Crypterium Debuts Virtual Crypto Card In Partnership With Apple Pay
Crypterium, a leading provider of crypto-focused cards has now introduced a new virtual card in partnership with Apple Pay. This is huge news for the cryptocurrency-based payments...
Apple and Facebook Now Competing With Banks – Not Bitcoin
International ratings agency Weiss Ratings thinks tech giants like Apple and Facebook entering the crypto-space prove they are, in fact, becoming banks themselves and their...
‘Facebook Coin’ Will Be More Like Bitcoin Than Starbucks Rewards, Says Analyst
Speculations about the purpose of Facebook’s planned digital coin are getting wilder. Ignoring key features like independence and decentralization, one analyst predicts that...
Why the New ‘Apple Card’ Credit Card Doesn’t Compete With Bitcoin
The Apple credit card launches this summer. Here’s why it nothing like Bitcoin and is more underwhelming than a utility token with no use-case. Apple Announces Credit Card Apple has...
Lightning Network Beats Apple Pay in Merchant Onboarding, New Study Finds
Lightning Network is only a few seconds slower than the best (centralized) digital payment solutions on the market such as Apple Pay, and is actually “days faster” when it...
In Apple’s Battle for Supremacy in the Payment Ecosystem, Bitcoin Will Win
Apple is internally expanding tests of its new Apple Pay Cash feature, thus further intensifying the battle for the supremacy of the mobile payment ecosystem. Moreover, Bitcoin’s...
Android Pay To Go Head-to-head With Bitcoin In The UK
The mobile payment ecosystem has never been more competitive than it is right now, as various companies and device manufacturers are battling for supremacy all over the world. Android...
Criminals Use Apple Pay For Fraudulent Purchases
Mobile payments are only as secure as the wallet service is, and Apple Pay is not doing the best of jobs to protect consumer data. While many people see Apple Pay as a form of Fintech...
Apple Pay Set to Launch in China on February 18
Apple is about to launch it’s move into China, with its Apple Pay mobile payments platform set to go live on Thursday, February 18. Apple’s new digital payments application...
Australian Banks Indirectly Help Bitcoin By Boycotting Apple Pay
The mobile payment sector is heating up, as every company and financial institution are scrambling to launch their platform in the near future. Over in Australia, it will not be smooth...
Apple Is Betting On The Peer-to-Peer Payment Demographic
Apple has been filing patents lately and is seemingly planning to add payments to its messaging service IMessage. Last month it was reported by Quartz that the tech giant was exploring...
Samsung Pay Bringing More Competition to Bitcoin by Enabling Online Shopping in 2016
Samsung is planning to expand its mobile payment service, Samsung Pay, into the US online shopping market. Additionally, Samsung will allow more smartphones to support the payment...