UK Post Office Adds Option to Buy Bitcoin via Easyid App

U.K. Post Office’s Easyid app is adding the option to buy bitcoin starting this week. Through the free-to-use Post Office app, customers can access Swarm Markets, a regulated crypto exchange, to buy bitcoin and ethereum. Buy Bitcoin and Ether Using Post Office App The U.K. Post Office is introducing an option to buy cryptocurrencies via … Read more

State-Owned Swiss Bank Postfinance Launches App Supporting 13 Cryptocurrencies

The banking subsidiary of the national postal service of Switzerland, Postfinance, has launched a mobile app providing clients with access to cryptocurrencies, ETFs and more. The software allows users to make payments, save funds or invest in various assets, with a commitment to a level of security provided only by the country’s leading online banks. … Read more

Amid US Postal Service ‘Crisis’ USPS Files Patent for Blockchain Mail-in Voting Scheme

The United States Postal Service (USPS) is falling apart at the seams and many Americans are blaming the Trump administration. The USPS may have to deal with the U.S. election ballot process, as mail-in votes may be the dominant practice thanks to the coronavirus. Amid the American public’s concerned reaction about the internal problems at … Read more

$6M Worth of Tether on the Bitcoin Cash Chain Highlights the Benefits of SLP Tokens

During the first week of July, crypto supporters noticed that Tether issued 1,010 stablecoins via the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) framework on Bitcoin Cash. Now there’s a much larger amount of SLP-based tethers in circulation as the company has minted a total of 6 million on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain. Digital currency enthusiasts have been … Read more

Croatian Post’s Crypto Exchange 2 Months in: More Local Users, BTC, ETH, and XRP Favored by Customers

In December news.Bitcoin.com reported on the Croatian Post’s launch of their own crypto exchange service. After a pilot run in the tourist friendly city of Zadar, the program was expanded to 55 post office branches nationwide starting December 11. Now almost two months in, Croatian Post has provided an update to news.Bitcoin.com on the progress … Read more

Post Office in Liechtenstein Now Sells BTC

The government-owned post office in Liechtenstein has begun offering a cryptocurrency exchange service. Initially, the post office in the capital city of Vaduz will sell BTC, with four more cryptocurrencies planned. The service is in partnership with Zug-based Värdex Suisse, the operator of “the largest crypto ATM network in Switzerland.” Also read: Indian Supreme Court Moves … Read more

US Bitcoin Trader Convicted for Illegal Money Transmission and Laundering

The U.S. government has been cracking down on individuals utilizing the peer-to-peer platform Localbitcoins. This week an Arizona resident named Thomas Costanzo was convicted for money laundering tied to over $164,000 worth of cryptocurrency trades. Also Read: Arizona Localbitcoins Trader Detained by U.S. Homeland Security Two Years Worth of BTC Trades Investigated The U.S. Attorneys Office … Read more

The Satoshi Revolution – Chapter 4: Is Privacy Possible in the Digital Era? (Part 3)

Recent inventions and business methods call attention to the next step which must be taken for the protection of the person, and for securing to the individual … the right “to be let alone” … Numerous mechanical devices threaten to make good the prediction that “what is whispered in the closet shall be proclaimed from … Read more