2022-4-29 16:27 |
A roundtable discussion about the future of payments, balance sheets and global financial markets.
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Leading Canada-based online medical service provider ‘Ask The Doctor’ on Wednesday announced that it had added $1.5 Million worth of Shiba Inu to its balance sheet. According to the disclosure, the foray saw the healthcare startup acquire approximately 31 Billion SHIB via Kraken exchange as the firm prepares to start accepting the token as a […]
2021-12-2 23:31 | |
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Digital payments giant Allied has announced a partnership with NYDIG and intends to put Bitcoin on its balance sheet
2021-7-6 14:39 | |
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AZ Alkmaar will receive bitcoin payments from its new sponsor, local exchange Bitcoin Meester, and hold it on its balance sheet until 2024.
2021-7-3 19:41 | |
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Earlier Tuesday, data analytics company Palantir announced that it will begin accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment. Palantir is responsible for providing software and analytics tools for governments and corporations.
2021-5-13 21:55 | |
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Peter Thiel’s data analytics firm Palantir Technologies is accepting bitcoin payments and may soon hold BTC on its balance sheet.
2021-5-11 18:59 | |
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George Residence, a hospitality holding in Lagos, Nigeria, has become the first hotel in the country to accept Bitcoin payments. Additionally, the hotel hopes to expand its balance sheet and adopt the top cryptocurrency as its primary reserve.
2021-4-27 14:37 | |
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George Residence in Lagos has announced plans to start accepting BTC payments. The company has already converted 50% of its balance sheet to Bitcoin.
2021-4-27 20:15 | |
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Earlier this week, WeWork announced that it would begin accepting payments in cryptocurrencies. In a move following Tesla and MicroStrategy, the commercial real estate start up stated that it would begin holding Bitcoin on its balance sheet — another sign of Bitcoin’s growing institutional acceptance.
2021-4-23 10:52 | |
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Another city in the United States is looking to add Bitcoin payments and mining activities to the city’s balance sheet.
2021-4-22 19:15 | |
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WeWork becomes the latest company to begin accepting cryptocurrency for payments. The SoftBank-backed real estate giant announced on Tuesday that it will allow its customers to pay for fixed offices and co-working spaces in crypto via tie-up with cryptocurrency payment processor BitPay.
2021-4-21 20:34 | |
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The flexible workspace provider will partner with BitPay and Coinbase to facilitate the inbound and outbound transactions. WeWork will also hold cryptocurrencies on its balance sheet. The company has posted $3.
2021-4-20 17:22 | |
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Jack Dorsey’s payments company Square has been a first-mover when it comes to bitcoin. Not only did Square enable bitcoin payments on its Cash App, but the company recently announced that it was purchasing $50 million worth of BTC for its balance sheet.
2020-10-11 17:02 | |
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On Friday, House Democrats passed a $3 trillion coronavirus relief package. This bill includes a second round of $1,200 direct payments to individuals, up to $6,000 per household. Almost $1 trillion are for cash-strapped local and state governments while $200 billion for essential workers’ hazard pay.
2020-5-17 20:29 | |
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A new report from Deutsche Bank Research, Digital Currencies: the Ultimate Hard Power Tool, predicts that cash payments will remain for decades, but the emergence of digital payments “will lead to the death of the plastic card.
2020-1-29 10:25 | |
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Venezuela’s Central Bank is considering adding bitcoin to its balance sheets, giving state institutions the ability to settle payments in cryptocurrencies. The post Venezuelan Central Bank Considers Adding Bitcoin to Balance Sheets appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-9-27 00:42 | |
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Special thanks to the Plasma Group team for review and feedback Current approaches to layer 2 scaling - basically, Plasma and state channels - are increasingly moving from theory to practice, but at the same time it is becoming easier to see the inherent challenges in treating these techniques as a fully fledged scaling solution for Ethereum.
2019-9-2 04:03 | |
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Xeonbit offers a secure payment platform for users who wish to remain anonymous at all times. Unlike many other platforms, Xeonbit differs by allowing the possibility of tracing transactions while also protects the information of both, the receiver and the sender.
2019-7-6 19:17 | |
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About two months ago, Lightning Labs released Lightning Loop, a service that allows users to fill or empty Lightning channels without closing them, thus reducing on-chain fees.
2019-5-29 16:58 | |
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In the latest on the ongoing legal dispute between the New York Attorney General (NYAG), cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and stablecoin issuer Tether, the New York Supreme Court has modified an April 24, 2019, preliminary injunction and now Bitfinex is allowed to continue using the Tether reserves that were loaned to it to maintain its ordinary course of business, such as paying employees and consultants.
2019-5-18 22:14 | |
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Lightning Labs just released an alpha version of its Lightning Network wallet. The desktop application is now compatible with Bitcoin’s mainnet and it leverages Neutrino (the protocol, not the analytics company acquired by Coinbase) to give users a lightweight option to “control their own funds,” as opposed to running a full node or trusting a third party to play custodian.
2019-4-24 01:38 | |
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A firm working to bring traditional financial services to those invested in crypto assets has lowered the minimum Bitcoin account balance required to receive interest payments. The move is reportedly in response to public pressure to make the service more accessible.
2019-4-24 00:00 | |
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New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.
2019-4-8 18:21 | |
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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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Public transport riders in 37 localities across Argentina can now add credit balance to their SUBE travelcards with bitcoin. This comes through a collaboration between Alto Viaje, who provide the travelcard-loading platform, and Bitex, a fintech company.
2019-2-7 17:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency mobile wallet provider BRD wants to accelerate its international expansion, and it has secured $15 million to do it. The Series B funding round was raised from SBI Crypto Investment, a subsidiary of Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings.
2019-1-26 20:04 | |
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From a merchant’s point of view, cryptocurrency is a better payment option compared to a check. When accepting check payments, there is always the risk that the check might be unfunded and subsequently returned since the merchant can’t verify the customer’s checking account balance beforehand as the database is being run by the bank and […] Scammers Could Overwrite Cryptocurrency Payments, but It Won’t Be Cheap was originally found on Cryptocurrency News | Blockchain News | Bitcoin News | blokt.com.
2019-1-18 14:59 | |
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Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server.
2019-1-4 21:11 | |
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Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year that “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception.
2018-12-5 23:23 | |
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USDX Wallet is a blockchain-based cryptowallet made for instant payments. It features USDX a 1:1 ratio, making it easy to figure out your balance or calculate the amount to transfer. US dollar peg makes USDX a steady store of value.
2018-11-19 15:26 | |
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have weighed in on sovereign considerations and global implications of blockchain and other financial services technologies.
2018-10-15 19:01 | |
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Listen Here – https://soundcloud. com/cryptodaily/how-monero-are-improving-human-rights-with-xmr Monero is considered to be the privacy coin, the currency of choice for absolute privacy. Now, privacy doesn’t necessarily mean security and we should remember that 2018 has seen a tonne of ‘Monero mining’ hacks, calling into question some of the projects integrity.
2018-10-12 17:00 | |
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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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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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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 late 2009, Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto ushered in a groundbreaking approach to money by championing a digital payment system free from third-party intermediaries and governmental control.
2018-7-9 19:37 | |
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In late 2009, Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto ushered in a groundbreaking approach to money by championing a digital payment system free from third-party intermediaries and governmental control.
2018-7-5 19:37 | |
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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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