Jeffrey Maxim
T-Mobile Poland Offers 20% Discount for Bitcoin Purchases
T-Mobile Poland announced in late February that they would start offering a 20% discount for mobile top-up credits paid with bitcoin. The announcement is part of a three month...
Rakuten Brings Shopping With Bitcoin To US Customers
“Rakuten’s mission is to empower the world through the Internet,” commented Yaz Iida, President of Rakuten USA. “Not only can bitcoin support this vision by helping our...
BIT to be The First Publicly Traded Bitcoin Fund
With approval from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT) is set to be the first publicly traded bitcoin fund. The exchange beats the...
Stellar Plans To Improve MicroFinance Industry
MicroFinance Institutions (MFI), businesses and charities providing small loans to some of the world’s poorest people, have slowly but steadily been going digital. Antonio...
ShapeShift Raises £525k, Reveals its Mysterious Creator
Since its founding in 2013, ShapeShift has gained popularity because of its speed and privacy. Despite its success, little was known about the company or the people behind it. Now...
Factom And Tether Announce Partnership
Bitcoin 2.0 has emerged from the altcoin craze and is offering interesting new applications for Bitcoin. These are projects and companies are looking to capitalize on Bitcoin’s...
BTCPoint Enables 10,000 ATMs to sell Bitcoin in Spain
BTCPoint has enabled over 10,000 ATMs to sell bitcoins in Spain. The new service was done through a partnership with Hal-Cash, which allows operators to enable money transfers to...
Bitcoin Center NYC Launches A Startup Incubator
Bitcoin Center NYC, a large space for the bitcoin community, has announced it has launched an incubator for bitcoin startups. The NYC first grabbed headlines in early 2013 when it...
Deutsche Banker Starts New Bitcoin Exchange in Brazil
Today BTCFlow has launched the first institutional exchange in Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy. “The digital currency market in Brazil is still in its infancy,”...
Abra: A New Kind Of Bitcoin Remittance Service
Bill Barhydt, serial entrepreneur and former Netscape director, debuted his first Bitcoin startup, Abra, on Wednesday, March 4. The announcement came on the last day of the Launch...
Bitcoin Exchange Kraken Revamps Their Website for Margin Trading
Kraken, a popular bitcoin exchange, has announced that they will be redesigning their website as the exchange comes closer to implementing margin trading. Kraken seeks to make their...
Coinimal Wants to Make Buying Bitcoin Faster
The trio behind Coinimal has decided to take buying crypto-currency into their own hands and launched their own exchange on December 15th. According to Coinimal’s CEO, Paul...