Just this morning, BitPay, Inc announced it’s newest merchant, Gyft. Gyft, a mobile gift card platform, added support for Bitcoin purchases of gift cards on the Android platform, through its partnership with BitPay Inc, the world’s leading payment processor for Bitcoin. Gyft offers a ...
Conformal , a company focused on building open-source software for privacy and security, has revealed their latest project: btcd, a full Bitcoin reimplementation in Google’s programming language Go . The implementation is not yet entirely done, but most core features such as transacti...
After reaching $20 Billion in mobile transactions, PayPal President appeared on Bloomberg TV’s “The Pulse,” with Guy Johnson to discuss mobile security and share his thoughts on the Bitcoin currency. This morning, PayPal President, David Marcus, expressed his fascination with Bitcoin ...
What had happened was the following. The latest version 0.8 release of bitcoind, by far the most popular implementation of Bitcoin used by miners, switched the database that it used to store blocks and transactions from BerkeleyDB to the more efficient LevelDB as part of an effort to ...
However, Kahle reminds us, the Internet Archive is a nonprofit organization, and relies heavily on donations to keep its services running. Those who support what the Internet Archive is doing and wish to see it continue to preserve and digitize even more content, as well as those who ...
Photo: Wallstreet Charging Bull, CC BY 2.0 herval , Flickr A venture capitalist backed Bitcoin company wants to make it safe for U.S. and Canadian investors to do large block trades of Bitcoins and keep them ultra-secure from loss. Coinlab has worked for a year to sign an exclusive lo...
Finally, we also have another development in Bitcoin security, this time coming from within the existing Bitcoin community: BIPS . The new merchant platform from WalletBit includes a number of upgrades, including significant improvements in usability and, in some cases, lower fees tha...
