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A new partnership between Indian bitcoin exchange Unocoin, and San Francisco startup Bitwage will allow Indian employees to receive foreign payroll payments in bitcoin. Bitwage specializes in international wage payments, using blockchain technology to make international payroll fast, easy, and less expensive. Now, when an Indian-based contractor or business signs up with Bitwage, a Unocoin… Read More

Chinese bitcoin mining firm Bitmain, manufacturers of the Antminer series of bitcoin miners, has announced that it is building a massive 45-building solar-powered data centre complex in China. The complex, which will be capable of pulling 135 megawatts of power placing it at #3 of the most powerful data centres in the world, will operate… Read More

Japanese citizens will soon be able to pay their utility bills using bitcoin. The facility is being provided by Coincheck Denki, a new service offered by the Japanese bitcoin company, which will be available to users in November. Coincheck outlined the new plan on its website. Also called ‘Coincheck Electricity’, it will allow users to… Read More

A Chinese researcher has proposed a new cryptocurrency system which, unlike Bitcoin, does not use a blockchain, and suggests that Bitcoin is a ‘failed’ experiment which encourages excessive energy consumption in an ‘impossible’ pursuit of genuine decentralisation. In the paper Noncentralized Cryptocurrency with No Blockchain, Qian Xiaochao suggests that a second stab at Bitcoin’s ambitions… Read More

United Pharmacies, an online drugs seller with global reach, is now offering a discount to customers who pay for their medicine using the virtual currency Bitcoin. United Pharmacies, which opened for business five years ago and ships more than 100,000 orders annually, has added Bitcoin to its selection of payment methods and is offering customers 10%… Read More