Coinbase Announces E-Gift Cards: Pay for Uber With Bitcoin
Coinbase continues to expand its portfolio of cryptocurrency items, adding new means that users can take advantage of to spend their cryptocurrency on day to day items and services...
You Can Now Use The Lightning Network To Buy (Virtually) Anything
Cryptocurrency cellphone top-up company Bitrefill has announced it will start selling gift vouchers for Amazon and other brands — effectively opening up Bitcoin Lightning Network...
Vanywhere Gives Blockchain a Go in Today’s Sharing Economy
The economic background, the modern society’s state of mind, and the technological progress altogether gave rise to a new concept — sharing economy. It is an economic model...
Chasyr: The Uber Disrupter
Chasyr has recently announced that they will be attending this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt held in San Francisco to introduce ridesharing using cryptocurrency and the technology...
Global Cryptocurrency Market is Now Bigger Than Uber, Airbnb, Xiaomi
The global cryptocurrency market cap has now blown through that of famous startups like Uber , Didi Chuxing, Airbnb, Xiaomi, and many others. Global Cryptocurrency Market cap As...
Interview with LibreTaxi: The ‘Free Alternative’ to Lyft...
Bitcoinist spoke to Roman Pushkin, founder of LibreTaxi, an open-source ridesharing mobile app that will soon support Bitcoin payments, to find out more about his vision for...
Price Report: Bitcoin is Dominating Argentina
Another small rise is in the books. Following a drop to $639, the price of bitcoin has jumped up to about $645 at press time. Also read: Pounds vs Yen: The Battle Over Bitcoin Rages On...
Blockchain-based Remittance App AirPocket Comes To Latin America
Blockchain technology has a lot of potential to disrupt the financial sector, and DigitalX is one of the companies wielding the blockchain for remittance purpose. Now that the company...
Using Gamified Hacking Challenges To Attract New Blockchain...
The blockchain ecosystem is always in need of more developers who want to push a fresh spin on the concept of distributed ledgers. Despite several conferences and development workshops...
PayPal Centralizes Payment Processing For Uber And AirBnb
Understanding the way payments work is quite revealing in some cases. as it explains how a handful of companies make money off millions of transactions around the world. For example...
Adyen Can Bring Bitcoin To Major Businesses Like Netflix And Uber
In the world of finance, there is no shortage of companies willing to process payments on behalf of businesses. Adyen is one of the most-valued European payment processing companies in...
US Department of Justice Investigates Uber Data Breach, Could Have...
The United States Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into an Uber data breach that occurred in May 2014. Reuters reported that, during this process, the...