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Bitcoin Blockchain Use Case 
Fintech News
APRIL 28, 2025
In partnership with OKX, Mastercard is launching the OKX Card to give users more convenient access to digital funds and engage more people in blockchain applications. Exchanges and platforms such as Wirex, Bit2Me, Lirium, Notabene, Coins.ph, and Mercado Bitcoin have adopted the system.
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Payments Source
OCTOBER 24, 2016
The technology behind bitcoin has almost endless use cases.
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PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
5), bitcoin followed suit, rising to over $15,000, signaling a continued confidence in the cryptocurrency. Investors have continued to accumulate bitcoin throughout the year, specifically during the March and September price crashes, according to CoinDesk, signaling long-term confidence in the digital coin. The stock hit $15,017.05
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Fintech News
JANUARY 20, 2025
Compared to traditional currencies, cryptocurrencies operate on decentralised networks, often powered by blockchain technology. While B itcoin, introduced in 2009, is the most well-known cryptocurrency, there are thousands of cryptocurrencies with various use cases today.
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PYMNTS
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Amid the rallies that have marked all manner of asset classes in 2020 – where things hummed along to start the year, turned sour in the spring and then rebounded (nay, roared) into the waning months, bitcoin stands out. But now, at least some asset managers have been embracing bitcoin as a hedge against currencies and gold.
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CB Insights
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
As blockchain tech gains commercial traction, a growing number of companies want to use it to reimagine the capital markets infrastructure that powers the trade of stocks, bonds, and other securities. The chart above shows the core blockchain tech being used by projects and corporates working on DLT applications for capital markets.
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PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
Scan the headlines over the past few weeks and cryptos, well beyond the marquee bitcoin, are making inroads into mainstream consumer and business activities. PayPal is opening its network to allow consumers to shop using cryptocurrency. Square bought $50 million of bitcoin. The mechanics and clumsiness of it all have not helped.
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Tearsheet
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Fast-forward to today, a Bitcoin-focused product strategy within the lineup seems to be a safer bet. Its early, all-in stance on Bitcoin now seems like a stroke of genius, given that crypto markets are maturing, Bitcoin is reaching new peaks, and a new administration is seemingly opening the door to crypto and Web3.
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Stax
MARCH 6, 2025
Use case: Customers can pay by tapping their smart devices into the vendors NFC-enabled POS. Use case: Placing NFC tags on products allows customers to tap their phone to the tag and quickly pay for an item. Use case: Placing NFC tags on products allows customers to tap their phone to the tag and quickly pay for an item.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 26, 2021
Bitcoin gets all the headlines. But step beyond bitcoin and enter the world of cryptocurrencies approaching mainstream acceptance. At present, he said, a number of factors have inhibited the adoption of bitcoin as a transactional currency, including the fact that it’s expensive and can be very slow.
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The Payments Association
DECEMBER 17, 2024
RLUSD will be initially available on Uphold, Bitso, MoonPay, Archax, and CoinMENA, with additional listings on platforms such as Bullish, Bitstamp, Mercado Bitcoin, Independent Reserve, Zero Hash and others expected in the coming weeks. Each RLUSD token is fully backed by U.S. dollar deposits, U.S.
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Fintech Review
AUGUST 27, 2024
Blockchain technology has revolutionised numerous industries by providing decentralised, secure, and transparent systems. However, one of the significant challenges it faces is interoperability between different blockchain networks. However, these networks often operate in isolation, limiting the potential of blockchain technology.
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PYMNTS
OCTOBER 1, 2018
31, 2018, will mark the 10th anniversary of the day that a link to a paper , authored by Satoshi Nakamoto , describing the digital currency called bitcoin was first publicly circulated. Ten years after bitcoin launched, it remains the go-to currency of criminals and a way for cybercrooks to wash their money. The end of this month, Oct.
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PYMNTS
AUGUST 11, 2020
Not all that long ago, blockchain and bitcoin were inseparable – shorthand for the Wild West of cryptocurrencies and speculation. One firm, tZERO Group , is betting that blockchain can help disrupt capital markets themselves. Blockchain can help automate compliance efforts and settle trades with speed. The Use Cases .
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The Fintech Times
MARCH 6, 2025
The launch of the new BVNK wallet will create a solution to this friction by providing users with direct access to blockchains and local and international payment schemes, all within a single solution. But theyre not perfect for every use case and moving money between traditional currencies and stablecoins is still challenging.
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PYMNTS
APRIL 16, 2020
Ant Financial rolled out a blockchain platform called OpenChain, which lets small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and developers harness its proprietary blockchain technologies, according to an announcement. The technology offers many modules to developers that they can use in different mixes to create trust in team efforts.
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CB Insights
JANUARY 25, 2019
Blockchain made plenty of headlines last year. We’ve seen stories on everything from price volatility surrounding cryptocurrencies to increased adoption of blockchain tech by some of the world’s largest corporations. GET the 47-page blockchain TRENDS report. Bitcoin mining. Fiat-crypto exchanges. Stablecoins.
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CB Insights
NOVEMBER 21, 2017
Blockchain. As of this writing in mid-November 2017, the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies hovers around $220B (with a single bitcoin trading for upwards of $8,000). Huge corporations — like Walmart and Pfizer — have completed successful blockchain pilots. Research Briefing: Blockchain in Review.
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CB Insights
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Blockchain companies raised more venture capital and private equity funding in H1’21 than any full year in history. download our best of blockchain research. download our best of blockchain research. But blockchain’s potential extends well beyond crypto and NFTs. First name. Company name. Phone number.
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Payments Source
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
JPM Coin is not meant for consumer payments, but rather is a specific technology for a specific use case that the bank controls. Its value comes not from JPM Coin's appeal, but from JPMorgan's titanic wholesale payments business.
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MARCH 28, 2019
Blockchain has long been in the process of being divorced – operationally as well as conceptually – from its crypto connection. The hope has been that as blockchain moves beyond bitcoin , the decentralized way of moving data, assets and communications would find a wide berth in business. I say, ‘Show me the use case.
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PYMNTS
MARCH 22, 2019
Much hype and hope surrounds the adoption of cryptocurrencies — bitcoin among them as the marquee name in the space, of course — beyond the Wild West of speculative trading that exists now. Favor has met with disfavor, and bitcoin now trades at $3,990 — a bit above nadirs around $3,400 and well off highs that neared $20,000.
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PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said that he sees “no unique value” in bitcoin, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency, calling it a “delusion, basically,” according to a report from CNBC. Bitcoin has struggled with value after reaching a high of almost $20,000 at the end of 2017. It attracts charlatans,” Buffett said. “If
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The Fintech Times
MAY 1, 2024
However, the idea that digital assets are exclusively some form of currency is slowly falling by the wayside as different use cases are emerging and being rapidly adopted. We will: Explore the biggest innovations over the past year in the cryptocurrency, stablecoin, blockchain and digital assets spheres.
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PYMNTS
DECEMBER 26, 2018
Blockchain seemed to be stuck in pilot phase in 2017, but in 2018, the financial services industry finally saw a stronger flow of real-world, working blockchain applications — many of which targeted pain points in B2B payments, including the time and lack of transparency in cross-border transactions.
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PYMNTS
JULY 21, 2020
Crypto boosters have spent the better part of the past decade promoting the idea that great fiat-currency disruptions are coming care of blockchain and literally hundreds of thousands of variations of cryptocurrency circulating in the world today. Even bitcoin is accepted by only a relative handful of digital retailers.
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PYMNTS
JUNE 19, 2019
“We believe that developing standards and open specifications, as well as collaborating on implementations of them, is critical to removing customer blockers and accelerating blockchain as a mainstream technology. This means you can now deploy the IBM Blockchain Platform on the infrastructure of your choosing.
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PYMNTS
JANUARY 22, 2020
Monerium, a startup based in Iceland that has a European Economic Area (EEA) e-money license, has teamed up with Algorand, a blockchain with a highly scalable consensus algorithm, according to a report Tuesday (Jan. Monerium stores fiat currency deposits for clients and releases them in a digital form on a blockchain. 21) by Coindesk.
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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. Blockchain protocols are the guidelines or rulebooks that determine how a blockchain works. They want to be the first to use the product. Constance W.,
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PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
BitPay, a leading Bitcoin and cryptocurrency payment service, said that it will soon allow invoices to be paid from any Bitcoin wallet or crypto exchange, according to a report Tuesday (Feb. BitPay’s customers want to support all the Bitcoin wallets, just like they want to support all cryptocurrencies for payments.
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PYMNTS
OCTOBER 9, 2020
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are continuing to attract attention from authorities for all the wrong reasons. Among the issues plaguing bitcoin and its peers is the fact that unlike credit card transactions, cryptocurrency payments are almost immediately irreversible. Lagging Consumer Use Cases. A Slew of Problems.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Bit by bit — but more than bitcoin by bitcoin — cryptos are inching into the mainstream, for both consumer and commercial applications. There’s still fiat involved in most cases — but, then, after all, seismic shifts in payments have got to start somewhere. From Wild West … to new frontier in commerce?
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CB Insights
NOVEMBER 28, 2017
This year’s blockchain craze has pushed a huge amount of new money into cryptocurrencies, private blockchain projects, and companies holding initial coin offerings (ICOs). Research Briefing: Blockchain in Review. Track the blockchain companies in this brief and many more on our platform. Track Blockchain Startups.
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PYMNTS
MARCH 3, 2020
The blockchain for the Marshallese sovereign (SOV) digital currency will be developed with Algorand technology, according to an announcement. Algorand created a permissionless, open source and pure proof-of-stake blockchain technology. The supply of SOV will be set to increase at 4 percent yearly to stop inflation from occurring.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 24, 2020
Huawei has created a technology based on the blockchain to help the Beijing government more effectively monitor and supervise citizen information, CoinDesk reported. Moreover, the cloud services arm of Huawei has fueled the project with blockchain innovations like distributed ledgers.
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PYMNTS
JANUARY 31, 2018
For years, throughout the volatility of cryptocurrency values, some industry experts have assured investors and innovators that blockchain is the disruptor in which the market should place its faith. Bitcoin and blockchain creator Satoshi Nakamoto developed these tools nearly a decade ago, he said. Broader Doubts Emerge.
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PYMNTS
MAY 14, 2019
Bitcoin, that marquee name in cryptocurrency, has seen its price swell by roughly that 60 percent number through the last few weeks, to about $8,000. Bitcoin got a huge jump on Monday (May 13), up 25 percent on the day, though there was no news specific to the cryptocurrency. Or to make one wonder why. As that happens, miners get 12.5
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PYMNTS
APRIL 11, 2018
Ripple , the blockchain company, announced news on Wednesday (April 11) that it has invested $25 million of its XRP cryptocurrency in Blockchain Capital’s $150 million fund Blockchain Capital Parallel IV. Blockchain Capital is the premiere fund for any project looking to get off the ground in the blockchain space.
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NOVEMBER 23, 2016
While more banks and businesses are delving into and even getting comfortable with the idea of blockchain, some businesses are removing themselves from it. This week Goldman Sachs opted out of renewing its membership to the R3CEV blockchain consortium. Another bank’s blockchain commitment that seems not firm is Germany’s central bank.
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PYMNTS
MAY 4, 2020
Senate staffers put forward the idea of blockchain voting in a “continuity of Senate” memo at the end of April, CoinDesk reported. The staffers wrote, per the report, that “the Senate may consider blockchain” in the event that all of its members have to put in their votes remotely.
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The Fintech Times
APRIL 13, 2024
Every four years, the crypto world gears itself up for what has historically been a very exciting time in the industry: the Bitcoin (BTC) halving. For those outside of the crypto world, the Bitcoin halving may seem like a strange idea: why half how quickly you can get something when it is in such high demand? Miners now get 6.25
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PYMNTS
DECEMBER 24, 2020
Here are some of cryptos’ key developments for 2020: Bitcoin Goes Higher And Higher. Bitcoin, of course, exists as one of the most widely recognized cryptocurrencies. And one of the most notable events of 2020 was the big appreciation in bitcoin’s price, tied as it is (and was) to optimism about cryptos’ future.
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PYMNTS
APRIL 6, 2018
Much has been written about buying bitcoin in specific, and cryptocurrency in general. For all that is said about the buying and selling of bitcoin and cryptocurrency, he noted, almost no one ever mentions the fact that buying bitcoin is incredibly confusing and extremely difficult, unless one already happens to know a lot about it.
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PYMNTS
JUNE 5, 2018
Blockchain probably won’t solve all the world’s financial problems, as devoutly as innovators and enthusiasts may hope and believe that it can. Esther Pigg, SVP Product Strategy of FIS , says blockchain’s potential benefits will instead be discovered gradually, and will change the industry even more gradually. Use Cases For Blockchain.
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