November 21, 2014
Paying For Candy Crush And Taylor Swift’s Songs With Bitcoin

PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 50 When hype goes up, bitcoin prices go up. At least that’s what researchers at Poland’s Nicolaus Copernicus University have...

November 08, 2014
The Week in Payments Picks, Predictions, Pans and Pushes

Payments players around the globe gathered last week to chat about all things payments and commerce.  As you might expect, there were lots of new products, big ideas and big...

October 27, 2014
The Scariest Things In Payments

The Scariest Things In Payments Friday is Halloween, a holiday in the U.S. that involves people – young and old – dressing up in (sometimes) scary costumes and going door...

October 24, 2014
Death Threats, Fraudsters and Lawsuits

Bitcoin Tracker | Week 46   Ok, so even the Coinbase CEO used the word bubble, saying that bitcoin is in a “rebuilding” period after going thru its most recent...

October 20, 2014
You Never Know What You’ll Find On The Internet (Hint...

A report provided at a Russian carding site forum revealed that a cyber-crook has uploaded the details of more than 5 million cards, including those stolen during the Target data...

September 12, 2014
Can An Apple (Pay) A Day Keep The Bitcoins Away?

PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Follow 303 Cryptocurrencies here: http://coinmarketcap.com/ . Bitcoin Tracker | Week 40     Apple Pay is here and will it kill bitcoin? Well, maybe a bit...

August 25, 2014
Who’s On Your 2014 Fantasy Payments Team?

Even though the official end of Summer isn’t for another few weeks, the impending turn of the calendar pages from August to September sure signals that summer is over  ....

August 18, 2014
Could CFPB Review Force Virtual Currencies To Abide By Traditional...

Much debate on cryptocurrencies has gone on over the past few years, driven by the cult-like following of Bitcoin and the general transaction anonymity most of the so-called virtual currencies...

August 18, 2014
CFPB Warns Of Virtual Currency Dangers

There’s no question that virtual currencies such as Bitcoin have traditional payments regulators upset, given the relative transaction anonymity they bring to the table. Moreover, they continue to be a...