One of the biggest concerns about PayPal’s rapidly approaching integration with bitcoin-based payments has been liquidity. The eBay-owned payment processing giant handled around $180 billion in transactions last year, roughly 30 times bitcoin’s total market cap. If PayPal aims to bring bitcoin payments to the masses, even a relative giant in the space, like Coinbase,…
Arizona-based wireless point-of-sale technology company Apriva announced today that it has partnered with Singapore-based cryptocurrency payment processor GoCoin, bringing bitcoin, litecoin and dogecoin payments to their network of over 1,000 merchant partners. The move follows GoCoin’s recent launch of an SMS-based digital currency payment gateway and a new partnership with low-cost, prepaid phone service provider…
Earlier this week, cryptocurrency-based payment system GoCoin launched a new payment system allowing merchants to initiate digital currency payments via SMS or email. The “Click-to-Bill” system, outlined in an article on CoinDesk, is currently aimed at the pre-paid phone market, and will allow customers to easily top-up bitcoin, litecoin and dogecoin-connected accounts without the need…
The venture capital world has been spreading their money around the bitcoin ecosystem in a big way this week. While much the attention is understandably going to the $17 million raised by Circle, two smaller VC investments may have even bigger impacts in the coming months. San Francisco-based bitcoin exchange Kraken has raised $5 million…