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Coinbase Added 8 Million New Users in 12 Months

America’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange and wallet service Coinbase has signed up 30 million users since launching in 2012.

New user signups slowed after Bitcoin price peak

Over the past 12 months, Coinbase has registered eight million new users, according to data revealed by Bitcoin (BTC) investor and entrepreneur Alistair Milne in a tweet on July 22.

Based on the chart above, the rate of new users sign ups has slowed compared to the second half of 2017, in particular, right before Bitcoin price hit its all-time high of $20,000. Nevertheless, Coinbase added about 8 million new users in the past year despite the bear market.

According to the Coinbase website, the number of users on the crypto exchange is now over 30 million to date with over $150 billion traded in cryptocurrency.

Coinbase stopped disclosing public user stats in November 2017

Coinbase stopped disclosing precise details on the number of users…

Salamantex Crypto Payment Service

Over the years there has been many Crypto payment services come and go. The larger companies who make it charge high fees and their customer service can be non-existent at the best of times. The smaller companies who appear when Bitcoin is on a high usually fade away when it's at its low.

So who can you use that offer a great solution for your Cryptocurrency payment needs?

Have no fear we've found a very promising company that offers an all round solution called Salamantex.

Salamantex, an Austrian startup, offering an all round payment solution for online and in-store payments. In the few months since their launch, big brand clients such as Opel & Renault have opted to use their payment terminal system.

So what's so good about Salamantex I hear you ask? Well apart from their simplified process of crypto payments, ease of use, easy integration, automatic conversion from cryptocurrency to fiat, and their awesome customer service…

About That Orange B… The History of Bitcoin’s Logos

Can a logo symbolize the ethos of a project? An industry? An entire movement?

This is perhaps too much meaning to attribute to any one design, but if any logo has come close to the task, it’s that of bitcoin.

Belonging to no corporation, no in-house graphic design team at a shiny Silicon Valley startup, bitcoin’s logo has given the faceless project’s many adherents an image to hold on to. And not only to hold on to – but to emblazon on shirts, stick to laptops and stamp on physical coins – giving the digital project a material existence that has been crucial for its propagation.

Perhaps more importantly, the collaborative development of bitcoin’s unofficial logo framed its encounter with the rest of the world.

In creating a symbol that resembled those of other currencies, bitcoin was visually introduced to newcomers as money. And in elaborating this symbol into a logo that could reside alongside Visa and Mastercard stickers on shop wi…

8 Ways Bitcoin will Change the World

Bitcoin has a real potential to change the world in so many ways, that is hardly even imaginable. We choose the top 8 ways we think cryptocurrencies will help the cause of humanity.

Take a look at this informative Video from the team at https://www.bitcoin.com.

It points out the ways in which Bitcoin and its technology can help change the world. Including how it can better help less fortunate people around the world without being hit from high charges from the likes of PayPal for sending money donations.

Take a look at the video below and let us know if you can think of any more ways Bitcoin can help...

Drop Gold for Bitcoin

If you haven't seen this super awesome advert already then you need to take a look......

The company behind the advert is GreyScale Investment group, a Global leader in digital currency asset management, who have recently setup a new section of their company called 'Drop Gold' to help investors buy into Bitcoin.

It's not that gold is bad.It's just that bitcoin is better.

Drop Gold hopes to bring exposure to the Cryptocurrency by showing investors that Gold is a thing of the past and Bitcoin is the future!

…Buy bitcoin.

Bitcoin has qualities that make it a better option than gold in today’s digital, global economy. It’s fast, secure, transparent, and moves seamlessly across borders making bitcoin both a resilient store-of-value and an efficient medium-of-exchange.

Bitcoin is digital gold for our digital age.

Check out their super cool video below......

https://twitter.com/GrayscaleInvest/status/11236649853…

Definitive list of Popular Bitcoin Payment Gateways

If your thinking of adding Bitcoin & other Cryptocurrency payments to your store, or maybe your not happy with the one you're already using. We've put together a definitive list of popular Bitcoin Payment Gateways to help you find the best one for your business. Merchants who are running an online business on WordPress or Shopify or anything similar online platform can now start accepting Bitcoin. But Bitcoin is not only limited to online businesses, offline business should also start accepting Bitcoin as payment. To do this, you will need to know about Bitcoin payment gateways. So we've put together a definitive list of popular bitcoin payment gateways. Please note the list below is in no particular order. The Salamantex Online Crypto Payment Service allows webshops to accept crypto payments hassle- and riskfree. Our service can be integrated into any online shop, either manually by using our API documentation or via provided plugins. Salamantex also offer a Crypt…

Crypto Adoption: Another Town Accepts Taxes in BTC

Although we’d love to see it happen in a single day, cryptocurrency mass adoption takes time. Two new examples show that it is indeed inching towards being generally accepted. The Ontario town of Innisfil has announced that they will be accepting cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin first, for property taxes payments during a trial that will last a year. Meanwhile, Sweden-based crypto gift card provider Bitrefill now lets you book AirBnB rentals in the US using five different cryptocurrencies.

Innisfil residents will be able to pay taxes with Bitcoin through a wallet called Coinberry Pay. The funds, sent in Bitcoin, will then be converted to the Canadian dollar and transferred to the town. Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, and XRP may follow, according to national news agency The Canadian Press. The trial period for this payment option will last a year, starting in April.

Innisfil, which is a home for 36,000 people, is far from the first jurisdiction to implement s…

Samsung’s New Galaxy S10 Cold Boost Bitcoin Adoption

Wow this could be big news for Bitcoin Adoption!

Leaked images of the upcoming new Samsung Galaxy S10 suggest the smartphone could aid bitcoin adoption with a built-in cryptocurrency wallet!

The leaked images, first reported by Samsung news outlet SamMobile, appear to show the rumored Samsung Blockchain Keystore cryptocurrency wallet app running on the new Galaxy S10.

Ethereum, currently the world's second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization after bitcoin and Ripple's XRP, is named as a supported cryptocurrency but a previous report from SamMobile last year claims the wallet will also support for bitcoin, ethereum-derived ERC20 tokens and bitcoin cash.......

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School Supplies purchased with Bitcoin Donated from Redditors

School children in Venezuela recently received a large bundle of much needed school supplies all paid for in Bitcoin and donated from the amazing community over at Reddit.Check out the video of some very excited school children receiving their school supplies from Santa.