June 9, 2020

Over 2,000 Coca-Cola Machines Now Accept Bitcoin in Australia and New Zealand

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Over 2,000 Coca-Cola vending machines in Australia and New Zealand have started accepting bitcoin, thanks to an agreement between Coca-Cola Amatil and Centrapay. Coca-Cola Amatil is a major bottler and distributor in Asia Pacific, supporting 140 brands. Buy Coke With Bitcoin The bitcoin payment option is now live at more than 2,000 Coca-Cola vending machines across Australia and New Zealand. The machines are in Coca-Cola Amatil’s network. To pay with bitcoin, users must have Centrapay’s Sylo Smart Wallet and scan the QR payment code using their smartphones. The team at…

South African Solar Energy Blockchain Startup Raises $3 Million, Plans to Expand Across Continent

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South African blockchain peer-to-peer renewable energy platform Sun Exchange obtained a $3 million investment from ARCH Emerging Markets Partners, thereby closing its $4 million Series-A funding round, according to a statement issued today. Sun Exchange allows international clients to buy remotely-located solar cells — either with Bitcoin (BTC) or South African Rand — and then lease them to power businesses and organisations in emerging markets. Abe Cambridge, the startup’s CEO and founder, told Cointelegraph: “Solar cell owners earn income from the electricity that’s generated, while schools, businesses, clinics and other…

Blockchain Bites: ‘Bitcoin Billionaires’ and Buying a Coke With Crypto

June 9, 2020 boss

The possibility of mass adoption, or at least mass awareness, of crypto was on the agenda today with the integration of a crypto payment option for vending machines in Australia and New Zealand and the announcement of a coming feature film looking at the Winklevoss twins’ involvement with crypto. Elsewhere, Chainalysis added tracking for two privacy coins while the U.S. Marshalls hunt for a contractor to help manage the cryptocurrency it seizes in operations against criminals. Here’s the story: You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain…

Bitcoin News Roundup for June 9, 2020

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With the price of bitcoin again struggling to breach $10,000 and volatility falling to recent lows, CryptoX’s Markets Daily is back with another bitcoin news roundup. Store of value? Bitcoin has outperformed gold and trounced U.S. equities so far this year. The war game was designed in 2018 to prepare troops for future conflicts fought on computers rather than on the battlefield. Blockchain media startup Civil is shutting down after three years, with its team pivoting to building decentralized identity tools at parent firm ConsenSys. Cryptocurrency-focused media startup BlockTV has…

It Looks Like Some Stolen Bitfinex Coins Are Already Back at Bitfinex

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Recently, some of the 120,000 Bitcoin (BTC) that was stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 started moving again. Here is what has been happening with this stash of coins valued at over $1 billion. 2016 Bitfinex hack summary. Source: Crystal. $1 billion in BTC waiting to be dumped Thus far, the hackers have moved less than 3,000 BTC out of almost 120,000 BTC that they managed to steal from the exchange. The highest proportion of coins that have been spent went to darknet marketplaces, with the Russain giant Hydra leading the pack…

How Blockchain Is Changing the Advertising Industry

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Even though advertising has been around for about as long as commerce has, in today’s digital age entirely new problems are popping up that are souring the experience for advertisers, publishers and the public alike. Costs have risen, the handling of consumer data has become an issue and ad fraud is far too common. Now, some innovative blockchain products are trying to address all of this and make advertising simpler, more direct, safer and more profitable all around. Current challenges facing digital advertising One of the biggest issues that advertisers…

1 Billion Idled XRP Tokens Changed Hands: Massive Volatility is Underway

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Ripple’s XRP has been consolidating within a narrow trading range for over the past month. The price action of this cryptocurrency is mostly contained between the $0.192 support level and the $0.212 resistance. Throughout this stagnation phase, the Bollinger bands were forced to squeeze based on XRP’s 1-day chart. Squeezes are indicative of periods of low volatility and are typically succeeded by wild price movements. The inability of this technical index to provide a clear path for XRP’s direction makes the area between the lower and upper band a reasonable…

2020 Libertarian Presidential Candidate Jo Jorgensen Talks Bitcoin, Endless Wars, Covid-19 Response

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On June 8, news.Bitcoin.com chatted with the U.S. 2020 Libertarian candidate for president, Joanne Jorgensen. The Libertarian Party’s nominee for president is the party’s first female candidate and she is a firm believer in free markets and civil liberties. This week our newsdesk discussed a number of issues with the Libertarian 2020 presidential candidate Joanne Jorgensen, otherwise known as “Jo.” The Libertarian nominee is a well known political activist and academic researcher during the last few decades. Jo Jorgensen discusses a number of subjects with our newsdesk including Donald Trump,…