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Event in Washington, DC, aims to explore the changing field of mobile payments

Stephen Vagus
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Event will focus on the convergence of Bitcoin, ATMs, and mobile commerce Experts in the financial services industry will flock to Washington, D.C. in September of this year in order to take part in an event aimed at exploring the convergence of Bitcoin, ATMs, and mobile payments. The event will feature some 40 speakers representing groups like the Bitcoin Investment Trust, RoboCoin, MasterCard, and Verifone. Several attorneys and representatives of the federal government will also attend the event, aiming to establish a better understanding of the payments industry. Digital currency…

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QR codes will make BitPay’s wallet smoother with the latest update

Sam Lambert
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The user experience has been notably improved in the latest changes to its service. BitPay, the Bitcoin merchant processing provider based in Georgia, has just announced the latest update to its experience, which includes the use of QR codes as well as a newly designed mobile wallet that has been created to remove the “human error in making a Bitcoin payment.” This new mobile wallet has been called the Bitcoin Payment Protocol, which is designed for greater accuracy. The company’s official announcement of the wallet update explained that it would…

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Mobile security based on heartbeat to be used by Bitcoin

Julie Campbell
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The online currency is looking to biometrics to verify identity. Bitcoin has already changed the way companies, businesses, and governments think of currency, and now it’s working on altering the way that mobile security verifies identities, through the use of a wearable biometrics through the use of a user’s heartbeat. They will be using a smartphone app called Nymi which was developed by a company called Bionym. Bionym is a company based in Toronto, Canada. This mobile app development will help to make sure that digital wallets are more secure.…

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QR codes earned a college student nearly $25k

Julie Campbell
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Simply by waving a sign with a quick response code in the air while in an ESPN crowd, donations were made. On ESPN’s “College GameDay”, which is a college football program from the station that is filmed every week at a different college campus, a student held up a sign featuring QR codes, the words “Hi Mom. Send” and a Bitcoin logo. This was all it took to have thousands of people interested in finding out where the barcode led. The QR codes clearly led to a Bitcoin wallet, so…

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App could bring a new twist to mobile commerce through Google Glass

Stephen Vagus
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Bitcoin and mobile commerce are beginning to mingle Google Glass has been gaining a great deal of attention for its use of augmented reality, but the platform may also be used to process mobile payments in the future. Typically, smartphones and tablets are the only devices that are used to make mobile payments, but RedBottle Design, a software firm based in New York, has recently developed a new application that could bring mobile payments to Google Glass. The application is aptly called GlassPay and is designed to leverage bitcoin as…

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