Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has integrated its US site with bitcoin payment processor Bitnet, enabling customers in America to pay with the digital currency. Often considered a rival to Amazon, Rakuten has also confirmed plans to roll out bitcoin integration to both its German and Austrian e-commerce sites. Yaz Iida, president of Rakuten USA, said […]

Gyft CEO Vinny Lingham has announced plans for his mobile gift card company to use bitcoin to enable gift card providers to issue more secure, consumer-friendly digital products. Announced at the annual SXSW conference, the news was revealed during a conference panel that sought to address the real-world applications of bitcoin, and included Boost VC CEO […]

An ambitious plan to launch bitcoin-enabled microsatellites has taken a step forward with a new business deal. Dunvegan Space Systems, a startup led by bitcoin core developer Jeff Garzik has signed a manufacturing contract with Deep Space Industries (DSI) that will find it constructing 24 nanosatellites for its proposed BitSat program. The BitSat cluster will […]

Factom has announced it will launch its forthcoming crowdsale on 31st March at 15:00 UTC. Billed as a “software sale”, the event will allow consumers to exchange bitcoins for Factom tokens that will be available upon the blockchain-based recordkeeping network’s beta release. Continue reading at CoinDesk Powered by WPeMatico

Messaging service Wiper has been removed from China’s iOS App Store after it enabled bitcoin payments between users. Wiper CEO Manlion Carelli confirmed the news, explaining to CoinDesk that the removal was a direct result of its bitcoin integration, which happened earlier this month. He said: Continue reading at CoinDesk Powered by WPeMatico