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August 28, 2015
Bitcoin Goes Cuban And ‘Black Monday’ Bites Back

La bienvenida a Cuba, Bitcoin! Una transacción bitcoin ha ocurrido. Directly translated, this means: Welcome to Cuba, bitcoin! A bitcoin transaction has occurred. While this historic move isn’t quite as...


August 24, 2015
Big Value For Visa Europe, Big Progress For The Blockchain...

Between Apple’s falling share prices, Amazon’s HR woes and the great Ashley Madison data dump of 2015, last week was an all-around great time for gossip in America. And with...


August 21, 2015
Bitcoin Gets Forked While Programmer Lives On Bitcoin For 365...

Imagine this scenario. Forget Apple Pay (many already do, it seems). Forgot debit and credit cards. In fact, cut them up. Now, go take all the money you need to...


August 20, 2015
Debt Crisis Sparks Surge Of Bitcoin ATMs In Greece

Seemingly teetering from one financial crisis to another, Greece could be in line to receive as many 1,000 bitcoin ATMs, which stems from a partnership between two entities: the digital...


August 18, 2015
Bitcoin At War

Bitcoin is totally forked. Or at least it will be soon, as two high-profile developers have announced plans to fork the code that undergirds the network. The new fork —...


August 18, 2015
How Earthport And Ripple Are Teaming Up To Make Cross-Border...

A decade ago, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman gave birth to an intellectual debate with his declaration that globalization – driven by technology and the digitization of business and...


August 14, 2015
Bitcoin’s ‘Criminal Contracts’ And The Batman Effect

Bitcoin has inspired yet another technology that has some in the investor world worried that it will be used for the one thing bitcoin is commonly associated with: criminal activity....


August 07, 2015
Bitcoin On Wall Street?

Bitcoin hasn’t exactly been Overstock’s best friend – Overstock announced in June that it lost $117k in its investments in the digital currency so far – but Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne...


August 03, 2015
The Emperor’s New Currency

One hundred and seventy eight years ago, Hans Christian Andersen wrote a political satire disguised as a fairy tale. That tale told the story of two weavers who persuaded the...


Why Public-Private Collaboration Is Key To Blockchain Adoption

Nine in 10 of the world’s central banks are pursuing digital currency projects, but private sector expertise and buy-in will be pivotal to their success. In this month’s “Blockchain Payments Tracker®,” a collaboration with Algorand, Anish Jain, CEO of WadzPay, explains how blockchain’s interoperability with legacy banking systems is the key to its adoption.

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain And Cross-Border Payments: Selecting A Blockchain Technology Partner
Banks Help Corporates Overcome Their Blockchain Regulatory Concerns Businesses see blockchain payments technology as important to streamlining cross-border payments, but more than half worry that it comes with regulatory risks. PYMNTS’ new Cryptocurrency, Blockchain And Cross-Border Payments playbook, a Circle collaboration, surveyed 250 FIs to examine how they're using compliance and regulatory tools to ease businesses’ blockchain concerns and unlock the technology’s benefits.