2018-9-18 21:15 |
The system is intended to improve the efficiency of cross-carrier payments and make it easier for international travelers to make purchases.
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Kin Ecosystem Foundation, the nonprofit governance organization for the Kin cryptocurrency, has announced the appointment of Matthew DiPietro as its chief marketing officer (CMO) today, September 18, 2018.
2018-9-18 19:38 | |
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LG’s telecom subsidiary, LG Uplus, has signed a memorandum of understanding that will see it offer its users blockchain-based international payments. The service will begin trial early next year and will enable users to make payments in Japan and Taiwan, the first such product by a Korean telecoms operator.
2018-9-19 18:00 | |
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An alpha version of the new Lightning desktop app has been released. The application includes a redesigned and optimized backend for light clients, as well as a simplified interface for users with little to no cryptocurrency experience.
2018-9-15 21:22 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-15 20:21 | |
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In a new blog post, Ripple explained how RippleNet would connect with Siam Commercial Bank and SBI Remit to help foreign workers living in Japan send instant remittances home. This will help reduce transfer times and make payments more transparent and affordable.
2018-9-15 15:04 | |
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Remittance payments are part of many foreign workers’ daily lives; however, traditional systems can be slow and costly. In Japan, there are approximately 45,000 Thai employees working around the clock to send money home to their families–and Ripple’s solution RippleNet is aiming to make the process easier.
2018-9-14 04:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency may be banned in Zimbabwe, but bitcoin is helping ordinary folk make payments bank-free. It makes for a great fit for the more than 10 million Zimbabweans who lack access to basic banking services.
2018-9-13 16:20 | |
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Stellar’s native token XLM is one of the few that has been able to keep on its toes and make sure it stays in the green over the past week. Being able to gain over 6. 40% within the last 24 hours has put XLM at 1.
2018-9-13 14:00 | |
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A proof-of-concept (PoC) project of a mobile payments service utilizing blockchain technology has been successfully completed by SoftBank Corp. , a Japanese telecoms and Internet firm, in partnership with tech provider Synchronoss Technologies, Inc.
2018-9-12 22:20 | |
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A trio of corporations lead by Japanese based SoftBank have devised a working proof-of-concept (PoC) underpinned by blockchain that allows users to make peer-to-peer payments from their mobile phones.
2018-9-12 18:24 | |
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Lightyear Corporation, a universal payments network built around Stellar’s open financial protocol, has announced the acquisition of Chain, in a merger that sees both brands combine to form a new entity called Interstellar.
2018-9-11 16:55 | |
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Spark is a web-based GUI wallet designed for speed, safety and simplicity that utilizes Blockstream’s Lightning implementation c-lightning as its backend. The platform allows for easy spending and receiving of bitcoins over the Lightning Network, which is renowned for its payment speeds.
2018-9-11 22:32 | |
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Cryptocurrency Wallet, SovereignWallet Vows To Make Transferring Funds As Simple As ‘Sending a Text' SovereignWallet has previously said that one of its primary motivations is promoting a higher level of inclusion, while enabling the unbanked to create accounts for crypto directly from their smartphones.
2018-9-7 07:20 | |
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CoinGate, a bitcoin payment processor, has launched bitcoin Lightning Network payments on its platform, bringing the option to accept Lightning payments to its 4,000 clients.
2018-9-7 18:47 | |
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IBM has launched a blockchain-based payment system called Blockchain World Wire. According to IBM, the new payment network uses digital currency on Stellar's blockchain to "clear and settle cross-border payments" in near real time.
2018-9-6 23:49 | |
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Cryptocurrency payment gateway CoinGate today announced it has officially added Lightning Network payment processing for merchants. Lightning Network, a second-layer extension to the Bitcoin protocol, aims to resolve issues of Bitcoin scalability and make.
2018-9-6 22:26 | |
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Update (September 7): Goldman Sach’s CFO Martin Chavez has since called reports of dropping the bitcoin trading desk “fake news. ” (The original Business Insider report quoted unnamed sources as the basis of the information.
2018-9-8 21:57 | |
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Goldman Sachs is struggling to find a way to trade bitcoin. The financial services giant has scratched its plans to open a desk for trading cryptocurrencies, at least for the near term, according to a Business Insider report on September 5, 2018.
2018-9-6 21:57 | |
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Buterin talked about the Ethereum developer community is working on proposals to make gas payments in ETH at the protocol level, which could prevent the ETH price collapse. The post Is Ethereum Actually Heading for a Collapse? Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Opens Up His Views appeared first on CoinSpeaker.
2018-9-5 18:21 | |
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Bittrex, the world’s 20th largest digital assets exchange by daily traded volume, has bought a 10 percent stake in Palladium, a distributed ledger technology (DLT) project focused on eliminating the challenges hodlers face while trying to make payments with cryptoassets, buy digital assets from their bank accounts and more, as first reported by Times of Malta on September 2, 2018....The post %%POSTLINK%% appeared first on %%BLOGLINK%%.
2018-9-4 17:00 | |
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The Magnify project provides an opportunity to increase the security of your funds. Magnify Wallet stores your crypto currency and allows you to carry out transfers and make payments without having you to open private keys each time (every time you use a private key, it can be compromised).
2018-9-3 14:33 | |
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Eastads Marketplace & Credits aims to disrupt the old system of buying and selling in Nigeria and Africa. We built a crypto powered marketplace for the largest market in Africa and after ICO we will develop our African Marketplace also integrated with blockchain payments.
2018-9-3 14:33 | |
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This past week has seen progress in two aspects of Bitcoin: privacy and payments. Attitudes toward blockchain technology are also showing progress as two surveys reveal.
2018-9-1 02:06 | |
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In order to make payments on the lightning network — Bitcoin’s second layer solution for instant and cheap transactions — users must first fund lightning channels.
2018-8-30 22:18 | |
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Crypt-ON is a P2P platform built on blockchain technology to provide safe and secure trades in cryptocurrency. Crypt-ON is aimed at a wide range of users—from beginner crypto-enthusiasts and freelancers to investors and managers of blockchain projects.
2018-8-30 16:33 | |
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Many people know bitcoin as an anonymous digital currency, one whose privacy features prime it for concealed payments in sketchy recesses of the internet’s dark web.
2018-8-29 17:33 | |
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According to some financial experts, Bitcoin transaction fees are lower. In addition, Bitcoin bypasses the unnecessary and expensive financial institutions within which credit cards depend. Therefore, experts believe that Bitcoin’s advantages will encourage merchants to replace credit cards with Bitcoin.
2018-8-28 10:00 | |
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Providing a bridge between the virtual world and realty, Xtribe is a personal geolocated e-commerce app at your fingertips. Xtribe promotes the intersection between supply and demand of products and services localized around the user.
2018-8-27 19:03 | |
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One of the key tradeoffs in blockchain design is whether to build more functionality into base-layer blockchains themselves (“layer 1”), or to build it into protocols that live on top of the blockchain, and can be created and modified without changing the blockchain itself (“layer 2”).
2018-8-28 04:03 | |
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In its bid to smoothen recurring transactions, PornHub has partnered PumaPay, an open source cryptocurrency payment option provider dedicated towards enabling frequent payments using digital currency.
2018-8-25 18:27 | |
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Earlier this month Serbian cyber criminal, Martin Marisch, received an order to make his bail payment in “Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency. ” However, in a recent turn of events, the courts have had to backpedal, and have denied Marisch the opportunity to front his bail in cryptocurrency.
2018-8-22 14:37 | |
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Tel Aviv-based multi-asset global investment platform eToro has entered into a historic partnership with seven Premier League football clubs, which will make payments to their players in Bitcoins.
2018-8-21 20:30 | |
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Coinbase has filed a patent concerning a new technology designed to increase the security of cryptocurrency wallets. Coinbase’s patent was filed on August 14, 2018, and has been submitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
2018-8-21 08:00 | |
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The Lightning Network, the second-layer solution designed to make quick, cheap and easy Bitcoin payments, is maturing. But widespread adoption, still a long way off, will require plenty more participants.
2018-8-20 16:40 | |
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Digital asset exchange Coinbase continues to make strides in streamlining user access to cryptocurrency payments and trading, following an application for a direct bitcoin payments system patent, filed Aug.
2018-8-18 20:00 | |
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U. S. -based digital currency exchange Coinbase has filed a patent on a new Bitcoin payment system designed to make cryptocurrency payments safer. The new platform will provide an added layer of security for users’ keys and allow them to make Bitcoin payments directly from their digital wallets.
2018-8-18 00:52 | |
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Ripple’s international expansion may have been put on hold recently, whilst they battle the courts in the United States, this however doesn’t mean that their international expansion isn’t still a project on the horizon for the company.
2018-8-16 13:30 | |
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Paragon, a blockchain company that develops seed-to-sale tracking solutions for the marijuana industry, is joining hands with Civic Technologies Inc. , a digital identity firm, to bring secure and trusted identity services to Paragon’s digital community.
2018-8-16 19:48 | |
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Using cryptocurrencies to make payments on standard websites is a little bit of a dream. The first step for cryptocurrency adoption, will be the adoption of cryptocurrencies by mainstream websites such as Amazon and eBay.
2018-8-14 23:00 | |
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TRON continues to be one of the most active cryptocurrency projects operating within the space, despite facing staggering losses in the current bear market. In a press release published yesterday, the Tron Team announced that the company’s Seedit platform is ready for launch on Twitter.
2018-8-12 00:27 | |
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Cryptocurrency scalability is an issue, one that acts as a huge hurdle in the pursuit towards cryptocurrency adoption. Scalability issues means that sometimes, transactions aren’t quick enough. Networks can’t handle huge amounts of traffic and therefore, if adoption is the way forward, networks may become clogged and unworkable.
2018-8-10 23:00 | |
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Mistertango, a crypto-friendly payments company, today announced a partnership with one of the biggest European crypto exchanges, EXMO. This partnership enables traders on the EXMO platform to make instant deposits and withdrawals in Euros.
2018-8-9 11:52 | |
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Money Button, found online at MoneyButton. com, is an online payment system that aims to make it easy to pay anyone, anywhere. Find out how it works today in our review. What is MoneyButton. com? MoneyButton.
2018-8-4 11:13 | |
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Coinbase’s latest announcement heralds a WooCommerce plugin that makes it quick and easy to accept bitcoin and litecoin as payment methods on any WooCommerce-powered site.
2018-8-3 19:19 | |
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According to reports out today, local authorities in Queensland are alleged to be piloting a programme that could see the adoption of a number of cryptocurrencies within the state. The currencies in question include Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Dash and NEM.
2018-8-3 14:00 | |
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A brief series of cyber attacks recently led to the theft of an astoundingly large amount of cryptocurrency. The perpetrator, Joel Ortiz, broke into his victims’ cryptocurrency accounts and withdrew funds.
2018-8-3 04:47 | |
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A brief series of cyber attacks recently led to the theft of an astoundingly large amount of cryptocurrency. The perpetrator, Joel Ortiz, broke into his victims’ cryptocurrency accounts and withdrew funds.
2018-8-2 02:38 | |
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The Queensland government in Australia is backing a cryptocurrency point-of-sale system that officials believe will help boost tourism throughout the area. Thus far, they have given over $8 million in Australian dollars ($6 million USD) to roughly 70 different companies that will work to inspire innovation and create new ideas within the region’s travel space.
2018-8-2 00:27 | |
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BRAVO, the mobile payment provider is evolving to make cryptocurrency transactions mainstream. BRAVO already has a community of tens of thousands of users making fast, secure and anonymous payments daily in United States with plans for worldwide expansion.
2018-8-1 17:33 | |
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Stablecoins are already eliminating delays and transaction costs—the main issues that traditional finance has failed to achieve.
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