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Alipay and WeChat Bow to Beijing Refusing to Play With Crypto
The announcement that the world’s top crypto exchange had opened two new fiat on-ramps for China was bullish for overall adoption prospects. However, as expected the pressure of Beijing has been too much for the platforms which have already stated they will not tolerate crypto payments. дальше »
2019-10-11 14:00 | |
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Bitcoin Payments in Alipay Banned as the Payments Giant Takes an Anti-Crypto Stance
Coinspeaker Bitcoin Payments in Alipay Banned as the Payments Giant Takes an Anti-Crypto StanceDigital payment arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, Alipay, takes an anti-cryptocurrency stance and bans all Bitcoin and cryptocurrency transactions on its platform. дальше »
2019-10-11 13:09 | |
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Bitcoin Whale Transfers $468 Million for ‘Low Dollar Fee’
Bitcoin takes a lot of criticism over its ‘unsuitability’ as a payments mechanism but when it comes to low fee transfers the digital-asset is king when compared to the fees charged by traditional remittance houses. дальше »
2019-7-30 23:29 | |
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Another Canadian Town to Accept Bitcoin Payments For Property Taxes
Bitcoin takes another step toward mass adoption as a Toronto suburb favorably votes to accept Bitcoin for property tax payments. Cash, Credit or BTC? Canadians living in the Toronto suburb of the City of Richmond Hill can now pay their property taxes in Bitcoin thanks to a partnership between the municipality and Coinberry. дальше »
2019-7-17 19:00 | |
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Automatic Bitcoin Micropayments Are Coming to Lightning Network
With the introduction of Joule Allowances, the Bitcoin network takes one step closer to achieving its potential for automated micropayments and ‘streaming money. ’ Joule Allowances Enables BTC Auto-Micropayments Since its inception, Bitcoin has been trying to live up to its promise of being an enabler of frequent, low-value, instant payments. дальше »
2019-6-19 02:00 | |
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Decryptionary Helps New Investors Understand Crypto Terms
Rising cryptocurrency markets may once again arouse the interest of new investors. The crypto space has its specifics and it takes some effort to acquaint oneself with the terminology. Decryptionary has been created to impart the basic information you need to start understanding Bitcoin better. дальше »
2019-5-11 13:48 | |
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How to Generate QR Codes for Crypto Payments
Businesses and projects in the crypto space have an incentive to facilitate cryptocurrency payments for their customers and users. With QR codes, acquiring a recipient’s address is easy – all it takes is a quick scan with a smartphone. дальше »
2019-5-10 15:32 | |
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PayPal Skips Bitcoin While ‘Clearly Working on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency’
By CCN. com: Online financial services firm PayPal believes it is too early to pronounce Bitcoin as the future of payments. Nevertheless, the $128 billion financial services firm is pursuing blockchain and cryptocurrency projects, Yahoo Finance reports. дальше »
2019-5-8 16:07 | |
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PayPal Wins Patent for Ransomware Detection Solution
Global payment processing platform PayPal has been awarded a patent for a technique that can help with the timely detection and reduction of ransomware attacks. Ransomware attacks are a form of malware that takes over the victim's computer, locks up the files therein and demands a ransom before the files can be accessed again — often to be paid in cryptocurrency. дальше »
2019-4-19 21:17 | |
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5th-Largest Japanese Bank Abruptly Ditches Ripple Trial
Ripple, the blockchain-based payment network, suffered a setback after Japan’s Resona Bank said it would no longer use MoneyTap, a consumer-centric retail payments app that uses Ripple’s enterprise blockchain technology. дальше »
2019-4-13 21:01 | |
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Bitrefill Adds Thor Turbo to Speed Lightning Connections
The crypto payment platform Bitrefill has announced an upgrade to its Thor service. The upgrade is dubbed “Thor Turbo,” and its expected to speed up the process of connecting to Bitrefill's Lightning node, according to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine. дальше »
2019-4-5 19:15 | |
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Ripple’s technology is used for transferring billions of dollars around the world, says CEO Brad Garlinghouse
Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple, spoke about the payments network around the world on a panel with PayPal’s CEO, Daniel Schulman, at the FinTech Ideas Festival 2019. Garlinghouse said that the existing payment networks are slow and inefficient and that they need an upgrade since transferring money across border takes days, despite innovations in […] The post Ripple’s technology is used for transferring billions of dollars around the world, says CEO Brad Garlinghouse appeared first on AMBCrypto. дальше »
2019-4-4 14:30 | |
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In the Daily: BCH Charity Anniversary, Lighting Wholesaler Takes Crypto, Atomicpay Vanity URLs
In this edition of The Daily we feature the first yearly anniversary of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) charity Eatbch, a move by American lighting wholesaler H&M Distributors to accept cryptocurrency payments, and an update about vanity URLs from Atomicpay. дальше »
2019-2-11 13:01 | |
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Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative Adds 11 New Partners
San Francisco based blockchain company Ripple recently partnered with 11 new educational institutions across the globe as part of its University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI). The initiative is now supporting 29 schools in total which will help in academic research, innovation and technical development in blockchain, digital payments, and cryptocurrencies. дальше »
2019-2-8 14:34 | |
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XRP Takes Another Step to Crypto Domination, Bull Run Inbound?
Ripple’s countless partnerships with banks and recent Swift network buzz will lead the next bull run. XRP is a powerhouse in the crypto space with technology to streamline and secure payments as well as abolishing large transaction fees. дальше »
2019-2-2 22:08 | |
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Binance Now Supporting Visa and MasterCard Payments
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading exchange by volume, announced today that both debit and credit card payments for cryptocurrencies are now open — thanks to a partnership with Simplex, a fully-licensed financial institution that offers online fraud-protected payment processing solutions. дальше »
2019-1-31 22:00 | |
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Bitfury Partners With BTCBIT to Launch Bitcoin Lightning Network Payments
A team of Bitfury’s Lightning Peach engineers on January 15, 2019, announced its collaboration with BTCBIT, a Poland-based cryptocurrency exchange to launch a Lightning Network payment channel allowing for a safer, faster, and more cost-efficient transfer of digital assets on the exchange. дальше »
2019-1-17 21:00 | |
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HashCash Cryptocurrency Payments Platform Launches in South Africa
HashCash Consultants, a California-based distributed ledger technology (DLT) project focused on creating blockchain-based solutions that enable enterprises to move assets and settle payments seamlessly across borders, is now live in South Africa, according to a press release from January 7, 2018. дальше »
2019-1-10 23:00 | |
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Neutrino: A Privacy-Preserving Light Wallet Protocol
Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server. дальше »
2019-1-4 21:11 | |
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Blockchain Analysis Is About to Get Harder as P2EP Enters Testing Phase
Yet another tool is being added to Bitcoin’s growing number of privacy solutions. Thought up at a brainstorming event attended by Bitcoin developers and privacy researchers last summer, Pay to Endpoint (P2EP) is a relatively new trick that utilizes the well-known CoinJoin mixing technique to make blockchain analysis much harder. дальше »
2019-1-1 19:31 | |
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Stellar Lumens One Step Closer To Ripple’s XRP – Takes BCH Position
The long on-going run between the speedy coin is still visible in a foggy way in the crypto-industry. In the case of businesses dedicated to facilitating payments between individuals, the choice of which blockchain to use and which fintech to hire is of vital importance for their growth. дальше »
2018-12-1 12:17 | |
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BitPay Adds Former PayPal and Western Union Executive for Blockchain B2B & MassPay Development
BitPay has hired Rolf Haag as the Head of Business Solutions as it sets itself to strengthen its position in an increasingly competitive market. The announcement was made on 7th November and the appointment takes place effective immediately. дальше »
2018-11-8 22:28 | |
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IBM Blockchain Head Takes Stab at Ripple’s xRapid by Comparing IBM World Wire’s Real-Time Open Approach
IBM’s Blockchain World Wire was unveiled earlier this year, which the tech giants describe as ‘the new financial rail that simultaneously clears and settles cross-border payments in near real-time.’ World Wire uses the Stellar protocol which makes it possible for financial institutions to clear and settle cross-border payments in seconds. When a couple of financial […] дальше »
2018-10-30 19:36 | |
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Ripple Takes Further Steps In Global Payments
Ripple, the company behind XRP, has the potential to gain a foothold in global payment and remittance systems via its suite of blockchain software. After recently releasing new products, like xRapid, Ripple is pushing ahead with its goals. дальше »
2018-10-23 17:20 | |
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Spain’s Banco Santander Takes a Liking to Ripple’s Cross-Border Payments Solution
At Ripple’s annual Swell event on Oct. 1, Spanish financial services firm Banco Santander executives shared their experience of using blockchain-powered payment systems powered by the former’s RippleNet product. дальше »
2018-10-5 14:00 | |
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Spain’s Banco Santander Takes a Liking to Ripple’s (XRP) Cross-Border Payments Solution
At Ripple’s annual Swell event on Oct. 1, Spanish financial services firm Banco Santander executives shared their experience of using blockchain-powered payment systems powered by the former’s RippleNet product. дальше »
2018-10-4 14:00 | |
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Bitcoin Core 0.17.0 Is Released: Here’s What’s New
Today marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0. 17. 0, the 17th generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakamoto almost 10 years ago and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today. дальше »
2018-10-3 16:28 | |
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Ripple Highlights Record Year, xRapid Now Commercially Available
In 2018, RippleNet has dramatically expanded its reach and network. This year we’ve seen massive customer growth quarter over quarter, signing an average of two production customers per week. RippleNet has also become a truly global network, powering faster, cheaper and more transparent cross-border payments to over 40 countries and six continents. дальше »
2018-10-2 23:00 | |
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Lightning Labs Releases Redesigned and Optimized Desktop App
An alpha version of the new Lightning desktop app has been released. The application includes a redesigned and optimized backend for light clients, as well as a simplified interface for users with little to no cryptocurrency experience. дальше »
2018-9-15 21:22 | |
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Battle of the Privacycoins: Why Monero Is Hard to Beat (and Hard to Scale)
Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited. дальше »
2018-9-15 20:21 | |
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Stellar-Based Lightyear Acquires Chain, Forms New Entity
Lightyear Corporation, a universal payments network built around Stellar’s open financial protocol, has announced the acquisition of Chain, in a merger that sees both brands combine to form a new entity called Interstellar. дальше »
2018-9-11 16:55 | |
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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Lightning, Launches and Broken Promises
A handful of projects brought their tech to life this week, introducing new payment systems and coins to the industry’s offerings. Meanwhile, Bitcoin’s Lightning Network makes headway for the dev community, and one of crypto’s older and more respected exchanges (arguably) takes a step against the space’s principles. дальше »
2018-9-11 17:57 | |
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Layer 1 Should Be Innovative in the Short Term but Less in the Long Term
One of the key tradeoffs in blockchain design is whether to build more functionality into base-layer blockchains themselves (“layer 1”), or to build it into protocols that live on top of the blockchain, and can be created and modified without changing the blockchain itself (“layer 2”). дальше »
2018-8-28 04:03 | |
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Wyre Adds MakerDAO Stablecoin Pairing for Global Money Transfers
Blockchain money transfer company Wyre has announced a partnership with MakerDAO, creator of the Dai stablecoin, to offer Dai as part of a fiat-crypto trading pair in more than 30 countries across the world including the U. дальше »
2018-8-15 00:54 | |
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Daily: Supported by the payment company Crypto’s anti-political protest, Greyskill H1 was raised to 250m
“We should prohibit U. S. persons from buying or mining cryptocurrencies,” Rep. Sherman proclaimed. “Mining alone uses electricity which takes away from other needs and-or adds to the carbon footprint. дальше »
2018-7-19 13:34 | |
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Mazzuma is Disrupting Cryptocurrency Payments Industry with its Instant, No Transaction Fees Payments Platform
At a time when high transaction fees with slow transaction confirmation are threatening to kill major digital currencies, Mazzuma has come to help users send fast payments with no transaction fees, using its groundbreaking application layer transaction processing protocol. дальше »
2018-6-30 15:08 | |
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Creating A National Cryptocurrency Not in the Plans of Switzerland – Central Bank Director
While cryptocurrencies have the potential to facilitate lightning fast payments across borders, reduce the cost of minting fiat money and drastically put inflation in check, the Swiss Central Bank board director, Thomas Moser has declared that digital currencies still do not have what it takes to be a national currency. дальше »
2018-6-23 01:45 | |
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Live Transaction: Santander’s One Pay FX
Santander recently released One Pay FX — the first mobile application for international payments powered by blockchain technology. Millions of Santander’s customers in Europe now have access to same day, cross-border payments, a critical improvement from the three to five days it traditionally takes to send money internationally. дальше »
2018-6-17 23:58 | |
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On Radical Markets
Recently I had the fortune to have received an advance copy of Eric Posner and Glen Weyl’s new book, Radical Markets, which could be best described as an interesting new way of looking at the subject that is sometimes called “political economy” - tackling the big questions of how markets and politics and society intersect. дальше »
2018-7-21 04:03 | |
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