Circle CEO: “Blockchain Will Sooner Disrupt The Mobile Payments Industry”
An exciting partnership between Barclays and Bitcoin exchange Circle could lead to a slew of new features and innovations in the digital payment industry. Moreover, this is very positive news for Bitcoin as well, as the European bank is letting Circle use their existing infrastructure to provide real-time conversion from GBP and EUR to Bitcoin, and vice versa. Circle – A New Era Of Bitcoin and Banking? Up until this point, very few banks have been keen on the concept of Bitcoin, although they all seem to see high value in the underpinning blockchain technology. In fact, consumers have had....
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Circle Chief Evangelist Anders Brownworth, who previously taught blockchain technology at MIT, gave a presentation on day two of the 2017 MIT Bitcoin Expo in which he mainly focused on what Circle has been working on for the past few months. Circle is a mobile payments application that aims to make sending money to anyone in the world as easy as sending them a message via their mobile phone. During his talk, Brownworth noted that although Circle dropped the ability to buy and sell bitcoin in their mobile application late last year, the company still uses Bitcoin in the background of their....
Circle has confirmed its mobile apps are US-only for the moment, but that international versions are "imminent" - along with support for more languages and currencies. Bitcoin-based consumer finance company Circle has released native apps for both iOS and Android platforms, aiming to bring as many features of its online platform as possible to the mobile world. Unlike other mobile bitcoin wallets out there, 'Circle for Bitcoin' integrates with banks and credit card accounts to allow both deposits and withdrawals. There are also the more familiar bitcoin wallet features like send and....
Touchless mobile payments are now available to select Circle users. The bitcoin wallet and payment service has integrated near-field communication (NFC), enabling users to transact with its Android App wherever bitcoin and NFC are accepted. Circle is a digital money platform that delivers streamlined, user-friendly functionality similar to that of traditional online payment tools like PayPal or Apple Pay, both key players in the fast-growing mobile payments movement. A growing number of developers in the digital currency space are looking to NFC to simplify and speed up secure payments.....
Following its implementation earlier this year and the exodus of some bitcoin companies from New York, the BitLicense framework granted its very first regulatory license to mobile payments company Circle this week. With this, Circle can now be able to offer its service that allows sending, receiving, and holding U. S. dollars and bitcoin. Circle Internet Financial Ltd. was founded by Jeremy Allaire two years ago and is backed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. It is now the first startup legally allowed to offer digital currency services in the state of New York. New York BitLicense Framework.....
Circle, one of the largest venture capital-backed Bitcoin startups in Europe, officially terminated its Bitcoin trading services and has launched a Bitcoin Blockchain-based remittance and messaging application to serve the unbanked. In a customer support briefing, the Circle team stated: “Now we’re making payments more social than ever and diving headfirst into next-gen Blockchain technology, rather than the buying and selling of Bitcoin itself.” Moving from Bitcoin trading to next-gen technology. In a blog post entitled “Spark, New Markets, App Messaging, and Bitcoin Changes,” Circle CEO....