Mobile Payments Pioneer: I'm Betting on Bitcoin For Emerging Markets
For mobile payments pioneer and venture capitalist Carol Realini, the financial world is divided into three camps: those who believe in bitcoin, those who don't understand it and those have yet to consider or study its technology. Realini identifies firmly as a bitcoin believer, though she's not surprised many of her peers don't share her sentiment. After all, the former CEO of Obopay - a mobile payments application provider that raised more than $140m, but whose profile declined amid increased interest in mobile wallets - has a blazed a unique trail in the world of payments. This has....
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Sarah Boone Martin is founder of Rock the Coin, an organisation that engages in grassroots community outreach about bitcoin. She is also CEO of Boone Martin, a global communications firm that focuses on social impact investing. Many of the greatest challenges faced by bitcoin today - adoption, scale and regulation - mirror those of its predecessor: mobile money. When launched in 2007, mobile money was just as foreign and raised as much alarm as bitcoin. Though it has since spread to 60 million active users, mobile money was not an overnight success. However, we now have seven years of data....
Singapore-based payment processor CoinPip is introducing new payment options, allowing anyone in the world to send coins via SMS. It integrates seamlessly with the 'SMSwallet' system developed by US-based 37coins, which itself is aimed at developing and emerging markets where access to smartphone and desktop PC apps is limited. It allows consumers to pay in bitcoin via any CoinPip Merchant POS from any mobile device with SMS functionality. Anson Zeall, co-founder of CoinPip, is planning to expand across Hong Kong and Indonesia within the next month or so. His company's vision is to make....
A new service hopes to bring mobile bitcoin payments to the masses. The service, called Bits, has already demonstrated bitcoin payments made via text message from one mobile phone to another. Conceived by Cody Burns, who was a front-end software developer at COG1, a San Francisco-based web and mobile app company, Bits enables payments via SMS, QR codes or tapping together phones with near-field communications (NFC) capabilities. The company promises "almost zero fees" for making and receiving payments, and says payments should be processed in under 10 minutes. This isn't the only service....
There has been a massive wave of interest in betting globally and a rise in active members wagering on sports. Sports betting matches the casual sports fan against professional bookmakers, who do not get everything their way, unlike in genuine sports. It is, however, challenging yet exhilarating at the same time. Thanks to the introduction of online betting, it is now completely mobile. So… Is it possible to make money by betting on sports? Yes, it can be supremely lucrative. However, your earning potential is determined by your bankroll, risk tolerance, strategy, discipline, and,....