This week's bitcoin news included Overstock's OSTK continued innovation, free processing from BitPay and one U.S. representative encouraging regulatory engagement from the bitcoin community. Overstock Wants to Issue Stock via Bitcoin Technologies Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne said the company is exploring the issuing of stock on bitcoin technologies. This would make it the first publicly traded company to do so. Byrne wants the new securities to be as close to common stock as possible : having voting rights, receiving proxy statements and comply with government laws. Mashable reported that Overstock also wants to offer employee bonuses in bitcoin. Overstock said employees opting to receive bitcoins instead of cash will receive slightly larger bonuses. Overstock had previously stated paying employees, suppliers and vendors in bitcoin would bring additional savings to their supply chain.