WordPress, the web’s most popular blogging system, has removed bitcoin from its payments options at checkout. The open-source platform, which supports over 60 million websites, became one of bitcoin’s first high-profile advocates when it announced it would accept the digital currency for premium features in November 2012. It had listed the currency alongside PayPal and major credit […]

The CEO of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has repeated his conglomerate’s intention to “probably” accept bitcoin at some stage, at a company financial conference in Tokyo today. Without disclosing a specific timeframe in which it might happen, company CEO Hiroshi Mikitani said: “We are thinking about [accepting bitcoin] and we probably will.” The CEO, one of Japan’s wealthiest individuals, previously […]

Bitcoin in the Headlines is a weekly look at global bitcoin news, analysing media coverage and its impact. This week, despite a relative shortage of bitcoin news, the digital currency has still captivated a considerable amount of attention from the mainstream media. Continue reading at CoinDesk Powered by WPeMatico

William Mougayar is a Toronto-based angel investor and four-time entrepreneur who advises startups on strategy and marketing. Here, he discusses what makes a successful Decentralized Autonomous Organisation, or DAO for short. The concept of a Decentralized Autonomous Organization/ Corporation is an idealistic outcome of the crypto-tech revolution. Continue reading at CoinDesk Powered by WPeMatico

Mining hardware leasing service BetaRigs is preparing to roll out a new contract rental feature in partnership with cloud mining platform Mintsy. The partnership will enable BetaRigs customers to effectively rent out hash rates to Mintsy customers when the feature goes live early next month. The Mintsy mining platform, announced in September, is a joint […]