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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...

Rebit’s Bitcoin Solutions Targets the $2 Billion Canada-to-Philippines Remittance Market

Universal bitcoin company Satoshi Citadel Industries’ Rebit.ph has partnered with California-based global transaction network and money transfer platform ZipZap to enable Filipino expat workers...

Google Launches Android Pay to Compete with Apple Pay and Boost Mobile Payments

In February, Bitcoin Magazine reported Google’s preliminary announcement of Android Pay. In June, we reported the official announcement of Android Pay at the annual Google I/O event on May...

Barclays to Begin Offering Bitcoin Payments for Customers, Beginning with Charities

Barclays is about to become the first mainstream bank to openly and directly support bitcoin transactions, The Sunday Timesreports. The Daily Mailechoed the news for its huge...

Barclays to Begin Offering Bitcoin Payments for Customers, Beginning with Charities

Barclays is about to become the first mainstream bank to openly and directly support bitcoin transactions, The Sunday Timesreports. The Daily Mailechoed the news for its huge...

World Wide Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Leads W3C to Establish Online Payment Standards Including Bitcoin

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) started review of a draft Web Payments Working Group Charter. The Web Payments Working Group will launch by the end of September after...