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Much Anticipated Central Bank Digital Currencies Raise Privacy Concerns

12.7.2020
CBDCs are one of the hottest topics in the fintech space, but as their inception comes closer, serious privacy concerns come with it

Zimbabwe’s Battle To Control Currency Inadvertently Boosts Bitcoin Profile

12.7.2020
Zimbabwe’s deteriorating economic situation is forcing authorities to sign off on some desperate and controversial decisions. Some of such decisions include the abrupt suspension mobile money as well as the recent designation of Zimswitch as a national payment switch. Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe...

Cryptocurrency News From Japan: July 5 - July 11 in Review

11.7.2020
Tosei real estate and Tokyo Financial Holdings issued an asset-backed digital financial product, Coinage registered with Japanese authorities as an exchange and more headlined news from Japan this past week

Bitcoin App Bottlepay Is Back From the Dead With a New Lightning App

10.7.2020
Bottlepay remodeled its whole product to comply with EU regulations. Roughly 1,000 people are now on the waitlist for the app's relaunch

The United States Has to Upgrade the Legacy Financial System

10.7.2020
Slow-roll regulations in the United States may leave Americans behind in the financial innovations’ running

WikiLeaks Shop Now Accepts Bitcoin Lightning Payments

9.7.2020
In 2011, WikiLeaks was among the first organizations to accept donations in bitcoin. Now its shop is taking bitcoin payments over Lightning

Ripple Teams Up With Santander on International Payments

9.7.2020
Massive retail bank Santander has teamed up with crypto and blockchain company Ripple

Bitso Hits 1M Users as Crypto Adoption Spikes in Latin America

9.7.2020
Ripple and Coinbase-backed cryptocurrency exchange Bitso has topped Argentina’s crypto market in the six months after launch

App Connects Bitcoin and Lightning Payments Directly to Your Bank Account

6.7.2020
The Strike app hopes to encourage mass adoption of the Bitcoin and Lightning Network by connecting it directly to a bank account or debit card

Blockchain Travel Platform Lost 90% of Booking Volumes Due to COVID-19

6.7.2020
Booking volumes on the Binance-backed travel booking platform dropped by 90% during the coronavirus pandemic

Expedia Partners With Crypto Service Travala.com for Crypto Bookings

6.7.2020
Expedia now allows its over 700,000 accommodations to be booked with cryptocurrency through crypto travel platform Travala.com

CBDC is the Most Important Trend in Payments Says Visa Crypto Chief

5.7.2020
Visa’s head of crypto says CBDC is the most important payments trend in the next decade

Biggest Corporations Sceptical of Introducing Crypto Payment Option

5.7.2020
Are traditional business enterprises ready to embrace a blockchain-based payments network? Maybe not, according to two research reports

Stablecoins Might Be Better Than Bitcoin For Payments, But Maybe Not For Long

5.7.2020
Stablecoins offer most of the benefits of bitcoin (BTC), but without any of the volatility. This is the opinion of a wide number of industry figures and experts, all of whom affirm that removing volatility is the key to making cryptocurrencies viable as a means of payment. Does this mean that...

Over 2,500 Austrian Merchants Can Now Accept Cryptocurrency Payments

4.7.2020
More than 2,500 merchants in Austria can accept three types of cryptocurrencies via the payment processor Salamantex. The company explained that the system was tested with a number of select A1 5Gi network shops. Since the Covid-19 outbreak, contactless payments have been trending more so than they...

How CBDCs Might Change Our Daily Payments

4.7.2020
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) could provide consumers with cheaper and faster payments, according to experts in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. They’ll sidestep the need for an account with a commercial bank, and in the process will reduce many of the costs and risks that come...