Archive for the finance Category

26 Sept 2014 – Hackney Gazette – The UK’s first bitcoin festival saw 20 Shoreditch businesses embrace digital currency as an alternative form of payment in the borough. The 10 day festival, BlockStock, finished on Monday after taking place in various locations in the heart of Tech

24 Sept 2014 / Forbes – PayPal and its parent company eBay EBAY +0.51% are warming up to Bitcoin, but they’re doing it oh so carefully. On Tuesday, PayPal announced that it was partnering with Bitcoin processors BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin to allow its merchants to accept the

20 Sept 2014 / Business Insider – Apple’s new payment system is igniting interest across the payment industry, but it’s important to note that it doesn’t represent a major change over the legacy payment process. Bitcoin, even as it suffers another price slump, is disruptive— particularly from the perspective

17 Sept 2014 / CoinTelegraph – Fantasy sports has always seemed like a promising area for Bitcoin acceptance. An industry dependent on online payments with over US$1 billion bet in the U.S. each year on fantasy football alone, much of it pooled in leagues stretching across the

15 Sept 2014 / Washington Post – United Way Worldwide announced Monday that it will begin taking donations in Bitcoin, the digital currency. Bitcoin users can now use the currency for donations to the United Way’s Innovation Fund, a part of the United  Way dedicated to updating