Moneytis Launches Open Beta of Global Bitcoin Remittance Service
A new consumer remittance startup is on the block, and it’s bringing bitcoin to new corridors in Europe, China and Mexico. Freshly out of private beta, Moneytis has now opened its beta to the public....
View ArticleSpectroCoin Launches A Bitcoin Debit Card For Eastern Europe
European Bitcoin exchange and payment processor SpectroCoin launched a debit card earlier this week that can be loaded with digital currency and spent at anywhere major debit and credit cards are...
View ArticleBlockchain Startups Named ‘Top Innovations’ at Citibank’s EMEA Mobile...
Blockchain-based social network GetGems was named ‘Most Visionary Social Media Solution,’ while bitcoin wallet Billon took home the title, ‘Most Innovative Blockchain Solution,’ during the Citibank...
View ArticleLifeLock Sues Xapo Executives Over Bitcoin Wallet Intellectual Property
Bitcoin bank and payment processor Xapo faces uncertain waters as much of the company’s executive team is being sued for contract violations. The misgivings center on the last months that Xapo...
View ArticleStartup Accelerator Boost.VC Ends Bitcoin Focus And Diversifies Into VR Tech
After raising a $6.6 million fund from premier investors, including Marc Andreessen, Ben Davenport and others last November, Boost.VC announced its next batch of startups would all be bitcoin-related....
View ArticleUBS Bank Is Experimenting with ‘Smart-Bonds’ Using the Bitcoin Blockchain
During his talk at IDX Derivatives Expo in London, Alex Batlin, UBS Bank’s chief Information officer for innovation (CIOI) shed some light on what the financial institution has been working on in their...
View ArticleBlockchain Workshop to Educate Financial Industry About Digital Currency
Today’s Blockchain Workshop will attempt to bring financial industry executives, regulators and digital currency entrepreneurs together to learn about the impact and potential of decentralized ledger...
View ArticleCape Innovation and Technology Initiative Launches Digital Currency Hub in...
The Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative (CiTi) has announced it will launch South Africa’s first digital currency hub, BitHub. It will serve to be a center point for anyone currently involved in...
View ArticleCoinbase Launches Instant Exchange to Help Users Avoid Bitcoin Volatility
Coinbase users can now send bitcoin payments without being exposed to the digital currency’s volatility Users with a fiat wallet (must be verified in order to get it) allows use of Bitcoin’s global...
View ArticleRipple Labs Joins Fed’s Faster Payment Task Force
Creators of the Ripple payment protocol, Ripple Labs, have been elected to the Federal Reserve’s Faster Payment Task Force Steering Committee. The Fed created the Faster Payment Task Force earlier this...
View ArticleRipple Discontinues Smart Contract Platform Codius, Citing Small Market
Ripple Labs, maintainer of the digital currency Ripple, has announced it will not continue the development of its smart contract project nearly a year after it was announced, saying the “small and...
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