Cork, Ireland — 20th June 2019 — Gift Card Exchange, Bitcart, has launched a ton of new gift cards to it’s inventory. The Lightning App already offers up to 20% off Amazon.com gift cards and has now integrated with Airbnb, Uber, Starbucks, iTunes and Wholefoods. Living on Bitcoin has never…

Cork, Ireland — 20 March 2019 — The Irish blockchain-based payments platform Festy has secured a partnership with Klaytn, a subsidiary of Kakao, Korea’s largest mobile app with 50 million users. The partnership marks one of the largest technology developments between South Korea and an Irish startup. Klaytn, a public…

by Graham de Barra I woke up this Monday morning like any other, ready to work on my crypto startups, when I received a message from my client in Venezuela. Without light there is no electricity. And without electricity there is no bitcoin.

Cork, Ireland — March 2019 — The online Amazon gift card retailer Bitcart.io last month integrated Bitcoin Lightning payments to it’s e-commerce website. Customers can now avail of millions of items on Amazon and enjoy a 10% discount paying with Bitcoin on-chain and Lightning network. Bitcart was founded in 2014…

Cork, Ireland — 22 December 2018 — One of the earliest cryptocurrency retailers, Bitcart, today launched a B2B service that allows wholesalers make purchases of Amazon.com gift cards in bulk. …

In 2008, collaborative artist Pawel Althamer invited his neighbours of a small town in Warsaw to dress in golden astronaut uniforms and travel the World. Polish tourists roaming around in different countries without the need to work challenges the traditional understanding of being a tourist as needing to have money…

Festy Talks is a new podcast series exploring cultural, political and scientific impacts surrounding blockchain in society. This episode Blockchain Beyond Borders will take place in the Korean DMZ on the 19th of November, as part of a “think outside the blocks” event Provenance Summit 2018. With an ongoing 16…

Strasbourg, 4th October 2018 — The EU Parliament have this week passed resolution Distributed ledger technologies and blockchains: building trust with disintermediation Spearheaded by Greek MEP Eva Kaili, a major motivation for introducing the resolution is to empower and protect EU citizens and startups in respect to centralised banking, data…

Friday, 7th September 2018 Hong Kong Edition: Revolutionising the Payments and Data Industry Venue: Genesis Block, 1/F, 269–273 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong Revolutionising the Payments and Data Industry is a Provenance.events meetup happening in Genesis Block, Hong Kong on the 7th of September beginning at 6.30pm featuring Graham…