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The Royal Canadian Mint announced Wednesday it had retained the services of The Boston Consulting Group to help sell MintChip, the Mint’s digital currency project. As the Mint notes in a news release, “MintChip can be characterized as an evolution of cash, with the benefits of...

CheapAir.com, an online travel agency with headquarters in California, announced today that it now accepts Dogecoin and Litecoin in addition to Bitcoin. The company has also launched a dedicated e-support line administered by CheapAir travel advisors for cryptocurrency travel...

A small but rising number of employees in Canada are collecting their salaries in Bitcoin, according to Wagepoint, a Waterloo, Ontario-based payroll company. In an interview with the Canadian Press, Wagepoint CEO Shrad Rao said his company first came up with the Bitcoin payment...

On March 14, 2015, all 70,000 residents of the Commonwealth of Dominica – an island in the Caribbean – will receive Bitcoin during a Bitcoin distribution event titled The Bit Drop. According to the media release sent to CoinReport by The Bit Drop project manager Sarah...

On Tuesday, Seattle-based BizX announced updates to its e-commerce marketplace and BizX dollars (BizX$) private currency. In the BizX community, businesses and consumers can buy and sell among each other using BizX$ rather than using US dollars. The company allows small –...

Amagi Metals, an online dealer in precious metals and coins, announced this week that by the end of 2016, it will no longer accept US dollars or other “fiat” currencies. Instead, the company is poised to be trading exclusively in virtual currencies such as Bitcoin. Amagi Metals...

Overstock’s Bitcoin trade has been doing good business recently, as we reported a few days ago. Overstock is currently clocking in at $15,000 a day in Bitcoin transactions, and hopes to make between six and eight million dollars from Bitcoin trade in 2014, increasing per-share...

The Wall Street Journal reports that eBay has been quietly working to integrate acceptance of Bitcoin into its Braintree payments subsidiary, part of its PayPal unit. People close to the matter told the paper that PayPal officials have met with several companies that foster...

Canada has more Bitcoin ATMs than another nation, largely attributed to the efforts of Ottawa-based startup BitAccess. The one-year-old firm has designed, manufactured, and shipped more than 60 Bitcoin ATMs to cities worldwide and a dozen across Canada, cementing Canada’s...

Global Payments (NYSE: GPN), the worldwide provider of payment solutions, announced on Wednesday that it had signed a referral agreement with BitPay. The newfound partnership allows Global Payments to incorporate Bitcoin into its product suite and to offer the cryptocurrency...