Tag: Wired

Apple declares war on Bitcoin, but it’s a war that it’s destined to lose

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Apple is now officially an enemy of Bitcoin. The world’s most valuable company has just launched another salvo in its war against the cryptocurrency, banning the popular Bitcoin wallet Blockchain from its app store without giving any clear reason why, according to a report in Wired.com. With blockchain no longer available on the app store, […]

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PayPal Believes in Bitcoin

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PayPal president David Marcus is trying to make nice with bitcoin, the digital currency that could ultimately become a big competitor to his company’s massively popular online payments service. Today, on Twitter, he said the folks at PayPal are in fact “believers” in bitcoin and that the company supports the sale of bitcoin mining rigs, […]

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Huobi is the new Bitcoin king of China

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After crackdown, a new Bitcoin king emerges in China. Meanwhile, China’s two other big exchanges — Huobi and OKCoin — are bypassing payment processors by letting users wire money directly into exchange bank accounts, says Scott Freeman, a China-based entrepreneur who is also a Bitcoin investor. That’s a slower process, but he says that since […]

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