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TigerDirect Now Accepting Bitcoin!

TigerDirect has become the latest retailer to accept Bitcoin. They are an online retailer that’s been around since 1989 and have absorbed Circuit City and Comp USA along their way. Bitpay will be used as its payment processor. Bitcoin will be accepted online,...

South Africa’s Platinum Mine Negotiations

South Africa’s government and union officials will meet today in order to try to resolve the labor dispute over the miner work wages. Labor Minister Mildred Oliphant will lead the discussion taking place with Anglo American Platinum, Impala Platinum Holdings,...

South African Platinum Strike

South Africa’s Impala Platinum shut its Rustenburg operations this Wednesday – a day before a planned strike over wages across the country’s platinum belt by the hard-line Association of Mine workers and Construction Union. AMCU is the platinum...

The Sacramento Kings Now Accepting Bitcoin

As of Thursday, January 16, 2014 the NBA’s Sacramento Kings have begun to accept Bitcoin as a form of payment for purchases. The Kings will depend on Bitpay to carry out the transactions. Bitpay is an intermediary group that directly deals with Bitcoin...

Bitcoin Retains it’s Resilience

The list of US businesses now accepting Bitcoin for payment is growing! After the regulatory crackdown on the cryptocurrency in China, it’s value plummeted by almost 50%. It is beginning to make somewhat of a comeback though, thanks to support from US-based...