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During an earnings call on Friday, CEO Bill Demchak urged a clear split between payment tools and investment vehicles. origin »
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Visa CEO Al Kelly appeared on CNBC’s Mad Money with Jim Cramer on October 25th, 2018 and stayed confidently that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are no threat to the global payment giant’s industry dominance.
2018-10-27 23:45 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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Ripple Labs is the company which founded the Ripple blockchain and is termed as one of the fastest blockchain for payment execution. The native token of Ripple Labs, XRP saw a big increase in price last year in 2017 and over the past month the price has fluctuated all over the shop.
2018-10-9 08:00 | |
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Ripple Labs is the company which founded the Ripple blockchain and is termed as one of the fastest blockchain for payment execution. The native token of Ripple Labs, XRP saw a big increase in price last year in 2017 and over the past month the price has fluctuated all over the shop.
2018-10-9 08:00 | |
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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 | |
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Ripple’s 2018 iteration of its annual Swell conference saw various blockchain startups and firms present their unique ideas and visions to the world. For example, early on day two, Daumantas Dvilinskas, the CEO of TransferGo, explained to the caucus how his firm plans to change the game when it comes to facilitating “real-time global payments” […]
2018-10-3 19:40 | |
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Stability. The word seems to be at complete odds with the current nature of the crypto market. With its flagship coin having “died” on hundreds of occasions, volatility and meteoric price swings have come to define cryptocurrencies, as price stability, ever-elusive, is in short supply.
2018-10-3 19:05 | |
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The first day of the Ripple’s two-day blockchain conference saw some significant updates. As predicted, the San Francisco event turned out to be the launchpad of Ripple’s cross-border payment system, xRapid.
2018-10-2 15:00 | |
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On Monday, October 1st Ripple announced that three financial institutions are scheduled to begin using Ripple’s xRapid product to handle international transactions. The announcement was made Monday at Ripple’s annual two-day conference, called Swell.
2018-10-2 05:00 | |
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Goldman Sachs and GV (formerly Google Ventures) are among major investors in a $25 million funding round for Bitcoin payment network startup Veem, the company confirmed September 26. Google, Goldman Sachs Bet On Bitcoin Payments Speaking to Forbes, Veem CEO Marwan Forzley confirmed the successful funding round, which is the most prominent yet since the company first started raising funds back in May 2015.
2018-9-27 20:30 | |
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London-based ONEm Communications has announced the launch of its mCoin program across Africa. Designed to be a hybrid currency, mCoin is a digital currency that can be transferred over text or through the smartphone app.
2018-9-25 21:26 | |
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Civic, a digital identity firm, has collaborated with Brave, the privacy-based browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, to provide identity verification services to Brave’s content creators.
2018-9-25 00:58 | |
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The CEO Of India’s Leading Startup Incubator Claims That Bitcoin’s Failure Was Due to Its $20 Fees T-Hub’s CEO, Jay Krishnan, claims that the reason for Bitcoin’s failure is its $20 fees. It is strange that the manager of India’s leading startup incubator and also SRI Capital’s advisor could make such a misleading claim. The […]
2018-9-17 23:15 | |
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SBI Holdings is not quite done with its foray into blockchain. The Japanese financial giant has announced plans to launch a mobile payment app for iOS and Android that will use Ripple’s distributed ledger tech.
2018-9-17 23:06 | |
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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.
2018-9-15 22:03 | |
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On the 12th of September, the CEO of SBI Ripple Asia, Takashi Okita, announced via twitter that the website to a new cross-border payment app was now complete. The tweet (that has been translated by google translate) was as follows: Quietly, Moneytap’s website has been released.
2018-9-15 18:33 | |
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Bill Barhydt, the CEO of BTC payment company Abra, believes Bitcoin will receive ETF approval in 2019. While the SEC recently rejected no less than nine Bitcoin ETF applications by GraniteShares, Direxion and ProShares, Bill claims the sole reason these applications were rejected is because they failed to meet the existing expectations of the SEC.
2018-9-7 15:30 | |
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Abra, the all-in-one digital wallet and cryptocurrency exchange, has announced its support for Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) bank accounts. European users can now enable direct wire transfers from European banks to purchase any of Abra’s 28 available cryptocurrencies.
2018-9-7 23:38 | |
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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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The team behind Lightning Ramp, a system that provides customers with faster bitcoin payments, has joined forces with Casa, a “be-your-own-bank” product that provides users with a multi-signature, multi-hardware device and multi-location wallet designed, to offer top-notch security against attacks and theft.
2018-9-6 00:14 | |
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BHB Network CEO Giacomo Zucco publicly urged Latvian airline airBaltic to replace BitPay as its Bitcoin payment processor September 5, claiming the company’s product “doesn’t work. ” Zucco to airBaltic: Go Open Source In a tweet, Zucco — who has become known for his support of open source alternatives to overly-centralized services both within cryptocurrency and beyond — called on airBaltic to look at switching from BitPay to open-source BTCPay and Globee.
2018-9-6 21:00 | |
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Square Inc., a mobile payment processing startup founded and run by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has hit another milestone by winning a U.S. patent for a digital currency payment network. The license will allow merchants to accept both fiat and cryptocurrency payments and then cash out in any currency of their choice. The San Francisco-based […]
2018-9-4 21:00 | |
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San Francisco-based company Square Inc. has won a new patent that will allow merchants to accept all forms of cryptocurrency payment, a victory that could impact mass utilization of digital assets.
2018-8-30 20:00 | |
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San Francisco-based company Square Inc. has won a new patent that will allow merchants to accept all forms of cryptocurrency payment, a victory that could impact mass utilization of digital assets.
2018-8-31 20:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency is looking at green candles… and green markets, today. Alt Thirty-Six, an Arizona-based startup, is soon to complete integration of a Dash-based payment system that may free the legal cannabis industry from the straitjacket of federal regulations.
2018-8-29 01:41 | |
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Bill Harris has made clear his view on cryptos several times. The former PayPal CEO has in the past described Bitcoin as the ‘greatest scam in history’ and a massive ‘pump and dump scheme.’ Harris recently reiterated his stand, further claiming that all the praise that Bitcoin has been receiving as an efficient payment method […]
2018-8-18 17:00 | |
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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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Bill Harris, former PayPal CEO and founder of Personal Capital Corporation, believes that Bitcoin is a large cult. In CNBC’s “Fast Money” Segment on Tuesday, August 14, Harris explained that Bitcoin supporters make many claims of its benefits, including free transactions, scalability, efficiency, greater security, global acceptance, and usefulness.
2018-8-18 21:29 | |
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Real-world adoption of cryptos is steadily rising, but they are still a long way from becoming a mainstream payment method. Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, believes that cryptos and blockchain technology are at the same stage that the internet was at in the early 2000s and that despite the steady growth, people’s expectations are […]
2018-8-17 18:00 | |
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Following a high-level proposal in July to ban the importation of all cryptocurrency mining equipment into Vietnam, the Vietnamese Customs Department has announced a total ban on all mining rig imports, according to a local news outlet.
2018-8-16 21:58 | |
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Blockchain money transfer company Wyre has announced a partnership with MakerDAO, creator of the Dai stablecoin, to offer Dai as part of a fiat-crypto trading pair in more than 30 countries across the world including the U.
2018-8-15 00:54 | |
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Financial technology firm Paxos has formed a partnership with INTL FCStone Inc’s precious metals division. The department will now be using Paxos Confirmation Service — a tool built specifically for the precious metals arena — to instantly automate daily trade confirmations and reduce human error.
2018-8-9 18:15 | |
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This November, cryptocurrency users will be introduced to Bakkt, a new company designed to give millions of retail merchants the chance to buy, sell and trade digital currencies — and even buy a cup of coffee.
2018-8-4 00:38 | |
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TRX Will Be Implemented In Italy And Spain’s Stores In early August, Justin Sun, the Founder and CEO of the Tron Foundation, announced that his platform’s tokens – TRX – will be used in over 2000 stores in both Italy and Spain.
2018-8-4 00:13 | |
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The Breeze Wallet with the Breeze Privacy Protocol public mainnet has been released and is now open to the public. The wallet showcases Stratis technology — a platform built for visual basic apps and blockchain solutions — and places heavy emphasis on both privacy and security for businesses seeking to implement business-to-business (B2B) transactions on the Stratis and Bitcoin blockchain networks.
2018-8-4 00:02 | |
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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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3dman_eu / Pixabay Bitcoin mining can be costly, so one crooked miner came up with a turnaround to lower his cost. This person used the resources of the company for which he was working to secretly mine Bitcoins, according to Rubase.
2018-7-31 10:28 | |
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Just days after Mastercard filed a patent to link fiat and cryptocurrency transactions, the payment giant’s CEO lashes out at cryptocurrency — once again describing the asset class as “junk” that should not serve as a medium of value-transfer.
2018-7-28 15:00 | |
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The former CTO of Russian electronic wallet and payment network QIWI once had a personal wealth of half a million bitcoins — but lost them. 3 Months, 4. 1 Billion USD The extraordinary claims came to light as part of an interview with CEO Sergey Solonin, who told the audience during a Moscow lecture on July 25 that the CTO had used the company’s ubiquitous payment terminals to mine bitcoin, starting in 2011.
2018-7-26 22:00 | |
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Qiwi CEO Sergey Solonin claimed that an ex-employee of the company used the hardware of Qiwi to mine bitcoins. While speaking at the Moscow Advanced Communications School, Sergey Solonin, the CEO of Russian payment services provider Qiwi, has stated that an ex-employee of the company used its payment terminals to mine bitcoins in 2011. He managed to
2018-7-26 15:55 | |
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Sergey Solonin, co-founder and CEO of Russian payment service provider and one of the largest crypto investors got involved in cryptocurrency in 2011 after he discovered that his CTO had been mining Bitcoins secretly on the company's self-service
2018-7-26 14:43 | |
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Qiwi CEO Sergey Solonin claimed that an ex-employee of the company used the hardware of Qiwi to mine bitcoins. While speaking at the Moscow Advanced Communications School, Sergey Solonin, the CEO of Russian payment services provider Qiwi, has stated that an ex-employee of the company used its payment terminals to mine bitcoins in 2011. He managed to
2018-7-26 14:12 | |
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The CEO of Russian payment services provider Qiwi Sergey Solonin has claimed that an ex-employee of the company used its payment terminals to mine bitcoins in 2011. The programmer, who has not been named by Solonin, has managed to mine 500,000 bitcoins, according to a July 25 report by news site Meduza. And now it’s
2018-7-26 23:07 | |
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An employee at Qiwi reportedly mined roughly 500,000 bitcoins in 2011 by hijacking the company's payment terminals, CEO Sergey Solonin said Wednesday.
2018-7-26 22:30 | |
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Scaling has been a heated topic for the bitcoin community for some time. Further, even when a technology does become available, getting people to use it becomes the next big hurdle.
2018-7-20 17:33 | |
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Dala has officially announced a new multi-chain strategy that will include Stellar, the technology behind the seventh largest cryptocurrency (lumens) by market cap.
2018-7-20 00:07 | |
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Online travel agency CheapAir. com has announced it is no longer working with Coinbase to process its customers’ bitcoin payments. In Coinbase's stead, the company has turned to BTCPayServer, an open-source bitcoin payment processor.
2018-7-19 02:28 | |
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Internal OpenAI call notes show Elon Musk agreed to explore an ICO with a for-profit arm in early 2018, but later dropped the idea and exited the organization.
After a period of consolidation, AAVE attempted a breakout but was rejected at $180, then retraced to $169. At the time of writing, Aave [AAVE] traded at $173, down 2. 32% on the daily charts.
The U. S. government has confirmed that it did not sell Bitcoin seized from Samourai Wallet. The confirmation addresses earlier claims that the assets had been liquidated in violation of federal policyThe post U.
Etherealize co-founders Vivek Raman and Danny Ryan believe Ethereum is exiting a regulatory "purgatory" to become the premiere destination for Wall Street.
Chiliz [CHZ] did not see a price dip to $0.05 after making a bearish divergence on the 4-hour chart, as AMBCrypto suggested was possible in a recent report. Instead, the sports-focused blockchain ecosThe post Chiliz defies pullback: Mapping CHZ's road to $0.1 and beyond appeared first on AMBCrypto.
Legislative language which would grant some legal protections to crypto software developers, falls under the Senate Judiciary Committee, its leaders said.
Bitcoin exchange-traded funds [ETFs] ended the week on a firmer footing after posting strong net inflows. The flow reversed the prior week’s outflows, signaling renewed institutional engagement despThe post Bitcoin ETFs rebound to end week with $1.