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Meet Dogegoin, Bitcoin’s Weirder Wackier Successor
May 05, 2014

Bitcoiners-the nebulous pot of investors, miners, tech enthusiasts and libertarians – are a very serious group of people. Dogecoiners, not so much. Named for a mispronunciation of the world “dog,” dogecoin is the brain child of Jackson Palmer, a marketing professional at Adobe, who claimed that...

It’s the (Bitcoin) Protocol, Stupid
May 02, 2014

"Bitcoin as a currency is so last year" is the sentiment in Silicon Valley these days. Serious enthusiasts of bitcoin and its digital currency brethren insist that the thing that will change the world is "the protocol" - the block-chain and the rules for verifying...

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Bitcoin Tracker Week 22
May 02, 2014

Tencent and others have joined The People's Bank of China and banned accountholders from engaging in Bitcoin-related activity. That caused the price of bitcoin to drop - The PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price Index can show you how much. Between that and a search to replace the...

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MTN Partners with Tele 10 to Create Mobile Payments Service
April 30, 2014

MTN partnered with Tele10 to add a TV payment service to its payments options.

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‘Dark Wallet’ for Bitcoin Launches This Week
April 30, 2014

The new eWallet will encrypt bitcoins after a purchase so no one can trace where and who it came from.

MIT’s Bitcoin Give-Away
April 30, 2014

In what probably has to be the strangest experiment to come out of MIT in 2014, the Bitcoin Project will give every MIT student $100 dollars in bitcoin to see what they will do with the digital currency if everyone in their academic community has...

Bitcoin Prices Dive on China Blockade
April 28, 2014

The price of Bitcoin took a sharp fall over the weekend, dropping from a three-day high of just over $460 per coin on Saturday to a low of about $420 per coin  in overnight trading into today, according to the PYMNTS real-time price index  Get...

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Chase Says Winning Mobile Payments Goes Past Transactions
April 25, 2014

A Chase executive said that in order to win mobile payments, banks need to offer incentives.

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PayPal Testing New ‘Wearable Wallet’ for Smartwatches
April 25, 2014

PayPal is testing the new software in the corporate office coffee shop.