Steam bitcoin payments are live on Valve’s Steam store. Customers can use bitcoin to buy everything available on the Steam platform, including physical hardware. The news was expected. Back in February, code leaked from the Steam translation project seemed to indicate that Valve was working on bitcoin payments and was using BitPay as the payment …
Jim Rickards, the New York Times bestselling author of Currency Wars, The End of Money, and The New Case for Gold, was recently interviewed on a reinvent.money hangout. Rickards discussed bitcoin, gold, and the world economy, and he also shared his views on why central banks may be dismissive (at least in public) of alternatives …
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Large South African companies and banks are beginning to experiment with blockchain technology as a way to streamline processes, saving time and money. “In 2015, we saw all the big banks in South Africa starting to engage on blockchain and what we foresee for 2016 is an aggressive move to investment in blockchain applications,” Dominique …
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Purse.io Review Purse.io has become one of the most popular bitcoin services. Nearly anything can be bought through Amazon, therefore if you could spend bitcoins at Amazon, you could buy nearly everything with bitcoins. Unfortunately, Amazon doesn’t accept bitcoin, so a few different sites have filled the gap in order to make that possible. Other …
Bitcoin’s saving grace for scalability (at least in the eyes of the vast majority of Bitcoin Core contributors) should be ready for use this summer. The Lightning Network, which is a generalized network of payment channels that enables instant bitcoin transactions with practically no fees, could be live as soon as this summer. This new …
London-based blockchain technology investment and development company Coinsilium will be hosting its inaugural Blockchain Tech Lab, a week-long event taking place at Runway East at Finsbury Square in London between April 11 and 17, 2016. Coinsilium made headlines in December last year when it became the first blockchain technology group to be listed on the …
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3Pillar Global builds innovative, revenue-generating software products, enabling businesses to quickly turn ideas into value. They provide product development services to companies in the Financial Services, Media & Entertainment, Health & Wellness, and Information Services verticals. The company has built services relying on blockchain technology for a number of clients and Adi Chikara, technology strategist in 3Pillar …
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