The Fintech Times

JUNE 26, 2025

Digital asset insurance broker Native has appointed George Frith as divisional director, Bitcoin mining and AI compute. He will focus on developing bespoke cover for digital infrastructure risks, from bitcoin mining to AI data centres. Wealthtech firm Orion has named Valli Nachiappan as chief technology officer.

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The Fintech Times

JULY 17, 2025

Bluefin has partnered with Allied Electronics to integrate its PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solution, Decryptx®, into Allied’s NeXGen PRIME forecourt controller. ClearBank will provide safeguarding and operational accounts to support euro payments alongside ZBD’s existing Bitcoin capabilities.

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Fintech Weekly

JULY 3, 2025

If you access the Bitcoin calculator on Paybis , you can see the asset’s value in more than 45 fiat currencies. Paybis guarantees fast and encrypted transactions with maximum security, providing a familiar process suitable for beginners. You can expect maximum security and encrypted transactions while trading on Paybis.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

With transactions that become irreversible almost instantaneously, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are winning new converts — among scammers eager to avoid credit card chargebacks that can eat into their ill-gotten gains. Jack Dorsey Likes Bitcoin, But So Do Crooks . The Dark Web Likes Bitcoin, Too . For example, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

The bills in question include the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data (LAED) Act and the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, the former of which is a new bill and the latter of which has been in the works for months and gone through several amendments.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2018

According to Reuters , the Paris-based global AML watchdog revealed that jurisdictions around the world will be required to license or regulate cryptocurrency exchanges, as well as select firms providing encrypted wallets and firms providing financial services for ICOs. Countries have attempted to rein in the market. Last year, the U.K.

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The Payments Association

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Blockchain, once synonymous with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, is now transforming digital payments and fiat currency transactions. In payments, blockchain provides improved transparency with immutable transaction records, faster processing times by eliminating intermediaries, and stronger security via encrypted data.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

Amid the wild price swings that have bedeviled bitcoin and other cryptos, there’s always the specter of traders and their money being soon parted – not by losses when the coins change hands, but by losses tied to hacking. As in disappearing bitcoins. New worries? billion slated through public sale in March.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2017

And, as if he possibility of personal and payment information being hacked wasn’t disconcerting enough, consumers and retailers may be soon adding Bitcoin woes into the mix. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin were created to help add an additional layer of security to rising digital transactions. Although most U.S. Although most U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

And data privacy startup StrongSalt raised $3 million from Valley Capital Partners to bring standardized encryption techniques to the blockchain. StrongSalt is planning to release its API product later this year. StrongSalt is chain-agnostic, as we can work with almost any blockchain,” StrongSalt CEO Ed Yu told CoinDesk.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Bitcoin was hit with an $18 billion market loss in just three days. According to a company white paper , the first product is an encrypted personal data store comprised of user’s personal devices and cloud storage that Microsoft would offer through Azure.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Bitcoin has continued to rise, hitting $18,172 Wednesday morning (Nov. Bitcoin has been on the rise in 2020 as it becomes increasingly more accepted by the mainstream payments industry. 18), the first time the cryptocurrency has climbed above $18,000 since December 2017, CNBC reported. It fell slightly, hitting 17,542.52 Eastern Time.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

The company said that a third party breached and used the phone number of a BlockFi staffer to get into a part of the company’s encrypted back-office system without permission. In other news, the government of Iran is aiming to limit digital currency exchanges with so-called “currency smuggling” regulations, CoinDesk reported.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2016

Another case of bitcoin ransomware has left one Kentucky hospital in an “internal state of emergency,” according to a report from Krebs On Security. Just yesterday (March 21) PYMNTS reported about a town that was being held hostage via a bitcoin ransomware attack. And last month?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Craig Wright , a man who claims he invented Bitcoin, was recently ordered by a judge in Florida to surrender around $3 billion of his holdings in the cryptocurrency, according to a report by Bloomberg. Some crypto experts think Wright is a fraud, he didn’t invent Bitcoin and he doesn’t have any holdings at all.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2016

As the instances and threat of ransomware continues to wreak havoc on both businesses, governments and individuals around the world, it seems as though bitcoin has found itself closely intertwined with the malicious software. As The Wall Street Journal pointed out on Friday (Aug. Data from the U.S. Researchers at U.K.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Telegram, which has an estimated 300 million users worldwide, is also working on a digital coin, as is Signal, an encrypted messaging service popular with technologists and privacy advocates. The biggest messaging apps in South Korea and Japan, Kakao and Line, are planning to get in on the action with their own coins as well.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

The firm is not heavy on the blockchain for coming up with the best way to handle personally identifiable information, as it chooses a mix of an encrypted portal that’s linked to systems such as Salesforce and Oracle as well as machine-learning algorithms. Manetu, a data privacy startup, reportedly just notched $3.5

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2017

In a sense, digital currencies began via online payments, which have then shifted into the creation of cryptocurrency like bitcoin, Ethereum and dogecoin. That demand for cryptocurrency is likely driven by the fact that, in terms of bitcoin, there is still some debate as to exactly how popular the digital currency is among top retailers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Developed by a London startup of the same name, AZTEC offers encryption of blockchain data at a lower cost, and with a more efficient process, than previous versions. JPMorgan Chase is testing out a zero-knowledge privacy solution called AZTEC. It’s being tested by the most important bank in blockchain today.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2017

The college’s electronic files had all been encrypted and campus email, voicemail and computer system services had been interrupted. The hackers sent the college a ransom note demanding payment in bitcoin within seven days for a private key to regain access to the files. Francisco C.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The wallet uses encrypted communication as well as mutual authentication, which Sony CSL said makes it safer. The Mint said, according to Reuters, “Sadly, due to market conditions, this did not prove possible at this time, but we will revisit this if and when market conditions are right.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

What would is encrypting data at the POS. That means that counterfeiting can still be alive and well at the POS – unless merchants also encrypt POS data. This week’s report of the Bitfinex hack may turn it into Bitfinal since it is now known as the exchange that’s suffered the largest loss of bitcoins since Mt.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2020

2) to force the encrypted instant messaging app Telegram to turn over financials and explain how it spent $1.7 Israel saw a 32 percent jump in 2019 blockchain and crypto-related companies, Cointelegraph reported , citing an Israeli Bitcoin Association (IBA) study. Bandy, associate director of the division of enforcement.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The bill will also include incentives (to be determined) for businesses to use technologies to encrypt their data and make it large unusable in the event of an attack. Bitcoin And The Ghost Of Crashes Present. And for the last few days, gravity has been catching up with bitcoin. So, what visions did the spirits have in store?

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

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). It will also define Bitcoin, Ethereum, blockchain broadly, and initial coin offerings, and highlight promising use cases for the technology. What is Bitcoin?

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The Paypers

MARCH 1, 2017

(The Paypers) US companies are opening Bitcoin wallets and purchasing Bitcoin in case company servers or computers are compromised with ransomware encryption.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

The funds will be used to expand the company’s customer base, add new staff and launch bitcoin accounts for businesses. Bitwala, which has retail customers in all 31 countries of the European Economic Area, says it’s so far traded bitcoin to the value of over €11 million ($12.26

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

The company said that a third party breached and used the phone number of a BlockFi staffer to get into a part of the company’s encrypted back-office system without permission. In other news, the government of Iran is aiming to limit digital currency exchanges with so-called “currency smuggling” regulations, CoinDesk reported.

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Wharton Fintech

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

If you have noticed the chip that is on the card to provide encryption of all transactions and payments, when we moved into mobile devices like Apple Pay or Google Pay, we used the chips in your phone to offer similar encryption capabilities. A lot of technology went into securing the payment systems to fight fraud.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Merchants previously used bitcoin, but when the crypto crashed last year, they moved on to tether, which has all of the advantages of crypto without the volatility. The device will use blockchain technology to send data to a network of nodes for encryption and storage.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2017

The attack held 153 of the company’s servers under control, with the ransomware encrypting the servers and attackers refusing to release them unless the ransom was paid. The company was reportedly negotiating with the cyberthieves, who had originally demanded bitcoin to the equivalent of about $5 million. Nayana agreed to pay 397.6

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

The app is divided into four sections — shopping, social, chat, and a non-custodial multi-wallet — with user information stored locally and protected with end-to-end encryption.

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Fintech Review

MAY 21, 2024

Features such as encryption and tokenization provide robust security measures. Bitcoin , Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies challenge conventional financial frameworks. The convenience of not carrying physical cards or cash has made mobile wallets extremely popular globally.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Because anyone can get you a chocolate heart or something sparkly, but has your sweetie even thought about giving you the ability to become a bitcoin miner? Salon, as it turns out, does love you enough to help you mine bitcoin. Well, to help your computer mine bitcoin anyway. ” Salon Want To Trade Bitcoin Mining For Ads.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

Through a two-way method, the system encodes an encrypted payment card image that is stored on the blockchain with a private and public key. Mastercard has also invested in the Digital Currency Group , which incubates cryptocurrency like bitcoin and blockchain-related companies.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

According to the San Francisco Examiner , the computer screens of Muni agents displayed the message, “You Hacked, ALL Data Encrypted” beginning Friday night. The attacker demanded 100 bitcoin (approximately $73,000) in ransom and displayed in the message to contact cryptom27@yandex.com for the decryption key.

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