Apple Pay isn’t even here yet and, arguably, it’s already winning the war against bitcoin. Like the digital currency, Apple is disrupting the payments system, but people will probably use it more than they use bitcoin. Cupertino has carefully focused on three areas to make sure that happens: front-end experience, financial institutions, and merchants. Apple nailed the customer experience side. For starters, it rolled out … Continue reading Bitcoin News: Comparing Bitcoins and Apple Pay

Pakistani bitcoin exchange Urdubit launched today in an effort to facilitate greater adoption of the digital currency in the region. The launch aims to usher Pakistan into the wider bitcoin community, as its operators are bullish on the digital currency’s potential as a solution to greater geopolitical issues in the area. For now, Urdubit is focused on bringing liquidity to local bitcoin trading markets and … Continue reading Bitcoin News: Pakistan Launches First Bitcoin Exchange

A member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines has introduced a bill that would seek to create a government-backed “e-peso” that would serve as an official medium of exchange for domestic online payments. Introduced as part of the E-Peso Act of 2014, the payments tool would be considered legal tender for debt, taxes and goods and services, according to a report by The … Continue reading Bitcoin News: Bitcoin-Backed Money To Get A Big Boost From Philippine Government Bill

Latin America is widely believed to one of the markets that could most benefit from digital currency, as the region’s consumers and businesses have been afflicted by volatile government-backed currencies, capital controls and high remittance costs. Given these challenges, a small but passionate local bitcoin industry has emerged in Latin America, with the aim of giving local consumers access to both an alternative currency and … Continue reading Bitcoin Fails to Take Off At Peru Startup Challenge

The Bitcoin Foundation’s Financial Standards Working Group has shed new light on its priorities for the next six months, announcing it will attempt to standardise bitcoin’s code, currency symbol and subunits over that period. The group’s formal plan of action follows its first emergence as an unnamed standards committee this June, when a post on the Bitcoin Foundation community forum called for volunteers for the … Continue reading Bitcoin News: Bitcoin Symbol and Code to Be Standardised soon