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Uphold's New Debit Card Lets You Pay With Bitcoin, XRP and Gold
4.3.2020
Using payment platform Uphold’s new debit card, users can spend their digital assets, cash and commodities at locations that accepts MasterCard
13 Crypto Debit Cards You Can Use Right Now
28.2.2020
If cryptocurrency is designed to reconstruct the financial world while introducing major improvements in transaction speed, privacy, cost and convenience, debit cards represent a useful bridge between old and new. A preponderance of crypto debit card options now exist that allow cryptocurrency...
Next Step Mobile Surveillance: How You Walk, Your Heartbeat – Why Bitcoin Matters to Combat Government Privacy Invasion
26.2.2020
It may sound like something from a dystopian cyberpunk movie, but payment providers could soon be validating transactions by the way users walk, their heartbeat, veins, and more. Mastercard has recently revealed they “have been testing heartbeat, vein technology, and the way people walk...
Crypto Goes Plastic — Coinbase’s Visa-Approved Solution Suggests Growth
25.2.2020
Now that Coinbase is a principal partner of Visa, it can issue its debit cards without paying the middlemen. Will fellow crypto companies follow suit?
Celsius Joins Major Cryptocurrency Firms Using Simplex’s Fiat Onramp
18.2.2020
United Kingdom-based crypto lending startup Celsius Network enables in-app crypto purchases via a new partnership with Simplex
Mastercard and Ripple’s Xpring Join Industry Group to Promote Blockchain Education
13.2.2020
Mastercard, the innovation arms of Ripple and Binance and eight other firms joined a group supporting blockchain education in universities worldwide
Mastercard, Binance X and Ripple's Xpring Join the Blockchain Education Alliance
11.2.2020
The Blockchain Education Alliance now counts Mastercard, Binance X and Ripple’s Xpring among its members
Bitcoin Hits $10K, Coinbase Controversy, Buffet with Buffett: Hodler’s Digest, Feb. 3–9
9.2.2020
In this week’s Hodler’s Digest, Bitcoin hits $10,000, why Mastercard left Libra, Coinbase limits some users to withdrawing $10 a day, and Justin Sun meets Warren Buffett
Mastercard CEO Reveals Why The Company Left Libra
3.2.2020
Mastercard CEO explains his issues with Facebook’s Libra
Mastercard Left Libra Association Over Regulatory and Viability Concerns, Says CEO
3.2.2020
The credit-card giant pulled out of the Libra Association in October. Now its chief has opened up on why
User Reports Reveal Visa and Mastercard Outages During the Holidays
27.12.2019
Having problems with payments around Christmas can be frustrating, especially for those who leave gift buying till the last minute. With calmer markets this holiday season, the crypto ecosystem has been operating relatively smoothly, with few exceptions. The fiat world, however, saw some glitches...
Binance Users Can Now Buy Four Cryptos with Visa Credit and Debit Cards
27.12.2019
Binance users can now buy cryptocurrencies in pounds and euros via Visa credit and debit cards linked to their exchange accounts
MasterCard Introduces Fintech Express with First On-Boarded Partner, Rapyd in the Asia Pacific
11.11.2019
During the Singapore Fintech Festival 2019, MasterCard has announced the launch of Fintech Express in the Asia Pacific. The company is providing its products, services, global licensing, and commercial agreements to the fintechs across the world. The Fintech as a Service platform, Rapyd, is joining...
Italians Prefer BTC to Visa or Mastercard When Shopping Online
31.10.2019
BTC is a more popular online payment method in Italy than traditional credit cards, such as Visa, Mastercard and American Express
Mastercard Teams Up With Envisible to Provide Visibility in Supply Chain
28.10.2019
Mastercard, the leading tech firm of the global payments niche, has announced its collaboration with Envisible, an ARKK Food Company. Founded in 2005, Envisible allows customers and businesses to make informed decisions by rendering greater transparency of the food supply chain system. As per...
Top US Food Co-Op to Track Seafood Using Mastercard’s Blockchain Tech
28.10.2019
A food tracking platform utilizing Mastercard's blockchain technology is to be piloted by U.S. food co-operative giant Topco at its member grocers
Largest American Food Coop to Pilot Mastercard’s Blockchain Tech
28.10.2019
Major American food coop Topco will use a blockchain platform for its food supply chains based on Mastercard’s Provenance Solution
How Centralized Payment Systems Learned to Accept Decentralized Cryptocurrency
23.10.2019
They might not be shouting it from the rooftops, but fiat payment gateways are no longer the enemy of bitcoin. Hostilities have ceased, the bad blood has been let, and today the fiat and crypto worlds are bridged and doing business. Despite the two systems sporting opposing aims and architecture...
Crypto App Revolut Confirms MasterCard on Board for 2019 US Expansion
22.10.2019
Revolut will use both Visa and MasterCard for U.S. entry
Calibra Head: Libra ‘Absolutely Not’ in Jeopardy Without PayPal, Visa
16.10.2019
Libra is “absolutely not” in jeopardy after seven firms including PayPal and Visa have dropped out of the project, says the head of Calibra