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German tech magazine t3n has announced it will allow employees to receive a portion of their salary in bitcoin.

The r/Bitcoin subreddit has increasingly become a major source of news and information for anyone interested in Bitcoin. Established in 2010...

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In an attempt to patent the term ‘Bitcoin’ in Russia, a Moscow-based firm called M-Group filed an application at the Russian patent office. The application was duly rejected. Rospatent, the Russian patent agency has recently confirmed the rejection of an application by a Moscow-based firm which filed a patent request to trademark ‘Bitcoin.’ According to […]

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To eliminate the financial security issues a lot of African e-commerce users have suffered from, Bidorbuy, Africa's largest online market,...

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Roger Ver has offered presidential candidate Bernie Sanders $100,000 in bitcoin if he agrees to a debate on patriotism.

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Bitcoin Press Releases: An engineering team from Australia have created a technology that allows a developer to contribute to a software project yet still retain their intellectual property, and earn bitcoin for each contribution.  Using this new technology, it is now possible for developers to repeatedly trade their specialist design expertise in exchange for bitcoin, […]

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Bitcoin price looked to be curving into advance today, but analysis shows the move is spent and must first pull back if it is to continue higher. Meanwhile, crucial support could be tested in the coming hours and days. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not […]

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Apple unveiled its new 4-inch iPhone SE during an event on Monday, and the new device could provide a significant boost to Apple Pay in China.

Apple shipped 30 million 4-inch iPhones in 2015, which demonstrated a clear consumers demand for the smaller devices. The company's VP of product marketing, Greg Joswiak, said during the event that the majority of first-time buyers in China bought 4-inch devices. This is likely because those models are less expensive.

This is a good sign for Apple Pay in China, where the mobile wallet is already off to a strong start. More than three million cards were loaded onto Apple Pay within 72 hours of the service's February launch in the world's most populous nation, Joswiak said.

Moreover, this early adoption occurred while China did not have any smaller phones capable of handling payments through Apple Pay. The introduction of the iPhone SE, therefore, could give Chinese customers another reason to adopt the service.

Apple also already has a solid user base in China. The tech giant accounted for 20.1% of the nation's installed smartphone base in Q2 2015, up from 12.8% in the same period one year earlier.

And Apple Pay is tethered to UnionPay cards, which nearly have a monopoly in China's payment card market. In fact, 80% of China's credit and debit cards are eligible for Apple Pay, which provides an immense user base that Apple Pay can tap into as Chinese customers purchase the iPhone SE.

Apple's push to make Apple Pay succeed in China is in keeping with the ever-changing world of payments. The increasing adoption of mobile wallets has caused both tech and financial companies to evaluate their strategies. But what does that mean for the average consumer?

Evan Bakker and John Heggestuen, analysts at BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, have compiled a detailed report on the payments ecosystem that drills into the industry to explain how a broad range of transactions are processed, including prepaid and store cards, as well as revealing which types of companies are in the best and worst position to capitalize on the latest industry trends.

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• 2016 will be a watershed year for the payments industry. Payments companies are improving security, expanding their mobile offerings, and building commerce capabilities that will give consumers a more compelling reason to make purchases using digital devices.
• Payments is an extremely complex industry. To understand the next big digital opportunity lies, it's critical to understand how the traditional credit- and debit-processing chain works and what roles acquirers, processors, issuing banks, card networks, independent sales organizations, gateways, and software and hardware providers play.
• Alternative technologies could disrupt the processing ecosystem. Devices ranging from refrigerators to smartwatches now feature payment capabilities, which will spur changes in consumer payment behaviors. Likewise, blockchain technology, the protocol that underlies Bitcoin, could one day change how consumer card payments are verified.

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Registered members of the Republican party in Utah will be able to nominate a candidate for the United States Presidency by placing a vote without having to visit polling stations by submitting them via the internet at the party’s website. The votes will be submitted and secured on a blockchain. For the first time ever […]

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One of the main issues that has held back the adoption of Bitcoin as a network for value transfer on the Internet is that it's too difficult...

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CoinDesk explores why bitcoin industry businesses are increasingly demonstrating an interest in the alternative blockchain platform Ethereum.

A New York startup called Mine Labs has started a metadata protocol based on blockchain technology called Mediachain that uses the Interplanetary File System (IPFS), a “hypermedia distribution protocol,” to protect rights to digital works, according to Nasdaq. Other blockchain-based authentication systems use an encoded ID to reference centrally-hosted data, but these have limited storage […]

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  BitPay introduced one potential fork of Bitcoin Core in a series of blog posts by CEO Stephen Pair. In the series, Pair describes an “adaptive block-size limit.” Pair expressed his belief on the Medium post’s that he believes Bitcoin does not need a fixed limit, though that would create uncertainty for miners. Pair believes […]

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You’re in your cubicle. The local radio station distracts you with 4/4 beats, and a DJ whispering sweet nothings through the airwaves. In other cubicles, co-workers bide their time, waiting for the time when they can clock out and meander to the local lowbrow lounge and drink away the pent up energy accumulated from a […]

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By raising $1 million in seed funding, blockchain startup RSK Labs will develop Rootstock, a smart contracts platform that will be deployed as a sidechain on the bitcoin blockchain. In a funding round led by bitcoin mining hardware company Bitmain Technology, RSK Labs has raised $1 million in a successful initial seeding round to develop […]

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