Less than 1% of Australians use crypto for payments says RBA

2020-3-26 14:02

A new report published by the Australian central bank provides insight into consumer payment behavior. The survey has found that Australians increasingly prefer digital payment methods. Cryptocurrencies, however, make up less than one percent of payments in Australia.

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$2 Trillion for Surveillance Capitalism – US Government Promises $1,200 to Every American

On Wednesday, U. S. Congressional leaders had seemingly come up with a stimulus deal at around 1 a. m. EST. The package will cost upwards of $2 trillion and politicians are promising direct payments of $1,200 per American if they make $75,000 or less.

2020-3-26 21:30	Wall Street
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Central Bank Survey: 80% of Australians Are Aware of Crypto But Only 1% Are Actually Using

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) states that Less than 1% of people in Australia have paid for goods using cryptocurrency, according to a study conducted yesterday. The findings were revealed in the triennial Consumer Payments Survey (CPS) released by the RBA.

2020-3-21 17:12	Announcements
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Ethereum, Bitcoin can't be killed at this point: Coinbase ex-CTO

In less than a decade, Bitcoin and Ethereum have captured the attention of people around the world. Born during the time of recession and excessive pessimism, Bitcoin aimed to revolutionize payments.

2020-1-2 01:30	Trading View
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Ohio State Treasurer Halts Cryptocurrency Tax Payments; Not A Popular Option Anyway

The state of Ohio has recently put hold on its online payment portal (OhioCrypto. com) that enables tax payments using Bitcoin crypto. It has been less than a year since OhioCrypto. com portal was launched in Columbus, Ohio’s state capital.

2019-10-3 16:53
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Will Bitcoin Become Less Volatile With Greater Adoption?

One of the major problems of Bitcoin’s use case as a means of payments is its high volatility. It still persists despite the increasing market capitalization. Can the largest crypto smooth its wild fluctuations with time? Volatility Hinders BTC’s Adoption as Payment Method Merchants that adopted payment systems accepting Bitcoin are encountering several issues due to the crypto’s high volatility, slow block validation (transaction confirmation), scalability, and relatively high fees for small payments.

2019-9-10 19:00	BTC
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Crypto Startup Eligma Raises $4.4 Million From Pangea Blockchain

A crypto payments startup based in Slovenia called Eligma was recently able to raise $4. 4 million USD from Pangea Blockchain Fund. The venture capital company is owned by the famous crypto entrepreneur (and troll) Roger Ver.

2019-9-4 23:54
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The Dawn of Hybrid Layer 2 Protocols

Special thanks to the Plasma Group team for review and feedback Current approaches to layer 2 scaling - basically, Plasma and state channels - are increasingly moving from theory to practice, but at the same time it is becoming easier to see the inherent challenges in treating these techniques as a fully fledged scaling solution for Ethereum.

2019-9-2 04:03
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Litecoin records stronger SegWit adoption, despite Bitcoin hitting ATH a few weeks ago

With figures amounting to less than half, not many Bitcoin wallets have implemented the backward compatible upgrade, SegWit, even after two years of its official release. Just two weeks ago, Bitcoin’s transactions had soared to an all-time high with respect to SegWit, with 48.

2019-8-10 20:00
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Wirex Set to Launch Cryptocurrency Token; IEO not Primary Objective

Wirex, a cryptocurrency payments platform, has announced plans to launch a native cryptocurrency token. The British company says the token sale used to launch its cryptocurrency is all about product development and less about fundraising.

2019-6-11 23:00
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Watchtowers Are Coming to Lightning

“The Eye of Sauron casts its gaze upon the Lightning Network. ”This is how Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun (aka, roasbeef) has heralded the coming of Watchtowers to the Lightning Network.

2019-6-3 17:43	Payments
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Op Ed: Debunking Bitcoin Myths: The ‘Intrinsic Value’ Fallacy

A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.

2019-6-4 23:41	Op-ed
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Op Ed: Debunking Bitcoin Myths, The ‘Intrinsic Value’ Fallacy

2019-5-31 23:41	Op-ed
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Congressional report: Bitcoin adoption ‘miniscule’ compared to traditional finance

Distributed ledger systems that underpin cryptocurrencies aren’t capable of processing the number of transactions required for mass adoption — but it doesn’t matter, they’re only really used for speculation.

2019-5-29 14:30	hard fork
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Op Ed: Lightning Network Consensus Is a Marketplace and That’s Okay!

To Bitcoin or Not to BitcoinDuring the “scaling debate” before the SegWit2X user-activated soft fork (UASF), Bitcoin businesses were getting their first bitter taste of Bitcoin’s censorship resistance.

2019-5-21 21:10	Payments
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Op Ed: Answering 10 Common Questions About Cryptocurrency and Taxes

Depending on what country you live in, your cryptocurrency will be subject to different tax rules. The questions below address implications within the United States, specifically, but similar issues arise around the world.

2019-3-29 18:20	Op-ed
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LocalBitcoins, Once a Go-To for Anonymous Bitcoin Transactions, Adds KYC

The Finland-based, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform LocalBitcoins released a statement on March 25, 2019, responding to a new act approved by the Finnish Parliament that will require users to verify their identities.

2019-3-28 18:00	Regulation
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Bitcoin Accepted as Payment Option by Major US Electronics Company

Avnet has become the latest major enterprise to begin accepting payment in bitcoin and other cryptocurrency. On March 19, 2019, the company announced that it will allow customers to pay for goods and services using bitcoin and bitcoin cash.

2019-3-20 19:08	Adoption
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Op Ed: Hanging Money Launderers Out to Dry: The Role of KYC/AML in Blockchain

Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.

2019-3-20 16:49	Op-ed
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Cryptocurrency Accounts for Less Than 2% of All Japanese Money Laundering Cases

Money laundering cases related to cryptocurrencies in Japan have increased significantly in 2018. Nevertheless, their number remains a fraction of the total. According to the Japanese press, the majority of reported money laundering instances actually involve banks and other traditional financial institutions.

2019-3-1 21:30
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BitWings ICO

BitWings token, a native currency of Wings Mobile ecosystem, has 100% guaranteed issuing value and is the only means to pre-order the first (40 000) ultra-secure blockchain smartphones in the world able to generate up to 2 ETH a month without any power consumption, powered with neural technology.

2019-2-21 20:03
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Kaspersky Labs Claims Users from 22 States Love Crypto

Kaspersky Labs announced the results of its consumer market research, according to which 13% of users pay with cryptocurrencies for goods and services. This is much less than the number of those who pay with a bank card (81%).

2019-2-18 12:16	NEM
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5 Reasons Why I Plan to Adopt Bitcoin Cash for Everyday Payments [and You Should Too]

The Bitcoin Cash price has had little negative volatility in recent times, just like Bitcoin itself and Ethereum. In times like these, the question arises: why don’t we just use Bitcoin Cash? Here are five reasons that I’m considering adopting Bitcoin Cash as my cryptocurrency of choice for everyday usage.

2019-2-18 02:00	Bitcoin Cash
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Lightning Pizza Lets You Order Domino’s With Bitcoin For Less Than 1 Cent

A new consumer app enabling anyone in the US to order pizza using Bitcoin via the Lightning Network launched last week. LN Pizza ‘Spurs Awareness And Adoption’ Lightning Pizza, the latest offering from San Francisco-based Bitcoin payment app Fold, claims to be the “first Nation-wide retail service powered by lightning payments meant to spread utility and spur awareness and adoption.

2019-2-14 19:00
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Ripple and XRP vs. SWIFT: Head to head comparison. Who will come out on top?

With its products xRapid and the XRP token, Ripple wants nothing less than to conquer international payment traffic. CEO Brad Garlinghouse stressed in the past that it was only a matter of time before SWIFT was overtaken.

2019-2-12 00:36	Crypto Journal
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Bitfury Rolls Out Lightning Peach, Its Own Suite of Lightning Tools

Bitfury’s new suite of Lightning products has been released to the public. Lightning Peach, the title of the product bundle, was developed by Bitfury’s Lightning Network team of the same name.

2019-1-23 20:02	Payments
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BTC Wallets Take One Small Step For Lightning, One Giant Leap for Bitcoin

New user-friendly Bitcoin Lightning wallets such as Bluewallet are ushering in the future of payments. Users can now send and receive Bitcoin Lightning payments right to/from your mobile device, the ramifications of which could be revolutionary for the future of online payments.

2019-1-5 20:00
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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.

2019-1-4 21:11	Technical
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Why Ohio’s State Treasurer Backs Decision to Accept BTC For Tax Payments

As tax season is rapidly approaching, some states, like Ohio, have decided to set a new standard for the rest of the country to follow. Back in November, Ohio became the first state in the U.

2019-1-3 20:53	Adoption & community
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A Payments Industry Insider’s Take on Blockchain Technology

Once the domain of hobbyists, digital currency first grabbed public attention in 2017 thanks to the meteoric rise of the price of a single Bitcoin to nearly $20,000. But for the payments industry—companies that enable fast, secure and affordable payments for merchants and consumers—the trade in Bitcoins was less compelling.

2018-12-21 08:39	ripple
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Sold! Lightning Network Art Auction Goes to the Lowest Bidder

Yesterday, an auction was held by cryptocurrency and blockchain artist @cryptograffiti for a piece titled “black swan,” which the artist made using “fiat and counterfeit detector pen ink.

2018-12-21 20:15	Adoption & community
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Pierre Rochard: “Lightning Adoption Will Basically Mirror Bitcoin Adoption”

Lightning is a second-layer solution for the Bitcoin blockchain that addresses the scaling issues surrounding it today. Similar to Bitcoin, Lightning is an open-source protocol in which anyone can contribute to.

2018-12-19 02:34	Technical
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This New Lightning Wallet Allows You to Receive Tips Without Running a Node

A new program to set up Lightning Network micropayments, tippin. me, has recently entered beta testing. The developer for this project described some of its details on a Reddit thread to the r/Bitcoin subreddit.

2018-12-13 22:09	Payments
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Bitcoin’s Tech Trends of 2018: What This Year Brought Us (Part 1)

Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year that “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception.

2018-12-5 23:23	Technical
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New Foundation to Focus on Crypto Wallet Interoperability

Today, November 26, 2018, marks the launch of the Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) and the FIO Protocol, an interwallet protocol that seeks to make the transfer of cryptos between wallets as simple and straightforward as making transfers on PayPal.

2018-11-27 02:52	Startups
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Op Ed: Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption Is Neither Frivolous Nor Excessive

As the CEO of Hut 8, one of North America’s largest cryptocurrency miners and the world’s largest publicly traded cryptocurrency miner, I’m often asked questions about energy consumption in the mining of cryptocurrency.

2018-11-1 23:35	Op-ed
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Op Ed: In Defense of Bitcoin: A Response to Nouriel Roubini

Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it.

2018-10-24 19:38	Op-ed
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Walmart Announces WalmartLeafy.com – Its Native Decentralized Payment Service

Walmart Inc. has announced its new decentralized asset management network, dubbed WalmartLeafy. com, a blockchain service that aims to revolutionize the retail money transfer system. Fast Payments on the Ethereum Blockchain Set to launch in the fiscal year 2019, WalmartLeafy.

2018-10-10 16:38	blockchain
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Brewdog Bar Canary Wharf in London Will Accept Crypto Payments

Cryptocurrency adoption on a global scale can help in making the market less vulnerable to price swings. As the crypto sector matures, it can turn into a fully fledged financial system that it was intended to be.

2018-10-8 19:19
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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.

2018-10-3 16:28	Technical
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Pornhub Says Crypto Accounts for Only 1% of Payments, Expects Wider Adoption in Future

Adult entertainment website Pornhub has revealed that less than 1% of its subscribers choose to pay with virtual currencies.

2018-10-2 09:37	News
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Swell 2018 Kicks Off Tomorrow

The world’s leading experts on policy, payments and technology are already converging in San Francisco for Swell by Ripple. In less 24 hours, the event kicks off with President Bill Clinton’s keynote and opening remarks from CEO Brad Garlinghouse.

2018-10-1 21:36
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Pornhub: Less than 1% of users buy subscriptions with cryptocurrency

Back in April, adult entertainment giant Pornhub broke the internet when it announced users can now buy a premium subscription with cryptocurrency. But despite all the buzz the announcement generated, it seems pornography viewers hardly share this enthusiasm for blockchain-powered payments.

2018-9-28 17:18	hard fork
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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.

2018-9-15 21:22	Adoption & community
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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.

2018-9-15 20:21	Privacy & security
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Battle of the Privacycoins: Why Dash Is Not Really That Private

2018-9-7 00:27	Privacy & security
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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”).

2018-8-28 04:03
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China Blocks Access to Over 120 Offshore Digital Currency Exchanges

China is continuing its crackdown on bitcoin and cryptocurrency-related ventures. The country is now blocking access to more than 120 offshore cryptocurrency exchanges utilized for trading purposes by mainland customers.

2018-8-24 00:24	Regulation
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Bitcoin Merchants See Payments Decline in 2018, Despite Record Low Fees

Crypto merchant-processing services are receiving less bitcoin than before. Volatility, transaction fees, and an inability to reverse transactions have been cited as the reasons why. Leading crypto merchant-processing services are receiving less bitcoin.

2018-8-5 02:00
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Breeze Wallet with Breeze Privacy Protocol Mainnet Now Available for Download

The Breeze Wallet with the Breeze Privacy Protocol public mainnet has been released and is now open to the public. The wallet showcases Stratis technology — a platform built for visual basic apps and blockchain solutions — and places heavy emphasis on both privacy and security for businesses seeking to implement business-to-business (B2B) transactions on the Stratis and Bitcoin blockchain networks.

2018-8-4 00:02	Privacy & security
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