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MAY 2, 2025

APIMatic – Auckland, New Zealand Founded in 2014, APIMatic is a developer experience platform for APIs that enables organizations to drive fast, widespread adoption of their APIs. Middle East and Northern Africa UAE-based Islamic bank Ruya introduced a new service to enable customers to trade cryptocurrencies via its mobile app.

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AUGUST 1, 2025

WeBank was launched in 2014 by Tencent in partnership with a handful of other Chinese companies. MoneyBadger and Peach Payments partnered to make it easier for merchants to accept Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. billion (235 billion yuan).

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Fintech Review

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cryptocurrencies have rapidly gained prominence over the last decade, presenting both opportunities and challenges for individuals, businesses, and regulators alike. However, the taxation of cryptocurrencies is a complex matter, with varying approaches and inconsistent frameworks across jurisdictions.

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MARCH 8, 2020

After Paymium loaned BitSpread 1,000 Bitcoin in 2014, a dispute erupted sometime before 2018. During 2014-18, BitSpread opened an account on Paymium. In 2017, Bitcoin hard forked, creating Bitcoin Cash, a new cryptocurrency. whether courts allow some cryptocurrencies to constitute securities. An argument in the U.S.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

Due to high risks and “insufficient” protection, the Nordic region’s largest bank will ban its approximately 31,000 employees from trading in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, the company said on Monday (Jan. While Nordea will not force employees to sell cryptocurrencies that they currently own, the bank recommends that they do so.

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JUNE 1, 2018

Estonia has shelved plans to develop its own national cryptocurrency after the idea prompted criticism by banking authorities and Mario Draghi, the Italian economist and president of the European Central Bank. The e-residency program was launched in 2014.

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JULY 7, 2019

According to The Wall Street Journal , “the Internal Revenue Service is expected to update its 2014 guidance on cryptocurrencies in coming weeks, following an April request from a bipartisan group of 20 lawmakers. It is part of a broader push to boost the nascent cryptocurrency industry.” The move comes as U.S.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Chinese technology company Tencent has announced it’s going to start researching cryptocurrency and its implications for an ongoing project in blockchain, according to reports. In 2014, Sina lost its license after facing charges of allowing lewd video content to be posted.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

Cryptocurrencies just made a huge leap from use in the financial arena to mainstream. Through this pairing, any one of Overstock’s customers will now have the option of making a purchase by using any one of the cryptocurrencies available, including Ethereum, Litecoin, Dash and Bitcoin Cash.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 22, 2024

Technology The decentralised network connected through a network of computers or nodes underlies blockchain technology, synonymous with cryptocurrencies. At its core, Web3 employs blockchains, cryptocurrencies, and NFTs to return ownership to users. Web1 was read-only, Web2 is read-write, and Web3 will be read-write-own.

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MARCH 15, 2019

Mark Karpeles, a central figure in the early days of Bitcoin who presided over the dramatic 2014 collapse of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, was found guilty of tampering with financial records but will likely avoid jail time after receiving a suspended sentence.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Since mid-2014, more than 50 of the world’s major financial services institutions have invested in the sector.”. Mastercard has filed for more than 35 patents in blockchain technology and invested in the Digital Currency Group , which incubates cryptocurrency like bitcoin and blockchain-related companies.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Byrne is a big backer of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. The unit has been burning cash since launching in 2014, noted CNBC. Medici acts a home for startups and not only cryptocurrencies. Overstock has previously announced plans to sell the retail business so that it can focus on blockchain technology.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

We have long thought that thoughtful governmental adoption of emerging technologies such as cryptocurrencies (when accompanied by non-restrictive legislation over these technologies) is the best way to ensure the U.S. Ohio is the first U.S. state to offer this way of paying for business taxes, noted Overstock in the press release. “We

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

The site accepts bitcoin as a form of payment and ranks among Google, Citi and Goldman Sachs as some of the major players in the cryptocurrency space. Some ICOs are poorly developed: They have been hacked or have clogged the Ethereum network, driving down the price of the cryptocurrency Ethereum. China banned ICOs in September.

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MAY 8, 2020

It was also the first platform to introduce a cashback service for online shopping and recently added support for Swipe’s cryptocurrency Visa cards. For example, when Apple Pay launched in 2014, it was accepted by just 3 percent of merchants. Contactless mobile payments are growing worldwide, but the U.S. smartphone users. .

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Among plenty of emerging use cases, the technology aims to create a new and improved payments system for the world — one that’s secure, transparent, decentralized, fast, and uses cryptocurrencies (types of digital cash) as a means of exchange. But the value of most cryptocurrencies, especially bitcoin, fluctuates on a daily basis.

Stablecoins

Wharton Fintech

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Bridging the Gap: A Collaborative Approach to Blockchain & Crypto Partnerships with Shayaan Khanna at Mastercard As recently as 2022, it seemed as though blockchain and cryptocurrency companies were about to reshape large swathes of the global financial sector right away.

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JULY 14, 2019

Given the company’s troubled past, I am requesting that Facebook agree to a moratorium on any movement forward on developing a cryptocurrency until Congress and regulators have the opportunity to examine these issues and take action,” Waters said in a statement. The IRS is acting on an April request from a bipartisan group of 20 lawmakers.

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JUNE 2, 2020

It took just four minutes for Bitcoin’s price to take a dramatic dive of more than $800 Tuesday (June 2) as the cryptocurrency market saw red, CoinDesk reported. Eastern Time (ET) when the cryptocurrency was trading above $10,137. Still, the cryptocurrency has struggled over the last year to stay above $10,000. percent decline.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

Four years after Stripe began accepting bitcoin, the payments platform has decided to end support for the popular cryptocurrency. Stripe had started accepting bitcoin in 2014, when the cryptocurrency first reached $1,000 and truly gained traction. Since then, the value of bitcoin has skyrocketed, reaching nearly $20,000 in 2017.

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MARCH 31, 2020

Global cryptocurrency exchange CoinEx is partnering with fiat infrastructure provider Simplex to make it easier for investors to purchase cryptocurrency, the companies said in a statement on Tuesday (March 31). India’s Supreme Court ruled earlier in March that a ban on cryptocurrency trading was unconstitutional.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

Cryptocurrency accounting firm Lukka has released a new service that will figure out the taxes on crypto assets, according to a report by CoinDesk. The IRS hasn’t changed the guidelines since 2014, when the crypto market was younger and there weren’t as many people holding digital assets. It mostly serves institutional investors.

Bitcoin

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JULY 7, 2019

According to the Wall Street Journal , “the Internal Revenue Service is expected to update its 2014 guidance on cryptocurrencies in coming weeks, following an April request from a bipartisan group of 20 lawmakers. It is part of a broader push to boost the nascent cryptocurrency industry.” The move comes as U.S.

Regulations

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AUGUST 27, 2019

FS Vector’s partner John Collins — head of policy at Coinbase from September 2014 to January 2016 — will serve as Facebook’s lobbyist. . The cryptocurrency has a potential release date of 2020, and Facebook said it would be issued and regulated by the Geneva, Switzerland-based “Libra Association.”.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

Coinbase has announced the launch of Convert, a new service that allows customers to convert one cryptocurrency into another at a lower cost than if completed in two separate transactions. Yet Medici has been burning cash since its lauch in 2014. But Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne isn’t deterred.

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JUNE 25, 2018

Byrne is considered a blockchain technology leader: Overstock became the first major retailer to accept the cryptocurrency in 2014. Blockchain is a powerful tool to solve these structural issues, which are some of the principal causes of poverty and conflict.”.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

percent leap takes its stock price to its highest point since January 2014, moving its annual increase to 65 percent on the whole. According to reports from CNBC, the market is reacting favorably to the news that Overstock’s subsidiary tZero is joining the business of trading digital coins.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The product was created using the organization’s current workforce of individuals at Origin Protocol who are FinTech and cryptocurrency veterans. dollars in 2014. Origin said the digital currency is a natural addition to its aim of facilitating peer-to-peer (P2P) commerce. Tether debuted the concept of a stablecoin denominated in U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The testimony further stated that cryptocurrency regulations could be strengthened by creating a new class of financial institution: virtual asset transaction validators. Japan and Switzerland have already developed legal frameworks that have attracted cryptocurrency projects and investment. financial system.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

a “leader in the cryptocurrency industry,” CoinDesk reported. Budd and Soto aren’t the only lawmakers to call for such actions, as representatives have been pulling for bills related to the blockchain and digital currency since 2014. To help further use of digital currency and head off price manipulation, two U.S.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

China has actually been looking at making its own CDBC since 2014. All of this indicates that China isn’t looking at any specific date yet to launch its own cryptocurrency. The discussions in China are just part of the broader international discussion around cryptocurrencies.

Digital Currency

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JANUARY 29, 2018

Following the theft of $530 million in NEM tokens from Coincheck last week, governments will likely call for more cryptocurrency regulation and investors may turn to peer-to-peer (P2P) methods of trading instead of centralized exchanges, Bloomberg reported. 2014 after a mysterious “glitch” caused $500 million worth of bitcoin to go missing.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Robinhood went live in 2014 and since then it has amassed more than 4 million users. In February it rolled out no-fee cryptocurrency trading, garnering a lot of interest before the cryptocurrency market imploded. It wasn’t clear then if anything would come of the talks.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

In possibly the latest crime involving cryptocurrency, U.S. The rapper agreed to accept the cryptocurrency for a 2014 album – “Animal Ambition” – when one coin was only valued at a few hundred dollars, but he apparently never cashed in the 700 bitcoins from the sale. Should 50 Cent change his name to … 50 bitcoin?

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

I’ve been writing about bitcoin, blockchain and the smoke and mirrors of their promise to change our financial system since 2014. Bitcoin’s unsavory nature gave rise to alternative distributed ledger schemes, powered by new cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum , XRP or Lumens. But only because it has to now. Of Fads And Frameworks.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

The digital yuan has been in development since 2014. There is not yet a specific release date for the currency. “We will continue to steadily advance the development of legal digital currencies” this year, the PBOC said. It will first be distributed to commercial banks, and then to users who can register digital wallets with the banks.

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