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Twitter Payments

Finance Magnates

It has the ability to send micro messages, which is fantastic; it has Spaces where you can host or join live audio conversations and discussions. Introducing Twitter Micro Payments Today, on Twitter, you can like or retweet a tweet at best. How Would Micro-Payments Work in the Twitter Ecosystem? Interesting question.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

CB Insights

Investing: Robo-advisors and micro-investing lower barriers to entry. Investing: Robo-advisors and micro-investing lower barriers to entry. As with robo-advisors, the rise of micro-investing apps is closely tied to millennials’ financial coming-of-age. Payments: Mobile is replacing cash. As of 2018, the app had 3.7M

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If Facebook Wants To Be WeChat, Why Did It Launch Libra?

PYMNTS

Square Cash enables P2P payments and takes in funds – now including bitcoin deposits. And all of them – developed and developing – use regulated rails, bank accounts and compliant fiat currencies to remove user confusion and friction, establish trust, enable merchant acceptance and accelerate market entry and scale.

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How Blockchain Tech Could Disrupt Real Estate

CB Insights

Additionally, real estate investing often involves expensive intermediaries such as fund managers, further raising the barrier to entry. This approach makes it easier to establish a market for property “micro-shares,” creating the potential for a property to effectively have numerous co-owners with a stake in potential returns.

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The Cyber Hack From Space

PYMNTS

has picked up a bad bitcoin habit and turned to a life of cybercrime to support his cryptocurrency speculating addiction. Which means, according to Bill Malik, VP of infrastructure strategies at Trend Micro , a satellite is an IoT device — albeit a very specialized one. This week an American citizen’s bank account was hacked.