Adoption

If Bitcoin is to help Africa catch up with the rest of the world, what is preventing Africans from adopting the cryptocurrency?

“Regardless of age, the vast majority of the American population has heard of Bitcoin,” new report commissioned by Blockchain Capital suggests.

“Making Bitcoin technology widely accessible is a key component of our roadmap. Today, with the integration of the Lightning Network, we have taken yet another step in this direction,” said Zebpay's CEO Ajeet Khurana.

The Bank of Mexico (Banxico) has published a circular, wherein it laid out a plan to issue permits to bitcoin exchange platforms and other crypto-related businesses operating in the country.

Founded in 1921, Avnet is one of the oldest major American electronics companies. On March 19, 2019, it announced that customers will be able to pay for goods and services using bitcoin and bitcoin cash via BitPay.

CEO Alex Adelman says that while working at Ebates, he learned "why people buy, how people use cashback programs," — the hows and whys that would eventually lay the foundation for building Lolli's bitcoin-back platform.

In the pursuit of mass adoption, decentralization shouldn’t be our goal, but instead a means to achieve the many different, and equally important, goals that exist for cryptocurrency users.

Our reporter Colin Harper experimented with living on bitcoin for a whole week in San Francisco last month. Here is a summary of his experience.

Reporter Colin Harper wraps up his week of living on bitcoin in San Francisco with visits to 20 Mission and bitcoin artist cryptograffiti. But first, he'll have to survive a storm out on the bay.

Colin Harper continues his San Francisco experiment, spending bitcoin and attending a meetup in a crypto-friendly bar with some great, diverse company.