Latin American Payment App Mercado Pago Can Be Topped-Up With Crypto

The Atlanta-based blockchain payment provider Bitpay has announced the firm has partnered with Mercado Livre, one of the largest ecommerce providers in Latin America. The collaboration provides people with the ability to purchase Mercado Livre gift cards with cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin cash (BCH), and BTC. Also read: Crypto Terminals Offer Venezuelans a Bridge to … Read more

Mobile Gifting Platform Swych Announces Cryptocurrency Support

On Feb. 15, the Dallas-based mobile gifting company Swych announced it will be accepting cryptocurrencies for payments. Starting next week, instead of using traditional payment processors, Swych users will be able to pay using decentralized digital assets such as BCH, LTC, ETH, BTC, and ETC. Also Read: Bitcoin’s Social Contract Must Be Resilient to the Whims … Read more

A Look at Openbazaar’s Multi-Currency Wallet and Vendor Listings

On Jan. 17, the blockchain and cryptocurrency company OB1 released Openbazaar version 2.3 which provides users with the ability to use a multi-currency wallet within the marketplace. Since then, there’s been a large number of added listings and an increased amount of people trading cryptocurrencies in a peer-to-peer fashion. Also read: Inspired by Unwriter’s Apps, BCH … Read more

Etoro Will Give Dollar Equivalent of BSV to Pre-Fork Bitcoin Cash Holders

Holders of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) at social trading and multi-asset brokerage platform Etoro will now be compensated with a fiat cash amount of BSV corresponding to their pre-fork holdings. The decision comes six weeks after the contentious hard fork took place. Also read: 50% of Chinese Stock Exchange Companies Investigated Fail to Demonstrate Real Applications for … Read more

Crypto Price Watch: Market Slump Continues as XRP, ETH, XLM See Red

After it appeared as though a few early signs of recovery were beginning to set in for Bitcoin, the price of the premier crypto asset once again plunged below the $4,000 mark early today morning (after having scaled back to a somewhat respectable price point of around $4,300). In regards to this price movement, Michael … Read more

China-Based Crypto Exchange Coinex Pays Interest in BCH

Crypto exchange Coinex will pay out long-term dividends, interest, in bitcoin cash (BCH) for coinex token (CET) holders, according to its website announcement. “If your CET holdings are on Coinex, we’ll calculate the dividends into BCH and allocate directly to your accounts,” the company explained. Also read: Bitcoin Cash Speaker Series II Brings Leading Bitcoiners … Read more

Under the Tent: A Look at the Latest Openbazaar Marketplace Software

Back in April of 2016 news.Bitcoin.com reviewed the Openbazaar platform the first day the marketplace launched. Since then the application has come a long way with many updates, new features, and the platform most definitely has more users. This week we decided to give the Openbazaar 2.2.5 client a test run and see how much … Read more

How to Install a Bitcoin.com Wallet for iOS Smartphones

Using cryptocurrency is the best way to understand cryptocurrency. One quick entrance into the ecosystem is to download an electronic “wallet” onto a smartphone. From there, Bitcoin.com Wallet users can then take it to what’s known as a faucet in order to receive some bitcoin cash (BCH) free and easy. Also read: Colombia Crypto Exchange … Read more

Bitpay and BTC.com Team: 1 Million Users Gain Access to $1 Billion Merchant Market

BTC.com has . announced its wallet will enable Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 70 (BIP-70) for payment transactions, which is especially helpful between customers and merchants, becoming an industry standard of sorts. The wallet has more than one million users, and with BIP-70 they will be able to buy products from popular processing platform Bitpay, which has … Read more

China During Crypto Ban: One Woman Tries to Live on Bitcoin

Close to being yet another annoyingly false media piece on how ‘hard’ it is to live on cryptocurrency, the Netflix of China, Iqiyi, followed a woman attempting just that for 21 days. Bitcoiners have been doing so for years through various service providers, exchanges, and, yes, even peer-to-peer, yet the clearly untrue ‘hard’ narrative is … Read more