2023-6-30 17:47 |
Fintech firm Six Clovers has introduced the Versal Network, a platform built on the Sui blockchain, to enhance the speed, security, and cost-effectiveness of cross-border payments. origin »
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The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is set to introduce a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) for wholesale payments on the country's SIX Digital Exchange.
2023-6-27 20:38 | |
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Ripple’s cross-border payments coin XRP has reached a critical resistance level today. Will the momentum continue, or is it a bull trap? The post XRP Tops $0.40 in Largest Move in Six Weeks, Where to Next? appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2023-1-16 10:32 | |
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JPMorgan’s global head of payments, Takis Georgakopoulos has revealed that the firm has witnessed a significant decline in demand for crypto payments by its clients in the past six months, however, it remains bullish on cryptocurrency, reports Bloomberg on September…
2022-9-21 13:50 | |
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ALFAcoins is a cryptocurrency processing service that offers merchants the option to receive payments on their websites via cryptocurrencies. It offers customers the option to receive payments in six top cryptocurrencies.
2021-8-17 14:16 | |
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The government of Venezuela is considering a new redenomination of its fiat currency. The proposal that is under study would cut six zeroes from the inflation-affected Bolivar. This would aid companies in processing taxes and provider payments that are absurdly complex with today’s numbers.
2021-7-3 00:30 | |
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Former PayPal employees launch a decentralized cross-border payment system on Algorand. The system aims to provide faster and cheaper transactions by “fueling them with regulated stablecoins to represent fiat on-chain,” Borderless Capital CEO David Garcia said.
2021-6-16 15:25 | |
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A pair of former PayPal tech leads have released a fintech infrastructure platform named Six Clovers. The platform is aimed at offering better integration and enabling real-time payments. The post Former PayPal Leads Launch Cross-Border Payment Network to Rival SWIFT appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-6-16 08:16 | |
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The Chinese government is conducting fresh digital yuan tests in six new provinces including Shanghai, Hainan, Changsha, Xi’an, Qingdao, and Dalian. The government has increased the scope of this latest DCEP trial from the previous 50,000 to 500,000 users.
2021-4-15 15:30 | |
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Six stimulus packages have been proposed to provide second stimulus checks for Americans. The latest proposal came from the White House on Friday. Several stimulus bills are being discussed as Americans hope to soon receive another round of direct payments to help them through the coronavirus pandemic-led economic crisis.
2020-10-12 22:30 | |
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DigiByte is a UTXO PoW network that focuses on digital payments, security, and decentralized apps. The decentralized blockchain was created by Jared Tate six years ago and has since been growing rapidly.
2020-2-22 17:37 | |
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Sean Neville, co-founder of Circle, is stepping down as co-CEO six years after founding the crypto trading and payments startup with Jeremy Allaire.
2019-12-5 03:46 | |
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During a recent panel discussion, Stefan Ingves, the Governor of Sweden’s central bank, Sveriges Riksbank, laid out a six-step plan for the introduction of is central bank digital currency. The first issue in this plan is that both large value and retail payments must be settled in the central bank digital currency anywhere around the […]
2019-11-22 21:08 | |
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Online and in-store businesses in Switzerland are soon going to receive cryptocurrency payments, as the Bitcoin Suisse operating crypto financials has partnered with the payment company Worldline. The announcement has been made on Friday, and it says that the two financial players will leverage the SIX Payment Services infrastructure.
2019-11-9 22:34 | |
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Cryptocurrency micropayment service TipJar is shutting down in Q1 2020 due to low usage, developers have confirmed. Cryptocurrency Tipping Fails To Catch On In a Reddit post on October 6, user u/doppio requested users withdraw any remaining funds held on their accounts.
2019-10-7 12:00 | |
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You don’t have to be a bitcoin purist or tech tinkerer to want to accept cryptocurrency without using a third party. With lower merchant fees, greater network uptime, and no chargebacks, noncustodial crypto payments have several advantages over traditional fiat payment systems.
2019-9-22 05:00 | |
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CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourcePOSaBIT, a financial technology company delivering unique blockchain-enabled payment processing and point of sale (POS) systems for cash-only businesses with a focus on the cannabis industry, announced a deal today with Reef Dispensaries.
2019-7-19 22:45 | |
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US law enforcers have busted a Bitcon-fuelled dark web drug ring after one of the alleged dealers messed up and bought pre-printed postage online using his real identity. The dealers, which sold almost $9 million worth of counterfeit Adderall, leveraged the anonymity afforded by the dark web and received payments in Bitcoin.
2019-6-28 11:44 | |
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Following its launch in the UK in April, Coinbase is rolling out its cryptocurrency debit card to more European countries, despite users reporting numerous problems. The cryptocurrency exchange will be launching its Coinbase Card in six more European nations.
2019-6-12 12:38 | |
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While the Crypto Winter may be lingering with us into the spring, crypto exchanges are doing just fine. According to CoinMarketCap, there are now 255 major crypto exchanges.
2019-5-4 22:14 | |
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Digital payments and compliance platform Alt Thirty Six is dedicated to banking the rapidly growing $10 billion legal cannabis industry, and replacing their cash with cryptocurrency. According to a recent press release, the startup, which plans to leverage Dash to help the largely-unbanked Cannabis industry, has just secured $10 million in a Series A investment […] The post Alt Thirty Six Raises $10 M For Dash- Powered Cannabis Industry appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2019-4-26 18:04 | |
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The crypto payment platform Bitrefill has announced an upgrade to its Thor service. The upgrade is dubbed “Thor Turbo,” and its expected to speed up the process of connecting to Bitrefill's Lightning node, according to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-4-5 19:15 | |
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A five-star Swiss hotel, the Dolder Grand, to take BTC payments in May, the Swiss stock exchange launches another crypto-based exchange-traded product On Tuesday, Inacta AG, the tech partner of the top Switzerland’s Dolder Grand.
2019-4-3 08:43 | |
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For the last couple of weeks, Stellar has been on a positive run. The project has seen its partnership with IBM pan out. As we reported, IBM recently announced its partnership with six international banks to use the Stellar network.
2019-3-27 21:03 | |
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Bitzlato is a newly launched cryptocurrency exchange platform out of Russia that enables users to have peer-to-peer crypto exchange with many other fiat payment methods. It allows trading with six different cryptocurrencies and also comes with a web version and a crypto-trading Telegram bot.
2019-3-24 01:48 | |
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US tech giant IBM has announced the launch of its Stellar blockchain-powered real-time global payments network.
2019-3-19 15:56 | |
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“The biggest problem I could think of was distribution. How do you share and educate both consumers and merchants on the power of bitcoin? I learned how much consumers loved earning and why merchants make decisions to adopt new technology.
2019-3-19 23:06 | |
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In addition to collaboration with banks to issue 6 new stablecoins, IBM's payments project World Wire will leverage Stellar Lumens as a global bridge currency. The post Breaking: IBM Signs Six Banks For Stellar-based World Wire appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2019-3-19 21:26 | |
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Six global banks have reportedly signed letters of intent to issue stablecoins backed by their national fiat currencies on IBM’s now-live Stellar-powered payments network
2019-3-18 19:49 | |
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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.
2019-2-9 23:59 | |
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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.
2019-2-12 23:59 | |
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Binance has finally joined the fiat-on-ramp party, adding support for crypto purchases using credit cards. This is made possible through its integration with payment processor Simplex, according to a press release shared with Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-2-1 20:59 | |
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Mongolia’s capital city of Ulaanbaatar has unveiled plans to launch a pilot program that will see the city’s Nalaikh district deploy a blockchain-based payment system developed by stablecoin startup Terra.
2019-1-12 03:44 | |
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Mongolia’s capital city of Ulaanbaatar has unveiled plans to launch a pilot program that will see the city’s Nalaikh district deploy a blockchain-based payment system developed by stablecoin startup Terra.
2019-1-13 03:44 | |
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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 | |
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At the December 7, 2018, TenX Summit, a group of developers showcased an industry first: an atomic swap between a non-native asset, TenX’s PAY token, and a native asset, bitcoin.
2018-12-13 21:50 | |
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At the December 7, 2018, TenX Summit, a group of developers showcased an industry first: an atomic swap on the Lightning Network between a non-native asset, TenX’s PAY token, and a native asset, bitcoin.
2018-12-13 21:50 | |
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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 | |
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Recently, the CEO of Ohio-based nonprofit JumpStart Inc. announced that his company, along with six others, would invest vast sums of money into Ohio’s blockchain startups.
2018-12-3 19:32 | |
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Payments network Dash (DASH) may soon implement a new, unique network upgrade that will reportedly “eliminate” the threat of a 51% attack from the protocol, once fully implemented ChainLocks enables transactions to be confirmed and secured as soon as the block has been processed, rather than waiting for six other blocks to be signed first.
2018-12-3 00:06 | |
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Today, November 26, 2018, marks the launch of the Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) and the FIO Protocol, an interwallet protocol that seeks to make the transfer of cryptos between wallets as simple and straightforward as making transfers on PayPal.
2018-11-27 02:52 | |
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Ripple’s chief market strategist Cory Johnson has laid out company’s plans to speed up cross-border payments and money transfer. Johnson used an example of a Thailand – US money transfer, explaining that xRapid can easily convert Thai baht to XRP which can be sent digitally to the US.
2018-11-23 04:11 | |
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Even though there are numerous websites which seemingly accept Bitcoin payments, it has become apparent a lot of companies have dropped support as well. The following six service providers all accept Bitcoin, despite most people not even being aware of them doing so in this day and age.
2018-11-3 18:00 | |
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Zcash is about to receive its next upgrade and there are promises that this will make it 100 times lighter and at least six times faster, which could considerably improve the scalability of the asset.
2018-10-27 01:29 | |
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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 | |
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Ripple has announced the release of its xRapid Payment solution for commercial use. According to a new press release, “RippleNet has become a truly global network, powering faster, cheaper and more transparent cross-border payments to over 40 countries and six continents.
2018-10-2 18:12 | |
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In 2018, RippleNet has dramatically expanded its reach and network. This year we’ve seen massive customer growth quarter over quarter, signing an average of two production customers per week. RippleNet has also become a truly global network, powering faster, cheaper and more transparent cross-border payments to over 40 countries and six continents.
2018-10-2 23:00 | |
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Mastercard’s research and development wing is looking into the implications of blockchain and other cutting-edge technologies to increase general efficiency at the firm. The Ireland-based subsidiary of the international payments giant has been responsible for various innovations in the six years since its formation.
2018-9-27 01:15 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these system to work, it comes with a significant downside: privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-25 19:47 | |
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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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Сразу 11 штатов США готовят законопроекты о создании стратегических резервов Биткоина Эта идея появилась на волне успеха Сальвадора, который с 2022 года покупает 1 BTC в день. Эксперты считают, что такой шаг станет финансовым мостом между системами SWIFT и BRICS.
Swift, the global bank messaging network, announced on Nov. 5 that it has concluded a pilot program to streamline tokenized fund settlement and redemption using fiat currency on its network in collaboration with UBS Asset Management and Chainlink.
In collaboration with UBS Asset Management and Chainlink, Swift has concluded a pilot program aimed at simplifying tokenized fund transactions using its existing financial network. This initiative, launched under Singapore’s Project Guardian, explored how blockchain technology could integrate digital assets…
The Bank for International Settlements and central banks from Australia, South Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore have introduced Project Mandala, a system that embeds regulatory compliance directly into cross-border financial transactions.
На полях саммита БРИКС, проходящего в Казани, министр финансов России Антон Силуанов заявил, что будущая платежная система BRICS Bridge гипотетически способна заменить банковские организации, используя цифровые финансовые активы (ЦФА).
С 2025 года банки Северной Америки, Европы и Азии приступят к тестированию транзакций с цифровыми активами через сеть SWIFT. Exciting news! Starting next year, financial institutions from around the world will start trialling live digital asset and currency transactions on the Swift network.
Как совместить цифровые активы и традиционные деньги? Именно эту задачу взял на себя SWIFT, запланировав тестирование криптовалютных транзакций в Северной Америке, Европе и Азии в 2025 году. Стоит отметить, что предыдущие эксперименты SWIFT с блокчейном проводились на тестовой среде, но в этот раз речь идет о реальных транзакциях.