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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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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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The Payments Association
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Blockchain, once synonymous with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, is now transforming digital payments and fiat currency transactions. The technology offers efficiency and security through a decentralized system. As Visa and Mastercard engage with blockchain, its mainstream adoption is gaining momentum. Read more
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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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The Fintech Times
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
In a wide-ranging discussion, Heath Behncke, managing director of Holon , shared his insights on how developments in technology, energy efficiency and the role of blockchain is enabling more transparent and trustworthy data management. “The data custodian part of this is really interesting to me,” he said.
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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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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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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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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
MARCH 31, 2020
million in seed funding, but distributed ledgers only have a small function in the company that will reportedly launch in April even though its team has blockchain expertise, Coindesk reported. The personnel at Manetu, however, are not short on their blockchain knowledge. Manetu, a data privacy startup, reportedly just notched $3.5
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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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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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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
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
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
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 technology offers many modules to developers that they can use in different mixes to create trust in team efforts.
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Payments Dive
MAY 30, 2017
With new technologies, it takes a while for regulation to catch up. Blockchain technology is no exception. While we are slowly beginning to see standards emerge, the reputation of blockchain is still marred by the criminal aspects of bitcoin.
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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
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
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
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. Investors then transferred around $1.5
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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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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
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
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.
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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
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
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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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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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
JUNE 26, 2020
billion raise to back the creation of its Telegram One Network (TON) blockchain initiative. The founder of the NAC Foundation was alleged to have taken in funds for tokens representing “AML bitcoin” that would eventually be changed into the purported cryptocurrency. Last year, the SEC sued Telegram following a $1.7
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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
DECEMBER 29, 2019
The United Nations (UN) needs to embrace blockchain, António Guterres, U.N. Guterres said blockchain technology will be a critical part of the U.N., China, too, has prioritized blockchain, and the $6 billion U.N. Children’s Fund can receive donations in bitcoin and ethereum for some projects. . “For
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PYMNTS
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Blockchain industry stocks are on the rise as bitcoin reaches new heights, Seeking Alpha reported. HIVE Blockchain Technologies, Riot Blockchain and Marathon Patent Group are on the uptick, according to the report, which was published early Tuesday (Oct. Bitcoin reached higher than the $13,600 level intraday.
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PYMNTS
JUNE 19, 2019
“We believe that developing standards and open specifications, as well as collaborating on implementations of them, is critical to removing customer blockers and accelerating blockchain as a mainstream technology. This means you can now deploy the IBM Blockchain Platform on the infrastructure of your choosing.
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PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
To explore the positive impacts of blockchain on small businesses, the U.S. The “Building Blocks of Change: The Benefits of Blockchain Technology for Small Businesses” hearing will be held on March 4 at 11:30 a.m. House of Representatives Committee on Small Business plans to hold a hearing next week.
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PYMNTS
DECEMBER 11, 2018
BitPay has announced that OneGold, a marketplace that combines the benefits of gold and silver with blockchain-based digital assets, is now accepting bitcoin and bitcoin cash. When they started OneGold, we were ready to help them accept Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash through BitPay.”.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 9, 2019
The cryptocurrency exchange found “repeated deep reorganizations” of the digital currency’s blockchain. To keep its customers’ funds safe, the company said in a blog post that it “immediately paused interactions with the ETC blockchain.”. Zakhar said, according to Reuters, “Some people find it complicated to get bitcoins online.
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PYMNTS
MAY 20, 2020
Blockchain-based lodging reservation platform Travala.com has unveiled a merger with TravelbyBit, a Binance-backed “cryptocurrency-friendly” flight reservation site, according to an announcement on Wednesday (May 20). The exchange, for its part, trades ethereum and bitcoin, among other digital currencies.
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The Fintech Times
MAY 1, 2024
We will: Explore the biggest innovations over the past year in the cryptocurrency, stablecoin, blockchain and digital assets spheres. Learn about how the development of web3 technologies and the metaverse will impact digital assets’ mainstream growth. Find out how blockchain is being used outside of crypto.
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CB Insights
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Blockchain companies raised more venture capital and private equity funding in H1’21 than any full year in history. download our best of blockchain research. download our best of blockchain research. But blockchain’s potential extends well beyond crypto and NFTs. First name. Company name. Phone number.
101 PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
CIMB , a banking group that operates in countries such as Malaysia, Cambodia and Thailand, has inked a deal with Ripple in order to bring the company’s blockchain technology to its SpeedSend remittance offering, Cryptovest reported. It will also reportedly work with more than one ledger technology, such as bitcoin and Ethereum.
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PYMNTS
DECEMBER 17, 2019
Bitcoin may struggle to recover from the effects of one of the largest digital currency scams, Bloomberg reported Monday (Dec. PlusToken conspirators have reportedly sold approximately 25,000 bitcoins as well as another 20,000 tokens distributed throughout over 8,700 anonymous crypto addresses. The price of bitcoin was $6,875.71
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