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The Lightning Network Is Bringing Payments Back to Bitcoin
26.4.2022
The Lightning Network, which enables small and instant bitcoin payments, is getting bigger and more useful. Here's a state of play. This piece is part of CoinDesk's Payments Week
Why Haven't Crypto Payments Taken Off?
26.4.2022
As part of CoinDesk’s Payments Week, we asked a number of engineers, executives and experts to weigh in on the substantial questions weighing on the industry. In this roundtable discussion, they answer the question of why after 13 years, haven’t crypto payments taken off?
Introducing CoinDesk's Payments Week
25.4.2022
Can crypto fulfill its original promise? From Bitcoin’s Lightning Network to stablecoins to gaming and rewards, innovations give hope for the payments use case
How to Send Money to the Wrong Side of the War
25.4.2022
A Russian emigre is teaching friends and family how to use crypto amid economic sanction
Crypto Becomes Lifeline for Russian Emigrés Opposing Putin’s War in Ukraine
25.4.2022
Financial censorship has gone from an abstract idea to a harsh reality for Russians who suddenly found themselves unbanked by the West and their own government. This piece is part of CoinDesk’s Payments Week
Crypto Payments: When the Tech Fades to the Background
25.4.2022
The evolution in interest among tradfi from crypto curiosity to crypto commitment is perhaps the industry’s most important move yet
Drugs, Drugs and More Drugs: Crypto on the Dark Web
25.4.2022
Down The Silk Road: Where Crypto Has Always Been Used for Payments
Why Banks and Payment Processors Shun Perfectly Legal Businesses
25.4.2022
Porn, gambling and even furniture sales are deemed “high-risk” merchant categories. Sometimes the risk is financial; other times it’s just bad publicity
PayPal’s Blockchain Chief on the Future of Crypto in Payments
25.4.2022
Blockchains offer unique advantages, but these must be combined with a user experience that feels similar to the one consumers know today
The History of Cash-Like Digital Payment Instruments
25.4.2022
How and why those original digital payments projects are no longer with us today can give us an idea of what needs to be done to do it right