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6 Nov 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Heath Muchena
What is upnup? Upnup is described as Africa’s first passive micro-investing app that allows users to accumulate Bitcoin on autopilot. The app claims to be the first fintech platform in South Africa to make it possible for users to accumulate funds th...
29 Dec 2021 2 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
Due to my research, I learnt that the Bitcoin Lightning Network facilitates micropayments between two parties as a way to reduce congestion on the main blockchain and expedite transactions. But how is it actually manifested in real life? So I tested...
13 Mar 2021 2 minute read 2 comments BudgetHolics
Bitcoin has established itself as both an investment vehicle and as a reverse currency. Both individual and, this time, institutional investors have allocated part of their portfolios into bitcoin, yet, it still hasn't established itself as a curre...
26 Feb 2021 2 minute read 0 comments rhysmonkey
I am not a prolific writer on Publish0x (P0x). I am a regular reader and I happily take the maximum amount (80%) from tips I give out to earn some extra pocket money. I used to write on Hive semi-regularly - I now only write occasionally. In April la...
11 Feb 2021 3 minute read 6 comments Allen Taylor
Current payments models are about 10 years behind the technological ability to implement. An article published in Wired online two years ago asked rhetorically, “Shouldn’t we have seamless micropayments by now?” The article points out that a “402 Pay...
25 Sep 2020 5 minute read 5 comments MintDice.com
“Georges down.” It was video arcade slang in the early 1980s, the era of standup-cabinet games. If someone was playing the only Pac-Man machine in the room, you could reach past him as he worked the controls and set your quarter in a lower corner of...
19 Apr 2020 1 minute read 4 comments cryptoramble
There is an exciting way that Bitcoin (BTC) and its lightning network might be able to change the landscape of the Internet and how we send and receive content and funds across the web. Here's the Bitcoin take on micropayments, a direly-needed soluti...
7 Sep 2019 21 minute read 2 comments MintDice.com
There has been a lot of buzz surrounding cryptocurrency and blockchain, mostly due to the potential high sums of money that can be made in the industry. Recently, though, a lot of that attention has shifted to the blockchain applications of this tech...
