Belgium-based green energy provider Elegant is now accepting bitcoin payments following requests from various clients. The private company, which currently supplies almost 30,000 households and SMEs, has partnered with BitPay to accept payments in the digital currency. Maarten De Cuyper, CEO at Elegant, said: Continue reading at CoinDesk Powered by WPeMatico

The bitcoin price has continued to build on recent gains, adding $15 over the last week. This represents a 6% increase over the opening price on 2nd March, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index. The week’s biggest intra-day price swing happened early in the week, when bitcoin hit a high of $286.28, representing a […]

Messaging could be the logical starting point for digital currency adoption, according to the CEO of bitcoin-enabled chat app Wiper. In an interview with CoinDesk, Manlion Carelli praised bitcoin’s “amazing” promise but said the currency remains difficult for beginners to use. “Wiper’s goal is to make it more accessible to even first time smartphone users, so that its promise […]

  International remittance is ostensibly one of the most compelling use cases for bitcoin and digital currencies. 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 where the monetization is behind decentralized business models. If we are to strictly follow bitcoin’s first principles of decentralization, then very little to no money should be made by the centers. Continue reading at CoinDesk Powered by […]