BitMoby's Bitcoin Top-Up Service Wins IT Award
Mobile payments company mHITs has scored two state-level awards for its bitcoin top-up service, BitMoby. The platform won in both the financial and consumer industry divisions at the Australian Capital Territory's (ACT) iAwards, which honor the achievements of local ICT companies. BitMoby allows users to send bitcoin to top up pre-paid mobile phone services in 117 countries worldwide, though not yet in Australia itself. There is no registration requirement, with users needing to supply only their phone number, an email address and bitcoins to top up their account from $10 to $100. The....
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Mobile payments pioneer mHITs has entered the bitcoin space with a platform it claims is the "easiest way" to send phone credit across borders. The new service, BitMoby, lets users transfer between $10 and $100 to mobiles in over 117 different countries, without the need to register. MHITs, founded in 2004, offers a range of mobile money services to customers in Australia and beyond. Speaking to CoinDesk, CEO Harold Dimpel said the project is a chance for his company to experiment with digital currency, while giving users a simple and fast experience that "simply cannot be achieved via....
As part of their exploration of the crypto-currency, Bitcoin, mHITs, an Australian payments company, has launched a new pre-paid mobile minutes top-up service, called BitMoby, exclusively available for bitcoin. According to mHITs’ press release, BitMoby is part of the company’s efforts to explore what is possible with crypto-currency. “BitMoby is an example of how digital currencies such as Bitcoin can be used to demonstrate a highly efficient integrated transaction process where the payment instruction itself can uniquely identify the transaction and incorporate payment information,”....
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