W3C Bringing One-Click Bitcoin Shopping to All Web Browsers

KryptoKit, the secure bitcoin wallet and encrypted message plugin for Chrome browsers, has partnered with BitPay to integrate a 'two-click' solution to pay bitcoin merchants. The Canadian company unveiled its new feature at the first North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami on 24-26th January. It includes KryptoDirectory, a one-stop shopping directory incorporating BitPay data on business accepting bitcoin payments. BitPay allowed access to its database of merchants as part of the deal. The directory will appear as a tab within the KryptoKit Chrome wallet window. Once users surf to the....

An altcoin called ADZCoin has released a free tool, ADZbuzz, which counteracts ad blocking software and ensures websites continue to receive ad revenue. The “ublock adblocker” centralizes ad campaigns into a pay-per-click shopping engine that pays publishers, ensuring they get paid without banning visitors that use an ad blocker. “Publishers lose billions of dollars every year because of ad blocking software,” a spokesperson for ADZbuzz Ltd. said in a prepared statement. “The new ad blocker will solve this costly problem, which is estimated at more than $22 billion.” Engine Supports Ad....

Bitcoin took an important step closer to broader consumer adoption last week, when it became supported by the HTML 5 standard. This means one-click support for bitcoin payments could make its way into popular browsers before long. HTML is the language used to describe what a webpage looks like to a web browser. Version 5, which has been in development for years, is not yet ratified. Nevertheless, browsers already use many features of this standard while it is in ongoing development. Last week, the "bitcoin" handler was introduced (technically, "whitelisted") into HTML 5. As browser....

Online startup snapCard wants to make it easier to use bitcoins online by skipping merchant integration altogether. SnapCard users can purchase items from major retailers, even if their e-commerce platform doesn't accept bitcoin. Users can also avoid logging into a retailer's website. Michael Dunworth, snapCard's co-founder, said: "We want to make the shopping process as easy and fast for bitcoin users as possible." SnapCard offers a bookmarklet that users can click on when they visit a product's page. The bookmarklet automatically grabs information from the product (like price and....

Consumerism is an ever-evolving creature, and since online shopping has become an increasing part of our daily lives, it has also changed the way we buy goods. As a result, most high street shopping is on a steady decline month over month, eve though not all of that is attributed to online shopping. The time has come to offer more convenient payment methods to customers, of which Bitcoin could easily become of the frontrunners. Whenever the time of year comes around to out for shopping, the average customer will prefer convenience to anything else, even if that includes paying a small....