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How to Accept Bitcoin on Thirty Bees

Bitcoin offers a unique and efficient way to receive payment for your products and services online. Now it's easier than ever to accept Bitcoin on your Thirty Bees store! Follow the instructions below, and soon you’ll be all set up to receive Bitcoin and have greater control over your

Yes, Bitcoin Needs Regulation, FTX Proves it

The Bitcoin world has been rocked by the news of FTX's collapse. The price has plummeted, and the main stream news media is having a field day claiming the end of Bitcoin is nigh. While its easy to brush aside these views based on historical performance, there is an important

How Bitcoin can Support the Iran Protests

Iran has been rocked by protests over the past several weeks. Thousands of people have turned out against the Iranian regime after a young Kurdish woman was killed by the so-called “moral police” after she wasn’t wearing her hijab properly. The Iranian government has responded with brutal force putting

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Abortion Clinics: Start Accepting Crypto

The Supreme Court of the United States on Friday June 24th decided to overturn a piece of settled law that has been in place for over 40 years. Because of this, millions of women now live in states where abortion is illegal or highly restricted. Stories of women suddenly having

Celebrating Pride Month with Crypto

June 1 marks the beginning of Pride Month, where we all collectively celebrate the accomplishments of LGTBQ+ people, but also the work that we as a society still have to do create an equitable society that does not discriminate. Crypto and Bitcoin don't discriminate, questions about equability vs equality aside,

Blockonomics Loves WordPress

You've probably followed our adventures in Bangkok last week where we attended the wonderful Wordcamp Asia. But did you know we have a strong history of supporting Wordcamps? Bangkok was our fourth WordCamp that we sponsored over the years. And it certainly won't be the last. We have grown on

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Working at Blockonomics

Too many small business owners, whether they are in postcolonial countries, developers who want more flexibility, or shopkeeps who just want an easy system, suffer at the hands of greedy payment processors, crypto or otherwise. Blockonomics is at the forefront of the push to democratize ecommerce payments, to change the

5 Amazing Women in Bitcoin: International Women’s Day 2022

Today is International Women’s Day, so I want to highlight some of the women that have made wonderful contributions to society through…

How Can Crypto Users Support Ukraine

Last night Russia launched an unprecedented invasion of Ukraine. Following a long bombardment, Russian launched a Blitzkrieg to try to…

Why Blockonomics is Sponsoring WordCamp — Vienna 2022

If there’s one thing that we at Blockonomics believe in its the spreading of ideas to benefit society. That’s why we operate, to better…

Bitcoin and Black History Month

During the height of the protests following the murder of George Floyd in the summer of 2020 I wrote an article on how Bitcoin can help…

The American Politics in the Bitcoin Community is Ruining It For the Rest of Us

About a year ago I wrote an article entitled “Why the Bitcoin Community has Failed Bitcoin.” My analysis at the time was that Bitcoiners…

Blockonomics x Crash Punks: Bitcoin/Stacks NFT (GIVEAWAY)

Blockonomics, the leading direct-to-wallet Bitcoin payment processor, has entered a partnership for the launch of Craft Punks NFT. As part…

Is the Political Future of US Crypto in the Hands of Mayors?

When the Bitcoin community rallied together to fight against a Bitcoin amendment in the US Infrastructure Bill because it was poorly…

How to Create a Bitcoin Payment Widget

Customization and ease is important for an ecommerce shop owner. With the Bitcoin Payment Widget you can create your own widgets and…

The Great American Crypto Political Awakening

The fact that one of the most important bills the Senate has debated this year was held up for a weekend because of cryptocurrency was at…

All you Need to Know About Bitcoin and the Infrastructure Bill

It is a bizarre sight. Sen Lummis (R-WY) one of the most conservative senators, Sen Toomey (R-PA) one of the GOP members who voted for…

Bitcoin Usage in South America is driven by Politics

The news of El Salvador making Bitcoin legal tender rocked the Bitcoin world. And although there’s an uphill battle, it has a good chance…

El Salvador‘s Great Bitcoin Experiment

El Salvador rocked the Bitcoin community, and left the world banking class confused when it announced it was going to adopt Bitcoin. In…

How to Create a Bitcoin Tip Jar

Bitcoin Tip Jars are a great way to accept BTC tips on any website without having to integrate a payment gateway. They are easy to create…

Accepting Bitcoin: Interview Emiland De Cubber, Found of Internet Pins

What gave you the idea for creating a pin store? My parents used to work for Bull, a well-known French IT company. They produced some…

Heroes Shouldn’t Exist in Bitcoin

Bitcoin has a problem. No it isn’t being green. No it isn’t the price drop. Bitcoin has a worship problem. The Bitcoin community loves its…

Elon Musk and Bitcoin — No One Should Have This Power

Bitcoin price drops are part of life. They always happen, and always will. But this recent price drop, from a high of $65k in April to a low of almost $30K as of writing was caused by blatant market manipulation by an unhinged man: Elon Musk. A chart put together

Elon Musk is wrong — Bitcoin is Green

Elon Musk sent Bitcoin tumbling below $50K after announcing that Tesla would no longer accept Bitcoin until “Bitcoin becomes more green.” Setting aside the poor business sense of creating a direct to wallet in house Bitcoin payment solution [https://blog.blockonomics.co/why-did-tesla-start-accepting-bitcoin-through-a-direct-payment-gateway-525e112ad81?source=collection_home---6------1-----------------------] and then immediately dumping

Interview with David (Teeshop Ghana) — Selling Tees for Bitcoin

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with David the founder of Teeshop Ghana. Teeshop Ghana sells a lot of great Tshirts and ships them throughout the country. They have lots of great designs, and a great message they are trying to share with the world. They also accept