Archive for the finance Category

31 May 2014 / The Villager – U.S. dollars are no longer necessary to acquire food, shelter and drink in the East Village and Lower East Side. Online restaurant and entertainment guide Yelp recently joined a growing number of businesses now recognizing the increased use of Bitcoin.

29 May 2014 / Coinbase Blog – We’re excited to announce that DISH will accept bitcoin and has chosen Coinbase as their bitcoin payment processor. DISH today announced they are the largest company and first subscription model pay-TV provider to accept bitcoin, marking a large step forward

28 May 2014 / PRWeb – Abila today announced that its Millennium solution has helped record what is thought to be the first bitcoin gift to an American college. Bitcoin entrepreneur Nicolas Cary ’07 made the unrestricted gift of 14.5 bitcoins (valued at $10,000) to the alumni

28 May 2014 / Coindesk – Bitcoin payments processor BitPay has revealed it is now processing an average of $1m worth of bitcoin payments per day. Coinbase and BitPay are currently the biggest bitcoin processors on the market and BitPay says it is serving the needs of over 30,000

27 May 2014 / ExitEvent – A government public information officer and a medical device salesman may not sound like the most obvious pair to host the region’s first Bitcoin conference. But their interest in the controversial cryptocurrency is symbolic of its evolution from a little understood

27 May 2014 / Forbes – When Bitcoin emerged five years ago, it was the payment system many geeks and enthusiasts had dreamed of: an international, decentralized, anonymous, and transparent virtual currency that could potentially replace inefficient traditional ones. But even though Bitcoin remains very far from

24 May 2014 / Independent Business Times – Popular digital currency bitcoin is expected to overtake e-commerce giant eBay’s payment processor PayPal in terms of US dollar transactions in the near future. California-based hedge fund Laureate Trust says that bitcoin is fast establishing itself as the currency