Monday, July 27, 2015

New Details Emerge About Greek Plan for Parallel Payment System and Varoufakis’ Resignation

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Earlier in July, Bitcoin Magazine reported that former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who resigned after the Greek referendum ...

Universal Bitcoin Payment System OneBit Enters Alpha Testing

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In April,  Bitcoin Magazine reported that startup OneBit was developing a Bitcoin wallet app that lets users pay at any store with conta...

JUL 27 DIGEST: Former EU Stock Market CEO Joins Blockchain Startup; Hewlett Packard Shows Interest in Bitcoin

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The former officer of the Chi-X been hired as the CEO of blockchain startup SETL; Hewlett-Packard is blogging about Bitcoin and blockchain,...

First Publicly Traded Company Targets Western Union with Bitcoin

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MarilynJean Media Interactive (MJMI.qb) announced on July 24 plans to enter the lucrative international remittance market using bitcoin.

Greece’s Varoufakis ‘Hacked Own Tax Office’ to Build Parallel Currency System

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Yanis Varoufakis has confirmed that he masterminded a “parallel” currency system, which could be switched from euro to drachma “at the flic...

Mike Tyson Hits Bitcoin Bandwagon with 5M Twitter Followers

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Tyson wants to add Bitcoin business endeavors to his legacy.
Sunday, July 26, 2015

CoinMate Partners With MoneyPolo, Allowing Purchasing and Selling Bitcoin With Cash in More Than 100 Countries

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European bitcoin exchange CoinMate has announced a new partnership with payment provider MoneyPolo. This enables users from over 100 countr...

OneBit: Pay with Bitcoin Using NFC at Any Credit Card Accepting Merchant

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OneBit, a bitcoin wallet app that enables its users to pay with bitcoin at any credit card accepting store, has entered the alpha stage of ...

RRRcomputer.org: ‘Bridging the Digital Divide One Kid & One Computer at a Time’

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A company RRRcomputer.org recently started accepting Bitcoin through BitPay.
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Garzik Predicts ‘Chaos’ If Changes Made to Both Fee Structure and Block Size

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Jeff Garzik sent an email to Pieter Wuille in which Garzik spoke against the implementation of a fee market and also said that Bitcoin’s bl...

HullCoin: Government-Backed Digital Currency Designed to Tackle Local Poverty

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The city of Kingston upon Hull located in the United Kingdom has released its plans to unveil a new cryptocurrency: Hullcoin.

FinTech Digest: Number 26 Predicts FinTech Future, Former Google Exec Launches ClearScore, ‘The Young Turks’ Accepts Bitcoin

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Number 26 predicts the financial ecosystem that will replace banks, “TYT” dips its toes into Bitcoin, and other news.