Berlin’s ESMT becomes latest university to accept bitcoins for tuition
A prestigious Berlin-based business school, ESMT, recently announced that they are accepting bitcoin for tuition payments, making it the first German institute of higher education to do so. Students attending undergraduate programs and executive business school programs can now pay for tuition using the cryptographically secured currency.
Talking Bitcoin Social with Daniel Cawrey
As the former COO of ZapChain and writer for bitcoin publications, Daniel Cawrey is one of the most experienced people in the world at the intersection of bitcoin and media. Daniel has also been involved in our community since the very beginning when it was just an open-source project in 2015. When Daniel suggested he would be interested in demoing our current product, we jumped at the chance to get his thoughts on the current state of Yours and how we can make our product work well for content creators.
Bitcoin service allows businesses to confidently accept instant transactions
Retailers looking to accept bitcoin face many challenges. While Point of Sale and Payment Service providers have become industry titans through simplifying the process, there are still risks that need to be considered.
Bitcoin on a mission to make freelancing truly borderless
Before the internet era, if you lacked job opportunities in your area, migrating was the only option you had. You had to physically move to where work would be found. Often times, this movement involved crossing national borders.
Multinational professional service firm accepting bitcoin in Switzerland
One of the ‘Big Four’ accounting organizations, EY, recently announced that their Swiss firm will soon begin accepting bitcoin. The firm has also installed a publicly-accessible Bitcoin ATM (BTM) in their main office building, next to the Hardbrücke train station in Zurich, and has given bitcoin wallets to all of their employees. The overall effort is part of the firm's global push to “digitalize itself,” the firm states.
Yours raises funds for bitcoin based Reddit alternative
I met the CEO of reddit, Yishan Wong, at a restaurant in San Francisco in the summer of 2014. Yishan shared with me his vision of reddit as internetland, like a nation state with no physical borders. The only thing missing from internetland was money, so the users could pay each other for their work. Cryptocurrency seemed like the right tool for this, because it was native to the internet, just like reddit itself. I joined reddit as the world’s first cryptocurrency engineer to help Yishan implement his vision.
Indian Bitcoin exchange tackles liquidity shortage following the withdrawal of Rupee notes
One of India’s largest bitcoin exchanges, Coinsecure, now offers an account that does not require identification for deposits. “Users can submit their KYC when they want to withdraw or deposit INR and avail the discounted fee of 0.3%,” the company explains. “This removes the process of having to complete verification to start trading in Bitcoin.” Know Your Customer (KYC) identification requirements are demanded by regulators across the globe.
Blockchain wallet adding bitcoin buying option
Blockchain will soon provide users of their ever popular wallet with the option to buy bitcoin. After eight months of development, the service launches in the UK on Monday for a short period of testing. The company plans to push it out across the entire Eurozone by December, and across the US and some parts of Latin America early next year.
Cryptocurrencies provide customers with more choice
Philip Sedgwick and Juan Martin Grisales have two things in common; they’re both business owners and they both see digital currency as the future. Sedgwick is the owner and operator at the Wirtshaus am Bavariapark beer garden in Munich while Grisales is CEO at Living Group, an organization of three companies engaged in international tourism.
US election drives record bitcoin betting
The number of bitcoin bets made on the US presidential election has grown dramatically. “People were very passionate about betting during the US presidential election season,” a spokesperson for the BitBet website told BNC, “and were also very passionate during the whole Brexit affair.” Another betting site, Fairlay, told BNC that a single political bet attracted 4,356 predictions worth about $956,000 at current bitcoin exchange prices.
India’s banknote withdrawal sparks bitcoin interest
Two of India's largest denomination banknotes were scrapped on Wednesday. The five hundred rupee and 1,000 rupee notes can no longer be accepted by businesses across the country. Indians will be allowed to deposit or exchange their old currency notes at banks and post offices until the end of the year.
Marijuana now legal in eight more US States while vendors get more bitcoin options
As the world watched Tuesday night’s US election results roll in, there was more than one major surprise in store. Not only did the underdog presidential candidate win the nation’s top office, but Marijuana became legal to purchase in eight more US states, quadrupling the number of US citizens who could legally get high for recreational purposes.
Why bitcoin needs a smart contract mouthpiece
Most companies, products, or organizations have a single person who speaks for them. Whether a CEO, founder, or other public spokesperson; no such mouthpiece exists for bitcoin. What if it had one that was smart-contract-based?
IRS agrees to major cryptocurrency strategy overhaul following audit
The US Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) recently released a scathing report detailing an audit of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) strategy for addressing income produced through virtual currencies.
Major Korean Bank to launch bitcoin-backed remittance service
One of Korea’s biggest financial institutions, Shinhan Bank, recently announced that they will be providing bitcoin remittance services for the Korea-China corridor starting in December. The development marks the first time that any major bank has announced a Bitcoin value transfer system.
New decentralized ride sharing service joins the frenzy in Austin with bitcoin alternative
The social network for helpful people, Cell 411, recently announced version five of their app for iOS and Android. The application offers a decentralized ridesharing service, like Uber or Lyft, but doesn’t take a cut off driver’s fee and users can pay with Bitcoin.
