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Healthcare: Can the Blockchain Optimize and Secure It?

This is a guest post from the Distributed Ledger.The disruptive nature of blockchain technology is easy for people to conceptualize in the field of...

SWIFT to Launch Global Payments Innovation Initiative, Develop Blockchain Roadmap

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) announced that it is looking at the blockchain technology that powers Bitcoin as part of new...

Coinbase and Shift Payments Introduce a Visa-branded Bitcoin Debit Card That Works Everywhere Visa is Accepted

Coinbase has introduced the first U.S.-issued bitcoin debit card, the Shift Card, in partnership with Shift Payments. The Shift Card is a Visa...

Align Commerce Raises $12.5 Million, Launches Blockchain-based Cross-border B2B Payment System

In April, Bitcoin Magazinereported that global payment provider Align Commerce launched a public beta of its payments platform, the first in the industry to...

Snapcard Partners with PagPop, Enables 12,000 Brazilian Businesses to Accept Bitcoin

A new partnership between bitcoin wallet solution Snapcard and leading Brazilian mobile payments startup PagPop has enabled 12,000 Brazilian businesses to accept bitcoin. Merchants...

Sweden: The Road Toward a Cashless Society

Since October 2014, the Swedish National Bank, also known as Riksbank has cut its interest rates below zero. That means that for well over...

Billion Dollar Mexican Retail Company Famsa Accepts Bitcoin

Grupo Famsa, one of the largest household appliance-, electronic products- and consumer products-focused retail company in Mexico has begun accepting bitcoin payments with a...

Russia’s Largest Search Engine Yandex Interested in Integrating Bitcoin

Russia’s largest search engine and Internet-based services provider Yandex is interested in integrating bitcoin to its financial platform Yandex.Money, to allow its merchants to...

Bitcoin Used to Pay Utility and Credit Card Bills in the Philippines and Australia

Over the past year, bitcoin startups in the Philippines and Australia have begun to target day-to-day expenses and remittances; markets that are in desperate...

Closing the Loop: Australian Organic Farm Creates a Local Bitcoin Economy Among Farmers

Budafoods , a certified organic farm and food supplier located in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, Queensland, Australia, is attempting to create a closed bitcoin economy...
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