports into bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that were then transferred to exchanges in Hong Kong, Hungary, Russia and China.

The New York Democrat, Andrew Yang who has been cryptocurrency enthusiast have stayed true to his words becoming the first major presidential candidate to have his campaign funded in part by Bitcoin. Afran Rahman, the CEO of OpenNode expressed, “…individuals who want to donate just a bit to Yang’s platform now have that opportunity. It allows the donors to have all of the amounts go toward the actual donation rather than miner fees.”

The Newegg (a online retail store based in Canada) has announced that it expanded Bitcoin payment option to customers in 73 more countries. This move will users purchase its products with Bitcoin (BTC) in almost all of the countries under Newegg’s coverage. But customers residing in six countries: Algeria, Ecuador, Egypt, Indonesia, Morocco and Vietnam aren’t able to access this facility.

In the ongoing case between estate of the late David Kleiman who has sued Australian computer scientist and self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright for stealing hundreds of thousands of BTC, saw letter from man called Debo Jurgen Etienne Guido claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto. In his letter, “I hereby testify, by written letter — I am the genuine and only originator/creator of the genesis block of the Bitcoin blockchain.”