BitPay, payment provider for Bitcoin digital currency, launched another innovative app with features for making payments, buying and storage. This is another addition to the collection of BitPay’s tools for merchant payment. At present, BitPay.com is a payment processor that helps merchants set up their own gateways for digital currency transactions. With this platform, business owners…

Blockchain is arguably one of the most promising technology innovations since the Internet emerged. It facilitates transactions and value exchanges without using middlemen, central authority or trust. Blockchain technology connects consumers and suppliers directly. It utilizes cryptography or codes to safeguard exchanges. There is a mainframe or digital journal, which in essence is a decentralized database,…

Microsoft has become very aggressive in its attempts to build a structure that depends on a specific blockchain called Ethereum. This is a computing platform based on blockchain that features smart contract function. It introduces a decentralized Ethereum Virtual Machine or EVM capable of implementing peer-to-peer (P2P) contracts. The crypto-currency used is Ether. Majority of Bitcoin…

Since Bitcoin was released and started gaining popularity, the market was filled with reports referring to how the price of traditional currencies could actually have an impact on the value of bitcoin. Such examples of bitcoin volatility being influenced by the changes in value of fiat have been observed in the past, and the Chinese…

Ethereum has been around for a while, and during this period of time, it has managed to grow and change the world of smart contracts tremendously. All of this wouldn’t have been possible without the help of Ether, which is basically a fuel, or form of payment, needed to operate the distributed application platform known…

While Bitcoin's price is quite erratic indeed, the coin does occasionally go down and up- and it seems that today is one of the days where it is going to go up. After a long period of stagnating and slowly falling prices, bitcoin seems to have regained its groove and has quickly ascended to the high…

A few months ago, due to growing unrest because of the DAO attack, the Ethereum team made a compromise by creating a hard fork, one with the DAO hacker's Ethereum on it, and the other without, and thus creating Ethereum and Ethereum Classic, with the latter holding the hacker's tokens. While most of the Ethereum community…

During the last couple of years, Bitcoin has managed to evolve from a simple digital currency, to a powerful trading mechanism that anyone who is looking for a way to make some extra money can employ. While starting to trade digital currencies may seem scary at first, the truth is that it is quite easy,…

During the last couple of years, Bitcoin has managed to grow considerably, and this is totally understandable given the large number of start-ups and investments made in this niche. However, Bitcoin's underlying network is also quickly gaining ground. For those who do not know,  the blockchain represents a ledger consisting of all legitimate transactions that have…

Bitcoin exchanges and just cryptocurrency exchanges in general are an integral part of how bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies got the exposure and the trading volume that they have today, so it's good to understand how they work and how to use them. Even if you're just new to crypto or haven't heard of exchanges yet, they're…