Politics and bitcoin have a lot in common: both face massive skepticism from the general public. But one politician who hopes to land his name on the 2016 presidential ticket is hoping to sway voters and public opinion on digital currency the other way. He’s...
London has decided it wants to be the epicenter for bitcoin. U.K. authorities have voiced strong support for digital currencies — bitcoin included — as a way to help the market evolve, reported Reuters, highlighting London as a $5 trillion-a-day global currency market. British leaders have also discussed steps...
As quickly as bitcoin prices rise or dip, so does the number of bitcoin services that enter the market with the aim to persuade merchants to bring bitcoin onto their eCommerce platforms. Most commonly, the news headlines talk about BitPay, CoinBase or GoCoin — all...
Despite Japanese regulators’ criticism of bitcoin — and the potential looming ban of the cryptocurrency — the country’s largest eCommerce company, Rakuten has officially sealed the deal to help bitcoin acceptance evolve across its marketplace. While Rakuten has laid out its bitcoin plans, starting with the U.S. — with plans...
Bitcoin itself was an innovation in the payments ecosystem — even if some doubt whether it is, in fact, a good one. But despite the negative rhetoric, there’s still plenty of companies trying to show the value behind bitcoin and demonstrate how the digital currency...
“For most of history, Anonymous was a women.” Author Virginia Woolf likely never imagined concepts like Twitter or bitcoin, but that’s exactly whose words were used to promote Bitcoin Women’s Day last week. Woolf’s famous words anchored a social media campaign last week (March 8)...
When many of the players in payments talk about the power of bitcoin these days, they aren’t talking about bitcoin at all. And for good reason. Volatility, illegal use cases, exchanges gone caput and operators gone corrupt have sullied the reputation of the crypto-currency’s poster...
Anonymous and untraceable. That’s been among the calling cards of bitcoin since Day 1. It is, in fact, what makes bitcoin so novel. It has all of the attributes of cash, but it’s digital. So, if that’s the case, how in the world did the...
2015 has been a tough year for bitcoin’s public image. To start, the Silk Road trial wrapped up with a federal conviction for the creator of the bitcoin-run illegal drug marketplace. The Silk Road proprietor could spend life behind bars all because he had the novel idea...