Soon, Yelp Will Help You Find Businesses That Accept Bitcoin: Airbitz Does It Now
Is your business one that accepts Bitcoin? Starting in early April, Redditors started to notice that certain Yelp businesses around the country were starting to show “Accepts Bitcoin” on their Yelp pages. Even more fascinating to the Bitcoin community, at the time, was the fact that Yelp seemed to have been the ones to provide this option for restaurants. Yelp is currently in the process of creating a searchable directory of Bitcoin businesses around the world. Currently, businesses that are updating their Yelp page will have a new check box to check under Business Information: Accepts....
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Airbitz, a hosted wallet service, has launched their new mobile wallet for Android and IOS. The Airbitz mobile wallet has several features that are unique to Airbitz. The wallet itself features a built in business directory of brick and mortar stores and online websites that accept Bitcoin. The app has a directory tab which will display the location and current distance away from all business that accept Bitcoin in the user's area. The app also allows users to filter the directory by business type. Businesses can list their store/website on the Airbitz website free of charge. By....
Noted technologist and Blockchain chief security officer Andreas Antonopoulos took to reddit today to kickstart a campaign to create an alternative to the "We Accept Bitcoin" signs popularly displayed by merchants. The proposal was prompted by Yelp's decision to highlight bitcoin merchants, and follows its introduction of a new attribute for its business profiles earlier this week. This update now allows merchants to advertise that they accept bitcoin to site users. Antonopoulos' plan calls for the creation of a new graphic design that would incorporate both the traditional "People Like us....
If you follow the Bitcoin subreddit on social sharing website Reddit.com, you may or may not have come across an interesting post this morning. In short, it would appear as if Yelp (a business review site, if you live under a rock) now allows business owners to specify whether or not a business accepts bitcoin. The image provided by the submitted clearly shows a "Accepts Bitcoin" yes/no option directly below the "Accepts Credit Cards" option in the back-end options. This reflects on the business's page under the "More business info" section on the left (see here for an example). Update:....
The San Diego-based wallet company Airbitz has just announced the release of its Bitcoin wallet Plugin API for third party applications and services within the industry. Airbitz Plugin API Brings Bitcoin to 3rd Party Apps. Airbitz says they have been hard at work with Airbitz SDK integrations, Glidera implementations, Edge Security partnerships, and now....