mHITs Explores Bitcoin with New Mobile Service
As part of their exploration of the crypto-currency, Bitcoin, mHITs, an Australian payments company, has launched a new pre-paid mobile minutes top-up service, called BitMoby, exclusively available for bitcoin. According to mHITs’ press release, BitMoby is part of the company’s efforts to explore what is possible with crypto-currency. “BitMoby is an example of how digital currencies such as Bitcoin can be used to demonstrate a highly efficient integrated transaction process where the payment instruction itself can uniquely identify the transaction and incorporate payment information,”....
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