Australian start-up to rival bitcoin by rejecting anonymity
Australian start-up Thinking Active is working on the IDentabit, an identity-based bitcoin alternative, to fight anonymity-empowered crimes and to prompt the compliance of cryptocurrency with regulatory framework.
Barclays Africa selects ZapGo for fintech accelerator
A peer-to-peer payments bitcoin app ZapGo has been chosen along with five other fintech start-ups to take part in Barclays Africa 13-week TechLab accelerator programme in Cape Town, South Africa.
Scottish national party will look into independent digital currency ScotPound
SNP should look into setting up Scottish national digital currency at an annual conference in Aberdeen, Scottish politician George Kerevan suggests. He is going to speak about the idea of a digital ScotPound at the conference fringe meeting.
Blockchain start-up claims to support 1 million blockchain transactions per day in a test network
London-based blockchain start-up Setl claims to break the mark of 1 billion transaction per day for blockchain operations.
Purse.io users’ accounts compromised, hackers stole more than 10 BTC
Several users of Purse.io, a P2P service provider allowing to shop on Amazon with bitcoins, reported receiving unauthorized password reset emails which was quickly followed by unauthorized withdrawals of money from their accounts.
GreCom installs its fourth bitcoin ATM in Ljubljana
Slovenian Business Development and Corporate Communication company GreCom, which works closely with bitcoin digital currency, has launched a new bitcoin ATM in Ljubljana. The capital of Slovenia now has six bitcoin machines in total, four of them run by GreCom.
Swedish bank Handelsbanken allegedly supports bitcoin customers
While Swedish banks took hard stance on bitcoin companies, Handelsbanken seems to be favourable of customers working with cryptocurrencies.
Blockchain company Monetas will help Tunisian Post in development of E-dinar
Monetas payment platform signed an agreement with the State Post of Tunisia. The company will help The Post to develop an electronic payment system in the country.
Ripple introduces Interledger Protocol to address scalability problem and improve privacy
The global settlement network Ripple, whose protocol has been already introduced by a number of influential banks and which, according to the BNY Mellon's analysis, is likely to compete with SWIFT in the foreseeable future, released a new protocol for payments across different payment systems called Interledger.
BitPhone announces phone top-ups with bitcoins from everywhere in the world
On October 8 the Spanish company BitPhone announced on its Facebook page that in about two weeks its users would be able to top-up their mobile phones using bitcoins practically from anywhere in the world.
The alleged creator of bitcoin compares it to the Volga River and Stenka Razin
Dorian Nakamoto, named by a Newsweek journalist as the creator of bitcoin, elaborated on his outlook on the bitcoin digital currency, its philosophy and future in an AMA session on Reddit.
EuroBitMarket opens bitcoin trading in London
The UK-based bitcoin exchange EuroBitMarket has opened the trading site with options to deposit bitcoin and fiat currency, including card deposits in euros and dollars.
Yandex.Money is considering integration of bitcoin
Bitcoin fits perfectly with the payment solutions offered by Yandex.Money, the leading Russian electronic wallet platform, the company’s media relations manager Nora Kirkizh told BitcoinMagazine.
BNY Mellon believes blockchain can be effectively leveraged to transform payments
The BNY Mellon investment company has released a report “Innovation in Payments: The Future is FinTech”, in which it estimates the changes in the global payment system.
Australian Prime Minister places a bid of US$2,000 worth shares in Bitcoin Group's IPO
The Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull has taken part in the launch of a new FinTech app called OnMarket, which is supposed to democratise the process of capital raising – previously a prerogative of big companies. He entered a US$2,000 bid for shares in Bitcoin Group which is about to release its initial public offering.
21 Inc. launches education portal for bitcoin developers
The bitcoin hardware manufacturer has hired three top contributors to bitcoin.org for breeding a new generation of cryptocurrency developers.
