UAE Payment Processor Invests in Dubai-Based Bitcoin Startup
Online payment service provider PayFort is among a number of participants to invest in a seed funding round for Dubai-based bitcoin startup BitOasis. Additional participants included MENA-focused venture capital firm Wamda Capital, early Internet entrepreneur Samih Toukan, serial industry investor Digital Currency Group and a group of unnamed angel investors. The total amount raised was not disclosed. With the announcement, BitOasis becomes the first bitcoin startup in the region to announce venture funding, which positions the firm at the forefront of a very nascent sector of the global....
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Dubai-based bitcoin startup BitOasis has announced its first round of seed funding, in a round led by venture capital firm Wamda Capital, an investor focused on startups in the MENA (Middle-East and North Africa) region. BitOasis, a bitcoin wallet and exchange service that caters to several Arab countries, has announced its first round of seed funding. Participating investors include prominent bitcoin- and blockchain-space investor Digital Currency Group (DCG), payments processor Payfort, Samih Toukan – a tech entrepreneur and other unnamed angel investors based in Dubai and New York. The....
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A Dubai-based cafe, Bake N More, has become the latest company to add cryptocurrency as another payment option available to customers. Despite taking this step, Bake N More will nonetheless continue to accept cash and credit card payments, the owner said.
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Joining the ranks of Coinbase, MtGox and Blockchain, Bitcoin developers Stefan Thomas and Jeremias Kangas have released a lightweight Bitcoin payment processor of his own, with a twist: you do not have to trust it to use it. The way that all other payment processors to date have kept track of individual orders is by creating a unique address for each payment, and forwarding any payments that they receive to the merchant. This does prevent the main issue with not bothering with payment processors and instead just having a single address - namely, that if you receive a payment you have no....