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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Bit by bit — but more than bitcoin by bitcoin — cryptos are inching into the mainstream, for both consumer and commercial applications. Elsewhere, Square announce last month that it has invested $50 million — approximately 1 percent of its total second-quarter assets — to purchase roughly 4,709 bitcoins. “We

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JUNE 8, 2018

What is the state of banking innovation today? Bitcoin mania has died down in the fintech world, and the conversation has shifted to technologies like voice banking, payments, and alternative credit scoring. This year, the pressure for banks to innovate is high, as banks no longer […].

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JANUARY 25, 2019

That doesn’t mean they can’t be about innovation. Supermarkets are home to some of retail’s major and ongoing technological advances — and 2018 stands as a big year for grocery innovation. According to Bergquist, the Coinstar-Coinme bitcoin effort represents the “largest mainstream on-ramping to date” for the digital currency.

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MARCH 10, 2020

There are bad days on the market — and in the wake of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus , which has spent the last month gaining more and more global ground, there have been more than a few of those of late. The market has had a crisis of confidence,” Willie Delwiche, investment strategist at Baird told the Associated Press.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

cryptocurrency exchange bitFlyer wants to bridge the trading gap between two of the world’s largest bitcoin markets. Japan is the largest bitcoin trading market in the world, about 50% of it happens in there; the U.S. is the second biggest market,” Bartek Ringwelski, chief operating officer […].

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The price of bitcoin continues to teeter today, with the cryptocurrency having lost a third of its value in the last week. Bitcoin’s sharp drop comes after rising uncertainty in the Chinese market, with two major Chinese currency exchanges, China BTC and ViaBTC, having announced that they will halt trading by the end of this […].

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MARCH 2, 2020

Lloyd’s Head of Innovation Trevor Maynard said per the report that the British insurance company is the “natural home for insurance innovation because of the unique ability of syndicates to collaborate to insure new things.”. JVCEA said Tokyo Hash and Digital Asset Markets Inc. And the Office of Foreign Asset Control of the U.S.

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AUGUST 18, 2019

“As the financial services industry rapidly evolves, DFS will be at the forefront of fostering a sound, regulatory environment that continues to uphold New York as the premier place to do business, while protecting consumers and markets,” Lacewell said Friday (Aug. 16) in a press release. Both entities are affiliates of Bakkt.

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MARCH 21, 2019

Leading crypto exchange Binance announced the launch of Binance Lite Australia, which allows Aussies to buy bitcoin with cash. The offering is Binance’s first fiat gateway on the blockchain continent, providing a cash-to-bitcoin brokerage service via a network of more than 1,300 supported newsagents across Australia.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Together, Bitfinex and Tether manipulated a market that, by design, is supposed to be decentralized,” states the lawsuit. In other news, $10 billion worth of bitcoin — or almost 7 percent — is currently held in the wallets of eight major cryptocurrency exchanges. Coin Telegraph reported that Token Analyst found that almost 1.2

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JANUARY 9, 2018

Digital payment company PayPal is not betting on bitcoin as of now. In an interview with TheStreet.com, PayPal chief executive officer Dan Schulman said that while PayPal is focused on innovating in the payment market, it’s not focused specifically on the digital currency. “I

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Bussman Advisory

APRIL 5, 2024

This week’s must-know stories in the FinTech, AI and Digital Asset space: Spot Bitcoin ETFs change the digital asset market, attracting billions in inflows Embedded Finance market to be worth $22bn by 2028 Ripple to launch U.S. More information on www.bussmannadvisory.com.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

Ransom is demanded in bitcoin, upon threat of releasing damaging information to family, friends, and co-workers. But now the hackers are asking for alternative crypto currencies to bitcoin in their ransom demands. This latest sextortion version is using a Litecoin wallet address instead of bitcoin to evade detection,” Johnson wrote.

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MARCH 20, 2019

Bitcoin’s share of the total cryptocurrency market is close to falling below 50 percent for the first time in over seven months. percent of the market’s total capitalization, falling to a low of 50.54 Before 2017, bitcoin held more than 70 percent of the market — but that was before new cryptos came on the scene.

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JUNE 6, 2017

The top rival of “digital gold,” i.e. bitcoin, had a banner first quarter in 2017, with a $3.6 billion increase in market cap (just under a 500% increase, compared to bitcoin’s 11% increase for the quarter), according to data from Coindesk’s State of Blockchain report for 1Q17. Welcome to the year of Ethereum.

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JUNE 20, 2019

Australian Craig Wright, who has declared himself the inventor of bitcoin, believes that a series of lawsuits will help him prove that he is the inventor of bitcoin. We are delighted to have completed this proof of value with our partners and excited by the innovation opportunities it creates.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

The partnership aims to create a secondary credit market that is transparent and efficient and makes it easy to manage credit and digitally store documents, loan history and due diligence activities, preventing “information asymmetry risks,” the release stated. “The Diokno, Philippines’ Central Bank (BSP) governor in the release.

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JUNE 26, 2019

Some users of the Cash App, which is owned by payments company Square, can now deposit bitcoin, according to reports. Users could previously buy, sell and transfer bitcoin through the app, which is available on both Android and iOS, but now some users can deposit it as well. Square brought in about $65.5

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MARCH 24, 2017

Bitcoin prices suffered further losses this past week. As the reality of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rejection sunk in, concern among investors has grown amid signs of an impending hard fork — a “great schism” of bitcoin, if you will. At the time of writing, one bitcoin was worth $1,039.93, up 0.24

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon is not a huge fan of bitcoin and offered a comment on the cryptocurrency’s 10th anniversary, Financial News reported. MarketWatch said “the gist of his response” was “I didn’t want to be the spokesman against bitcoin. ” The executive has long been a skeptic of bitcoin.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

Glikberg reportedly told employees, “The crypto market has undergone a shake-up in the past few months, which has forced Bitmain to examine its various activities around the globe and to refocus its business in accordance with the current situation.”. And bitcoin commanded a dominance rate of 55.38 The price of bitcoin was $3,410.57

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MAY 20, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed a decision to approve a bitcoin exchange-traded fund, asking for more comments in the meantime. But given that their issues are with the underlying bitcoin market, not sure why they just don’t deny it as opposed to stringing along the crypto faithful with false hope.”.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The head of Facebook’s Libra project said he doesn’t consider bitcoin to be a currency because it’s simply too volatile. “I I don’t think of bitcoin as a currency. In fact, Marcus said that one of the main reasons bitcoin hasn’t been fully regulated is because it is not a currency. I see it as digital gold.”.

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AUGUST 23, 2018

Another round of attempts to get bitcoin exchange-traded funds approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission has failed. Bloomberg , citing the Securities and Exchange Commission, reported the government agency rejected bitcoin ETFs from ProShares , GraniteShares and Direxion , citing concerns that the funds would be easily manipulated.

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AUGUST 3, 2017

All is not running business as usual in the bitcoin realm. Just last week, we reported on investors splitting off from bitcoin to create their own digital money dubbed Bitcoin Cash. The hope with this new bitcoin offering is to ramp up the number of transactions occurring in a shorter time frame.

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JUNE 29, 2016

Russell Moore, Director of Innovation at TSYS , agrees that it’s been misused in a myriad of ways, but feels that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies offer merchants the chance to view payment processing in a new way. RM: That bitcoin is a dark currency that it is only used for elicit purchases.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Agustin Carstens, the general manager at the Bank for International Settlements , said that banks shouldn’t issue their own bitcoin-like tokens because it could undermine global financial stability, as well as monetary policy, according to a report by Bloomberg. Central banks do not put a brake on innovations just for the sake of it.

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MARCH 17, 2017

It has been another wild ride of a week for bitcoin in the wake of the SEC ruling. At the tail end of last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission ruled the proposed Winklevoss bitcoin ETF a no-go by nixing a proposed rule change that would have led to the fund being listed on the Bats BZX Exchange. The reason?

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APRIL 28, 2017

In the last few weeks, three separate bitcoin exchanges have reported a halt on processing transactions in dollars — the result of global banks pulling out of high-risk areas. Global banks have long been wary of even indirect interactions with bitcoin exchanges — particularly in the case they could be held liable if something goes wrong.

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APRIL 27, 2018

That might be the headline news about bitcoin. At a recent $9,300, bitcoin may or may not be stabilizing. Some sense of bitcoin stability in pricing may be a bit of a landmark, to speak with tongue in cheek. For those who keep score, miners have produced 17 million bitcoins as of yesterday, April 26.

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MARCH 25, 2022

When it comes to the ATM industry, you need to keep your eye on these two trends: the growth of Bitcoin ATMs and innovative security solutions

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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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DECEMBER 1, 2017

ManageGo , a New York company that provides payment and maintenance scheduling services online for landlords and tenants, will enable tenants to make rent payments with bitcoin. When the tenant pays with bitcoin, ManageGo converts it into dollars via Coinbase, the cryptocurrency broker.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

million between 2015 and 2017 through the Finnish bitcoin exchange. On another note, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have a new marketing campaign that includes a full-page New York Times ad and is dubbed “Revolution Needs Rules,” Fortune reported. dollars, The Telegraph reported.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

A few weeks ago we wrote about how the Bitcoin market was consolidating. In this research note, we look at them to see what they tell us about the state of the Bitcoin market during the current bear market. However some early stage deals did get done in 2015. SafeCash Read More.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

One of the key reasons for the complicated relationship – the term “frenemies” comes to mind – is that FinTech newcomers are demonstrating innovative approaches to traditional banking practices, including financial management services and money transfers, while older banks tend to be wedded to older systems. contact-form-7] About the Tracker.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

The differentiator is that it includes a hardware wallet and can run a “full Bitcoin node,” which HTC says is a first for a smartphone. “We We gave users the ability to own their own keys, and now we’ve gone one step further to allow users to run their own full Bitcoin node,” HTC’s Phil Chen said in a statement to news outlets. “We

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