September 22, 2019 Do Crypto Payment Restrictions Undermine Blockchain’s Core Values? Crypto users are still at the mercy of the controls and processes of exchanges, wallets and payment services.…
September 19, 2019 New IMF Blog Considers Pros and Cons of Adoption of Stablecoins The IMF has published a blog post in which it outlines both potential benefits and risks associated with the adoption of new digital payment methods, including stablecoins.…
September 19, 2019 Square Crypto Completes Inaugural Developer Team With Three New Hires Square Crypto has hired former devs from Google, Facebook’s Libra and Lightning Labs onto its inaugural developer team.…
September 18, 2019 ING: 32% of Europeans Believe Crypto Is the Future of E-Payments Cryptocurrencies can be spent in most stores, most Europeans falsely believe, according to a new ING Bank survey.…
September 17, 2019 Wells Fargo to Pilot DLT-Based Cross-Border Settlement Platform American financial services company Wells Fargo & Company is planning to launch a pilot of a distributed ledger technology-based internal settlement service in 2020.…
September 17, 2019 Big Four Auditing Firm Deloitte Allows Staff to Pay Lunch in Bitcoin Employees of Big Four auditing firm Deloitte can now pay for food in the cantine using a mobile Bitcoin wallet.…
September 16, 2019 Cryptocurrency Payments Processor BitPay Adds Support for Ether Major cryptocurrency payment services provider BitPay has added support for the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, Ether.…
September 16, 2019 Share of SegWit-Spending Bitcoin Transactions Now Over 50% The percentage of Segregated Witness-spending Bitcoin transactions has reached an all-time high of 50.5%. The percentage of Segregated Witness (SegWit)-spending Bitcoin (BTC) transactions has reached 50.5%, or an all-time high, according to transactionfee.info statistics.SegWit solution to Bitcoin transactions SegWit is a proposed update to the Bitcoin Core, which is designed to reduce processing and wait times.…
September 16, 2019 PayPal: ‘A Lot of Work’ Still Needs to Happen for Libra to Become Real PayPal representatives have said they remain cautious about the future of Facebook’s Libra, yet they continue to strongly believe in its potential.…
September 14, 2019 Founder of Payments Network Zelle Joins Stellar-Focused Startup as CEO Mike Kennedy, founder of digital payments network Zelle, joins Stellar-focused crypto development company Interstellar as its new CEO.…
September 13, 2019 After Multiple False Starts, Venezuela May Have Its First Bitcoin ATM According to data from Coin ATM Radar, Venezuela has finally gotten its first Bitcoin ATM in a small town near the Colombian border.…
September 13, 2019 Report: Square’s Cash App Is Testing a Stock Trading Feature Square’s cryptocurrency-friendly payment app Cash App is reportedly testing a new feature allowing customers to buy and sell stocks.…
