Bitcoin Powers New Worldwide Cellphone Top-Up Service
Mobile payments pioneer mHITs has entered the bitcoin space with a platform it claims is the "easiest way" to send phone credit across borders. The new service, BitMoby, lets users transfer between $10 and $100 to mobiles in over 117 different countries, without the need to register. MHITs, founded in 2004, offers a range of mobile money services to customers in Australia and beyond. Speaking to CoinDesk, CEO Harold Dimpel said the project is a chance for his company to experiment with digital currency, while giving users a simple and fast experience that "simply cannot be achieved via....
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Startup 37Coins has created a universal bitcoin wallet that can be used on any cellphone, aiming to provide people around the globe with better access to financial resources. The service allows consumers to pay in bitcoin from any mobile device with SMS functionality via a 'gateway' in the user's country of origin. This means that the benefits of the digital currency can be accessible to people who arguably stand to benefit the most, like those in poorer regions of the developing world and areas without advanced communications infrastructure. As Jonathan Zobro, one of the company's....
After almost a month, the price of bitcoin is back up to $500. Are you doing a little happy dance? So are we! (Don't worry: it doesn't appear in the video). Check out some of the biggest headlines from last week leading up to the price rise. 37Coins plans SMS-based wallet: Startup 37Coins has created a universal bitcoin wallet that can be used on any cellphone. The service allows users to pay in bitcoin from any mobile device with SMS functionality via a 'gateway' in the user's country of origin. This news is a step in the right direction to deliver worldwide bitcoin access. FAC sees....
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The United Kingdom recently passed legislation providing the government with sweeping new surveillance powers on Internet activity, unprecedented in any Western democracy. The Investigatory Powers Bill will authorize the UK government’s mass surveillance program of online activity. This will mandate a record be kept for one year of every citizen’s Web activity, including phone metadata. All Internet service providers will be required to keep Internet connection records for their customers, and will be paid to do so by the government. Then, law enforcement will be able to request this....
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which handles cases involving Britain's intelligence agencies, ruled Friday that electronic mass surveillance of people's cellphone and online communications, like the Prism program revealed by Edward J. Snowden, is legal, The New York Times reports. "The 'Snowden revelations' in particular have led to the impression voiced in some quarters that the law in some way permits the intelligence services carte blanche to do what they will. We are satisfied that this is not the case." Also read: The Snowden Effect Continues. The decision came after a global....