Have you ever heard the term ‘timebank’ before? What about ‘timebanking’? If not, no worries, you are not alone.
From Bitcoin Wallets to Time Wallets: A Community-Focused Currency FinTech Digest: Bitcoin Transactions In Cuba, The Debut Of Coin 2.0, Coinbase Tests New Service In Europe The U.S. and Cuba transact in bitcoin, Coin (the all-in-one credit card) has revealed the second iteration of its card, Coinbase allows users to purchase bitcoin with debit and credit cards, and more top stories from this week in FinTech.
E-Coin Founders Talk Bitcoin Debit Cards and 50% Monthly User Growth Cointelegraph spoke with E-coin founders Pavel Matveev and Dmitry Lazarichev about competition in the bitcoin debit card market, the importance of multi-sig security, and crowd investment with BnkToTheFuture.
FinTech Digest: 25 FinTech Unicorns Ranked; Andreessen Horowitz Adds New General Partner Business Insider ranks 25 FinTech companies worth over US$1 billion; Bitnet and PAY.ON join forces and more top stories from this week in FinTech.
Bitcoin, Visa, And The Hybrid Cryptocurrency Debit Card E-coin is looking to position itself as the most useful and comfortable tool for spending bitcoin anywhere in the world with the rollout of their cypto debit cards.
Vaultoro Goes BnkToTheFuture for Crowd Investment Vaultoro, a “Banking 2.0 platform” that enables users to trade bitcoin and physically assigned gold, is ready to share in its growth.
FinTech Digest: Twitter Partners With Shopify; Insurance Gets Introduced To FinTech; BitPay Powers 60% Of Bitcoin Merchants Shopify and Twitter partner for social commerce; the insurance industry appears to be next in line for some disruptive innovation; 60% of the world’s Bitcoin merchants use BitPay, and more top news
CoinDaddy & The Rise Of Asset Vending Machines Counterparty and Dogeparty are similar protocols built on top of Bitcoin and Dogecoin blockchains, the function of which is to allow any individual user to issue his own store of value or token.
FinTech Digest: iwoca Raises £20 Million; ING Launches Voice-Activated Payments; Visa Europe Searches For Bitcoin Startups London’s FinTech scene continues to boom as startup iwoca raises £20 Million; ING Netherlands has rolled voice-activated payments within its mobile banking app; and more news
FinTech Digest: Number 26 Predicts FinTech Future, Former Google Exec Launches ClearScore, ‘The Young Turks’ Accepts Bitcoin Number 26 predicts the financial ecosystem that will replace banks, “TYT” dips its toes into Bitcoin, and other news.
FinTech Digest: Samsung Pay Launches Trial Service, BLender Raises $5M, Bitcoin Transactions Up Over 500% in Latin America South Koreans get a first look at Samsung’s new mobile payment solution, P2P lending company BLender secures new funding and more top stories from this week in FinTech.
FinTech Digest: Amex Has a Checkout Service, London Startup Funding Sets Record, Greek Island Explores Digital Currency American Express rolls out a new online checkout service, FinTech is the reason for record hikes in venture capital flooding into the London startup scene, and more FinTech news
FinTech Digest: Apple Seeks to Patent P2P Payments, ClearScore Makes Credit Scores Free, PayPal Acquires Xoom for Nearly $1B Apple has applied for a patent that would enable the transfer of money between iPhones, PayPal spends a boatload on Xoom, and more top stories from this week in FinTech.
FinTech Digest: Alibaba Enters Into Online Lending, Credit Karma Has $3.5B Valuation, Mobile-Only Banking Application Receives License Alibaba and Chinese banks do battle over online lending, Credit Karma secures new funding to expand its service as it looks to become the default for consumers’ complete financial identity, and more news
FinTech Digest: Emojis Replace Pin Codes, Bond Street Raises $110M, and Future of FinTech Is in Asia and Africa British company Intelligent Environments wants to secure your banking information with emojis; online small business lender, Bond Street, secures new funding; and more news
FinTech Digest: Crowdfunding Set to Surpass VC, ANZ Integrates Contactless Payment, Verifone Partners with Ericsson Crowdfunding may surpass venture capital next year, Australian bank ANZ integrates contactless payments, Verifone partners with Ericsson, and other top stories from the past week in FinTech.
FinTech Digest: BitLicense Released, Dwolla Drops Transaction Fee, No Samsung Pay Until September FinTech Digest from Cointelegraph
FinTech Digest: Android Pay Arrives, CBA Integrates Ripple, Bitcoin ATMs Hit Milestone FinTech Digest from Cointelegraph: Google is taking another shot at mobile payments, Commonwealth Bank of Australia to Integrate Ripple for Instant Settlements.
Eliminating High Frequency Trading and Creating ‘Fairer’ Markets Cryptocurrency exchange PS Coin rebrands as Laissez Faire as it continues its mission to correctly incentivize trading.
FinTech Digest: Clinkle Implodes, Stripe Valued At $5B, Square Opens in Australia FinTech Digest from Cointelegraph
The Rising Wave of Crypto Two-Factor Authentication Bitcoiners are a particular breed of human. They like their private keys kept in a safe place, and they are more than likely to enable privacy settings on their Facebook account.
Tokenized Mobile Gaming: Spells of Genesis & BitCrystals EverDreamSoft has committed to building a new game they view as “transforming the free-to-play genre.” And they're planning to use Counterparty assets to fund development.