Top 3 Tools for Workers in the Sharing Economy

Tools

Sharing economy platforms have transformed the world of work. Call it the on-demand economy, the gig economy, or even collaborative consumption — whatever the language, the business model is here to stay. The latest evidence is the wave of startups aimed at serving independent contractors in the on-demand workplace. By now just about everyone has heard …

Purse.io – Discount Bitcoin Holiday Shopping

Get 15% off Amazon; buy bitcoin with a credit card - Purse.io

As Black Friday looms, holiday shoppers are filling shopping carts and wish lists for another year of gift-giving. Crazy people everywhere line up on sidewalks for seasonal sales in the hope of getting a few deep discounts. But one fintech firm, Purse.io, offers a way to get those deep discounts every day, using bitcoin. Bitcoin …

What Is Wearable Technology?

Dick Tracy 2-way wristwatch

The seeds for today’s wearable technology were first sown in January 1946 when Dick Tracy communicated through his two-way wrist radio with members of the police force in the popular daily comic strip. In 1964, his radio was upgraded to a two-way TV. Life imitates art, which means watches imitate telephones. Today’s wearable devices have …

21 Bitcoin Computer Ships Today

21 Bitcoin Computer

The 21 Bitcoin Computer has started shipping. The compact devices look a little like a Raspberry Pi strapped to a jet engine, and they are perhaps one of the longest awaited and least understood bitcoin mining hardware projects. The first units are rolling around in trucks already, so now is as good a time as any …

Uber Moves Into Financial Services

Uber

Uber is well-known as a “sharing economy” success – the cab company that’s not a cab company that lives in your phone. Not content to disrupt the transportation sector, Uber is leveraging its success to muscle its way into financial services as well. In the United States, Uber will soon begin offering drivers bank accounts and debit …

Stripe Simplifies Payments by Focusing on Developers

Stripe logo

Stripe is a relatively new payments company that is undergoing tremendous growth and adoption rates. Stripe is the brainchild of sibling cofounders John and Patrick Collison. The two brothers both dropped out of Ivy League schools—Harvard and MIT—to work on a startup. Four years later, Stripe is poised to change the face of internet commerce. …

What Bitcoin Is Up To

Bitcoin Moon

Bitcoin has been on a real ride for the last month or so. At time of writing, bitcoin is sitting at about $411, its highest price all year, and up 72% from $238 just a month ago. After spending most of the year skirting a new low, the price is on a steep rise. So …

Chase Pay Partners with CurrentC

Chase Pay

JP Morgan unveiled its own salvo today in the mobile payment wars, Chase Pay. JP Morgan Chase has two main strengths to back up its attempt to enter this increasingly crowded field. First, JP Morgan Chase already has the payment data for all of its own customers, and pre-existing customers will be able to. The …

Retailer Apps Staging Quiet POS Mobile Payments Takeover

Mobile Payments with Retailer Apps

Apple Pay may not be dominating mobile payments, but it is definitely dominating the mobile payments news cycle. But some retailers have been reluctant to add Apple Pay to their list of payment options. This hesitance to adopt NFC payments is not motivated by a fear of new technology; rather, it’s a desire to dominate this …

Electrum 2-of-3 Multisig Escrow Tutorial

What follows is an excellent Electrum multisig escrow tutorial from Redditt user galaxyandspace. Use this guide to safely arrange escrow for a transaction. Using escrow, it is impossible for someone to steal your funds. It is stillpossible to lose access to your funds though, even though no one else can take them, so take care!   “Greetings …