LATAM crypto update: Brazil to regulate virtual assets activities, Argentina allows crypto payments for subway

This week’s LATAM crypto news highlights the region’s dynamic cryptocurrency scene. Brazil, for example, could begin to regulate cryptocurrency-related activities, while Argentina continues on its digital innovation path by allowing underground payments in cryptocurrency.

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Detroit to become largest US city to accept crypto payments for taxes

Detroit enables crypto tax payments by 2025, integrating blockchain to modernize services and boost economic growth in the city. The post Detroit to become largest US city to accept crypto payments for taxes appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Crypto.com partners with Adelaide Oval to bring crypto payments to sports fans in Australia

Crypto. com and Adelaide Oval have integrated to enable the first ever crypto payments at an Australian stadium. Users will pay with crypto via Crypto. com Pay, with a AUD$10 cashback for first 1,000 transactions.

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X’s ad revenue sharing: Crypto payments on the horizon?

Should Elon Musk’s platform choose to introduce crypto payments in the future, Stripe’s on-ramp service could prove beneficial.

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National Australia bank to block payments to "high-risk" crypto platforms

NAB joined other banks in the country to restrict crypto-related payments. Australians lost $148.3 million from investment scams in 2022 where crypto payment method was used, as per an April reThe post National Australia bank to block payments to "high-risk" crypto platforms appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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CoinsPaid Tops List Of BTC Payment Processors and Gateways For 2023

Bitcoin payments are at an all-time high, and the reasons might surprise you — after all, we’re only just coming out of a long, difficult crypto winter. With overall crypto payments up 39% from last year, it’s essential to reflect on the benefits of the blockchain.

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New EU Money Laundering Law Will Not Ban Crypto Payments

Coinspeaker New EU Money Laundering Law Will Not Ban Crypto Payments As far as the EU is concerned, it is gradually advancing in its crackdowns on the crypto industry through functional regulation.

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Dogecoiners Cheer As Elon Musk Charts A Bullish Course For Twitter Crypto Payments

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Crypto Payments App MoonPay Gains UK Regulator Registration

The crypto payments app was registered with the Financial Conduct Authority as of Friday, signifying compliance with money laundering rules.

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McDonald’s, pizza and coffee paid in Bitcoin: The Plan B for crypto payments

Crypto payments are taking off in a big way in Lugano, Switzerland with 60 merchants and counting.

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Anti-Tech Consumers Prefer Crypto Payments, Report

People with the least tech knowledge are mostly interested in crypto payments

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FTX Forges New Partnership With Visa To Enable Crypto Payments In 40 Countries

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EU Set to Ban Russian Crypto Payments After ‘Sham’ Referenda

Russians could be restricted from making any payments to EU crypto wallets following the imposition of limits in April.

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Ukrainian Fintech Company Weld Money launches solution for crypto payments

Weld Money, a Ukrainian Fintech Company, has today officially launched its innovative crypto payments product – the Weld card. The card will allow anyone to perform daily payments for goods and services directly from crypto wallets using Google Pay and Apple Pay.

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Request Finance introduces new “salaries” feature for crypto payrolls

Request Finance, a fast-growing B2B crypto payments app helping companies, freelancers and decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) manage and process payments, has introduced a new feature that is set to revolutionise crypto-related payroll processing.

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SBI’s Japanese E-Commerce Site to Allow Crypto Payments With BTC, XRP

Japanese used car exporting company, SBI Motor Japan, has announced that its e-commerce site has begun accepting crypto payments. The post SBI’s Japanese E-Commerce Site to Allow Crypto Payments With BTC, XRP appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Crypto Added to Telegram by TON Stewards, Opening Path to Payments

Telegram has added the facility to send and receive Toncoin within the app, potentially opening up crypto payments to its 550 million users.

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Rio de Janeiro to Allow Real Estate Tax Payments With Crypto as of 2023, Mayor Says

The state administration will convert crypto payments immediately to Brazilian reais, Mayor Eduardo Paes added.

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Crypto payments could be coming to an iPhone near you

Crypto payments could be elevated to the next level, judging by the revelation made by popular smartphone manufacturer Apple Inc yesterday. The post Crypto payments could be coming to an iPhone near you appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Report: Nearly a third of small businesses in the U.S. currently accept payments in crypto

Skynova provides invoicing software for small businesses and in order to gauge the level of adoption when it comes to crypto payments, the company surveyed 584 small-business owners and managers located in the US.

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Payments Giant Stripe Is Building A Bitcoin And Crypto Team

Payments company Stripe is building a Bitcoin and crypto team to help their platform “support crypto use cases.”

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50,000 electric vehicle charging stations in Europe to offer crypto payments

Over the next three years, 50,000 EV charging stations across Europe will start accepting crypto payments.

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MAS Receives Over 300 Applications Including Alphabet, Alibaba, & Binance for Payments and Crypto Exchange Licenses

While calling Bitcoin a “speculative asset,” which is very complex, the top central bank official Sopnendu Mohanty said, if people want to go out and buy such risky assets, “it is their choice.” The post MAS Receives Over 300 Applications Including Alphabet, Alibaba, & Binance for Payments and Crypto Exchange Licenses first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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Two Major Hotels in Touristic Spanish City to Accept Crypto Payments in the Wake of Covid-19 Crisis

Sevilla is becoming a crypto-friendly city in Spain at a fast pace, with two prominent local hotels announcing they will start accepting crypto payments. Hotel Bécquer and Hotel Kivir have joined the crypto adoption bandwagon by allowing customers to book rooms with digital assets.

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Online Music Store Beatport to Start Accepting Bitcoin Payments, Launches Curated NFT

A major American DJ-related online music store has joined the crypto adoption frenzy by accepting bitcoin payments. Beatport is the latest firm that adopts a crypto payment gateway after signed a partnership with crypto exchange Crypto.

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WeWork partners with Coinbase and BitPay to accept crypto payments

Leading flexible space provider WeWork has announced it has partnered with crypto exchanges Coinbase and BitPay to start accepting crypto payments. The company will be offering crypto holders the opportunity to pay for services using several cryptocurrencies.

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Romanian university plans to accept crypto payments for admission fees

The academic institution with a student body of roughly 11,000 said the addition of crypto payments was part of a plan to support local businesses like Elrond.

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Bison Trails supports Crypto.com’s payments blockchain with key infrastructure

Crypto.com’s Crypto.org Chain aims to bring cryptocurrency payments mainstream.

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Mastercard Becomes Worldwide Partner for Rugby World Cup 2023 After Announcing Crypto Payments Later in 2021

Mastercard again becomes a major partner for Rugby World Cup in France in two years, while it has promised to introduce crypto payments later in 2021

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Crypto Long & Short: Traditional and Crypto Markets are Starting to Converge

The latest OCC statement, which opens the door for banks to use blockchains to validate payments, hints at more than just better services.

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Job Posting Shows Spotify Mulling Crypto Payments

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PayPal Follows Bitcoin Startups, Laying Foundation for Crypto Payments

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Utrust CEO discusses why crypto payments reign in an uncertain economy

While the crypto market is currently chasing DeFi pumps and swap projects, much of the theme of the past five years was centered on cryptocurrencies as a payments solution to replace fiat (which is artificially inflated).

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Bitcoin Flies as PayPal Boards the Crypto Express

PayPal has announced that its customers will soon be able to carry out crypto transactions with its 26 million merchants. In a statement released on Oct 21, the payments giant revealed that it will enable crypto payments on its network in early 2021.

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Austrian Telecom Giant Enables Bitcoin Payment Support

Customers of A1 Telekom subsidiary will now be able to make crypto payments based on a recent collaboration with the Austrian crypto payments processor, Salamantex. Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Accepted on A1 Payment The company made the announcement via a press release on Monday (July 27, 2020).

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Streaming Service Twitch Offers Discount for Crypto Subscribers

More than a year after disabling crypto payments, Twitch is back on the cryptocurrency bandwagon with discounted subscription plans for customers who pay using virtual currencies. As more service platforms integrate with exchanges and other payment gateways, crypto token payments may take-off leading to the desired broad-based retail adoption of cryptocurrencies.

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Crypto.com Joins Open Payments Coalition of Over 100 Million Users

Crypto.com joined over 40 finance and technology firms by becoming a member of the Open Payments Coalition.

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BitcoinMixer.to: An Effective Bitcoin Mixer for Anonymizing Crypto Payments

Bitcoin might be a safe and fast way to transact, but it doesn’t guarantee complete anonymity. A highly motivated hacker can easily trace your records. But thanks to BitcoinMixer. to, a platform that anonymizes crypto payments, you can send crypto stress-free knowing all your payments are completely safe.

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Crypto Payments Provider Partners With Travala Bookings Platform

Hong Kong-based crypto payments provider Crypto.com will now process crypto-based payments for the Travala booking platform

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Is Visa’s $5 Billion Acquisition of Plaid a Good Sign for Crypto?

Credit and payments giant Visa Inc. has reportedly paid over $5 billion for a fintech firm that provides services to connect payments apps to bank accounts. It could be good news for the fintech and crypto industry for the coming years.

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Alchemy integrates GAP600 to enable instant crypto payments for merchants

Alchemy, an Asia-Pacific based fiat/crypto hybrid payments company, announced it has partnered with GAP600, a provider of instant confirmation bitcoin and crypto transactions to enhance user experience.

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Is Blockchain Payments Integration in Messenger Apps Good for Crypto?

While some analysts expect platforms like Libra to bolster crypto adoption, others fear the centralization of blockchain payments

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AT&T accepting crypto payments – or are they?

If you’ve ever been in a conversation about crypto adoption, you will be familiar with how it usually ends. Any sort of serious discussion is, sooner or later, brought to a dismissive conclusion, by some modern day equivalent of Dickens character John Podsnap.

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StarkWare Blockchain Project Launches StarkPay Scalability Engine for Faster Crypto Payments

StarkWare, a blockchain platform focused on improving scalability and privacy in blockchains through STARK technology, has announced the launch of StarkPay, a crypto payments scalability engine that is designed to address the shortcomings of the Lightning Network, according to a blog post published March 4, 2019.

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Foton: Decentralized Crypto Bank Blockchain Project?

Discover FOTON, the financial ecosystem of the future! FOTON is a decentralized, digital crypto banking platform that enables instant transactions through contactless payments and the blockchain technology.

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Tel Aviv-based Bits of Gold Crypto Exchange Announces Development of Payments API

The Israeli-based cryptocurrency exchange Bits of Gold announced that it is currently developing a new API service specifically designed for crypto payments. The main intention is to allow merchants in the region to start accepting crypto payments.

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Why Ohio’s State Treasurer Backs Decision to Accept BTC For Tax Payments

As tax season is rapidly approaching, some states, like Ohio, have decided to set a new standard for the rest of the country to follow. Back in November, Ohio became the first state in the U.

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Fortnite’s Merch Store Now Accepts Monero (XMR) Payments

The popular online video game Fortnite is helping to drive cryptocurrency adoption, as its merchandise store has now started accepting crypto payments. However, the option is limited to Monero (XMR) – a leading privacy coin.

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Zcash Targets Mainstream Adoption With Shielded Wallets

Privacy coin Zcash is becoming more mainstream every day, as crypto investors increasingly look to shield their payments. If you don’t believe us, check out this waterfront property for sale on the Greek island of Lemnos, with a listing price of 180,000€ payable in euro or cryptocurrencies, including ZEC.

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