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OneBit alpha testing NFC Bitcoin payments at credit card accepting merchants
A Bitcoin app that allows for payments via NFC at credit card accepting merchants has just gone into its alpha stage of testing. OneBit, which started out as an app developed during a MasterCard PayPass hackathon, is now expanding its horizons and embarking on a journey out into the world to test its capabilities. The ...
Gameplay recording platform Kamcord launches easy mobile game livestreaming
Kamcord Inc. already allows users to record and share videos of their mobile gameplay, but now the company is announcing the launch of full mobile game livestreaming capabilities. As recording software, Kamcord boasts more than 1 million registered user profiles and over 50 million videos shared. In total, the service can record and share video ...
CoinMate Bitcoin exchange integrates with UK payment provider MoneyPolo
Today London-based Bitcoin exchange CoinMate (Confirmo Ltd.) announced integration with UK payment provider MoneyPolo. Moneypolo (Mayzus Financial Services Ltd.) launched in 2011 with the goal of providing affordable, secure and efficient financial solutions regardless of location. Today it covers over 150 countries and enables cash withdrawals and deposits in the currencies within those countries. The ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 July 22: EU seeks to exempt BTC from VAT, Putin on Bitcoin, BitX $4m funding, Coinffeine distributed exchange beta
This week saw a lot of politics happening around Bitcoin, of various sorts. First there’s been some talk for a while now in the European Union about whether Bitcoin should be subject to VAT (Value Added Tax) or not–so far a European Court of Justice Official has argued for exempting bitcoin due to its nature as ...
Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland on Enigma using the Bitcoin blockchain to compute with secure data | #MITCDOIQ
With a name like Enigma readers would be right to suspect that MIT was working on something used by a super villain, of course the premise of the project is to make everyday people smarter and safer. Alex “Sandy” Pentland, the Toshiba Professor at MIT, advises the Enigma project which uses the Bitcoin blockchain to ...
Players in World of Warcraft can now have virtual cats curl up in their virtual laps
People are already able to play video games and have their cats curl up in their laps—but now World of Warcraft players can have their cats in games curl up on their characters’ laps. It’s cat lap inception! This recent addition to Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.’s cultural juggernaut massively multiplayer role playing game (MMORPG) allows players ...
Shenmue III breaks Kickstarter video game funding record at $6 million
In what looks like a massive coup for fan culture and community interest, Yu Suzuki’s newest game of the Shenmue series is becoming a reality. The Kickstarter for Shenmue III was announced at E3 2015 during the Sony PlayStation press conference with a seemingly modest goal of $2 million, which the game has handily exceeded ...
ESPN personality known for criticism of esports leaves company
Gaming site GameSpot reports today that Colin Cowherd has left ESPN. Cowherd is well known as one of ESPN’s top personalities; but to the gaming community he’s better known for being an outspoken critic of esports from several statements made back in April. ESPN President John Skipper posted a short-but-sweet departure note for Cowherd, “We’ve ...
Bitnet and BlockCypher partner to offer ‘Instant Approval’ for Bitcoin merchants
Today Bitnet Technologies Ltd., an enterprise bitcoin payments processor, announced a deal with BlockCypher, Inc., a blockchain web services company, to build a service that mitigates risk for merchants when accepting bitcoin payments. While bitcoin market volatility is mitigated by processing services that automatically liquidate bitcoins at the price point payments are made at, transaction ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 July 15: Bitcoin and Greece, Hacking Team tracing software, Coinsetter margin trades, Cloudminr hack
If it weren’t for a thriving Bitcoin ecosystem, this Weekly would be all about the Greek economic crisis. While Greece has received a vote on the bailout–and Bitcoin speculation has died down somewhat, taking the market value from a peak of $317 back to a more recognizable $289–but this has given way to speculations of a ...