Major funding rounds dominated the headlines this week, which saw industry startups raise $45m in new venture funding.
CoinDesk looks at the top headlines from the last week including prominent pieces from Rolling Stone and The New Yorker.
Following last week's doom and gloom, this week's news coverage leaves much to be desired for those seeking slightly more uplifting trends.
The media emphasized bitcoin and the blockchain's association with crime this week, while dedicating coverage to the technology's regulatory issues.
It's been a great week in terms of coverage for bitcoin naysayers, as Mark Karpeles' recent arrest served to add to bitcoin's tarnished reputation.
This week's media coverage, though interrupted by the launch of Ethereum's decentralised app network, largely scrutinised bitcoin's reputation.
This week saw the media playing a role in the ongoing rebranding of some of bitcoin's core use cases under the term "blockchain technology".
Despite big names entering the bitcoin conversation this week, press coverage faded as bitcoin's price fell and eurozone uncertainty subsided.
The fires of one of bitcoin's hottest recurring debates raged on this week, with its potential use as a safe haven asset coming under the microscope.
As Greece gets to grips with its upcoming bailout referendum the media has taken its coverage of bitcoin to a whole new level.
Bitcoin could do no right this week as its use cases took a back seat to its still-prevalent association with the dark web.
Bitcoin has been scrutinised in the past, but this week's criticism took a rather unexpected – and perhaps questionable – sense of humour.
The BitLicense may have dominated media coverage this week, but a deeper dive show many of bitcoin's larger problems linger on.
Despite featuring its fair share of salacious material this week's news cycle was more mature in its assessment of bitcoin as a financial technology.
This week, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg all gave bitcoin the spotlight with lengthy reports and coverage.