Expresscoin Launches to Become Coinbase for the Unbanked
Santa Monica-based bitcoin and dogecoin exchange expresscoin has officially launched after months of under-the-radar testing. The formal launch marks the final rebranding of Cash Into Coins as expresscoin, a move that co-founder and CEO Will Wheeler indicates signals a change in how the company will approach its services and the broader bitcoin market. Wheeler told CoinDesk that while Cash Into Coins was able to become a successful, niche complement to popular cash-to-bitcoin service BitInstant, expresscoin seeks to leverage additional payment options favored by the under- and unbanked....
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California-based bitcoin startup Gem has partnered with digital currency retailer expresscoin. Gem's multi-sig wallet and high security standards will now be available to users of expresscoin, which until now has been based on a special "bring your own wallet" platform. CEO and founder of Gem Micah Winkelspecht states: "Expresscoin has gone out of their way to increase access to Bitcoin as much as possible, which is in line with our philosophy of making bitcoin security easy for developers. From the very beginning, we wanted Gem to empower digital currency companies to focus on building....
Digital currency-only online retail outlet Bitcoin Shop has announced a $150,000 investment in cryptocurrency-buying service expresscoin. The announcement marks expresscoin's first investment since its formal launch in June. Previously operating under the brand Cash Into Coins, expresscoin is aiming to market bitcoin to underbanked consumers by accepting payment methods including money orders, personal checks and wire transfers. With the announcement, expresscoin will integrate its services with Bitcoin Shop to provide more ways for the website's e-commerce consumers to obtain digital....
Gem, the Venice, Calif. -based Bitcoin startup offering a multi-signature-based security platform to Bitcoin developers, has partnered with expresscoin, the Santa Monica, Calif. -based digital currency retailer. The partnership will offer Gem's scale-able and secure API wallet to expresscoin users, initially powering internal accounts and operations and eventually powering co-branded, end-user wallets with Gem's multi-signature security solution, thus providing an alternative to expresscoin's current bring-your-own-wallet environment.
Payment technologist Eric Benz has been a busy guy since he first learned about Bitcoin. His work within payments has taken him to ZipZap to, currently, GoCoin and Expresscoin. We had a chance to speak with Benz this week. CoinTelegraph: We would love to talk about GoCoin and Expresscoin, but first can you tell us about the UK Digital Currency Association and their current cooperation with the FCA? “The FCA is taking a cautious approach to digital currencies, and have told the UKDCA that it doesn’t believe that Bitcoin businesses currently fall within its regulatory remit. However, they do....
Digital currency retailer expresscoin has launched a Canadian branch of its business, in the first phase of its expansion beyond the US market. Expresscoin, which is based in Santa Monica, California, offers customers the opportunity to buy bitcoin, litecoin, dogecoin and blackcoin with debit cards, while importing wallet addresses from other services into their accounts. Its Android app lets users manage their accounts and wallets, and track both orders and balances from their mobile devices. The firm's CMO and co-founder Joseph Hsieh told CoinDesk: "This is our first step into another....