Five Reasons for Businesses to Start Accepting Bitcoin
This post first appeared on the Entrepreneur. An estimated 80,000 businesses already accept Bitcoin today, and not just as a marketing gimmick. Why not yours? Forward-thinking merchants of all sizes around the world are glomming onto the hot Bitcoin payments trend,…
A Talk with Bit n Mortar: The Bitcoin Interview TV Show
What do a barbecue joint in Los Angeles, a bakery in San Diego, and a ‘prepare for the zombie apocalypse’ store in Las Vegas have in common? Two things, really: They all accept Bitcoin and they have all been featured…
What Bitcoin Can Do For Us
There are 7 billion people on the Earth, producing tons of waste every day. With overflowing landfills, fouled lakes, and oceans covered in a fine patina of plastic, there is an increasing sense of urgency that something has to be…
A Talk with Safir Cu of Coinvoy: Developing the Next Generation of Bitcoin Businesses
In January of 2014 there were a number of articles claiming that this was to be the year of adoption. We are now in September, and it’s starting to look like that is just one of those predictions that didn’t…
Five Things to Know About Bitcoin
By Matt Branton of Brantonbits.com 1. Bitcoin is like the Internet Remember the Internet in 1990? Nerdy, confusing, and with just a hint of danger? Many couldn’t understand what it was, or why anyone would ever want to use it…
PayPal Exec Unwittingly Makes the Case for Bitcoin
By Mark Norton: Editor @ BitcoinWarrior.net Patrick Gauthier, General Manager of Emerging Retail Services at PayPal published an interesting article on Pymnts.com yesterday. It was a good read, talking about the progress of technology and the sometimes unexpected turns it…
The Reason for Bitcoin: Creative Disruption in Hope of a Better World
By Mark Norton: Editor @ BitcoinWarrior.net I recently had a discussion with one of the contributors to this site about the fact that I sometimes post economic content rather than focusing on the main goal of the site, promoting Bitcoin…
A Talk with Ageesen Sri of SecuraCoin
By Mark Norton: Editor @ BitcionWarrior.net One of the biggest pain points for people when they want to use Bitcoin is simply how to get them into their hands. The days of having to wire money overseas to exchanges run…
A Talk with Matt Branton of CoinLock
By Mark Norton: Editor @ BitcoinWarrior.net 08/27/2014 There is always a lot of discussion about what Bitcoin’s ‘killer app’ is going to be and when it’s going to appear on the scene. For the last couple of years, it’s seemed…
The Chamber of Digital Commerce Comments on the BitLicense Extension
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Chamber of Digital Commerce (“Digital Chamber”) applauds the New York Department of Financial Service’s (DFS) decision to extend the comment period for the proposed “BitLicense” regulations for virtual currency firms. The Digital Chamber, through a series…