December 18, 2014
The Law Can Help – Or Hurt – Payments Innovation

The laws make it hard for payments players to innovate – but it doesn’t have to be that way. The rise of technological innovation in payments has been reciprocated with...

December 12, 2014
Circles, Blades And Windows

PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 52     This week’s bitcoin trivia: What software company now accepts bitcoin for purchases? That would be Microsoft. It was looking...

December 11, 2014
Bitcoin Wallet Security Issues Creates More Controversy

Bitcoin Wallet Provider Blockchain is in PR hot water. Again. Trouble began recently when the firm’s product lead got in a online verbal Reddit fight with Coinbase engineer, CoinDesk reported....

December 10, 2014
Bitcoins Reported Stolen After Blockchain.Info Security Update

The world’s most popular web-based Bitcoin wallet service, Blockchain.info, suffered a security lapse during a software update that affected hundreds of users, the service said in a blog post on...

December 10, 2014
2014 Hits And Misses – VC Style

As an end of year wrap-up, I thought I’d devote a few words to what the past year held for financial technology trends; a retrospective. Without further ado, some thoughts...

December 05, 2014
Purse – Finally A Reason To Use Bitcoin?

Bitcoin, and all blockchain-based currency, doesn’t lack for ways to be interesting. Given that it’s a technological marvel, an unceasing font of interesting headlines about the players who trade in...

December 05, 2014
Of Amazon Purses And Breaking Barriers

PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 51     Bitcoin is sitting around the same as it was before Thanksgiving at 367.21 from 357.64, according to the PYMNTS.com...

December 03, 2014
Fixing Global Payments’ $26 Trillion Problem

The global payments environment is increasingly crowded, even noisy. Next to Apple Pay, it’s a topic of conversation that’s all over the payments industry for obvious reasons – where there’s...

December 03, 2014
Beware Fraudulent Bitcoin Sites

Two websites pretending to be from the Bitcoin Foundation are trying to steal Bitcoin users’ cryptocurrency — and there may be more scammers out there, according to VentureBeat. The fraudulent...