| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.06.2026 | I Spent Ten Days in Latin America Without Touching Fiat. Here’s What Happened. | Crypto ran my life for ten days.
It paid for my flights, my hotels, my buses and one emergency pair of sneakers when the right one died on a staircase in Valparaíso. It bought me a tango show in San Telmo where a dancer pulled me onto the f... |
| 28.05.2025 | Mezo Launches First Full-Stack Bitcoin Economy to Mainnet | New York, USA, May 28th, 2025, Chainwire
Mezo, the bank-free Bitcoin finance platform built by Thesis*, the leading venture studio building brands on Bitcoin, today announced its Mainnet launch. As the industry’s first full-stack Bitcoin ec... |
| 15.08.2022 | 10 blockchain startups to watch | While many industries have seen a decline in venture capital investment, the blockchain space has continued to enjoy funding. Blockchain startups have found strength in the rise of NFT use cases alongside the convergence of blockchain and o... |
| 15.08.2022 | 10 blockchain startups to watch | Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here.
While many industries have seen a decline in venture capital investment, the blockchain space has continued to enjoy fu... |
| 10.05.2022 | Bitrefill launches fundraiser for the world’s richest bankers | SAVE THE BANKERS!
The last decade has seen Bitcoin threaten the profits of Wall Street's banks. The bonuses of the top bankers have already shrunk. Here's why.
With 100-room mansions, yachts and jets and beluga caviar breakfasts, bankers ha... |
| 28.04.2022 | It’s now possible to pay all bills with crypto | Users in the US will be able to pay their credit card bills, utilities, healthcare, mortgage payments and 20,000 other types of bills using crypto. Even taxes!
They say there are only two certain things in life - death and taxes. Now, both ... |
| 14.04.2022 | Bitrefill brings the coin to the court with Bitsneaks | Stockholm-based Bitrefill has teamed up with Dallas Mavericks point guard Spencer Dinwiddie to bring you Bitsneaks, a trainer that incorporates cellular internet technology built into the sole and an app-controlled LED panel interwoven down... |
| 18.01.2022 | Block’s Cash App adopts Lightning Network for free bitcoin payments | Late last year, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey stepped down from his position in order to give his full attention to his other company Square, now called Block, which had become increasingly invested in blockchain technology and cryptocurrency — j... |
| 22.07.2021 | Bitrefill | Bitrefill, founded in 2014 by Sergej Kotliar, allows users to purchase mobile phone credit and gift cards, and send payments through layer-two scaling solution the Lightning Network.
To top up their mobile phone credit, users enter their ph... |
| 15.07.2021 | Strike's Jack Mallers on Fixing the Fiat Problem | Jack Mallers is wearing a hoodie. That’s not so unusual, as the 27-year-old founder of Strike is almost always wearing a hoodie. But this one is different. It’s pink, it’s bright, and it has a cartoon drawing of Mallers and the president of... |
| 18.06.2021 | Amazon Prime Day 2021: Nintendo, PS5, and Xbox Gaming Deals — How to Buy Using Cryptocurrency? | Teejay Boris, Tech Times 18 June 2021, 07:06 am
Amazon Prime Day 2021 is happening in just few more days.
So, here are some of the best Nintendo, PS5, and Xbox gaming deals to enjoy. And here's how you could use your cryptocurrency portfoli... |
| 07.05.2021 | More companies, including PayPal and Xbox, are accepting bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as payment. Others are weighing up their options. | Retailers are recognizing bitcoin’s growing popularity. NurPhoto/Getty Images
Bitcoin is becoming an increasingly popular payment option among many companies.
Fast-food chains, big tech firms, and even auction houses are embracing cryptocur... |
| 07.05.2021 | More companies, including PayPal and Xbox, are accepting bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as payment. Others are weighing up their options. | Bitcoin is becoming an increasingly popular payment option among many companies.
Fast-food chains, big tech firms, and even auction houses are embracing cryptocurrencies.
Other companies are still considering their potential.
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| 26.01.2020 | What Are Lightning Wallets Doing to Help Onboard New Users? | The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week, the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss Lightning Network technology and two innovative approaches at the wallet level which simplify the new-user exper... |
| 04.12.2019 | Bitcoin Can Get You Big Brands' Gift Cards Thanks to Bitfinex-Bitrefill Strategic Alliance | Contents Big brands’ pay cards for BitcoinFirst dynamic B2B settlement process over the Lightning Network
On his Twitter page, the Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino has shared the news that the major Bitfinex exchange and the crypto company Bitref... |
| 13.06.2019 | Bitcoin Startup Bitrefill Raises $2 Million Funding for Global Expansion | The veteran bitcoin startup Bitrefill, which offers cryptocurrency gift cards for mainstream brands and lightning-enabled payment services, plans to expand to new jurisdictions thanks to venture backing.
As revealed exclusively to CoinDesk,... |
| 13.06.2019 | Stockholm-based cryptocurrency startup Bitrefill raises $2 million | Swedish cryptocurrency startup Bitrefill has landed $2 million in a fiat funding round led by Coin Ninja, with participation from Charlie Lee, Fulgur Ventures, and Bnktothefuture. The startup expects to use the funding to expand its develop... |
| 09.01.2019 | New Bitrefill Service Aims to Make Lightning Payments Easy | Stockholm-based startup Bitrefill now offers a way to mitigate bitcoin’s expensive learning curve for new users.
Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Bitrefill’s new Thor service allows people to give lightning channels to someone else with no... |
| 31.07.2017 | Cryptocurrency 101 | Cryptocurrency is the talk of the town now, it’s everywhere, from thousands of digital coin ATMs installed over the world to the hospital in Pakistan offering to accept the digital currency. Among all the debate about its legality and profi... |
| 29.07.2017 | Startups Brace for Bitcoin Cash Fork in Wave of Policy Updates | What should we do about Bitcoin Cash?
That’s the question facing industry startups, as it seems likely that a group of developers and miners might actually fork from the main bitcoin network next week, forming a brand new cryptocurrency.
Du... |
| 07.06.2016 | Blockchain/Bitcoin in Vietnam – A short Overview | As a country where cash is still the king of currency, the current state of implementation of Blockchain technology solutions in Vietnam is still very new. A few Vietnam fintech startups have been working on providing basic infrastructure l... |
| 23.02.2016 | These Are The Startups Pitching At Our TechCrunch MWC Meetup | TechCrunch is holding a Meetup and Pitch Off during Mobile World Congress, on the evening of Wednesday, Feb 24. The event is now SOLD OUT.
Attendees will see around 8 startups pitch to win tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt NY. These will be 2 m... |
| 20.11.2015 | Bitrefill Let You Top-Up Your Prepaid Mobile Phone With Bitcoins | Available in 135 countries (including Singapore, Switzerland and Vietnam) and supporting over 500 operators, Bitrefill is a service that allows you to refill your prepaid mobile phone with bitcoins.
Founded in October 2014, Bitrefill lets y... |
| 15.11.2014 | Bitrefill Brings Mobile Credit Buying with Bitcoin to 113 Countries | A startup called Bitrefill wants to let people top up their mobile phone credit with bitcoin in more than a hundred countries around the world.
Bitrefill's website lets users punch in a mobile number, select the amount of credit they wish t... |
| - | From Whole Foods to Gamestop, here are 5 retailers that accept crypto—but there's a catch | Nearly 40% of millennials and Gen Zers who own cryptocurrency plan to use it to make payments, according to PYMNT and BitPay's "Paying With Crypto" survey.
Retailers are taking notice. About 75% of them plan to begin accepting cry... |
| - | Bitrefill brings the coin to the court with Bitsneaks | Stockholm-based Bitrefill has teamed up with Dallas Mavericks point guard Spencer Dinwiddie to bring you Bitsneaks, a trainer that incorporates cellular internet technology built into the sole and an app-controlled LED panel interwoven down... |
| - | Inside Afghanistan's cryptocurrency underground as the country plunges into turmoil | For many Afghans, this week has laid bare the worst-case scenario for a country running on legacy financial rails: A nationwide cash shortage, closed borders, a plunging currency, and rapidly rising prices of basic goods.
In some ways, it's... |
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How to Use the Strike Mobile Payment App | Strike is a mobile payment application like Cash App or PayPal with one caveat: Instead of using the traditional payment rails, it uses the Bitcoin blockchain to send and receive money.
It is developed by Zap Solutions, a Chicago-based fint... |
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How to Spend Your Crypto Using Bitrefill’s Gift Card Platform | There’s still a long way ahead of us until we can pay directly with cryptocurrency for everyday purchases at the grocery store, in a coffee shop or on our vacations.
For crypto enthusiasts who want to live off their digital assets, Bitrefil... |
