PayPal: Unprecedented Disruption in Payments and Financial Services

“In a telling move about the future of money, PayPal has added a Bitcoin entrepreneur to its board of directors,” CNN Money reports. Fintech entrepreneur Wences Casares joined the board on Tuesday, PayPal announced Wednesday. The move has been interpreted as the beginning of a new phase in PayPal’s timid love story with Bitcoin, which […]

Nanopayments Software Developer SatoshiPay Seals €360K Seed Round

Bitcoin nanopayment platform SatoshiPay has announced the completion of its seeding round that raised a total capital investment of €360,000, with blockchain-startup investor Coinsilium bringing in €150,000 to the round. Blockchain technology investor Consilium, a London-based firm known for supporting blockchain-startups at their early stages as companies has revealed its latest investment via a regulatory […]

Brave Browser Seeks To Revamp Web Ad Revenue Model Using Bitcoin

Brendan Eich, co-founder of Mozilla and creator of the JavaScript programming language, has developed a new browser that will block unwanted web ads and replace them with ads generated by Brave. Eich’s goal is to make the browsing experience easier, to allow users to see ads they are more likely to want to see, and […]

Wall Street’s Settling House Points Industry toward the Bitcoin Blockchain

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade clearing and settlement service that powers every single trade in the $22 trillion U.S. stock market has called for an industry-wide collaboration to adopt blockchain technology. A new white paper issued by the DTCC has called for a coordinated effort among the financial industry to realize […]

The Complete Newbie’s Guide to Trading Bitcoins

The post The Complete Newbie’s Guide to Trading Bitcoins appeared first on 99 Bitcoins. TL;DR version of How to Trade Bitcoin: You can use Bitcoin’s volatility to trade Bitcoin CFDs without owning actual Bitcoins through companies like Plus500, Avatrade and Fortrade. This type of trading is risky and you should start out in demo mode […]

Russia Makes 2016 an Election Year for Bitcoin

After almost two years of being in a state of confusion on how to deal with the advent of digital currencies, it appears Russia is ready to lay down the law on Bitcoin – and it may be sooner rather than later. According to Russian news blog Forklog the country shares a two-party system with […]

Digital Asset Holdings Raises $52 Million, Will Bring Blockchain to Australian Stock Market

Permissioned ledgers continue to be the trend in the blockchain industry. According to Bloomberg, blockchain startup Digital Asset Holdings, which is run by former JPMorgan Chase Executive Blythe Masters, has raised $52 million and has a deal with ASX to bring Australian stock settlement into the digital age. Participants in the investment round included JPMorgan, […]