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Bitcoin has made yet another foray into the mainstream, with a Toronto-based electro hip-hop group accepting donations in the cryptocurrency as it offers its latest album for free download.

The trio, Ain’t No Love, has made its 2013 EP entitled Tears of Joy available on the file-sharing website, Frostwire, where downloaders can also send love back to the band in the form of Bitcoin.

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Lead singer Saidah Conrad, 23, says her band thought using the relatively new technology “would be a cool way to engage people in a different way that we haven’t really seen before.”

Also, it allowed Ain’t No Love to connect with the growing global community of Bitcoin enthusiasts, she added.

“Using Bitcoin has definitely widened our reach to people who don’t necessarily listen to our type of music, but like that we get down with Bitcoin, and started listening to our music,” she said. “Which is a cool thing in itself.”

Bitcoin has previously been used by other artists, such as former Spice Girl Melanie Brown. She announced in December that fans could purchase her newest single using Bitcoins via her website, melaniebrown.com.

“I love how new technology makes our lives easier, and to me that’s exciting,” she said in a posted press release. “Bitcoin unites my fans around the world using one currency.”

Despite its growing acceptance in popular culture, the cryptocurrency has also come under heightened scrutiny after some Bitcoin businesses around the world have shut down amid allegations of hacking and fraud.

Tokyo-based Mt. Gox, once one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges in the world, has shut down and filed for bankruptcy in both Japan and the U.S. after it said it may have lost roughly 750,000 Bitcoins belonging to its customers. Mt. Gox has also been hit with a class-action lawsuit in Canada seeking $500-million in compensation for Canadian customers. On Thursday, Mt. Gox said on its website it had found roughly 200,000 Bitcoins in an “old-format” e-wallet.

Earlier this month, Alberta-based Flexcoin, a Bitcoin bank, said it was shutting down after losing 896 Bitcoins worth about more than $500,000 to a hacking attack enabled by flaws in its software code.