26 Mar 2015
The recent 2015 budget was peppered with references to technology, and nods to how the UK as a nation is leading the charge; be it in the Internet of Things or driverless cars. But also on the day the Treasury released its response to the call for information for digital currencies. Though it might have been buried in the budgetary noise, I believ...
12 Nov 2014
As you may have already seen, Global payments company NCR has announced that one of its merchant point-of-sale (POS) systems will soon offer Bitcoin support. Merchants have shown an increasing appetite for virtual currency, with more and more offering customers the ability to pay through bitcoins. Shopify recently partnered with GoCoin to enable i...
14 Aug 2014
Virtual currencies are definitely trending. You know that’s true when even the politicians are jumping on the bandwagon. It won’t be long until Ed and Dave are asking if they can pay for their Cornish pasties with Bitcoins. Maybe we’re not quite there yet, but the fact that in the run-up to a general election, the Treasury is looking at measures to...