2023-3-3 17:06 |
Xapo Bank, a licensed private bank and one of the top bitcoin custodians, has collaborated with Lightspark and integrated with the Lightning Network. origin »
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Xapo is partnering with Lightspark to allow its customers to send bitcoin near-instantaneously to any vendor who accepts BTC over Lightning.
2023-3-2 20:46 | |
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Crypto pioneer Xapo has quietly assembled interest bearing, deposit-guaranteed USD bank accounts with a view to providing alternative financial services in emerging market countrie
2023-3-2 17:00 | |
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The kingdom in the Persian Gulf is taking its latest step in transforming its economy away from oil with the Bitcoin and Lightning Network infrastructure provider’s trial.
2022-9-14 00:35 | |
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Bitcoin is the FED’s new favorite subject. Fresh from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis measuring inflation in BTC terms, comes the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland with a study titled “The Lightning Network: Turning Bitcoin into Money.
2022-7-14 12:35 | |
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U. S. bank Morgan Stanley published a report on Bitcoin and its second-layer payment solution Lightning Network. This BTC-based use case enables users to settle transactions in an instant, and records a 410% year-over-year growth, according to Arcane Research.
2022-4-22 21:23 | |
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Strike is an application that allows you to transact with Lightning payments with just a debit card or bank account. But, here’s the secret sauce: instead of having to buy bitcoin to load up your Lightning channels, users on Strike never touch BTC.
2020-7-3 20:25 | |
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The Lightning Network wallet Zap founder Jack Mallers has announced a new application called Strike that will allow you to make Lightning payments with your debit card or bank account. This means, there will be no wallet, no channels, nodes, swaps or liquidity management anymore.
2020-2-1 00:35 | |
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Bitcoin’s Lightning Network dev ACINQ raises $8M in a new funding round
2019-10-9 11:47 | |
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Veronique Jacq, managing director of the Digital Investment Unit at Bpifrance, says that the institution is “convinced that bitcoin is becoming more and more obvious.” Jacq, who heads the partially state-owned French investment bank, stated...
2019-10-9 11:29 | |
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A few years ago, most of us would probably never have believed that traditional banks would be investing in the blockchain technology. This is, however, what seems to be happening right now. Bpifrance, an important state-owned French investment bank, has recently participated in the investment of ACINQ, a Bitcoin Lightning startup that raised $8 million […]
2019-10-9 00:58 | |
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French start-up ACINQ, one of the main developers behind the Lightning Network, has secured around €1M euros from the public investment bank. The move is one of the few times that a state-led entity in France has put their money towards the blockchain industry.
2019-10-9 20:04 | |
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Bitcoin wallet unveils instant buying feature linking bank accounts in a direct snub to BitPay
2019-9-20 14:23 | |
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On April 24, 2019, the first bitcoin ATM in the Islamic Republic of Iran was revealed at the 12th International Exhibition of Exchange, Bank and Insurance in Tehran.
2019-4-27 21:31 | |
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Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are one of crypto's more novel and ambitious applications — one that Bitcoin, until recently, has had nothing to do with.
2019-4-19 18:33 | |
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Domitai is a Cryptocurrency Exchange in Mexico, a trading platform for digital and traditional currencies between users. Our mission is to change the way commerce and financing is done in Mexico, and work to become one of the top financial institutions in Latam and Worldwide.
2019-4-15 06:03 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Olusegun Ogundeji. Bitcoin has crossed the $5,000 price range again (after its first reach to that level in 2017) following a sudden breakout on April 2, 2019.
2019-4-4 18:42 | |
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Decentralized payment processing service BTCPay Server announced a new service available through their platform on February 22, 2019: a way to request payments by simply sharing a URL, thereby streamlining many of the model’s existing hangups.
2019-2-27 23:26 | |
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Fidelity Digital, the digital assets arm of Fidelity Investments which is a giant financial institution with more than 27… The post Bitcoin Goes Institutional? Fidelity is the First Investment Bank to Hold the BTC Lightning Torch appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-2-26 13:29 | |
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Fidelity Digital, the digital assets arm of Fidelity Investments, has become the first financial institution to receive the so-called bitcoin payments ‘torch’ that is being relayed from user to user around the globe via Bitcoin’s Lightning network.
2019-2-23 10:00 | |
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Switzerland is an international bitcoin and blockchain mecca, known for its crypto culture and concentration of crypto businesses. Now, it is the new home to 21 Lectures, a school for bitcoin developers founded by Lucas Betschart.
2019-2-12 00:24 | |
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Известный телеведущий и кинорежиссер, а ныне ведущий программы Keiser Report на канале RT Макс Кайзер (Max Keiser) поделился с изданием Bitcoinist мыслями о последних событиях во Франции, о том, как Россия может использовать биткоин и почему биткоин остается королем криптовалют.
2018-12-13 15:22 | |
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Cryptocurrency mining firm Bitfury Group has closed a Series C, $80 million funding round led by EU-based Korelya Capital. The round also included crypto merchant bank Galaxy Digital, Lian and Jabre Group, Dentsu Inc.
2018-11-7 01:06 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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I’m a sucker for stationary, seriously. My house is filled with unused notepads, my bag teems with pens, and, much to the annoyance of everyone around me, I slow down whenever I walk past a pretty-looking office supply store.
2018-8-9 18:43 | |
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While cryptocurrencies have the potential to facilitate lightning fast payments across borders, reduce the cost of minting fiat money and drastically put inflation in check, the Swiss Central Bank board director, Thomas Moser has declared that digital currencies still do not have what it takes to be a national currency.
2018-6-23 01:45 | |
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Earlier this week, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in Switzerland issued a new document as part of its annual economic report that warns citizens of the dangers of digital currencies.
2018-6-20 22:29 | |
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Venmo could be the ultimate cryptocurrency experience from a user-experience perspective. Any cryptocurrency that seeks to power the future of global transactions must ensure that it is supported by a payment system that is simple, user-friendly and free — like Venmo.
2018-6-11 16:51 | |
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