KnC Teams Up With Chicago Sun-Times to Launch New, Pre-Loaded Bitcoin Wallet
Stockholm-based KnC, a name synonymous with bitcoin mining products, is teaming up with the Chicago Sun-Times to launch a new bitcoin wallet for the Android mobile operating system this week. Aptly named the KnCWallet (Google Play link), the wallet integrates with a user's phone contacts in order to make sending bitcoin a breeze. And as part of the launch of the wallet, the first 5,000 downloads will get $5 in bitcoin at Monday's exchange rate, and the subsequent 95,000 downloads will receive the equivalent of $1 in bitcoin, according to information we've received. KnC has wrapped four....
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Mining hardware maker KnCMiner has launched its first bitcoin wallet, with an interesting twist. As part of the launch, the first 96,000 downloads will be awarded with a few bucks to spend. The KnC Bitcoin Wallet app is available on the Google Play Store and it's free. Needless to say, there's no app for iOS or Windows Phone. The wallets are pre-funded and it appears that the first 1,000 downloads will be awarded with $5 each, while the next 95,000 wallets will get $1 each (at the current BTC/USD exchange rate). Bitcoin wallets for the masses. In order to appeal to a wider audience, KnC....
Chicago Sun Times seems to be embracing Bitcoin. The paper began taking bitcoin for subscriptions last month. A month in which 11% of their new sign-ups were paid for in bitcoin. The paper is going to be running ads with QR codes that will allow its readers to use bitcoin to buy products directly. The first test of this is new technology and the ads being placed in the paper will be a co-venture with a local ticket broker for tickets to a Jay-Z and Beyonce show at Soldier Field in Chicago this summer. “As newspapermen ourselves, we take special interest in the things that the group over at....
Readers who visit the Chicago Sun-Times today will notice something they aren't likely to have seen before: a bitcoin paywall separating them from their content. The Chicago Sun-Times is the ninth-largest newspaper in the United States, and the first major US publication to trial a bitcoin paywall. Instead of paying for a subscription, as patrons of the The Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times do, Chicago Sun-Times readers who visit the site on 1st February will be asked to donate bitcoin payments to the Taproot Foundation, or tweet about the nonprofit, in order to read articles. The....
Bitcoin paywall provider BitWall is partnering with the Chicago Sun-Times to conduct a 24-hour bitcoin paywall test. The experiment, the first of its kind for a major US publication, will happen on the Sun-Times website on 1st February. Readers accessing articles during this time will see an overlay "wall" before accessing an article. They will be given the option to pay to see the article with bitcoin, or to tweet the story for access. "We continue to experiment and test new technologies that we believe engage our readers and look forward to being the first major USA newspaper to test a....
The Chicago Sun-Times became the first major newspaper to accept bitcoin in early April and it appears this news has already translated into sales for the US publication. The paper told newsBTC that around 11.3% of new orders over the past week were paid for in bitcoin. The Chicago Sun-Times claims it usually receives a few dozen subscription orders per week. This week the paper got 62 orders: 23 were placed online using a credit card, 32 came from the paper's call centre, while seven were paid for in bitcoin. Surprised by demand. Keep in mind that these are figures for the first week of....