CoinJar Launches Bitcoin Donation Drive for Teen Entrepreneur
Australia-based bitcoin wallet and exchange service CoinJar has pledged nearly A$4,000 in bitcoin to a crowdfunding campaign started by young entrepreneur Madelaine Scott. The 19-year-old owner of Madelaine's Organic Eggs, based in Melbourne, Australia, is seeking to raise at least A$60,000 on Pozible to purchase an egg-grading and cleaning machine for her 900-plus flock of hens. In addition to the initial bitcoin donation, CoinJar has said that it will match any contributions made in the digital currency by its user base, up to an additional A$10,000. In a statement on its website, the....
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CoinJar is getting into the holiday spirit, or as they call it, “the bitcoin-giving spirit.” The personal finance startup is running the CoinJar Bitcoin Donation Showdown this Christmas season to help raise funds in support of two non-profit organizations. Dubbed ‘Puppies vs. Computers,’ the CoinJar team has created a friendly competition between two of their favorite Australian non-profits, PetRescue and Electronic Frontiers Australia. The two organizations will face off in an attempt see which one can raise the most bitcoin donations. The CoinJar Bitcoin Donation Showdown team is....
Admittedly, yes, it is a slow news day. Let's get that out of the way. But potentially of interest to our readers from the land down under is Australian bitcoin company CoinJar's new invite-a-friend program. It's exactly as it sounds: any CoinJar users who gets a friend signed up and 'identified' (which we assume to be verified), CoinJar will pay out $5 to each of the parties involved. The way it works, according to today's CoinJar blog post, involves the already-joined user heading up to the 'Filler' section of the CoinJar site where they would ordinarily go to buy bitcoin. In the lower....
CoinJar is set to begin a national trial of a bitcoin-to-debit card system called Swipe, which can be used to pay at any store that accepts electronic payments and to withdraw cash at some ATMs. The Australia-based exchange and payment processor's debit cards will work on the country's electronic funds transfer at point of sale (EFTPOS) network, which is supported by all major banks and has 826,769 payment terminals nationwide. "CoinJar Swipe is our way of making bitcoin accessible to everyone," Asher Tan, CEO of CoinJar, told CoinDesk, adding: "Swipe lets CoinJar customers spend their....
CoinJar has clarified that only the iOS version of its new app is available today. Anglo-Australian bitcoin exchange CoinJar has released a new mobile app, now called 'CoinJar Touch', saying new user-friendly features will speed up bitcoin payments and attract new users to digital currency. CoinJar's Samuel Tate said the new app is in response to user requests for transfer in and out of bitcoin on its exchange "on-the-go", and to manage their payments and contacts lists with greater ease. Users can send instantaneous payments to other CoinJar accounts by using Twitter-style user names....
Australian bitcoin exchange CoinJar has for a while had their wallet application up-for-grabs on Apple's iOS App Store. Interestingly so, because most of its competitors' apps with similar (if not the same) functionality had already been removed for violating Apple's money-transmitting policy. But not CoinJar, their resilient little app became the lone soldier on a battleground. But no longer, it appears. CoinJar today announced their application will be pulled from the iOS App Store by the end of this week. Apple reportedly gave CoinJar an ultimatum: remove the receive and transmitting....