Mobile

The New US administration under Donald Trump has raised the Border security at customs points when entering the US. Customs agents are searching mobile phones and other electronic devices using a complex algorithm to establish what Bitcoin or any other security info may be contained on the gadget.

Amazon is the world’s largest online store with shipping capabilities of all over the United States. Although Amazon itself still does not allows Bitcoin in their transactions, third party applications like the purse.io Android and IOS apps do.

BitShares Munich, a Germany-based Blockchain Company offers a stack of financial products including payment systems and mobile banking on a Blockchain and has developed a new project called Stealth. Coinidol.com interviewed BitShares Munich CEO Christoph Hering about their new project.

BlockchainHub has announced two winners of its Blockchain Startup Contest – an Ethereum mobile client Status, and a decentralized insurance application Etherisc. The winning teams received an award of €15,000 each.

Synechron, a New York-based global financial services consulting and technology services provider,  has received two innovation awards from ACORD, the global provider of insurance data standards, in recognition of the firm’s innovative work in blockchain and micro-insurance.

Japan may soon start regulating PokeCoins, the virtual currency used in the most popular mobile game of 2016 – Pokemon Go. Moreover, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) of Japan proposes to secure the virtual currencies used in games with real-world money.

120 minutes, a Latvian-Canadian technology company, has developed a new a bot, called Callcoin, for the instant messaging service Telegram. Using Callcoin, people can now make cheaper international calls and pay for them using Bitcoin.

Apple announced the update for its iOS 10 mobile operating system and iMessages that will include the Circle payments app, this may also mean a potential integration of Bitcoin payments along with fiat via the Circle pay app system.

Today, people are likely to choose mobile apps and wallet, instead of using similar software solutions on their PC desktop. It is the same situation with Bitcoin mobile apps and online wallets.