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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.

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Mobile Insiders: A VC Goes to Boston
April 22, 2014

Paul Purcell, co-founder of Continental Advisors, is on the Board of LevelUp, was the lead investor in WePay's recent capital raise and is on the management committee of Veritec, which is a POS software company that helps small dollar lenders remain compliant with state regs....

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Mt. Gox CEO Focused On Coffee During Corporate Collapse
April 21, 2014

As lawyers, judges and a collection of angry international bitcoin investors try to piece together how exactly  nearly half a billion dollars in bitcoins managed to disappear into thin air from Mt. Gox’s “vaults”, a disturbing picture of the company’s disgraced founder and CEO Mark...