BitPay helps Toshiba VisualTouch POS system to accept Bitcoin

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The world leader in business solutions for the Bitcoin economy, BitPay, has partnered with VisualTouch, Toshiba’s premiere POS software solution, currently used by more than 6,000 merchants spread across 1,600 locations. The integration with the point of sale system will allow cryptocurrency to reach thousands of new businesses and even more users in the hospitality, food, grocery,…

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A Ripple Gateway in Mexico

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Mexican Bitcoin Exhange Bitso has officially launched as the first Ripple Gateway in Mexico. Bitso will be the first issuer of Mexican Peso (MXN) balances on the Ripple Network. The company intends to use the unique characteristics of the Ripple network and protocol to tackle the remittance market between Mexico and the US. Bitso is…

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Thinking in Transactions

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This post is also in issue 18. Every Bitcoin transaction runs a small program that describes under which conditions the transaction is valid. This surprising behavior can be exploited to construct a variety of contracts on top of bitcoin. In this article you will learn how basic transaction scripts work in principle. A new transaction…

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Bank of Canada’s newest report says Bitcoin can bring “risks to overall financial stability”

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A new report released by the Bank of Canada (BoC), the country’s financial authority, launched the latest warning against Bitcoin: according to the document, the widespread adoption of the world’s most famous cryptocurrency could undermine the stability of the current financial system. The authors of the report, entitled “Understanding Platform Based Digital Currencies”, believe “there could be…

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Colored Coins Come to Life in CoinPrism & Open Assets

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May 13, 2014 (Dublin, Ireland) – The Irish company who released the prediction market Predictious last year is now unveiling their brand new colored coins wallet Coinprism, as well as the Open Assets protocol (http://openassets.org). Open Assets is a new generation Crypto-protocol based on Bitcoin. At the core, Open Assets is simply an implementation of the…

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First Bitcoin Exchange to Accept Gold

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Plenty of gold dealers accept Bitcoin, but early this month, QuadrigaCX became the first Bitcoin exchange to add gold to its roster. Alongside CAD, USD and XBT, clients in Canada can now buy and sell XAU (gold). Users can now both deposit and withdraw funds into their accounts via gold bullion, shipped or in person.…

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