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Mastercard Focusing on 5 Key Areas to Turn Crypto Into ‘an Everyday Way to Pay’
14.10.2022
Mastercard has outlined five key crypto areas it is working on in order to “turn cryptocurrencies into an everyday way to pay.” A Mastercard executive opined: “Someday soon, the ability to own and spend a digital currency could be as seamless as making a contactless card...
Tap-to-pay Bitcoin Lightning Bolt cards strike El Salvador
12.10.2022
CoinCorner, a Bitcoin Lightning-based card payment service provider, is looking to install NFC card readers across El Salvador to offer a seamless retail BTC experience
Interoperable QR Payments Reach Record Number in Argentina
12.10.2022
Interoperable QR payments, a system that allows all digital wallets in Argentina to make payments in several stores, reached a record number in September. According to official numbers, 3.15 million payments were completed using this system, including cryptocurrency-based payments that exchanges...
Visa Partners With FTX to Roll out Crypto Debit Cards in 40 Countries
9.10.2022
Payments giant Visa is launching crypto debit cards in more than 40 countries in partnership with cryptocurrency exchange FTX. “At Visa, we believe that digital currencies will have a lasting impact on the future of financial services and money movement,” said a Visa executive. Visa...
New Nvidia PC Graphics Cards Are Nearly As Big As A PS5 (And Power Hogs, Too)
7.10.2022
Not too long ago, I helped a family friend rebuild their computer. At the time, I thought their choice of a power supply over 1000 was silly. Well, now who looks like an idiot? (It’s okay, I’m used to it). Size and price aren’t the only supersized elements of the 4000-series GPUs. Based...
FTX and Visa partner to permit crypto payments in 40 countries
7.10.2022
FTX token surged over 7% on the news that Sam Bankman-Friend's company, FTX would roll out a debit card in partnership with payments giant Visa
Crypto cards to connect digital assets to the real world, says exec
7.10.2022
Simone Binotto Torre explained that some parameters like geography can make it difficult for crypto cards to have broader adoption
Blockchain Game Splinterlands Reveals Gamefi Platform Sold 10 Million Packs of Chaos Legion Series Cards
6.10.2022
On Wednesday, the team behind the blockchain game Splinterlands announced that it reached a new milestone after the project sold more than 10 million packs from the fantasy-themed battle game’s Chaos Legion series of cards. The achievement follows the project’s recent partnership with...
Time For A New Obsession: Official Pokémon Cards With Only Crochet Art
4.10.2022
We recently celebrated the extraordinary Pokémon TCG card art of Yuka Morii, and her immaculate clay models photographed in nature. But it would be remiss to stop there, and while pretty much every artist working on the cards deserves recognition, our attention is next drawn to Asako Ito and her...
This Is The First Time Anyone's Fully Seen How Pokémon Cards Are Made (And Damn Is It Satisfying)
28.9.2022
Pokémon TCG fansite PokéBeach has secured quite the find. It’s an internal video from The Pokémon Company that shows, in never-before-seen detail, exactly how a Western Pokémon card is created, from their initial design to proofing and printing. And if you love those factory shots of items getting...
Bored Apes, Moonbirds to feature on NFT-customized Mastercard debit cards
27.9.2022
The customizable card will only support NFT avatars from select blue chip collections, subject to Mastercard’s design standards and an owner verification process
The 25 Most Valuable Pokémon TCG Cards In Lost Origin
26.9.2022
Pokémon TCG’s latest Sword & Shield set, Lost Origin, has been out for a couple of weeks now. That’s long enough that the community has settled on which cards are the most desirable, and thus the most valuable when trading or selling.Read more
Erdogan Suggests Turkish-Russian Payment System, Local Media Reports
24.9.2022
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is reportedly pushing for Turkey and Russia to establish a new payment system between them. The initiative comes amid U.S. pressure against the use of the Russian Mir cards in Turkey. Some Turkish banks have been working with them to facilitate payments...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC, ETH Consolidate as Some Expect Fed to Hike Rates by 1%
21.9.2022
Bitcoin fell below $19,000 on Wednesday, as markets prepared for a potential 100 basis point interest rate hike from the United States central bank. Although the consensus for a rate increase remains at 0.75%, some believe that with inflation remaining at historically high levels, a 1.00% hike...
Nvidia’s New 4000-Series PC Graphics Cards Are Too Damn Expensive
20.9.2022
Today, after many months of leaks, rumors, and speculation, Nvidia finally officially revealed its next generation of graphics cards, the RTX 4000 series. While new graphics upgrades are welcome—the RTX 3000 series is now over two years old—Nvidia’s decision to charge massive premiums for...
Eurocoinpay Partners With Mastercard to Launch One of the First Cryptocurrency Based Cards in Spain
20.9.2022
Eurocoinpay, a Spanish cryptocurrency exchange, has closed a deal to offer one of the first cryptocurrency-based debit cards in Spain. The card, which is already available for customers of Eurocoinpay, will allow users to acquire products in more than 90 million establishments in the European Union...
EVGA to Stop Making Graphics Cards After Ethereum Merge
19.9.2022
The move comes as graphics card add-in board manufacturers post weaker financials as demand dries up due to Ethereum’s transition away from proof-of-work mining
Nigerian Blockchain Startup Bitmama Closes $2 Million Pre-Seed Round
11.9.2022
After raising $1.65 million via a pre-seed extension, Bitmama, a Nigeria-based blockchain startup, has now closed its pre-seed funding round at $2 million, a report has said. Leading the funding round were two Africa-focused venture capital firms: Unicorn Growth Capital and Launch Africa....
Store Says Man Stole Pokémon Cards, Then Tried To Sell Them Back
9.9.2022
Selling stolen goods to the place you took them from in the first place may not be the most brilliant of thievery plans, but it certainly saves on police paperwork. This is the alleged crime of a Washington man, who the Bellingham Herald reports stole a whole bunch of Pokémon and Magic:...
Ukrainian Police Bust Crypto Call Centers Defrauding Investors Across Europe
1.9.2022
Ukrainian investigators have exposed a scheme targeting residents of the country and the European Union with various financial scams, including some related to cryptocurrencies. The criminal organization members contacted their victims through call centers to collect personal financial information....