2019-1-17 16:30 |
U.S.-based crypto payments processor BitPay says it processed over $1 billion-worth of transactions last year.
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2019-1-17 16:30 |
U.S.-based crypto payments processor BitPay says it processed over $1 billion-worth of transactions last year.
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CryptoNinjas BitPay, the largest global blockchain payments provider, today announced another record year along with key achievements and expansion of the payment processing platform for 2018 after more than seven years in.
2019-1-17 00:21 | |
Technology lawyer Addison Cameron-Huff launched his new, Toronto-based, all-crypto legal firm on January 3, 2019, Bitcoin’s 10th anniversary, as a statement of his commitment to working for and promoting Bitcoin and cryptocurrency-based businesses.
2019-1-11 21:17 | |
The good thing about the new year has been the lack of any news about crypto prices further spiraling downwards. This lull has given the market the much-needed breathing space, and the digital assets a chance to recover.
2019-1-11 18:57 | |
Fortnite Store [Once] Accept[ed] Monero (XMR) On New Year’s Day, rumors began to circulate around the crypto industry’s social media channels that Fortnite, the world-renowned “Battle Royale” video game that raked in millions upon millions, had begun to accept Monero (XMR) payments on its official merchandise store.
2019-1-7 12:00 | |
There were several rumours during the last year regarding Ripple signing a partnership with SWFT. Ripple is one of the largest companies in the virtual currency market and SWIFT is the biggest services provider for cross-border transactions.
2019-1-6 22:32 | |
A partnership to roll out Bitcoin payments using the Lightning Network across Australia went live January 4 with the beta launch of Wallet of Satoshi. 1000 Beta Wallets Launch The product of payment gateway Living Room of Satoshi (LRS) and TravelbyBit, billed as “Australia’s first cryptocurrency travel agency,” the wallet aims to bring Lightning payments to entry-level Bitcoin users.
2019-1-4 16:00 | |
With it being a little over a year since the OTC trading of cryptocurrencies became famous, popular and preferred, the OTC trading stall at Circle has come back with statistics of the previous year.
2019-1-4 14:58 | |
Ripple’s RapidX solution for cross border payments was released in October last year. The market has been very favourable to the cryptocurrency too, making it the second largest cryptocurrency in the world for the better part of 2018.
2019-1-4 15:29 | |
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.
2019-1-3 20:53 | |
CoinSpeaker Ripple Partners with National Bank of Kuwait Closing Out the Year National Bank of Kuwait has joined Ripple’s blockchain-based payments network seeking faster cross-border money transfers.
2018-12-28 16:25 | |
Bitcoin-supporting payments firm Square has been named Yahoo Finance Company of the Year
2018-12-28 01:08 | |
2018 has been a challenging year across digital asset markets. The total market crypto has diminished by a sizable ~85% and sentiment surrounding aspects of the ecosystem like ICO raising, is at all time low.
2018-12-27 23:00 | |
Lightning is a second-layer solution for the Bitcoin blockchain that addresses the scaling issues surrounding it today. Similar to Bitcoin, Lightning is an open-source protocol in which anyone can contribute to.
2018-12-19 02:34 | |
Decentralized payment processor BTCPayServer now offers wallet support for c-lightning users. Following its most recent update, the BitPay alternative announced support for Spark Wallet, a client for the Lightning Network's c-lightning implementation created by Bitrated founder and Blockstream employee Nadav Ivgi.
2018-12-18 02:16 | |
Abu Dhabi-based money transmitter UAE Exchange is working with Ripple to launch blockchain remittances to Asia early next year.
2018-12-13 15:01 | |
Chatspin, a popular live video streaming multi-platform app, is abandoning its plans to accept cryptocurrencies as a form of payment due to the significant losses in the value of Bitcoin and other coins have suffered this year, the company announced in a press release on December 6, 2018.
2018-12-9 00:00 | |
R3 has unveiled a new app on their international blockchain, a global payment platform that uses Ripple’s XRP as its initial base currency. The app, dubbed Corda Settler, continues R3’s track record for pursuing ambitious blockchain projects, and it is allegedly “purpose-built to allow for payment obligations raised on the Corda blockchain platform to be made through any of the world’s payment systems, both traditional and blockchain-based.
2018-12-6 01:54 | |
Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year that “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception.
2018-12-5 23:23 | |
Cryptocurrency exchanges Bitfinex and Ethfinex now support trading for all six of the market’s major stablecoins. Adding to its support for MakerDao’s Dai and Tether’s USDT, the sister platforms recently listed USD Coin (USDC), TrueUSD (TUSD), Paxos Standard Token (PAX) and Gemini USD (GUSD).
2018-12-4 21:02 | |
On Campus is a new Ripple Insights series that highlights the institutions, people and research that make up Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI), launched earlier this year to promote greater understanding of blockchain, crypto and digital payments through deeper engagement with academia.
2018-11-29 21:35 | |
Spark payments (Formerly DashPay POS) a Point Of Sale software for Dash cryptocurrency just won the Sheridan 2018 Startup Challenge organized by the Wyoming Technology Business Center. Spark earned a $5,000 cash reward, 10 hours of pro bono legal advice from Davis and Cannon of Sheridan, and an office space for one year to incubate […] Dash POS App Spark Payments Among the Winners of Wyoming Startup Challenge was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News.
2018-11-28 16:59 | |
Mexican startup Airtm will launch a campaign to raise donations for Venezuelans, a country whose poor monetary policies have plagued it with hyperinflation. Called the AirdropVenezuela.
2018-11-28 19:29 | |
Bitcoin has experienced a bear market since the end of the last year. However, it does not seem that the issues finished here. According to a report from Chainalysis, the popular virtual currency is struggling to become a replacement for fiat currencies.
2018-11-22 18:23 | |
As per a study released by Chainalysis earlier this week, the use of Bitcoin (BTC) in relation to facilitating commercial payments has “reduced significantly this year”. In order to prepare for the aforementioned study, the research team over at Chainalysis surveyed 17 Bitcoin payment processors and the amount of BTC related transactions they had been […]
2018-11-21 21:13 | |
Australia's federal science agency CSIRO and CommBank have trialed a blockchain payments prototype they say could save "hundreds of millions" a year.
2018-11-13 12:00 | |
Cryptocurrency markets have fallen by more than 70 percent this year. But according to a veteran from the industry, they are standing at the edge of a revolution. Patrick Byrne, the CEO of Overstock, an Amazon-like marketplace which accepts payments in Bitcoin, said in a recent interview that he is still expecting cryptocurrencies to reach.
2018-11-8 18:30 | |
IBM’s Blockchain World Wire was unveiled earlier this year, which the tech giants describe as ‘the new financial rail that simultaneously clears and settles cross-border payments in near real-time.’ World Wire uses the Stellar protocol which makes it possible for financial institutions to clear and settle cross-border payments in seconds. When a couple of financial […]
2018-10-30 19:36 | |
Utility billing and payment services provider Novatti is launching a new Australian dollar (AUD)-backed stablecoin known as the Novatti AUD Utility Token on the Stellar Network.
2018-10-25 20:58 | |
David Chaum, the cryptographer credited with starting the cypherpunk movement in the 1980s and launching eCash, an early form of virtual money in the 1990s, thinks people are taking financial privacy a lot more seriously these days.
2018-10-24 18:02 | |
Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it.
2018-10-24 19:38 | |
Almost a year to the day after the CBOE and CME launched their own bitcoin futures products, the Intercontinental Exchange’s Bakkt platform is heralding the launch of its own futures on December 12, though the platform is still pending approval from the Commodity Futures Trade Commission.
2018-10-23 01:16 | |
The cryptocurrency sector is maturing as the prices have remained relatively steady throughout the second quarter of the year. Though the bear market has disappointed traders, merchants are now quickly moving ahead to offer crypto payments at their establishments.
2018-10-22 18:29 | |
The third Money 20/20 event of this year will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from the 21st of October till the 24th. Four top executives from the Ripple company will be attending the event. All four will also speak at the event, particularly about improving global payments with the use of blockchain technology and […] The post Ripple’s Top Execs to Speak at This Week’s Money 20/20 Event in Vegas appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2018-10-20 20:55 | |
Ripple’s executives are on stage in force at this year’s Money20/20 USA to talk about improving global payments with blockchain and digital assets, and how these technologies can bring new value to businesses and consumers around the world.
2018-10-19 19:58 | |
The use of digital currency in payments for goods and services has hit various hurdles as was seen with LitePay closing as did FuzeX recently delaying the launch of their highly anticipated debit cards.
2018-10-12 23:00 | |
Nouriel Roubini, an economist best known for his predictions of the 2008 housing bubble, and Peter Van Valkenburgh, Coin Center’s director of research, testified before the U.
2018-10-12 18:06 | |
The digital currency ETF is a big part of the debate in a recent Bloomberg interview which had JP Morgan’s Asset Management Head of International ETFs, Bryson Lake on the panel. The interview looked at how JP Morgan believes in the latest mover advantage in terms of the digital currency market and ETFs.
2018-10-12 12:00 | |
The leading partner with Ripple, Santander has now teamed up with SWIFT to go live in four countries including, Poland, the UK, Spain and Argentina. The banking giant will be using SWIFT’s Global Payments Innovation GPI technology for cross-border payments.
2018-10-12 11:30 | |
Digital currency businesses have seen several difficulties in securing banking services in the UK and now they have a new option. LBX has launched a new service which offers access to an account where customers can store, manage and transfer both their traditional currency and their holding of digital currency.
2018-10-11 13:30 | |
The Liquid Network is up and running. More than a year after its conceptual introduction at the Blockchain Association of Canada's Government Forum in Ottawa, Blockstream’s bitcoin scaling solution made its public debut on October 10, 2018, after going live among its partners on September 27.
2018-10-11 20:44 | |
Walmart Inc. has announced its new decentralized asset management network, dubbed WalmartLeafy. com, a blockchain service that aims to revolutionize the retail money transfer system. Fast Payments on the Ethereum Blockchain Set to launch in the fiscal year 2019, WalmartLeafy.
2018-10-10 16:38 | |
The pursuit for cryptocurrency adoption seems to focus on three major cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin. Indeed, this isn’t to disregard the likes of XRP and Stellar, both of which also provide a solid use in mainstream society, however in terms of worldwide societal adoption, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin tend to be the go-to currencies.
2018-10-10 16:30 | |
GMO Internet Group is working to launch a stablecoin by 2019. In an announcement released on Tuesday, October 9, 2018, the Japanese IT conglomerate said it is putting all gears in place to begin building its stablecoin, called the GMO Japanese Yen (GJY).
2018-10-10 02:10 | |
Ripple has been making headlines for the past few weeks and is still making a push for the number two spot on the top 100 cryptocurrencies according to CoinMarketCap. In the last month, it took over for a short time but slunk back into the third spot on the chart.
2018-10-10 23:00 | |
Life in Venezuela is anything but. Last year, the South American nation of 32 million led the world with 652% inflation and this year the economic turmoil is even worse. As of September 2018, the annual inflation was estimated at 200,000% and International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it could spike to a mindboggling 1,000,000% by December.
2018-10-10 22:30 | |
The city of Dubai has plans to launch its own digital currency. Emcash will be rolled out in the coming years and is being made possible by a state-backed firm called emcredit. Emcash to be Launched Later This Year, Pending Full Approval Those living in Dubai will soon be able to make payments for a.
2018-10-9 01:30 | |
SegWit Transactions Take Up Over 50% of Total Bitcoin Transactions The percentage of Segregated Witness (SegWit) Bitcoin spending payments saw a third major spike this year as the total percentage jumped to over 50% this Thursday.
2018-10-6 23:30 | |
Binance has announced a $2. 5 million investment in Australian travel startup TravelbyBit in a move to introduce a blockchain-based, point-of-sale (POS) payment system across major airports around the world.
2018-10-4 17:50 | |
The second annual Swell by Ripple customer conference has officially come to a close. Over the course of two days the world’s leading experts in policy, payments and technology converged in San Francisco for 14 dynamic sessions, featuring 32 speakers, on the future of payments.
2018-10-5 07:17 | |