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Mother’s Day Spending, Trillions of Dollars in Credit Card Processing, Privacy-Flexible Consumers…And Other Friday Factoids
May 02, 2014

Do you know… how many tens of millions of dollars Americans will spend on Mother’s Day this year? How many consumers will exchange personal information for a good deal? How many trillions of dollars the credit card industry will process this year? If not, keep...

Alternative Credit
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...

Cybersecurity
Bitcoin Tracker Week 21
April 25, 2014

Bitcoin traded in the in a fifty dollar range going from as low as about $450 and as high as $506, ending at $464 at about 7am EST on Friday. Our volatility index shows Bitcoin at a whopping 29 times more volatile than the euro....

Legal & Regulation
What Goes Down, Did Come Up
April 18, 2014

What a wild week! Bitcoin started at $402, went as high as $543 and ended at $486 at 6:30 am EST. It was 22 times more volatile than the dollar over the past 30 days. Jeff Bezos said "no" but a Texas AG said yes....

Company Profile
The March 2014 MPOS Tracker™
April 17, 2014

The mPOS market is sort of splitting in two: tablet solutions that replace traditional point-of-sale devices, and smartphone solutions that enable card acceptance where it didn’t exist before. The February 2014 MPOS Tracker provides some new insights about who’s doing what where and profiles a...

Another Week Of Rough Waters For Bitcoin
April 11, 2014

Deck: Spring just doesn’t seem to have spring just yet for the Bitcoin market, despite the plethora of news around Bitcoin. Innovators continue to be hopeful and a new Bitcoin debit card has come to market, but news from Australia and China has tempered the...

How the Bitcoin Tax Will Impact Transactions
March 28, 2014

Over the past week, the IRS deemed bitcoins taxable property, giving critics even more ammo to blast what Warren Buffet has dubbed “a mirage” and a man that Andreessen sort of slighted this week for his criticism of the crypto currency. That said, a small...

Bitcoin Bubble Tracker: A new Blow to Bitcoin … and Buffett!
March 28, 2014

Over the past week, the IRS deemed bitcoins taxable property, giving critics even more ammo to blast what Warren Buffet has dubbed “a mirage” and a man that Andreessen sort of slighted this week for his criticism of the cryptocurrency. That said, a small gun...

Bitcoin Tracker: March 14
March 17, 2014

Bitcoin Tracker | Week 15 What’s the difference between pork bellies and bitcoins? Nothing, says Goldman Sachs. They pooh-pooh the notion of bitcoin as currency and instead classify it as a speculative asset that rises and falls based on the madness of the crowd. The...