Multi-Billion Dollar Japanese Tech Conglomerate to Pay Employees in Bitcoin: GMO Internet Inc., a multi-billion dollar Japanese technology conglomerate, will process salaries of its 4,710 full-time employees in bitcoin. According to the official statement of GMO Internet, employees within the company and its subsidiaries will be able to choose to receive their salaries in bitcoin … Read more
Biw niches and subsidiary markets opening up, there is an abundance of new jobs and it seems that women are flooding in to take up these positions. It’s not only successful ICOs that are being headed up by women. Key speakers at a number of conferences are women and Coinbase said 46 percent of its … Read more
Blockchain.info Launches Bitcoin Cash Support, Users Cry For SegWit: iIn the latest development, popular Bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain.info has announced it has now given “full support” to Bitcoin Cash (BCH). In a blog post today, Blockchain confirmed that a Bitcoin fork, Bitcoin Cash, had become one of its wallet’s main currencies alongside Bitcoin (BTC) and … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister, PM: Bitcoin Could Replace Banks: In a video published on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister (PM) Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that the operation of traditional banks will eventually become obsolete and could be replaced by Bitcoin. He based his claim on the trustless nature of Blockchain technology and on Bitcoin’s continuous, notable growth this … Read more
South African Tax Services Researching Ways to Track BTC Transactions: In the latest development, report has it that regulators, governments and tax men alike have been stumped as to how to keep up with the rapidly growing cryptocurrency market. It has seen a large grey area appear over the market in which incidents are usually … Read more
Former NZ PM Angrily Denies BTC Investment Rumors: Former New Zealand Prime Minister, Sir John Key, says rumors circulating that he invested in Bitcoin are entirely false. The claim that Key is an avid investor in BTC originally came from a fake NZ Herald site, a link to which was then circulated on Facebook and … Read more