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Jun
24

Crash course on trading Bitcoins in general and in Australia

Here’s a quick and simple guide to how you can engage in cryptocurrency trading in Australia.

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May
07

How to accept Bitcoin as a payment method

Do you have an online business? Do you already accept Bitcoin as a payment method? If not, you definitely should start as soon as possible to avoid losing potential customers.

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Apr
16

WP Hosting Customer Spotlight: Amber

WP Hosting spoke to Ryan Neale of Amber, a startup helping people prepare for a world where assets and currencies have become digital. Amber is an app that lets you swap your spare change for Bitcoin and other digital assets. It doesn’t have to be a big investment either as you can commit as little as 50c a day. As Amber describe it; “the spare change from each of your transactions is automatically converted into Bitcoin and Ethereum — like a digital piggy bank.” Amber was founded exactly a year ago by Aleksandar Svetski and Chantelle de la Rey and are headquartered in Brisbane.  A quick intro: who are you […]
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Apr
02

What are the potential uses for emerging blockchain technologies?

When you say the word “blockchain” most people jump instantly to cryptocurrencies, but this is just one of the many uses for the new technology. Blockchain isn’t just a form of online currency, but in fact is a security and information storage system with a number of potential applications that are encouraged by incubator companies such as Block8. What is blockchain? A blockchain is a list of linked records (like blocks in a chain) that are linked through cryptography. A block cannot be modified, however new blocks can be added to the chain with new information. The chain thus contains a record of all modifications that have been made to […]

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Apr
01

Sending money overseas with Bitcoin

Bitcoin has a lot of uses in real life. It makes payments much easier by allowing people to pay from anywhere in the world. In that sense, it also helps the e-commerce industry. It allows business owners to expand their market reach and add another mode of payment. Another real-life use is Bitcoin’s ability to preserve wealth. Countries with struggling economies can use bitcoin to preserve the value of their native currencies. With all those real-life uses, we have yet to mention the one that stands out the most: remittances. According to a report on Clovr, cryptocurrencies take 15.8% of the total money being sent across the world in 2018. […]

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Mar
29

What impact could Facebook’s digital currency have on the financial industry?

According to a New York Times report we have recently covered, Facebook is on pace to issue its own digital currency in the next few months. Prompted by its rivals, especially Telegram, which managed to raise a whopping $1.7 billion in its ICO campaign, the effort Facebook has put towards creating its own cryptocurrency could have a substantial impact on global commerce. In this article, we are going to discuss the primary reasons why Facebook’s digital currency could lead to a revolution in e-commerce, what advantages Facebook has over the competition in the payment processing space, and the likelihood of Facebook solving the huge remittance problem workers and employees are facing around the […]

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Mar
19

Novatti joins IBM World Wire network as a foundation member

Novatti Group Limited (ASX: NOV) announces it will join IBM Blockchain World Wire1, a real-time global payments network for regulated financial institutions such as Novatti’s subsidiary Flexewallet Pty Ltd. IBM World Wire is designed to optimize and accelerate foreign exchange and remittance services through a New Cross-Border Payments Network Supporting Real Time Payments and Foreign Exchange on the Stellar Protocol. By connecting to the World Wire network, Novatti now has access to a single unified network for foreign exchange and cross-border payments clearing and settlement built on blockchain technology and the Stellar public protocol. This will allow Novatti to offer clients the ability to conduct transactions across additional currencies and […]

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Mar
11

Why to accept Bitcoin as a payment method

By Josh Lehman, Co-Founder of Digital Surge It has been more than a decade since Satoshi Nakamoto published the original Bitcoin whitepaper and single-handedly disrupted our financial landscape, changing the way we send and receive money. Today, Bitcoin is no longer a niche interest of a handful of early adopters but a legitimate payment method that’s accepted by some of the largest companies in the world, including Overstock, Microsoft, Namecheap, ExpressVPN, Shopify, and Newegg, just to name a few. Even though Bitcoin and the entire cryptocurrency space may seem confusing and difficult to get into, the fact is that you don’t need to be an expert to start accepting Bitcoin […]

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