Dope, hope and Bitcoin – A tale of two Amsterdams
In 2014, 10 merchants along one of the canals in the Netherlands decided to accept Bitcoin as the mode of payment from their customers—their street became known as The Bitcoin Boulevard.
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LiteClient Toolbox will make Bitcoin payments faster and simpler for everyone
BSV Blockchain Association Director of Engineering Jad Wahab spoke in a brief video about the new LiteClient Toolbox, which will soon be available for developers to try out.
SPV LiteClient Toolbox release makes scalable Bitcoin easy, cheap, useful for everyone
Bitcoin has always had the ability to handle Simplified Payment Verification functions, but until now there hasn't been a full set of standards or toolkit available for developers to implement the architecture in payment systems.
3 Thai regulators team up to issue digital currency payment guidelines
Bank of Thailand, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Finance Ministry issued the joint statement where they said digital currencies aren’t fit to be used as payment methods.
Streaming services via the Bitcoin protocol
A recent sCrypt article discusses how to facilitate streaming services using the Bitcoin protocol. This is not streaming large movie data on-chain but leverages the incentive and accountability aspects of the protocol and ledger itself.
Netflix over Bitcoin payment channels
In this post, sCrypt’s Xiaohui Liu demonstrates a cost-efficient way to provide movie streaming and other types of services on demand, based on payment channels.
PeerSend on CoinGeek New York: Bitcoin apps should seek to accelerate the inevitable
Jeffrey Baek, co-founder of Peer Technologies, presented their new product PeerSend that allows users to ‘Send Money Like Magic’ over the internet.
Russian lawmakers weighing partial reversal of digital currency payments ban
The reports note that some lawmakers in the country are considering revising some aspects of the payments ban including allowing digital currencies to be used as payment in domestic contracts.
Create new words and definitions on SLictionary with our Quick Start Guide
SLictionary, which stands for self-learning dictionary, works on the principle that language is a living thing, evolving over time and with new words added by the communities that use them.
Wyoming ups ante on legal sports betting by allowing digital currency payments
Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signed HB 133 into law, paving the way for state residents aged 18+ to begin placing online wagers (no retail betting permitted) as early as September 1.
Add a Bitcoin payable Paymail to your domain using myPaymail
myPaymail gives everyone the ability to accept Bitcoin payments on their domains and utilize any of their email aliases, it’s quick, easy and affordable at only $1 per added Paymail.
Check out Bitcoin for payments biggest developments in 2020
Here is a recap of some of the biggest developments in the Bitcoin BSV for payments space that we saw in 2020 and the companies that made these developments possible.