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November 21, 2014
Paying For Candy Crush And Taylor Swift’s Songs With Bitcoin

PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 50 When hype goes up, bitcoin prices go up. At least that’s what researchers at Poland’s Nicolaus Copernicus University have...


November 14, 2014
Bitcoin Wants To Get Under Your Skin

PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 49 And it’s back!!! Well, just a little bit. Bitcoin prices increased this week a smidge as innovators absorbed a...


November 07, 2014
More Bitcoin Busts

On Thursday (Nov. 6), U.S. federal officials trumpeted that they had shut down a Web site that used Bitcoin transactions to try and hide $8 million a month in illegal...


October 31, 2014
Bitcoin Tracker | Week 47 | Bitcoin Haunted By The...

PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index.   A mixed bag for bitcoin this week. First, FinCEN said that all virtual currency payment systems and trading platforms are money transmitters and...


October 29, 2014
Investment Tracker, October 29

Click here to see this week’s breakdown of investments Interview One might be tempted to look at bitcoin as so 2013. It started the year strong – but a string...


October 10, 2014
Bitcoin Tracker | Week 44

The big bitcoin crash of 2014. That was last weekend and this week. Economist David Evans wrote a piece that put it in context. After 6 years, Bitcoin transactions remain...


October 07, 2014
Bitcoin’s Rollercoaster Ride to Nowhere

The Bitcoin exchange rate gets a lot of attention. Look at all the stories today over the fact that the exchange rate dipped below $300 on October 5, 2014 for...


October 07, 2014
Bitcoin Wallet Blockchain Closes $30.5M Funding

Despite Bitcoin prices taking a tumble as of late, Silicon Valley still seems to have an appetite for the digital currency. Blockchain, a Bitcoin wallet provider with British roots, has...


August 22, 2014
Bitcoin Tracker: Week 37

Follow 303 Cryptocurrencies here. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 37 What goes down must come up. After a crash earlier in the week, Bitcoin eeked past the $500 to end 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.