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Rakuten, a Japanese e-commerce company, announced Tuesday plans to allow customers to choose Bitcoin as a payment option by integrating Bitnet’s payment processing platform on a number of its marketplaces. The company said in a press release that it will start accepting Bitcoin...

UK-based analyst firm Juniper Research released a report Tuesday that suggests the number of active Bitcoin users around the world will reach 4.7 million by the end of 2019, compared to slightly more than 1.3 million last year. But the report argues that exchange trading will...

At the South by Southwest Interactive Festival, Chaotic Moon Studios, an Austin-based creative technology studio, demonstrated its fitness application called FitCoin, which rewards users in Bitcoin. FitCoin measures the length and intensity of a workout and converts it to CPU...