Coinspeaker has launched a new bitcoin job section on its website through partnership with an online recruitment platform, called Tyba. The company specializes on matching talented professionals with job opportunities at digital currency startups in Europe.

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/04/08/coinspeaker-is-launching-bitcoin-jobs-section-7744/

Bitcoin For Miles is a project by Bitcoin Brands Inc., a Delaware Corporation that is registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The company is developing consumer solutions for the acquisition and adoption of digital currency, and operating bitcoin ATMs in locations around the United States and Canada.

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/04/05/bitcoin-for-miles-proposes-to-convert-unwanted-miles-into-bitcoin-8457/

Investors and venture capitalists in India are demonstrating the growing interest in the global system of online payments and are evaluating its future potential.

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/04/04/indian-investors-are-interested-in-bitcoin-like-payment-system-8409/

Coinbase announced the launch of 3 new improvements to the option introduced in 2014. The feature allowed to display Coinbase users’ bitcoin amounts in bits, the smaller versions of bitcoins’ full BTC units.

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/04/04/bitcoin-news-coinbase-uses-bits-8411/

Are you a fan of puzzles and hidden treasures? Well, if yes, WoodCollector‘s post on the forum BitcoinTalk will attract your attention. Yesterday, this unknown user published a message about hidden treasure worth 5,000 BTC. Moreover, he also posted the key to find the treasure.

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/04/04/bitcointalks-user-woodcollector-hided-5000-btc-and-heres-the-key-to-find-it-8436/

Align Commerce, a next generation Payment Service Provider (PSP) for global commerce, has recently announced a public beta of its innovative payments platform, the first in the industry to use a Bitcoin blockchain with the aim of maintaining faster, easier and less expensive global transactions. At the moment, the platform is available in 34 countries.

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/04/03/align-commerce-wants-to-kill-bank-wires-with-blockchain-based-b2b-payments-system-8401/

On Tuesday, IBM announced its plans to start a new Internet of Things (IoT) unit, in which IBM will invest $3 billion during the next four years.

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/03/31/ibm-to-invest-3b-in-the-internet-of-things-8260/

The Houston Bitcoin Embassy, a coworking space dedicated to tech startups, has recently been opened in Houston, Texas at 6907 Almeda Rd. The place is provided by Cryptospaces, which is backed by Bitcoin consulting company FinalHash.

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/03/31/bitcoin-embassy-opens-in-houston-texas-8233/

According to the report, conducted by INTERPOL cyber threat researchers, together with Kaspersky Lab expert, the bitcoin blockchain could be used by hackers to deliver illegal data, such as child abuse images.

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/03/29/kaspersky-alerts-users-of-malware-and-blockchain-abuse-8201/

Attitudes in the financial community seem to be changing. Actually, there are all the reasons for such changes. Bitcoin and Wall Street appeared to be two conflicting parts of the currency world, or, so to speak, two sides of the same coin, but now as far as they’re getting to know each other better, their relationship is transforming.

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/03/26/plug-and-play-tech-center-will-unite-bitcoin-startups-and-wall-street-8151/

On Tuesday, Pressat published a press release on behalf of LazyCoins, which announced the launch of a new cryptocurrency exchange. LazyCoins positions itself as a Bitcoin exchange that makes trading easy and effective, including innovative features such as multi tab trading.

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/03/26/uk-bitcoin-exchange-lazycoins-no-fee-8086/

Users of Bitcoin exchange Paybase, operated by Bitcoin mining company GAW Miners, have recently reported that they have been having difficulties in withdrawing funds.

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/03/24/paybase-stops-withdrawals-accused-of-going-full-blown-mt-gox-8037/

Blocktrace, a provider of blockchain solutions to the insurance firms, Sweden-based digital currency exchange Safello, and bitcoin debit card provider Atlas Card, have joined the Barclays Accelerator mentorship program on Tuesday.

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/03/24/blockchain-startups-safello-atlas-card-and-blocktrace-to-join-barclays-accelerator-8060/

Since 2011 Contactless & Mobile Awards has significantly grown to be a celebration of innovation which covers a great number of categories. This year’s awards are special for the digital currency community as Bitpay and their recently Bitcoin Checkout is nominated for Best Retail App of the year.

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/03/23/bitpay-bitcoin-checkout-contactless-mobile-rewards-8036/

Today Facebook announced that it launches a new payments feature for its Messenger that lets userst connect their Visa or Mastercard debit card and tap a “$” button to send friends money on iOS, Android, and desktop with zero fees.

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/03/17/facebook-introduces-free-friend-to-friend-payments-through-messages/

Yacuna, a regulated digital currency exchange, has recently announced that its service Yacuna Direct now offers the instant payment option Online Bank Transfer (OBT). The new feature will make it even easier for users to get their digital currency of choice.

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/03/17/yacuna-offers-instantaneous-online-bank-transfer-to-yacuna-direct-7851/

Juniper Research, the U.K.-based company released a report which stated that the number of active Bitcoin users around the globe will approach 4.7 million by the end of 2019. In contrast, last year the number of users was just over 1.3 million.

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/03/17/bitcoin-will-have-nearly-5-million-users-by-2019-juniper-research-reports-7843/

GuestLogix Inc., a publicly traded Toronto-based technology company, has recently announced that it has started carrying out digital currency wallet components on its Transaction Processing Engine(TPE).

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/03/16/guestlogix-starts-accepting-bitcoin-payments-on-its-retail-platform-7784/

Japanese online mall Rakuten, also Viber and Ebates owner, revealed its plans to let customers to choose Bitcoin currency as an option of payment by integrating Bitnet’s payment processing platform on a number of its marketplaces.

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/03/17/japanese-e-commerce-giant-rakuten-starts-accepting-bitcoin-7808/

Bitcoin price continues to grow because of several factors. One of the is the fact that IBM is thinking over the necessity to apply special blockchain technology to start a digital cash and payment system for traditional currencies.

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/03/16/bitcoin-price-raises-while-euro-drifts-down-to-new-lows-us-dollar-firms-7746/