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Bitcoin Cash Register Surpasses 10,000 Installs and BCH is Coming to Brave in Weekly Video Update

Bitcoin Cash Register has surpassed 10,000 installs on the Google Play Store, live streaming platform Twitch reinstates cryptocurrency payments and BCH is coming to the Brave web browser. Watch these and other developments discussed in this week’s video update on Bitcoin.com’s Youtube channel. Also Read: Over 22,000 Traders Have Now Signed up to Local.Bitcoin.com Twitch Reenables Cryptocurrency Payments Twitch is a video streaming platform owned by Amazon with more than 15 million unique daily visitors who mainly use it for watching live gaming and esports. Earlier this year, the website stopped accepting cryptocurrency payments by removing support for Bitpay. However, recently Twitch users have reported that the option to pay with bitcoin cash ( BCH ) and bitcoin core ( BTC ) is available once again. Speaking about Bitpay, the leading cryptocurrency payment processor has launched a new directory for anyone who is looking for recommended places to spend their BCH or BTC . The ...

How to Pay Employees or Get Paid With Bitcoin

Paying or getting paid with digital coins is the norm in the cryptocurrency sector. Participants in many other industries, however, may also be tempted to take advantage of the benefits offered by decentralized currencies. In the case of bitcoin cash ( BCH ), that means fast, secure and low-cost transactions. Some platforms facilitate crypto payments between companies and their employees, while peer-to-peer settlements remain a viable option as well. Also read: BCH Can Be the Global Coin for Daily Spending, Says Italian Crypto Executive Crypto Payroll Services Offered Businesses exploring the possibility of introducing crypto payments for their employees and contractors may need the help of companies that specialize in this type of accounting. Bitwage is a well-established platform that provides payroll and human resource services for this day and age, when the use of digital currencies in payments is growing rapidly around the world. Bitwage helps international companies pay t...

PR: Telcoin Partners With Vimo – Leading Vietnamese Mobile Wallet

This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material. Bitcoin.com is not responsible for or liable for any content, accuracy or quality within the press release. Telcoin partners with leading Vietnamese mobile wallet VIMO for international remittance. Partnership aims to introduce fastest, most affordable option for US$1B Canada-Vietnam remittance corridor. 26th June 2019 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Singapore and Hanoi, Vietnam — Telcoin Pte. Ltd., a fintech startup leveraging blockchain technology to facilitate high-speed, low-cost international remittances, today announced a partnership with Vimo Technology JSC, operator of leading Vietnamese digital wallet Vimo. Under the partnership, Telcoin users in Vietnam will soon be able to accept inbound international remittances from Canada (in CAD) and cash out to their Vimo digital wallet balance (in VND). Vimo has more than 1 million active wallets across Vi...

Why Bitcoiners Are Turning to Unschooling for Decentralized Education

Unschooling is an alternative education movement quickly gaining popularity and currency worldwide. Like Bitcoin, it is an individualist approach to an area of human action long thought to be established beyond question―education. Both cryptoeconomics and unschooling seek to provide autonomy to individuals, providing a return to logical, natural systems that value human life. Also read: How to Keep Bitcoin Cash Transactions Private What Is Unschooling? Unschooling is a buzzword popping up in random conversations, hashtagged heavily on social media, and a source of bewilderment for those who may know what ‘homeschooling’ is, but have never heard of this sister term. Unschooling. Unlearning. These sound on the surface like steps backward from the goals of centralized, compulsory education . And they are. The oft-misunderstood term was coined by late U.S. school teacher-turned-unschooling advocate John Holt. In 1964 Holt wrote How Children Fail , whose outlined methodologies and obs...

Keep Your Money and Passport Safe With Products You Can Buy With BCH

In this day and age, carrying your wallet, passport and mobile phone inside the inner pocket of your jacket is simply not enough to protect your assets. Thankfully, there’s a company called Tarriss which offers products designed to secure both your digital cash and personal data. It sells them for cryptocurrency and it takes bitcoin cash. Also read: Namecheap Lets You Buy a Domain and Host Your Website With Bitcoin Cash Tarriss Accepts Bitcoin Cash and Ships Globally Nowadays your electronic money and your digital identity are exposed to various invisible risks. You can be robbed, tracked and hacked remotely. Wireless technologies can provide third parties with unwarranted access to your most precious data. That’s why Tarriss , a company based in the Canadian city of Vancouver, has set out to develop protection for the money, documents and gadgets you’ll use while traveling, for example. It creates wireless signal blocking RFID and Faraday Cage products that safeguard your elect...

PR: Tokengen Makes Creating and Automating ICOs Free

This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material. Bitcoin.com is not responsible for or liable for any content, accuracy or quality within the press release. Sofia, Bulgaria, June 28th, 2019: Niquid Tech today announced the release of a new version of TokenGen , the company’s proprietary ICO automation tool. The new update features a re-structure of the pricing model, more specifically, a free basic plan. Previously, the company added a KYC solution by integrating TokenGen to work with the Civic decentralized identity ecosystem, available to projects using the Whitelistable Fundraiser feature. The main goal of the past few updates is to expose the lucrative ICO fundraising model to more individuals and companies as well as meeting the know-your-customer demands of modern token generation events. Additionally, TokenGen has also [partnered up with Bounty0x , as a way of providing a bounty program solu...

Koinex Exchange Shuts Down Ahead of Crypto Regulation

Another Indian crypto exchange has shut down permanently due to the banking restriction and regulatory delays. The exchange cites denials in payment services and a sharp decline in trading volume resulting from the recent news of a draft bill to ban cryptocurrencies. Also read: Indian Cryptocurrency Regulation Is Ready, Official Confirms Koinex Shuts Down Indian cryptocurrency exchange Koinex announced its shutdown Thursday. CEO Rahul Raj explained that “After months of uncertainty and disruption, we have regretfully decided to shut down all digital assets exchange services and operations today,” adding: The digital assets trading services will be permanently disabled on all our platforms at 2:00 PM IST on Thursday, June 27, 2019. All open orders after this deadline will be automatically cancelled and the funds will be returned to corresponding wallets. The exchange’s wallet service will continue to be functional but users are required to withdraw all funds from the platform b...

How to Keep Bitcoin Cash Transactions Private

There are many reasons to keep bitcoin cash transactions private and the top six ways to make them anonymous are outlined in a new video by Bitcoin.com. Meanwhile, the Financial Action Task Force has just released its global guidance for crypto assets, effectively calling on countries and crypto exchanges to strengthen their KYC measures. Also read: Indian Cryptocurrency Regulation Is Ready, Official Confirms Easy Ways to Keep Transactions Private There are many ways bitcoin cash users can keep their transactions private. Bitcoin.com has produced a new video outlining the top six easy ways to help crypto transactions become anonymous. One of the most common ways to increase privacy when transacting in cryptocurrencies is using peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms that do not require KYC information, such as the newly launched platform by Bitcoin.com. Over 22,000 people have signed up for Local.Bitcoin.com which “does not require you to identify yourself and you’re free to accept any of ...

Namecheap Lets You Buy a Domain and Host Your Website With Bitcoin Cash

Are you a cryptocurrency user looking to establish an online business, an internet community forum or even just create a fan page dedicated to your cat? Namecheap lets you buy a domain name and pay for hosting your website with bitcoin cash ( BCH ). Also Read: How to Cold Store Your Cryptocurrency for Safekeeping Namecheap Accepts Bitcoin Cash Namecheap is an American company founded in the year 2000 that provides services for registering, hosting and managing websites. With more than 11 million registered domain names as of June 2019, it is among the top three largest internet domain registration companies in the world. Namecheap supports making cryptocurrency payments via Bitpay which means it accepts both bitcoin cash ( BCH ) and bitcoin core ( BTC ). Besides a selection of domains, Namecheap also offers fully featured website hosting packages, WordPress hosting, SSL security certificates, Whois Guard privacy protection, email hosting, VPN services and more. And as its name im...

PR: Incent – A Crypto Rewards Platform

This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material. Bitcoin.com is not responsible for or liable for any content, accuracy or quality within the press release. Amid a surge in income-generating smartphone apps, Incent is making itself heard. The crypto rewards platform offers a unique opportunity for regular shoppers to earn a passive income. Crypto loyalty platform Incent is giving everyday consumers a new way to save as they spend, building a nest egg at a time when there are few good opportunities for regular investors. In the ten years since the Global Financial Crisis, Quantitative Easing has boosted housing and asset prices, the wealthy have prospered and inequality has increased – but ordinary people are struggling with increased debt and lower wages. Low interest rates offer poor returns, and less than half of milleninals have enough savings to last them just three months. Income-generating...

8 Irate Quotes From Officials Who Hate Facebook’s Digital Currency

The best thing about Facebook’s proposed digital currency isn’t its BTF consensus algorithm, account-based data model or single Merkle tree structure. No, the greatest thing about Libra has to be the triggered reactions from politicians and bankers who can sense the rug being pulled from under their feet, threatening their hegemony and upending their world view. Here are eight memorable quotes from incensed officials. Also read: Market Rebound Boosts Adoption of Cryptocurrencies for Payments Project Libra Has the Elite up in Arms “Big tech in finance: opportunities and risks,” a report by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS): Regulators need to ensure a level playing field between big techs and banks, taking into account big techs’ wide customer base, access to information and broad-ranging business models. Translation: “This isn’t fair!” Maxine Waters, chair of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee: It’s very important for [Facebook] to stop right now what t...