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JULY 6, 2018

From blockbuster to Blockbuster the chain to … blockchain. News comes this week, from the Santa Monica Daily Press , that a local theater will debut a movie that is being released and distributed via blockchain. The movie is titled “No Postage Necessary” and, as the report noted, has a bitcoin subplot.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 25, 2024

Bitget Research has attributed much of this growth to favourable local crypto regulations in the Middle East, the approval of Bitcoin ETFs , and the increasing attractiveness of digital assets amid a market upturn. Twenty-nine per cent of UAE-based users surveyed believe that digital assets offer a more convenient way of holding assets.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Bitcoin might be making a comeback. This latest surge brought bitcoin’s three-day gains to more than 22 percent. And CoinList is turning “CoinList Build” into a product, which will allow blockchain startups to easily create online hackathons to connect with developers. 19) morning to reach a high of $3,929.10.

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OCTOBER 10, 2019

Alipay revealed that it will be banning any transactions related to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Alipay refuted that claim in a Twitter thread , writing “There’re several reports about @Alipay being used for bitcoin transactions.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

Blockchain company Stratis announced this week it has developed a wallet that supports cryptocurrency payments for corporates. In a recent press release , Stratis said it launched the Stratis Breeze Wallet, with its integrated Breeze Privacy Protocol to enhance the privacy of transactions made with bitcoin.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

“Paying people should be instant, free and easy regardless of their location or the currency, whether that is splitting the cost of your Airbnb or sending a Bitcoin birthday present,” said Mark Hipperson , founder and CEO of Ziglu, according to the release.

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JULY 25, 2018

Justin Sun, the founder of blockchain operating system TRON (TRX), just finalized the acquisition of BitTorrent for $140 million, according to a report in The Next Web. Speculation on such a deal first came up in May, when word surfaced that Sun was interested in buying the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing platform and its architecture.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2017

Bitcoin’s value keeps breaking through ceilings again and again. Wednesday night into Thursday morning, trading saw bitcoin fly by another milestone: $1,500. Wednesday night into Thursday morning, trading saw bitcoin fly by another milestone: $1,500. What looks like a record high one day is left in the dust the next.

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

SmashFi (South Korea) SmashFi is a service designed to help individual investors easily accumulate and securely store Bitcoin. Often, new investors purchase Bitcoin through exchanges and leave it there, exposing their assets to risks such as exchange bankruptcy or hacking.

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

“When customers send money from their cryptocurrency wallet, it’s sent directly to a merchant-controlled cryptocurrency address and processed on-chain by the respective blockchain,” Coinbase said in a release. The plug-in fits into Coinbase’s “open financial system,” which is a peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto network.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In Australia, the nation’s new payment network, New Payments Platform (NPP), similarly caught the attention of the B2B space as cloud accounting and payroll service providers ponder use-cases beyond real-time consumer P2P payments — while blockchain also made progress in the corporate payments arena. B2BinPay Integrates Blockchain.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Blockchain has the potential to disrupt nearly every industry. Read our What Is Blockchain explainer for more.). Read our What Is Blockchain explainer for more.). But the value of most cryptocurrencies, especially bitcoin, fluctuates on a daily basis. Get the full report. First name. Company name. Phone number.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

This can be across the table in their own currency or through the blockchain to send value globally, Allaire added. While consumers and businesses may not know it, Allaire suspects that they ultimately want the benefits that come with a blockchain-based digital asset transfer. Circle’s Secret Sauce. Despite Venmo’s lead in the U.S.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

Mastercard started with week with an announcement of how its Mastercard Send product would extend the reach and the speed of Early Warning’s clearXchange P2P network for bank customers with a Mastercard branded debit product. The culprit is said to be the use of the BitGo wallet and the structure of the bitcoin accounts itself.

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The Paypers

MARCH 24, 2020

Blockchain analysis company Chainalysis has announced its partnership with Paxful , a global, P2P Bitcoin marketplace.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

The New Rails — The Libra Blockchain. The Libra ecosystem consists of new rails, the Libra Blockchain, built by Facebook engineers, and the introduction of a new programming language, Move, designed to make it more efficient and more secure for developers to create new payments and financial services applications that run on top of it.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 3, 2024

C rypto exchange users will be able to send and receive crypto using their Mastercard Crypto Credential aliases Mastercard Crypto Credentials helps verify interactions among consumers and businesses using blockchain networks. The live transaction capabilities are enabled on the Bit2Me , Lirium and Mercado Bitcoin exchanges.

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PYMNTS

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. Gox, the now-defunct bitcoin exchange that shuttered in Feb.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

That means that any virtual asset firm trading at least one security token will be under the SFC’s scrutiny, while applications for peer-to-peer (P2P) exchanges will not be reviewed by the agency.

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Stax

JULY 9, 2024

Peer-to-peer payments Another popular payment method that started as a way of transferring funds between bank accounts on the consumer side is peer-to-peer (P2P) payments. P2P payments, such as Venmo, PayPal and the Cash App, are popular among consumers. EFT payments encompass all payment transactions conducted electronically.

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Global Fintech & Digital Assets

DECEMBER 18, 2023

General use would therefore encompass most forms of person-to-person (P2P) and consumer-merchant fund transfers by or on behalf of a consumer to another US-based person for personal, family, or household purposes.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

The plug-in fits into Coinbase’s “open financial system,” which is a peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto network. As of now, merchants can only accept bitcoin and litecoin, but Coinbase said that bitcoin cash and ethereum support is on the way.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The total included mega-rounds of $30+ million to three lending plays: FundBox ($50 mil), CommonBond ($35 mil), Orchard Platform ($30 million) and one financial-institution-supported blockchain startup: Chain ($35 mil). Enterprise blockchain technology. Bitcoin wallet (hardware). Source: Crunchbase. Total raised: $43.7

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Evolve Payment

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Cryptocurrency Acceptance: Not Just Rumors Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have been making headlines for years , and in 2024, they are expected to become more widely accepted as a legitimate form of payment. More Instant Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Payments Waiting days for payments to clear will become a thing of the past in 2024.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

The kit will include “an API [application programming interface], language tools, demo apps and other features” to help Lightning payments integrate with various wallets, and aid bitcoin in becoming a more widely used currency. FICO 10 — and Its Possible Impacts — Looms Large .

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2018

All transaction information, including funds in escrow, is stored on AirTM’s immutable ledger, Steckel said, a record that shares aspects with blockchain – although it is not decentralized like blockchain. or Spain, online shopping, cryptocurrency buying and speculating, and peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers. AirTM’s Philosophy.

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The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Other important subsectors include lending, insurtech, wealthtech, regtech, and peer-to-peer (P2P) lending. Enabling technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and big data continue to drive innovation across the fintech landscape. It is a global leader in digital payments, particularly mobile payments.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 10, 2015

This week, a wide variety of fintech companies raised money from blockchain security ( BitFury ) to B2B payments ( Karmic Labs ). Blockchain and bitcoin security. Online remittances & P2P transfers. Tags: Loans, credit, consumer, P2P, peer-to-peer, underwriting, investing. Total raised: $140 million.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Circle , the payments firm that operates an app-based peer-to-peer payments network based on blockchain and which has financial backing from Goldman Sachs, said Monday (Feb. As noted by Reuters , the acquisition — where financial terms were not disclosed — boosts Circle’s efforts within blockchain. 26) it acquired the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Cross-Border Friction — And Bitcoins And Blockchain. Friction is readily apparent in cross-border commerce, and especially in P2P and B2B payments done across currencies. In the bid to streamline and secure payments cross border, bitcoin and digital currencies have been much in the news, as has blockchain.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Source: P2P-Banking. Mobile P2P lending platform. Tags: Blockchain, bitcoin, crypto-currency, enterprise. Here are the deals announced from Sep 19 to Sept 25 by size: Harmoney. Consumer marketplace lender. HQ: Auckland, New Zealand. Latest round: $127 million (debt & equity). Total raised: $135 million. CoverHound.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 23, 2015

million for its mobile P2P payment service. Consumer lending P2P marketplace. Bitcoin wallet & payments. P2P mobile payments & remittances. Using the blockchain for managing records. Tags: Bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrency. government. HQ: Troy, New York. Latest round: $24 million.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Is it one those amazing blockchain things? The same thing is true on the P2P side. The Next Big Fizzle: Blockchain Startups. Bitcoin achieved critical mass and global use within a few years. It’s not about bitcoin, it’s about the BLOCKCHAIN ! It’s going to leapfrog those sleepy big giant payments networks.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 19, 2015

Developer news: CIO of UBS asserts the blockchain will heavily impact financial services. Fidor Bank CEO Matthias Kroner calls bitcoin as a “natural part of the digital lifestyle.”. Blackberry selects PayPal for its P2P Payments provider. Blockchain achieves 4 million bitcoin wallets.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

and around the world in scores of peer-to-peer (P2P) payment applications — customers pressed a button on one end, while on the other funds are immediately available for use by the recipient. Cross-Border Payments’ Instant Future . When we see it, we want it, Oddiraju said of the path of worldwide instant payments. In the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

During the discussion, Volmar said that blockchain has evolved beyond its ties with bitcoin, and scale has come as a result: “Blockchain is no longer blockchain. That has been thrown out” in favor of what he called “blockchain-like” technology.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 30, 2015

Blockchain derivatives. Tags: Peer-to-peer, P2P, lending, investing. Here are the deals listed by size from April 25 to April 30: Circle. Digital currency provider. HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Latest round: $50 million Series C (at $200 million valuation). Total raised: $76 million. Source: Crunchbase. MX (formerly MoneyDesktop).

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