It’s getting increasingly difficult to buy or sell bitcoins using an iPhone. But it may soon be a snap to do so on an Android device. Apple has been methodically shutting down bitcoin wallets and exchanges on iOS devices over the last couple of months, with the latest victim being the mobile wallet from blockchain.info, a British bitcoin exchange, last week. Jim Van Dyke, founder of Javelin Strategy & Research, commented on Twitter: Banks fret over Apple erupting as payments innovator. Meanwhile, Apple is [the] leading platform/entity to slam the door on #bitcoin innovation Google is taking a very different path. In late January, Google Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra, responding to a question on the social news site Reddit, said that his company was considering implementing bitcoin capabilities, and asked users how they would like to see Google work with bitcoin. Over the next several days suggestions poured into the discussion, hosted by Google. Below are 13 of the 1,395 ideas submitted to Google. Most center around enabling bitcoin payments within Google’s ecosystem, but a few are considerably more ambitious. Develop a secure user-friendly wallet Implement bitcoin payments into Google Play Store, Checkout, AdSense/AdWords, etc. Build point-of-sale payment systems for [...]
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