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National Digital Currencies: Not Yet Too Big to Fail
26.3.2020
What obstacles would national digital currencies face, and are there any benefits to launching them?
Printing Money from Thin Air – How the Fed Reduces Purchasing Power and Makes You Poorer
26.3.2020
Unless you have your head in the sand, you’ve probably realized that governments and central banks can print money out of thin air and in unlimited amounts. The United States and the Federal Reserve have been creating money from nothing for years because they had exhausted all their monetary...
Alleged Mastermind of Sex Abuse Chatrooms Hid Payments With Privacy Coin Monero
26.3.2020
The 25-year-old used the cryptocurrency monero to obfuscate payments for abusive sexual material, according to a CoinDesk Korea investigation
Tron Partnered with Metal Pay to Allow Instant Buying of TRX in the U.S.
26.3.2020
The Metal Pay mobile application now allows its users to purchase Tron with fiat currency
$2 Trillion for Surveillance Capitalism – US Government Promises $1,200 to Every American
25.3.2020
On Wednesday, U.S. Congressional leaders had seemingly come up with a stimulus deal at around 1 a.m. EST. The package will cost upwards of $2 trillion and politicians are promising direct payments of $1,200 per American if they make $75,000 or less. The dollar injection will be the largest...
Intermex Is Not Using Ripple for Its Mexican Remittances
22.3.2020
Intermex’s announcement directly contradicts the press release issued by Ripple announcing the partnership
The US Should Use Stablecoins for Emergency Coronavirus Payments
22.3.2020
Paying out the stimulus using stablecoins would be cleaner and cheaper than sending checks in the mail, says the CEO Of Binance.US
Less Than 1% of Australians Used Crypto to Pay for Services in 2019
20.3.2020
Crypto is the third most familiar alternative type of payment in Australia, but less than 1% used it for payment in 2019, central bank says
80% of Australians Know About Crypto but Only 1% Use It: Central Bank Study
20.3.2020
Fewert than 1 percent of surveyed Australians paid for consumer goods with cryptocurrency in 2019, according to a new study by the Reserve Bank of Australia
3 Debit Cards Nigerians Can Use to Spend Cryptocurrencies in Stores and Online
20.3.2020
Options to acquire cryptocurrencies in Nigeria have been growing in number, along with increasing interest in bitcoin. Nigerians are also starting to see more opportunities to spend their coins in brick and mortar stores and at online merchants. Three crypto debit cards are now available to...
Report: Top Blockchain Use Cases Are in Payments, Security and Settlements
19.3.2020
A new report has indicated the major benefits of blockchain and DLT, according to financial institutions using the tech
Thai Remittance Platform Starts Processing Ripple Payments
19.3.2020
DeeMoney has become the first non-banking institution to use RippleNet in Thailand
Crypto Investors Should Care About the IRS Delaying Tax Payments
19.3.2020
Crypto traders may enjoy some respite from the market crash as tax payments have been deferred in the U.S
Payments Unicorn Square Gets Limited Bank Charter for Merchant Lending
18.3.2020
Square Financial Services was given conditional approval by the FDIC Board for an Industrial Loan Company bank charter on Wednesday
PayPal’s Financial Crimes Division Is Seeking a Blockchain Expert
18.3.2020
The payments giant is seeking a blockchain expert to help identify use cases for the tech in the prevention of financial crimes
Gitcoin Teams Up With ETCLabs for Crypto Bounty Payments in ETC
17.3.2020
Bounty hunters can now receive pay in ETC for their work, thanks to a collaboration between ETCLabs and Gitcoin
Coinbase Card Users Can Now Make Crypto-Backed Payments With Google Pay
17.3.2020
Card holders will be able to make crypto-backed payments from any Google Pay-enabled device
WooCommerce 4.0 & WooCommerce Payments Beta
17.3.2020
Y'all know WooCommerce: it's a plugin for WordPress that adds robust eCommerce functionality to your site. Notably, like WordPress itself, it's open-source and free. You only pay for things if you need things like special plugins that extend functionality.
This is a huge month for WooCommerce!...
Sweden’s Central Bank Wants to Host Innovation Hub for Digital Currencies
17.3.2020
Sweden is seeking to amend current laws in a bid to host the Bank for International Settlements innovation hub for digital currencies
Opera Browser Enables Apple Pay and Debit Card Crypto Purchases in the US
17.3.2020
Opera desktop and mobile browsers for both Android and Apple iOS will support direct crypto purchases of Bitcoin and Ether for U.S. users