Sophie Schuhmacher
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theAudience To Bring Bitcoin To The Masses
BitFury, the bitcoin mining giant, teamed up with several Bitcoin companies, including the [Bitcoin Foundation](https://bitcoinfoundation.org/), enlisting a multi-media marketing agency giant, [theAudience](http://www.theaudience.com/), to create a campaign promoting Bitcoin.
CoinJar Announces Low Fee Hedged Accounts
The Bitcoin exchange announced its new hedged bitcoin accounts at Finovate Europe, a European financial technology conference. CoinJar users can now peg their bitcoin holdings to the price of four fiat currencies.
AutoTip Launches, While Coinbase Bows Out To ChangeTip
The Bitcoin protocol enables effective online micropayments, a problem IBM failed to solve. Micropayments were initially devised as a way of allowing the sale of online [content](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_(media_and_publishing)), and the payment of low cost network services.
BitPesa Raises A Further $1.1m
The funding round, led by Pantera Capital, marks the largest investment in an African Bitcoin startup. The Nairobi based remittance company will use the funds to propel expansion into growing markets.
CoolBitx Crowdfunding Its Hardware Wallet
Hardware wallets have long been marketed as the answer to securely storing Bitcoin, and a Taiwanese company thinks they are also the key to better in-person transactions.
Strawpay Tackles Bitcoin Transaction Woes
The Swedish development company, Strawpay, is working on a new Bitcoin protocol. The open source layer aims to eradicate transaction times and lower fees by leveraging some of Bitcoins unique parameters.
SFX.io; “Bitcoin Could Change How We Pay For Music Online”
The music publishing platform is continuing its efforts to explore how Bitcoin can reshape the way artists get paid for their work, amidst a growing choice of payment options and Venture Capitalist interest.
Montreal University Bitcoin Airdrop
Montreal based bitcoin organizations are planning a bitcoin airdrop at the world renowned, McGill University to spur interest and adoption of the digital currency.
MeXBT’s New Service Unlocks Mexican ATMs
A legacy banking solution allows Mexicos unbanked population to withdraw funds at ATMs. Gabriel Miron has taken advantage, adding Bitcoin to the equation.
Bitcoin Could Empower Mexico’s Unbanked
The world’s 10th largest economy, Mexico, has had double digit growth in its e-commerce industry, but continued growth is challenged by the country’s large unbanked population.
