Nevertheless, bitcoin is not yet in
the mainstream means of payment.
Not exact matches
Robin Williamson, Technical Director
of LITRG, said: «Unless support benefits such as free school meals are co-ordinated with
mainstream welfare
payments, such as tax credits and
means - tested benefits, the interaction between the two can produce real disincentives to enter or remain in work.»
The service is currently in beta and interested developers can apply to start working with the SDK;
of course, that does
mean that they'll need to support two
payment frameworks if they want to target both the Fire and
mainstream Android tablets, but the Fire may just be a big enough seller to justify the trouble.
Lightning Network will revive Bitcoin's utility as a
means of digital
payments, allowing it to further penetrate the
mainstream payments world.