This week sees a social media platform for non-bitcoin users in creation, but the platform wants to stimulate bitcoin use, strangely enough. A complicated app closure and acquisition concludes with a newly launched Keza app, and we forecast potential bitcoin price influencers for the fall.
Bitcoin is going a bit more mainstream and may be part of your daily morning jolt. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily...
Blockchain technology may have been the underpinning for bitcoin, but it’s not stopping there, with a slew of financial companies eyeing blockchain technology, including Visa. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
For some time now, some people have thought the Bitcoin Core development team is too conservative and too concerned with technical failures to take action to improve the ability of the network to grow, but after the collapse of the DAO, two Ethereum blockchains are...
Apple and Google haven’t shown much interest in blockchain technology, but that appears to be changing, with increasing interest in Ripple and the distributed ledger financial company’s Interledger Protocol. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
Loyalty programs are having trouble inspiring, well, loyalty. In the latest Topic TBD installment, Ron Quaranta, COO of loyyal, tells Karen Webster how new technology — namely, blockchain — can get loyalty back in the loyalty groove.
It has been a slow week for bitcoin news, and bitcoin price movements have been undramatic. Amid the hype in China, Forex Paradise has launched bitcoin debit cards. US Marshals auctioned off Silk Road-tinged bitcoin. And Voldemort has woken with a bitcoin scheme, and it’s...
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) said there needs to be clarity over blockchain regulations before adoption can become more widespread. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...
The blockchain — the underlying technology that powers the digital currency bitcoin — may be nearing its mainstream moment in the sun as four of the world’s largest banks are using it to develop a new form of digital currency. That bank-backed “bitcoin” is intended to become...
