Bitcoin.de’s long-standing partnership with Fidor Bank has finally borne fruit, with the company claiming it is the world’s first bitcoin trading platform with a “direct connection to the classic banking system”. Bitcoin.de says the arrangement brings far faster service, allowing EUR/BTC trades to be completed within “seconds” when both customers have a free ‘FIDOR Smart Giro Account’. Extra security is also […]

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 […]

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