Mycelium promises Bitcoin card with a brain
A group of Austrian developers recently demonstrated a mobile Bitcoin payment network that will serve as a precursor to a credit-card-sized, hardware-based bitcoin wallet. Shown at last weekend's Bitcoin 2013 conference, the mobile payment network -- called Mycelium -- is an attempt to make bitcoin transactions less technically challenging, and to enable them to happen (at least, for a little bit) without an internet connect . That might seem counterintuitive for a technology whose protocol relies on peer-to-peer communications, but CTO Alexander Vasylchenko has a plan. "It makes bitcoins....
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It seems the long-awaited Mycelium Card Network (MCN) is on the horizon. The organization’s website has had a major overhaul showing off its new product labeled the “cost efficient global distributed payment solution.” The offering is an issuance of mesh-networking cards. Mycelium explains: Mycelium has been involved with the cryptocurrency community for....
Today, Mycelium announced that their Local Trader App has successfully made it through Beta testing and is now ready for the general Bitcoin populace. Mycelium Local Trader App allows users to create geographically tied sell orders. You can choose an exchange rate from BitStamp or Coinbase or BTC-e, then set a percentage above that which you would like to sell your Bitcoins at. Mycelium Local Trader App users in the area will be able to see the sell listing, and the potential buyer and potential seller are able to communicate within the Mycelium Local Trader App. The communication between....
Mycelium, a well known bitcoin company providing mobile wallet and P2P exchange, has announced their long time awaited card. A useful feature for users is they don't need an internet connection when transacting among each other. “We launched the card product at the “CARTES SECURE CONNEXIONS” two weeks ago,” confirms Alexander Vasylchenko, CTO at Mycelium, for CoinTelegraph. It is the largest global event bringing together the key decision makers from around the world from the payments, identification and mobility ecosystem. The hub transfers information between the card and the distributed....
Today, Mycelium has announced the launch of an Indiegogo project for its Mycelium Entropy device. Mycelium Entropy is the newest addition to the Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet ecosystem, first announced at the Bitcoin2014 Conference in Amsterdam, and demonstrated at the Central Europe Bitcoin Expo in Viena, as well as the recent Bitcoin in the Beltway conference in Washington DC. Mycelium Entropy is a small, simple USB device that is designed specifically to generate paper wallets. All you do is plug it into a printer’s USB port, and the device uses specialized hardware to create a random number....
Bitcoin wallet vendor Mycelium has announced the release of their new Bitcoin wallet and the launch of its crowdsale. This announcement was posted on Reddit and states that the new wallet shall be simply called Mycelium. The announcement claims that the new wallet has been equipped with a plug in API that will allow anyone to integrate their own services and features directly into the wallet. Prior to this, companies whose services run on Mycelium were usually added to the platform by its developers. But according to this release, with the new API businesses and developers will be able to....