PayPal Steals Apple's Thunder: "We Can Spend Bitcoin With a Tap!"
In a surprise video posted to the official PayPal Youtube media channel, Paypal Voices presented what, at first, is a confusing video. Early on in the video, you'll hear phrases that you might not have ever expected to hear from PayPal in this century. Phrases such as "We can spend Bitcoin with a tap..." Though PayPal's mobile apps haven't yet been updated to include any sort of Bitcoin functionality, the release of this video is creating a predictable media storm. Paypal's release of this video on Monday the 8th of September has everything to do with Apple's hyped release set for Tuesday....
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Thunder, a project by Blockchain.info, is a collection of alternate nodes that allow users to make bitcoin payments off-chain in seconds, and sync with the standard Bitcoin network later. Unlike traditional payments made with bitcoin that can take up to an hour for a healthy number of confirmations, transactions made on the Thunder network are said to be....
Review: Zeusminer Thunder X6 NX Gen Scrypt ASIC Miner. Zeusminer has been hard at work making miners for itself as well as being the OEM manufacturer for many others. While this has kept them busy, they have also worked on getting ready to launch their NX Gen X6 miners. Zeusminers sent me over a Thunder X6 to review, and it has been fun with some interesting findings. Zeusminers X6 NX Gen miners use more chips at a lower voltage and clock to achieve a better power consumption profile per mh/s. As you can see from the specifications below, a new lower power consumption is better and still....
The popular Bitcoin explorer and wallet company Blockchain.info has revealed a new protocol to the cryptocurrency ecosystem called the Thunder Network. The project is in its alpha release and the code is open source. Thunder allows users to make off-chain payments instantaneously with lower fees. Can The Thunder Network Help Scale Bitcoin? Blockchain.info’s Thunder claims it will be able to process transactions at a rate faster than most credit card processors such as Visa and Mastercard. Currently, many developers and community members are afraid the Bitcoin protocol will not scale to the....
Happy Sunday, and welcome back to another Bitcoin News in Review, where we feature some of the top stories of the week here on CryptoCoins News. This week, Apple launched its own mobile payments system, 5 million Gmail login credentials were leaked, PayPal announced Bitcoin integration through Braintree, and more. Check out our video and keep scrolling for this week's Bitcoin News in Review. Apple Pay. Along with the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch, Apple launched its own mobile payments solution called Apple Pay last Tuesday. Apple Pay relies on NFC, Touch ID, and other technologies to enable....