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Bitcoin Cash Register has surpassed 10,000 installs on the Google Play Store, live streaming platform Twitch reinstates cryptocurrency payments and BCH is coming to the Brave web browser. Watch these and other developments discussed in this week’s video update on Bitcoin.com’s Youtube channel. Also Read: Over 22,000 Traders Have Now Signed up to Local.Bitcoin.com Twitch Reenables Cryptocurrency Payments Twitch is a video streaming platform owned by Amazon with more than 15 million unique daily visitors who mainly use it for watching live gaming and esports. Earlier this year, the website stopped accepting cryptocurrency payments by removing support for Bitpay. However, recently Twitch users have reported that the option to pay with bitcoin cash ( BCH ) and bitcoin core ( BTC ) is available once again. Speaking about Bitpay, the leading cryptocurrency payment processor has launched a new directory for anyone who is looking for recommended places to spend their BCH or BTC . The

Paying or getting paid with digital coins is the norm in the cryptocurrency sector. Participants in many other industries, however, may also be tempted to take advantage of the benefits offered by decentralized currencies. In the case of bitcoin cash ( BCH ), that means fast, secure and low-cost transactions. Some platforms facilitate crypto payments between companies and their employees, while peer-to-peer settlements remain a viable option as well. Also read: BCH Can Be the Global Coin for Daily Spending, Says Italian Crypto Executive Crypto Payroll Services Offered Businesses exploring the possibility of introducing crypto payments for their employees and contractors may need the help of companies that specialize in this type of accounting. Bitwage is a well-established platform that provides payroll and human resource services for this day and age, when the use of digital currencies in payments is growing rapidly around the world. Bitwage helps international companies pay t

This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material. Bitcoin.com is not responsible for or liable for any content, accuracy or quality within the press release. Telcoin partners with leading Vietnamese mobile wallet VIMO for international remittance. Partnership aims to introduce fastest, most affordable option for US$1B Canada-Vietnam remittance corridor. 26th June 2019 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Singapore and Hanoi, Vietnam — Telcoin Pte. Ltd., a fintech startup leveraging blockchain technology to facilitate high-speed, low-cost international remittances, today announced a partnership with Vimo Technology JSC, operator of leading Vietnamese digital wallet Vimo. Under the partnership, Telcoin users in Vietnam will soon be able to accept inbound international remittances from Canada (in CAD) and cash out to their Vimo digital wallet balance (in VND). Vimo has more than 1 million active wallets across Vi

Unschooling is an alternative education movement quickly gaining popularity and currency worldwide. Like Bitcoin, it is an individualist approach to an area of human action long thought to be established beyond question―education. Both cryptoeconomics and unschooling seek to provide autonomy to individuals, providing a return to logical, natural systems that value human life. Also read: How to Keep Bitcoin Cash Transactions Private What Is Unschooling? Unschooling is a buzzword popping up in random conversations, hashtagged heavily on social media, and a source of bewilderment for those who may know what ‘homeschooling’ is, but have never heard of this sister term. Unschooling. Unlearning. These sound on the surface like steps backward from the goals of centralized, compulsory education . And they are. The oft-misunderstood term was coined by late U.S. school teacher-turned-unschooling advocate John Holt. In 1964 Holt wrote How Children Fail , whose outlined methodologies and obs

Pseudonymous Grin founder Ignotus Peverell has stepped away from the project, reassuring the privacy coin’s community that it is in “safe hands.” The move has sparked inevitable Satoshi Nakamoto comparisons. Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator used almost identical language eight years ago, writing in an email that “I’ve moved on to other things,” before adding “It’s in good hands with Gavin and everyone.” Also read: Bitcoin’s Big Price Drop Is the Latest in a Long History of Flash Crashes Ignotus Peverell Pulls a Satoshi Nakamoto Digital currency obsessives love a good mystery, and in Satoshi Nakamoto and to a lesser extent Ignotus Peverell, they’ve got a couple of crackers. The former needs no introduction, while the latter is the founder of Mimblewimble cryptocurrency Grin. The privacy technology underpinning the coin was posted to a bitcoin IRC chat in 2016 by someone called Tom Elvis Jedusor (Voldemort’s real name in the French version of Harry Potter), who then disappeared. It’s

On Wednesday, June 26, the price of BTC came close to reaching $14K. One hour later, it had dropped by close to 18%. Such events are known as a flash crash, a moment in time where a rapid-sell off happens and often times a few exchanges become inoperable. Over the last few years, especially when the market is extremely bullish, flash crashes have been prevalent. Also Read: Iranians Defy Warning and Share Pictures of Bitcoin Mining in Mosque The June 2019 BTC Flash Crash The price of bitcoin core ( BTC ) took a dive on Wednesday after touching $13,850, dipping to $11,900 at an extremely rapid rate. In the midst of the drop, Coinbase suffered an outage and customers could not access the website. Not too long afterward, the San Francisco exchange detailed that the platform was operational again. The outage and the $1,700 flash crash was yet another reminder of the risks assumed when people use centralized trading platforms. Cryptocurrency traders have dealt with flash crashes a lot

In this day and age, carrying your wallet, passport and mobile phone inside the inner pocket of your jacket is simply not enough to protect your assets. Thankfully, there’s a company called Tarriss which offers products designed to secure both your digital cash and personal data. It sells them for cryptocurrency and it takes bitcoin cash. Also read: Namecheap Lets You Buy a Domain and Host Your Website With Bitcoin Cash Tarriss Accepts Bitcoin Cash and Ships Globally Nowadays your electronic money and your digital identity are exposed to various invisible risks. You can be robbed, tracked and hacked remotely. Wireless technologies can provide third parties with unwarranted access to your most precious data. That’s why Tarriss , a company based in the Canadian city of Vancouver, has set out to develop protection for the money, documents and gadgets you’ll use while traveling, for example. It creates wireless signal blocking RFID and Faraday Cage products that safeguard your elect

This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material. Bitcoin.com is not responsible for or liable for any content, accuracy or quality within the press release. Sofia, Bulgaria, June 28th, 2019: Niquid Tech today announced the release of a new version of TokenGen , the company’s proprietary ICO automation tool. The new update features a re-structure of the pricing model, more specifically, a free basic plan. Previously, the company added a KYC solution by integrating TokenGen to work with the Civic decentralized identity ecosystem, available to projects using the Whitelistable Fundraiser feature. The main goal of the past few updates is to expose the lucrative ICO fundraising model to more individuals and companies as well as meeting the know-your-customer demands of modern token generation events. Additionally, TokenGen has also [partnered up with Bounty0x , as a way of providing a bounty program solu

Another Indian crypto exchange has shut down permanently due to the banking restriction and regulatory delays. The exchange cites denials in payment services and a sharp decline in trading volume resulting from the recent news of a draft bill to ban cryptocurrencies. Also read: Indian Cryptocurrency Regulation Is Ready, Official Confirms Koinex Shuts Down Indian cryptocurrency exchange Koinex announced its shutdown Thursday. CEO Rahul Raj explained that “After months of uncertainty and disruption, we have regretfully decided to shut down all digital assets exchange services and operations today,” adding: The digital assets trading services will be permanently disabled on all our platforms at 2:00 PM IST on Thursday, June 27, 2019. All open orders after this deadline will be automatically cancelled and the funds will be returned to corresponding wallets. The exchange’s wallet service will continue to be functional but users are required to withdraw all funds from the platform b

There are many reasons to keep bitcoin cash transactions private and the top six ways to make them anonymous are outlined in a new video by Bitcoin.com. Meanwhile, the Financial Action Task Force has just released its global guidance for crypto assets, effectively calling on countries and crypto exchanges to strengthen their KYC measures. Also read: Indian Cryptocurrency Regulation Is Ready, Official Confirms Easy Ways to Keep Transactions Private There are many ways bitcoin cash users can keep their transactions private. Bitcoin.com has produced a new video outlining the top six easy ways to help crypto transactions become anonymous. One of the most common ways to increase privacy when transacting in cryptocurrencies is using peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms that do not require KYC information, such as the newly launched platform by Bitcoin.com. Over 22,000 people have signed up for Local.Bitcoin.com which “does not require you to identify yourself and you’re free to accept any of