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Payments Giant Mastercard Acquires Blockchain Intelligence Firm Ciphertrace

Mastercard, the American multinational financial services corporation, announced the company is dipping further into the digital asset ecosystem by acquiring the blockchain intelligence firm Ciphertrace. The partnership announcement says the firm wil...

El Salvador's largest bank partners with Flexa for Bitcoin payments

Bancoagrícola will work with Flexa to accept Bitcoin across the bank’s network for payments like loans and credit cards. Bancoagrícola, El Salvador’s largest financial...

Binance Pay and GoCrypto Bring Crypto Payments Closer to Everyday Use

PRESS RELEASE. GoCrypto, a solution allowing merchants to accept, store, withdraw and buy cryptocurrencies, announced the integration of Binance Pay into the GoCrypto system giving crypto adopters more options to use crypto as the mainstream means of...

Banks blocking payments

As I’m sure most of you are aware banks in the United Kingdom are blocking payments towards certain exchanges, Binance included. Do you think they will ever lift the restrictions, and if so how long do you think it will take? submitted by ...

McDonalds, Starbucks Implement Bitcoin Payments On El Salvador “Bitcoin Day”

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Elektra Group President Ricardo Salinas Hints at Inclusion of Lightning Network Payments in Mexico

Ricardo Salinas, president of Elektra Group, one of the biggest retail franchises in Mexico, hinted at the possibility of integrating payments using Bitcoin’s second layer solution, the Lightning Network. Salinas made the announcement yesterda...

Visa reportedly aims to integrate Bitcoin payments in Brazil

Visa Brazil executive outlines plans for implementing crypto assets such as Bitcoin onto the payments platform. In a recent interview with local Brazilian news outlet...

Binance.com closes down SGD payments, trading pairs and removes app from iOS and Play Store in Singapore

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Bitfinex Pay to integrate U2F authentication for online merchant payments

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex launches a new authentication standard for online payments service Bitfinex Pay. In an effort to increase customers' security and pri...

Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, and South Africa to Trial Cross-Border Digital Currency Payments

The central banks of Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Republic of South Africa have set out to test the use of state-issued digital currencies in cross-border payments. The trial, led by the Bank for International Settlements, aims to establis...

Shop.com now accepts Bitcoin payments after partnership with BitPay

The e-commerce portal offers the option to pay with Bitcoin, Ether and Dogecoin as well as several major dollar-pegged stablecoins. United States-based e-commerce plat...

Belgian startup debuts Bitcoin payments for parking tickets

The company says it expects Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to come into greater everyday use, especially once tokens become more environmentally friendly. Seety,...

Is something going on with card payments currently or what?

Literally last Sunday I bought USDT with my Visa card. Now I tried to buy more, the exact same amount even. On PC it just says an error occured, and then in the mobile app it says the card's issuing country is not supported. Yet it was supported...

Substack to accept Bitcoin Lightning payments

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Nick.eth estimation whether EIP-1559 helped reducing the overpayments

"Has 1559 reduced over-spending on gas fees? I used BigQuery to try and find out. First, we need to define overspend; my working definition is the difference between the gas price the user paid and the lowest nonzero gas price in that bloc...

Faster payments channel

Anyone know when the faster payments channel will be available again in the UK ? submitted by /u/D7LB0 [link] [comments]

Just got an email that Binance has stopped processing payments in Norwegian Kroner

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Major hotel in Swiss Alps now allows crypto payments - 0.03 BTC per night.

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Cuba set to Recognize Crypto for Payments

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Cuba to recognize cryptocurrency payments to circumvent US sanctions

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Binance Discontinues Support for Norwegian Krone Pairs, Payments and Language

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is discontinuing certain offerings in Norway. The news comes amid regulatory pressure around the world which the global trading platform is working to address. The company is also dropping Norwegian from its website&#x...

Cuba to authorise and regulate the use of cryptos for payments

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Cuba to recognise and regulate cryptocurrencies for payments

The authorities want to see cryptocurrencies used in legal ways, with providers licensed and monitored The Cuban government is set to officially recognise Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, with the Island nation looking to regulate the assets for u...

How does one go about accepting lightning payments on their web store?

Hi all, As the title states. What is the best way to accept lightning payments for our web-store. submitted by /u/UkRepsOfficial [link] [comments]

Major hotel in Swiss Alps now allows crypto payments - 0.45 ETH./0.03 BTC per night