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The Fintech Times
MARCH 18, 2024
Blockchain, heralded for its potential to transform industries, is currently undergoing a divergence from its original vision, marked by a prioritisation of speculative interests over core principles like scalability and decentralisation. Bitcoin can already scale larger than that with existing hardware for a fraction of the cost.
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Finextra
MAY 1, 2024
Researchers from Elliptic, IBM Watson and MIT have used AI to detect money laundering on the Bitcoin blockchain.
The Fintech Times
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Blockchain and cryptocurrency have massive potential to help vulnerable and underrepresented communities. Evidence of this can be seen with the launch of Paystand.org, the corporate social responsibility (CSR) arm of Paystand , the blockchain-enabled commercial payments platform.
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PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
The Federal Ministry of Finance in Nigeria is said to be in discussions with the securities watchdog in the country to create a new digital currency and blockchain structure, Cointelegraph reported. As it stands, bitcoin and other digital currencies are seeing increasing use in Nigeria.
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Fintech Review
JUNE 25, 2024
Blockchain technology, initially synonymous with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin , has evolved beyond its origins. This article delves into the diverse ways blockchain is reshaping fintech, focusing on smart contracts, cross-border transactions, and enhancing transparency and security.
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Finextra
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
The Texas Blockchain Council (TBC), a non-profit industry association, has initiated legal action against the Energy Information Administration (EIA) over cryptocurrency mining data collection.
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Finextra
JANUARY 5, 2024
BitMEX, the world’s leading crypto derivatives exchange, is sending Bitcoin to the Moon on January 8 at 02:18 am ET from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
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PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
5), bitcoin followed suit, rising to over $15,000, signaling a continued confidence in the cryptocurrency. Investors have continued to accumulate bitcoin throughout the year, specifically during the March and September price crashes, according to CoinDesk, signaling long-term confidence in the digital coin. The stock hit $15,017.05
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Payments Source
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
There's been a lot of interest in using blockchain, the distributed ledger technology developed for bitcoin, to modernize payments and banking systems. But as with any technology, blockchain is only secure if its users can be trusted.
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Payments Source
JUNE 2, 2020
Avivah Litan, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, explains the evolving role blockchain has taken during the coronavirus pandemic. Blockchain, originally developed for use with bitcoin, provides a way to bring trust and order to the chaos of the current crisis, but it's no silver bullet.
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PYMNTS
JUNE 17, 2020
The government of Austria is backing the creation of a pandemic-related mobile application based on the blockchain, CoinDesk reported. The prototypes harness the Ardor blockchain. Users can add up to a little more than $700 in bitcoin to use toward payments for trips.
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Finextra
JULY 4, 2024
This will also result in more efficient usage of Ethereum, Bitcoin and Solana, which will in turn, change the reputational view of blockchain.
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PYMNTS
AUGUST 27, 2020
Crypto exchange ShapeShift is suing former engineer Azamat Mukhiddinov for allegedly stealing $900,000 in bitcoin via programs he installed on their servers, CoinDesk reported. The blockchain is secure and the use of RESTful application programming interface (API) can help manage things easily. Executives said on Thursday (Aug.
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PYMNTS
DECEMBER 30, 2018
Italy’s Ministry of Economic Development has published a list of 30 experts who have been tasked to develop the country’s blockchain strategy. They will also be charged with creating technical and regulatory tools for the nation’s blockchain industry. million bitcoins (currently worth around $3.9 federal court.
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PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
The count of bitcoin ATMs has jumped this year, rising by 85 percent to just under 11,800, CoinDesk reported. The move allows all firms or partners linked to the application programming interface (API) of ShareRing to provide a safe, inexpensive and expedient method to make a reservation with the benefits of ShareLedger and ShareRing ID.
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Payments Source
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Fidelity Digital Assets will allow its institutional customers to pledge bitcoin as collateral against cash loans in a partnership with blockchain startup BlockFi.
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PYMNTS
AUGUST 11, 2019
New Jersey ’s governor has signed a bill to implement a Blockchain Initiative Task Force. Bill S2297 explained that the task force will study potential uses for blockchain technology on the state and local level, with an emphasis on medical records, land records, banking, and property auctions as potential applications.
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PYMNTS
JANUARY 26, 2021
Bitcoin gets all the headlines. But step beyond bitcoin and enter the world of cryptocurrencies approaching mainstream acceptance. At present, he said, a number of factors have inhibited the adoption of bitcoin as a transactional currency, including the fact that it’s expensive and can be very slow.
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PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
The Google Play store is once again offering the mobile game Bitcoin Blast that gives users bitcoin to play with, CoinDesk reported on Friday (Jan. SBI is considered among the most active companies in crypto and blockchain. The defendant was The Bitcoin Voluntary Associations. The New York Supreme Court awarded $13.8
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PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Arket , a brand of H&M , is piloting a blockchain product integration with the help of VeChain, TheNextWeb reported. A spokesperson told TNW , “Arket has done a small Proof of Concept (POC) through a pilot testing with VeChain to use blockchain technology to secure product data traceability in the value chain.”
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PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
BitPay, a leading Bitcoin and cryptocurrency payment service, said that it will soon allow invoices to be paid from any Bitcoin wallet or crypto exchange, according to a report Tuesday (Feb. BitPay’s customers want to support all the Bitcoin wallets, just like they want to support all cryptocurrencies for payments.
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PYMNTS
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Amid the rallies that have marked all manner of asset classes in 2020 – where things hummed along to start the year, turned sour in the spring and then rebounded (nay, roared) into the waning months, bitcoin stands out. But now, at least some asset managers have been embracing bitcoin as a hedge against currencies and gold.
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PYMNTS
MARCH 26, 2019
While bitcoin price briefly hit above $4,000 last week, the crypto is now nearing overbought levels. In other news, Facebook now has 22 blockchain-related job postings on its LinkedIn page. is banned from trading because of his alleged involvement in a bitcoin scam. A man in the U.S.
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CB Insights
MARCH 19, 2020
“Crypto not blockchain” was the dominant narrative in 2019. Not only did Bitcoin have a very good year (up over 90%), but investors continued to fund companies building crypto infrastructure. REPORT HIGHLIGHTS: Bitcoin was on top until the coronavirus hit. Bitcoin’s price nearly doubled in 2019 despite dampened media coverage.
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PYMNTS
JUNE 11, 2020
CargoX ’s Platform for Blockchain Document Transfer (BDT) was connected with the Port Community System (PCS) of India amid a push in the country for trade documents, including of bills of lading, to be digitized, WorldCargo News reported. The firm has reduced its standard account minimum to $3,000.
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Payments Source
JULY 7, 2020
As a cryptocurrency entrepreneur who helped launch Stellar and Dogecoin, Marshall Hayner has long been interested in finding a way to use blockchain — the digital ledger technology originally developed for Bitcoin — to solve some of the data privacy issues relating to payments.
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Fintech Review
APRIL 9, 2024
But now, there’s something new to consider: cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Unprecedented Diversification Opportunities Cryptocurrencies, with Bitcoin at the forefront, have quickly become essential components of diverse investment strategies, capturing the interest of investors across the globe.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 11, 2020
The crypto was then converted to bitcoin and moved into a number of locations. In other news, Coinbase has left the Blockchain Association , an industry advocacy organization, The Block reported. Wong noted that the “resignation also serves as notice of Coinbase’s withdrawal from the Blockchain Association,” The Block reported.
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PYMNTS
APRIL 16, 2020
Ant Financial rolled out a blockchain platform called OpenChain, which lets small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and developers harness its proprietary blockchain technologies, according to an announcement. ” The company said that the Ant Financial blockchain is China’s biggest productivity blockchain platform.
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PYMNTS
OCTOBER 29, 2019
The Chinese state media advised people to stay levelheaded following a price escalation of bitcoin and blockchain stocks triggered by Chinese President Xi Jinping’s support, Reuters reported on Tuesday (Oct. Blockchain’s future is here, but we must remain rational,” he said, according to state-run news outlet the People’s Daily.
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PYMNTS
DECEMBER 30, 2020
At a time when 90 percent of Americans have never owned bitcoin and nearly 70 percent say they have no plans to do so in the future, the thought of widespread adoption and usage of cryptocurrency seems to be a distant prospect for most people. Bitcoin is awesome. Janet Yellen supports blockchain as a technology. Baby Steps .
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Fintech Review
APRIL 9, 2024
But now, there’s something new to consider: cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Unprecedented Diversification Opportunities Cryptocurrencies, with Bitcoin at the forefront, have quickly become essential components of diverse investment strategies, capturing the interest of investors across the globe.
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
It’s a very likely a winner takes all market — bitcoin currently most likely.”. Bitcoin was priced at $6,477.77 By contrast, ether was valued at over $1,200 at one point in January and bitcoin topped $17,100 in that month. and ether was valued at $209.55 as of 6:58 p.m. on Thursday (Sept. 13), according to CoinDesk.
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PYMNTS
MAY 20, 2020
Is now the prime time for blockchain ? As COVID-19 has disrupted supply chains worldwide, Brian Behlendorf , executive director of Hyperledger , told Karen Webster that the pandemic has spurred a shift in thinking about new use cases for permissioned blockchains. The Emerging Use Cases.
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PYMNTS
MARCH 1, 2020
House of Representatives Committee on Small Businesses is going to hold a hearing on the benefits of blockchain technology for entrepreneurs. ET, and will be called “Building Blocks of Change: The Benefits of Blockchain Technology for Small Businesses.”. The hearing is set for Wednesday, March 4 at 11:30 a.m.
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PYMNTS
JULY 8, 2020
China’s Cosco Shipping will test out Ant Blockchain from Alibaba’s Ant Financial in an effort to simplify its business, Coindesk reported Wednesday (July 8). The firms noted that blockchain could be used to send out documentation that can be authenticated and can’t be modified like import licenses and container records.
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PYMNTS
JANUARY 22, 2020
Monerium, a startup based in Iceland that has a European Economic Area (EEA) e-money license, has teamed up with Algorand, a blockchain with a highly scalable consensus algorithm, according to a report Tuesday (Jan. Monerium stores fiat currency deposits for clients and releases them in a digital form on a blockchain. 21) by Coindesk.
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PYMNTS
OCTOBER 29, 2020
In other news, blockchain tech company Ripple plans to invest in MoneyTap , a blockchain payments solution owned by SBI Holdings, according to CoinDesk. to buy bitcoin, the custodian announced in a blog post. After adding a bank account to the service, users can buy up to $5,000 in bitcoin a week — or $20,000 a month — with a 0.99
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
District Court against four people for allegedly “fraudulently soliciting funds” from individuals to attempt to wager on changes in the price of bitcoin, according to a press release. On another note, Ticino Blockchain Technologies Association was created with the participation of two Swiss universities, according to an announcement.
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PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Paris-based Ultra , which has created its own blockchain, announced that French video game giant Ubisoft will become the first major gaming system to test out payments on its blockchain for gamers. The population of the country sees these capital controls are put in place, and then they’re going to look for a way around it.
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PYMNTS
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Sekunjalo Investment Holdings has teamed up with Chinese public blockchain leader Ultrain Technology Limited to develop a pan-African open blockchain system called the African Chain 3.0, Police in Brazil have shut down a bitcoin investment scheme that allegedly stole $359 million. according to reports.
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The Paypers
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
The Texas Blockchain Council has initiated legal proceedings against the US-based EIA , for an alleged illegal data collection against the bitcoin industry.
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PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
The malicious software attempted to utilize StFX’s collective computing power in order to create or discover bitcoin for monetary gain. In the meantime, cryptocurrency hackers attacked traffic analytics service StatCounter to steal bitcoin from users of online exchange desk Gate.io. As a result, Gate.io
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PYMNTS
JANUARY 16, 2020
Kadena , a crypto startup that’s an offshoot of JPMorgan’s blockchain center, has launched a public blockchain that can interact through public and private sections, according to a report Wednesday (Jan. Kadena’s whole goal is to solve the scaling problems of bitcoin and the security problems of ethereum,” Popejoy said.
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