equipping 21,000 of its ATMs with bitcoin cash compatibility, enabling BCH to be purchased across Canada, Europe, and Australia. That story can now be augmented by the news that Greece is set to increase its quota of cryptocurrency ATMs.

A handful of ATMs are reportedly to be added to major cities on the Greek mainland, each of which will facilitate the buying and selling of bitcoin core, ethereum, litecoin, and dash. These will complement existing crypto ATMs located in Athens and Thessaloniki. While Greek’s economy has begun a slow recovery from the slump that beset the island nation in the mid aughts, there’s still a long way to go before growth approaches that of its more prosperous EU member states. The increased availability of cryptocurrencies for citizens who haveTexas showed the sharpest increase of maternal deaths of all U.S. states between 2000 and 2014, with that rate doubling in the two-year period after the state slashed funding for Planned Parenthood and women's health programs, according to a study to be published next month.

Many of the family planning clinics that lost funding or closed were an "entry point into the health care system" for women—leading to a ripple effect of difficulty obtaining care.

The analysis (pdf), forthcoming in the September issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology, found that after a "modest increase" in maternal mortality in Texas between 2000 and 2010, the rate of pregnancy-related deaths nearly doubled in 2011 and 2012—a trend the researchers found "puzzling." They point to everything from revisions to Texas' death certificate to data