October 16, 2013
Bitcoin Is A Remarkable Innovation, Here’s Why It Will Fail
Bitcoin is absolutely brilliant. The insight behind this alternative currency is counterintuitive. Most everyone in payments sees cash as an inferior species. Cash is technologically backward and dirty to boot....
September 06, 2013
The Battle Over Bitcoin Regulation In The UK
By Chanel Smith (@PYMNTS_EMEA) It was just last month that Bitcoin Foundation representatives gathered with officials from the U.S. law enforcement agency and regulators in Washington, D.C. to converse about...
August 12, 2013
Regulation Causing Hackers To Abandon Bitcoin
Massachusetts-based IT storage provider EMC Corp indicates that online fraudsters and criminals are abandoning bitcoin for illegal use, Reuters reported on August 9. The company’s RSA security division said criminals...
July 31, 2013
Today’s Briefs: August
Briefs from August 23, 2013 Uber Rakes In $360M In Latest FundingSan Francisco-based mobile taxi app provider Uber has raised $361 million as part of its latest private equity round,...
July 07, 2013
Bitcoin, in search of a legal status
By Karuna Mintaka Kumar, Columnist@Karuna_Kumar “Bitcoin is not the only digital currency, nor the only successful one. Gamers on Second Life, a virtual world, pay with Linden Dollars; customers of...
July 03, 2013
A Summer Reading List With A Payments Twist
Happy Fourth of July to our faithful PYMNTS.com readers! We know some of you are looking to forget work for a few days as you lie on a beach or...
May 16, 2013
MPOS Mania, ATM Heist Entertainment And Amazon’s Coins For Kindle
Welcome to What’s Trending In Payments – a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent and important stories the payments industry had to offer over the past five days as...
May 16, 2013
Mt. Gox CEO Faces Jail Time Over FinCEN Registration Issue
Bad just got worse for Japan-based BitCoin exchange service Mt. Gox, as IDG News reports it is experiencing further issues with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of...
May 02, 2013
Bitcoin Exchange TradeHill Partners With ID Platform miiCard
TradeHill, a bitcoin exchange, has partnered with online identity verification platform miiCard, reports Finextra. TradeHill first launched in 2011 but was shut down due to ID fraud, problems with payments...