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Can I Trust BitFury’s Peach Lightning With My Data? Maybe
Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation. дальше »
2019-2-9 23:59
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Can I Trust Bitfury’s Peach Lightning With My Data? Maybe
Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation. дальше »
2019-2-12 23:59
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Palestinian Fundamentalist Group Hamas Receives Funding via Bitcoin
In a particularly interesting case study for the consequence of Bitcoin’s global impact, the internationally recognized terrorist group Hamas has announced that it will accept bitcoin to fund itself. дальше »
2019-2-5 21:41
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Crypto Payment Processor CoinGate Adds Support for Ripple’s XRP
Crypto payment processor CoinGate adds support for Ripple’s native token, XRP
дальше »2019-2-3 15:50
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JPMorgan Notes Marginal Improvements to Payment System With Blockchain Technology
A recent report from JPMorgan purportedly notes the potential for blockchain technology in banking and payments “three to five years away”
дальше »2019-1-30 04:00
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Bitfury Rolls Out Lightning Peach, Its Own Suite of Lightning Tools
Bitfury’s new suite of Lightning products has been released to the public. Lightning Peach, the title of the product bundle, was developed by Bitfury’s Lightning Network team of the same name. дальше »
2019-1-23 20:02
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Bitfury Launches Set of Tools to Drive Lightning Network Adoption
Blockchain tech firm Bitfury Group has released a series of new Lightning Network-related tools for merchants, consumers and developers
дальше »2019-1-23 19:31
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Japan: E-Commerce Giant Rakuten to Move Crypto Exchange to New Payments Subsidiary
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is moving shares of the crypto exchange it acquired in August to a new payments subsidiary
дальше »2019-1-22 11:51
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BitPay Sets New Company Records, in Spite of Crypto Bear Markets
Blockchain payment platform BitPay has announced that 2018 has been their most profitable year, having “processed over a $1 Billion again in payments and set a new record for transaction fee revenue. дальше »
2019-1-18 22:47
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Banking Giant HSBC’s Blockchain Platform Processed $250 Billion in Forex in 2018
Banking giant HSBC saw its blockchain platform process $250 billion in forex trades in 2018
дальше »2019-1-15 23:15
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Bitrefill Channel-Opening Service Makes Accepting Lightning Payments Easy
Crypto payment platform Bitrefill has launched Thor, a service that allows customers to open Lightning channels on demand. Thor will connect to Bitrefill's node on the Lightning Network, allowing users to receive Lightning payments whether they have bitcoin loaded into their Lightning wallets or not. дальше »
2019-1-11 18:02
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HashCash Cryptocurrency Payments Platform Launches in South Africa
HashCash Consultants, a California-based distributed ledger technology (DLT) project focused on creating blockchain-based solutions that enable enterprises to move assets and settle payments seamlessly across borders, is now live in South Africa, according to a press release from January 7, 2018. дальше »
2019-1-10 23:00
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Circle Executed $24 Billion in OTC Trades in 2018
The OTC trading desk at crypto finance firm Circle executed $24 billion in trades in 2018, according to a recent statement
дальше »2019-1-4 05:10
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What Is Electroneum? Introduction to ETN Token
The post What Is Electroneum? Introduction to ETN Token appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
дальше »2019-1-3 19:06
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National Bank of Kuwait Launches Ripple-Based Cross-Border Payments Product
The National Bank of Kuwait has integrated RippleNet’s blockchain technology to expedite cross-border money transfers
дальше »2018-12-28 02:50
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Survey: Crypto Still Too Scary To Send Home
Cryptocurrency is making headway in the field of cross-border remittances, but most people still find it too intimidating for regular use. A study by Clovr found that although 15% of respondents had used cryptocurrency to send cross-border remittances from the US, users are still put off by the complications and uncertainties surrounding the technology. дальше »
2018-12-28 22:58
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2019: The Year Blockchain Begins Finance’s Great Unbundling
There will be opportunities for smart blockchain companies that can find their niche in the coming unbundling, says Ripple's Asheesh Birla. дальше »
2018-12-27 13:00
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Bloomberg: Facebook is Developing a Cryptocurrency for Transfers in WhatsApp
Facebook is reportedly developing a cryptocurrency for transfers in WhatsApp, targeting the remittances market in India
дальше »2018-12-22 06:00
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New Shakepay Feature Turns Your Spare Change Into Bitcoin
Mobile cryptocurrency exchange and peer-to-peer wallet Shakepay has announced a new product that allows its Canadian customers to buy bitcoin with spare change. Dubbed "ShakePay Change," the pre-launch of the service was announced in a Medium post. дальше »
2018-12-18 02:32
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BTCPayServer Expands Lightning Operability, Integrates Spark Wallet
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. дальше »
2018-12-18 02:16
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Metal Pay Is Giving Out Free Crypto All Day
The prospect of getting something for nothing is a powerful motivator. The American actress, Sandra Bullock, once (in)famously said that she would do “anything for free stuff” though whether this statement has been tested in the wild is unclear. дальше »
2018-12-14 20:37
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This New Lightning Wallet Allows You to Receive Tips Without Running a Node
A new program to set up Lightning Network micropayments, tippin. me, has recently entered beta testing. The developer for this project described some of its details on a Reddit thread to the r/Bitcoin subreddit. дальше »
2018-12-13 22:09
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Coinbase Might Be Behind Those 856,000 BTC Worth of Transactions
Last week, it was reported that a Bitcoin whale had moved thousands of bitcoin into different wallet addresses. Between December 1 to December 6, 2018, the whale split 856,000 bitcoin between 107 wallets, sending an equal 8,000 BTC into each wallet. дальше »
2018-12-12 23:53
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Open Source Project Allows e-Bike Rentals in Seconds over Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
Matthias Steinig, a German programmer, has developed a new mechanism that allows e-bikes to be rented in exchange for payments on the bitcoin Lightning Network. A prototype built using a modified bicycle is already fully functional and has been demonstrated in a video posted on Twitter. дальше »
2018-12-8 00:00
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R3 Announces Global Payment App With XRP as Base Currency
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. дальше »
2018-12-6 01:54
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Bitfury Is Implementing Lightning Into Crypto Payment Platform Paytomat
The Bitfury Group has recently announced a partnership with crypto payment processing system Paytomat, working to bring the Lightning Network to Paytomat’s participating merchants. дальше »
2018-12-6 22:48
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R3 launches universal settler application for payments on Corda blockchain
CryptoNinjas R3, a developer of enterprise blockchain solutions for business, today launched its new Corda Settler, an application purpose-built to allow for payment obligations raised on the Corda blockchain platform to be made through any. дальше »
2018-12-5 19:06
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OpenNode: Bitcoin’s Lightning Network’s Own “PayPal”
Bitcoin had a steady start as a medium of exchange and has slowly begun challenging the hundreds of decades-old fiat money system. Businesses are now moving towards developing systems which could aid the further adoption of the pioneer cryptocurrency over fiat. дальше »
2018-12-5 02:00
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LightningHood Website Features Promising Projects and Resources for Lightning Network
Bitcoin and Lightning Network enthusiasts recently launched a website dedicated to featuring projects supporting the speedy second layer solution. According to the LightningHood’s Medium blog post, published on December 2, 2018, LightningHood is keen to help the growing community by providing everyone in the ecosystem access to resources such as developers, Lapps, and nodes, and recognize the people working to. дальше »
2018-12-4 14:00
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COTI Code Review: Currency Of The Internet DAG
Taking a look at COTI with my code review today. White label payments solution, high throughput claims, custom stable coins, wants to revolutionize the way digital currencies are perceived by merchants and buyers using their Trustchain consensus. дальше »
2018-11-25 01:19
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BitPay Integrates PAX Stablecoin Into Cryptocurrency Payment Platform
Bitcoin payment platform BitPay is now going to allow payments with the Paxos Standard token (PAX), which it calls “the fastest growing stablecoin and the highest trading volume of any U. дальше »
2018-11-22 00:25
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What Is Dash? Introduction to DASH Cryptocurrency And DashPay
What Is Dash? Dash is an open-source cryptocurrency and decentralized autonomous organization that forked from Litecoin. It aims to overcome Bitcoin’s shortfalls in governance, consensus, and speed. дальше »
2018-11-16 23:30
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BIS Report: Cryptocurrencies Are a Poor Store of Value, Unlikely to See Mass Adoption
A report from the Bank for International Settlements titled “Money and payment systems in the digital age,” published November 1, 2018, suggests that leading cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, ether, and stablecoin tether do not serve the primary functions of money, and are, therefore, a poor store of value. дальше »
2018-11-7 08:00
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Crypto Marketplace Paxful Demand for Cryptocurrency Reveals Growing on the African Continent
Cryptocurrency trading has widely been spread across the world, with significant concentrations collecting in Asia during recent years. On October 31, 2018, the peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace Paxful claims that the number of transactions from African consumers has soared significantly in recent times, mostly fueled by African millennials’ interest in the new space. дальше »
2018-11-2 09:00
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ConsenSys Subscribes To Recurring Payments
ConsenSys on Wednesday announced the successful implementation of EIP-1337, a new Ethereum standard that introduces a recurring subscriptions payment model that’s popular with Web 2. 0 companies. дальше »
2018-11-2 22:45
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Electroneum Wants To Be The Next PayPal
The instant mobile payment platform Electroneum (ETN) is ambitious: it wants the world and it wants it now. So it seems with its latest announcement that it hopes will improve ETN adoption, to turn it into one of the world’s largest payment solutions. дальше »
2018-11-1 23:55
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Coinbase Raises $300 Million in Serie E Funding Round Led by Tiger Global
Establishing its dominance as the “Google of Cryptocurrencies,” San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase raised $300 million in a recent Series E Round, as reported by Fortune on October 30, 2018. дальше »
2018-10-31 19:30
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What Bitcoin Promised, KrypNet Delivers; The Time has Come
Cryptocurrencies, while efficient and highly functional in their interactions with one and other in virtual space, suffer from slow, complicated, and sometimes expensive transition to and from the realms of fiat currency and general consumer transactions. дальше »
2018-10-24 12:00
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A Year After Launch, BTCPay Has Grown Larger Than Its Creator Expected
First hinting at his project in a reply to a BitPay tweet on August 2017, Nicolas Dorier boldly claimed that BTCPay would make one of crypto’s most popular payment processors obsolete. дальше »
2018-10-24 22:00
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Litecoin To Slash Fees 90 Percent
The silver to Bitcoin’s gold is about to get even cheaper to send. The leading development group for Litecoin, the seventh most valuable cryptocurrency, has announced that its next release will “lower network fees by a factor of ten,” reducing the average transaction fee to around half a cent. дальше »
2018-10-22 18:20
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Blockstream’s Liquid Network for “High Value” Bitcoin Payments Is Live
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. дальше »
2018-10-11 20:44
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Coinbase Implements “Child Pays for Parent” Protocol to Mitigate Bitcoin Fees
In a Medium post published October 2, 2018, Coinbase explained why their engineering team is taking another look at the established Child Pays for Parent technique to make sending and receiving bitcoin a more consistent experience. дальше »
2018-10-4 19:30
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Beijing Sci-Tech Report Accepts Bitcoin as Payment
While China continues to clamp down on cryptocurrencies, the nation’s oldest science and technology publication, Beijing Sci-Tech Report (BSTR), is accepting bitcoin for its 2019 subscription. According to an Asia Times article published on October 1, 2018, the BSTR began accepting cryptocurrencies because it wanted to promote blockchain technology and the use of cryptocurrencies in a practical way. дальше »
2018-10-2 01:00
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Electroneum: Instant Results, But NOT Instant Payments…
Electroneum had two spectacular days on the cryptocurrency market after launching the beta of its instant payments processor earlier this week, recording a 31% jump in market values. But is this the instant payment system that can change the world? The development team took a full year from the soft launch of the concept to […] The post Electroneum: Instant Results, But NOT Instant Payments… appeared first on Crypto Briefing. дальше »
2018-9-23 21:04
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Top 6 Cryptocurrencies With the Highest Payment Transaction Volume – 2018 Week 40 Edition
Determining the value of a particular cryptocurrency can be done in many different ways. Looking at the overall transaction count is one option, although not all transfers pertain to payments. New data by CoinMetrics and OnChainFX shows the following currencies generate the most payments per 24 hours as of right now. дальше »
2018-9-21 19:00
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Cryptocurrencies Challenge The Visa And Mastercard Duopoly
It’s a rare thing indeed when two multinational heavyweights come out the worse in a court case. Even rarer when the settlement costs them collectively over $6bn. The business press reported earlier this week that Visa and Mastercard, along with a sprinkling of banks, would pay a class of more than 12 million merchants a […] The post Cryptocurrencies Challenge The Visa And Mastercard Duopoly appeared first on Crypto Briefing. дальше »
2018-9-21 20:50
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Japanese SBI Set to Launch Ripple-Based Mobile App
Japanese Fintech heavyweight SBI Holdings plans to launch a Ripple-powered mobile payment application called MoneyTap. In a tweet shared with his followers, Takashi Okita, CEO of SBI Ripple Asia shared the web page of the new payment application, which promises to offer "easy bank transfer application" without fees. дальше »
2018-9-15 22:03
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Paxful CEO Ray Youssef Shows How Bitcoin Can Be Used for Social Good
Can bitcoin be used for social good? If anyone thinks so, it’s Ray Youssef, the CEO of peer-to-peer bitcoin platform Paxful. A successful entrepreneur in the crypto and blockchain space, Youssef comes from humble beginnings and understands the importance of maintaining control over one’s finances. дальше »
2018-9-15 21:50
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