Customers will now be able to pay for Amazon purchases using Bitcoin through Bitcoin wallet iPayYou’s Amazon Direct service... More
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Swiss railway to sell Bitcoin at 1,000 ticket machines
Swiss commuters will soon be able to buy Bitcoin at more than 1,000 ticket machines belonging to the country’s national railway service SBB from November 11, under a deal between SBB and payment and distribution services provider SweePay... More
Blockchain NFC start-up focuses on expansion after $10m funding
Canadian payments start-up NanoPay has completed a US$10m Series A funding round... More
Blockchain authentication for mobile transactions
South Korea’s KB Kookmin Card is working with Bitcoin exchange service startup Coinplug to release a blockchain-based personal authentication service for mobile transactions next month, Pulse reports... More
Coinbase rolls out in Australia
Bitcoin wallet Coinbase has expanded into Australia... More
Bitcoin transactions to exceed $92bn in 2016
The total value of Bitcoin transactions is expected to exceed US$92bn this year, up from less than $27bn in 2015, Juniper Research predicts... More
Coinbase adds PayPal and credit card support
Bitcoin wallet Coinbase has added support for PayPal and credit cards... More
BitPay launches BitPay Visa card
Bitcoin payment gateway BitPay has launched the BitPay Visa Card, a debit card that will let US consumers make payments with the virtual currency wherever Visa is accepted and make ATM withdrawals... More
Shake enables Bitcoin payments using NFC
Bitcoin wallet provider Shake has introduced the first version of its app to let consumers make everyday purchases using the virtual currency with a tap of their NFC device at any contactless terminal... More
Mike Tyson puts weight behind Bitcoin
Boxing hero Mike Tyson has teamed up with Bitcoin Direct and BitPay to launch the Mike Tyson Digital Wallet... More
16bn biometric mobile payments will be made by 2020
More than 16bn mobile biometric payment transactions will be made and more than 1.1bn financial services customers will be using mobile biometrics by 2020, research from Goode Intelligence predicts... More
Coinbase ships Bitcoin debit card
Bitcoin wallet Coinbase and Shift Payments have introduced a US-issued Bitcoin-backed debit card that will allow Coinbase users in 24 states to make payments using the virtual currency both online and in-store... More
Startup unveils Bitcoin mobile wallet with NFC
Startup Plutus is inviting consumers to take part in the alpha release of a Bitcoin mobile wallet that allows POS transactions via NFC... More
Ingenico integrates Bitcoin mobile payments into POS terminals
Bitcoin payment gateway BitPay has announced a new integration with point-of-sale terminal maker Ingenico that will allow consumers to use the virtual currency to make mobile payments at “thousands of retailer terminals worldwide”... More
OneBit tests Bitcoin payments via NFC
Bitcoin mobile wallet provider OneBit has begun alpha testing its mobile payment service which works via NFC at the point of sale wherever MasterCard is accepted... More
Braintree integrates Android Pay into v.zero SDK
PayPal-owned payment processor Braintree has integrated support for Android Pay into its v.zero SDK to make it easier for merchants to add support for the payment solution as a checkout option inside their Android apps... More
Europeans back banks for mobile payments
Some 185m Europeans will use a mobile payment app this year, up 51% on 2014, a survey of 14,000 consumers for ING has revealed, and respondents say they are far more likely to use apps associated with their bank for mobile payments (59%) over ‘named groups’ such as Apple or Google (39%)... More
Bank of England ponders own digital currency
The Bank of England is consulting external experts on research designed to help set future policy which includes considering the effects of issuing its own Bitcoin-like digital currency... More
Pey equips merchants with Bitcoin POS terminals that support iBeacon, QR and NFC
Fifty merchants in the German city of Hannover have signed up to accept Bitcoin payments using a terminal supplied by startup Pey, that uses a combination of iBeacon, QR code and NFC technology. More
The future of mobile payments at CES: Video now available
The key to mass market adoption of mobile payments will be the creation of a compelling consumer experience that incorporates both payments and value added services, the Future of Mobile Payments session at the International CES 2015, chaired by NFC World’s Sarah Clark, has found. More