July 10, 2015
Bitcoin – “It’s Like Punk Rock”
Up until recently, if you typed “Greece” and “bitcoin” into Google, you would not get much in return. It’s amazing what a Greek debt crisis will do for search results....
July 03, 2015
The Greek Debt Crisis And Bitcoin
Is bitcoin the way to avert Greek’s debt crisis? Well, if you simply look at the price of bitcoin – which has been rising in lockstep with the intensity of the...
May 30, 2015
Cybercrime 2.0: The Battle Of The Specialists
“Are the cybercriminals getting smarter? Are they really that much smarter than we are?” That was MPD CEO Karen Webster’s question for PayPal’s VP of Consumer Risk Mike Vergara during...
May 08, 2015
itBit Banks $25M And Secures New York Banking License
News for the bitcoin community got a little brighter Thursday (May 7) when itBit, the bitcoin exchange, announced it was granted an official business license from New York State’s Department...
April 24, 2015
Politics And Robot Shoppers — This Week In Bitcoin
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...
April 21, 2015
Liberty Reserve: Serving The Unbanked Or The “Underworld”?
Merchant acquiring can be a competitive and complicated business. New players especially need an angle, an innovation, something to differentiate what and how they serve their merchants. Arthur Budovsky was...
April 03, 2015
Japanese Markets, Swiss Banks and The Dark Web
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....
March 21, 2015
From Cows To Mobile – The Ideas That Changed Payments
While the Code of Hammurabi is best known for the “eye for an eye” proclamation, it also deserves credit for being the first recorded instance in history where money was...
March 16, 2015
How Forter Is Fighting Cybercrime
A psychologist, a criminologist and a biologist walk in to a cybersecurity firm reads at first like the setup of an extremely conceptual joke. It is not. It is, however,...