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Banks Exploring Blockchain, Tokenization Again is a ‘Fire Signal We’re in a Bear Market’
23.5.2022
Certain large investment banks are again exploring how blockchain technology and tokenization of assets can make their own operations more efficient -- but for some in the crypto community, the banks’ moves in crypto resemble something they have seen before....
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Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC Climbs Above $30,000 as Balenciaga Greenlights Crypto Payments
23.5.2022
Bitcoin rallied to above $30,000 to start the week, as bulls returned to crypto markets on Monday. The news comes as it was announced that fashion brand Balenciaga is set to accept crypto payments. ETH also moved higher on the news. Bitcoin BTC climbed to its highest point in four days earlier...
Swiss Watchmaker TAG Heuer Now Accepts Cryptocurrency in US
23.5.2022
Luxury watch manufacturer TAG Heuer announced it’s introducing online cryptocurrency payments for customers in the United States. The Swiss company provides the new payment option through a partnership with crypto payment processor Bitpay. Tag Heuer Partners With Bitpay to Offer US Clients...
SWIFT Is Experimenting With Decentralized Technologies to Allow CBDC Interconnection
22.5.2022
SWIFT, the interbank payments protocol and messaging system, has announced it is working to connect the different central bank digital currency (CBDC) protocols in development today. The company has partnered with Capgemini, a digital services provider, making a series of experiments to ensure that...
Bitcoin Pizza Day rewind: A homage to weird and wonderful BTC purchases
22.5.2022
In recognition of Bitcoin pizza day, the first-ever real-world transaction using Bitcoin, Cointelegraph speaks with the crypto community about their historic BTC purchases
What Is Cryptocurrency Utility and Why It’s Important for the Development of Crypto Payments
21.5.2022
James A. Ray, Board member at Kyrrex financial ecosystem. _____Cryptocurrencies have come a long way in the recent decade, evolving from a marginalized payment method for questionable transactions to publicly traded instruments on the largest global exchanges. Nonetheless, these drastic changes...
Russia to Legalize Crypto for Payments 'In Some Format or Other' - Minister
19.5.2022
As Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine continues to weigh on the Russian economy, Moscow will sooner or later decide to legalize cryptoassets as a means of payment, as indicated by the country’s Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov.
The official stated that the government is advancing...
Block Expects Bitcoin To Disrupt Legacy Payments, Boost Its Business
19.5.2022
Fueled by the ongoing expansion of the Lightning Network, bitcoin (BTC) has the potential to disrupt the existing legacy payment networks the world over -- and Block, the payments company formerly known as Square, hopes to use the cryptocurrency to boost its presence across the globe. ...
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Trademark Applications Suggest Meta May Launch Crypto Platform
19.5.2022
Technology giant Meta, previously Facebook, has filed five trademark applications for a digital payments platform dubbed 'Meta Pay'.
According to records submitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Meta filed five new trademark applications on May 13, which echo...
Russia will inevitably legalize crypto payments says trade minister
19.5.2022
“The question is when this will happen, how it will happen and how it will be regulated. Now both the Central Bank and the government are actively engaged in this,” said trade minister Denis Manturov
Meta trademark filing hints at plans for crypto payments platform
18.5.2022
The five applications suggest the social media firm may use its namesake in a payments processing platform called Meta Pay
Block Sees Bitcoin Disrupting Payments Networks, Expects Self-Custody to Grow
18.5.2022
CoinCorner Launches NFC-Enabled Bitcoin Card Powered by Lightning Network
18.5.2022
Crypto exchange and web wallet provider CoinCorner has announced the launch of its Bolt Card, a contactless Bitcoin (BTC) card powered by near-field communication (NFC) and the Lightning Network (LN).
The card allows users to leverage the power of the LN, a layer 2 (L2) payment protocol layered...
Two credit card firms in Israel to let cardholders buy Bitcoin
18.5.2022
Two Israel-based credit card companies, Max and Isracard, have started working on Bitcoin investment and cashback solutions via a credit card
The Lightning Network Lunch: A Bitcoin contactless payment story
18.5.2022
A data analyst on the Isle of Man demonstrated how contactless payments work on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network using an NFC enabled "Bolt Card."
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Thinks Bitcoin Has No Future as a Payments Network
18.5.2022
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has given his take regarding the future of Bitcoin’s usage. Bankman-Fried stated he doesn’t believe that Bitcoin will work as a payments network, due to its limited capability for scaling to fulfill this task. However...
DOJ Files First Criminal Complaint Against US Citizen Allegedly Using Cryptocurrency to Evade Sanctions
18.5.2022
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed its first criminal complaint against an American who allegedly used cryptocurrency to circumvent U.S. sanctions. “The payments platform advertised its services as designed to evade U.S. sanctions, including through purportedly untraceable virtual...
Crypto Payments on Shopify, Cloudflare Plays With Ethereum, EY & Polygon + More News
17.5.2022
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Crypto platform Crypto.com launched its Crypto.com Pay service to all merchants who use the Shopify e-commerce platform to enable...
The Brazilian Stock Exchange will launch Bitcoin and Ethereum futures
16.5.2022
Chief financial officer André Milanez said that the product will launch within the next 6 months
CBDC activity heats up, but few projects move beyond pilot stage
16.5.2022
Does government-issued digital money pose an existential threat to cryptocurrencies? Probably not, but stablecoin usage could narrow