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Bitcoins Are Not Tied Up on the Lightning Network, Say Creators Poon and Dryja

The Lightning Network is viewed by many as a serious improvement for Bitcoin in terms of scalability, but there are still plenty of critics...

Wiper Messaging App Adds Bitcoin Micropayments for Independent Filmmakers

Wiper is an encrypted mobile messenger with a built-in Bitcoin wallet that allows users to send and receive Bitcoin instantaneously, directly from the mobile...

Brave Browser to Launch Clean Ads for a Faster Web, Powered by Bitcoin Micropayments

The creators of the modern Internet thought that it should have a built-in payment system. Web pioneer and Netscape creator Marc Andreessen, who considers Bitcoin...

BitFury Invests in Pan-African Bitcoin Trading Platform BitPesa

Bitcoin blockchain mining infrastructure provider BitFury has announced it has made a strategic investment in the universal African Bitcoin exchange  BitPesa.Founded in 2013, BitPesa sees itself...

Korea’s Kookmin Bank Partners With Coinplug to Develop a Blockchain Forex Application

Kookmin Bank, one of South Korea’s largest commercial banks and one of the four largest financial institutions in the country by asset value, has...

SatoshiPay Launches Bitcoin Nanopayment Network for Online Content

SatoshiPay, an online payments company headquartered in London, announced the launch of a platform for Web publishers, offering a new way to monetize content...

Chinese E-Commerce Giant Alibaba Explores Blockchain-based Cloud Service Platform

During the recent YunQi Computing Conference in Shanghai, Alipay, an online payment platform of Alibaba, the world’s seventh-largest Internet company and popular Chinese e-commerce...

PayPal: Unprecedented Disruption in Payments and Financial Services

“In a telling move about the future of money, PayPal has added a Bitcoin entrepreneur to its board of directors,” CNN Moneyreports. Fintech entrepreneur...

Snapcard CEO: 2016 Will Be a Humongous Year for Bitcoin in Brazil

One of the longest-standing questions in the Bitcoin community has been where the technology will take off first. Some have said that Bitcoin makes...

nanoPay Acquires MintChip from the Royal Canadian Mint

As of December 18, 2015, all assets related to MintChip – a digital currency developed by The Royal Canadian Mint – were transferred to...
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