The Currency Scene
Three Reasons Why Bitcoin is Popular with Online Gaming and Gambling Communities
- Written by: The Merkle
- Category: Digital Currency
Bitcoin is one of the world’s most popular crypto-currencies, and there is still a lot of interest and optimism in developing the virtual currency further despite the number of challenges it has faced recently.
Is It Time to Redesign Card Technology for ATMs
- Written by: ATM Marketplace
- Category: ATM
The oldest challenges in the ATM industry are the security of cash inside the machine and the guarantee that the withdrawer is genuine.
Whereas the magnetic stripe has been used for a long time, EMV chip and PIN is now commonplace in the ATM industry for withdrawals in the U.K. and Europe. But the fact that EMV is not truly global as yet means that fraud can continue to take place.
An Explanation of What Bitcoin Is
- Written by: Nasdaq
- Category: Digital Currency
When most people hear about Bitcoin, whether for the first or the tenth time, they ask one simple question: “What is it?”
Like an automobile, Bitcoin is technically advanced, and it can appear complicated, depending on how much you want to know about it. But also like an automobile, it doesn’t require you to be a technical expert in order to use it—and for it to change the way you interact with the world.
Seven myths about the Bitcoin blockchain
- Written by: CIO
- Category: Digital Currency
Everyone’s talking about the Bitcoin blockchain – a global, distributed ledger of transactions for the Bitcoin digital currency – allowing for peer-to-peer payments over the Internet.
Microsoft versus Google. Will Android take over the ATM from Windows?
- Written by: Matthew S Daye
- Category: ATM
Software that runs the internal operation of an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) has seen several waves of adaptation since the first ATMs were introduced more than forty years ago. And now the ATM industry finds itself once again at a crossroads where the next king of the hill of ATM software will be crowned. Will it be another version of Windows? Or will Google Android step in to steal Microsoft's thunder in yet another venue?
Why does money transferred online take days to turn up?
- Written by: News.com.au
- Category: Banking
In the age of the instant everything, why does the money I transfer electronically disappear from my account immediately, but take up to five business days to reach its destination?
I can’t help but imagine a giant multinational conglomerate conspiracy as I watch my funds fly off into the abyss of nothingness for days before my debts are settled at the other end. Where did they go? And importantly, who is earning interest off of them while they’re unavailable?
Smartphone Payments Are India's Best Spark for Modern Banking
- Written by: Payments Source
- Category: Cards & Payments
In many emerging markets, daily financial transactions—buying groceries, paying a utility bill, cashing a paycheck or billing a customer—are notoriously difficult. Banking institutions are few and far between, and large swaths of the population have little or no access to them.
