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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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

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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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Treasury Department is researching use cases for a central bank digital currency (CBDC), as well as drafting regulatory proposals for private stablecoins, U.K. Regulators are slow, and there’s a reason we’re slow,” she said, speaking at CoinDesk ’s Bitcoin for Advisors event. “We

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 6, 2025

Some notable schemes users will have access to include: Swift ACH Fedwire SEPA FPS Solana Tron Polygon Ethereum BNB Smartchain Bitcoin Cardano Integrating the wallet Fintechs, crypto apps, PSPs , marketplaces and payroll platforms can embed the multicurrency wallet into their platform via API.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The nadir has been a bit more than $3,100, and not far behind us, in the rear-view mirror looking back little more than a year, was an all-time high of nearly $20,000. Long ago and far away, bitcoin enthusiasm was measured in dollars, and what a difference a year makes. Simply voting? To be accepted as money?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

In a new PYMNTS interview, Neil Bergquist, CEO of bitcoin ATM provider Coinme , spoke about how his company is part of the launch of bitcoin payments via Coinstar kiosks, those change-handling machines often located near ATMs, customer service desks or front entrances at grocery stores. Who Uses Bitcoin ATMs, Anyway?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

Through the launch of the OpenChain platform, we aim to help 1 million [SMBs] and developers innovate and explore more use cases in the next three years.” In other news, Purse, a bitcoin startup, plans to close following a run that lasted for six years, CoinDesk reported.

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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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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.

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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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Fintech News

JANUARY 20, 2025

While B itcoin, introduced in 2009, is the most well-known cryptocurrency, there are thousands of cryptocurrencies with various use cases today. This ensures transparency, security, and independence from central authorities like banks or governments. What are Cryptocurrency Exchanges?

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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.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

After sharp drops in bitcoin prices, a new study posits that almost 95 percent of all reported bitcoin trading is made artificially via exchanges that are unregulated. Bitwise Asset Management, a company located in San Francisco, provided the research along with an application for an exchange-traded fund (ETF) for bitcoin to the U.S.

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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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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

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

MARCH 3, 2020

The company has already powered several mainstream use cases and thanks to its unique features the platform has the functionality required to issue, manage and distribute the SOV on a global level. There are said to be 42 makers responsible for the machines, and the world was introduced to the concept of a bitcoin ATM in 2013.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

Agustin Carstens, the general manager at the Bank for International Settlements , said that banks shouldn’t issue their own bitcoin-like tokens because it could undermine global financial stability, as well as monetary policy, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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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?

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

There are a variety of distributed ledger tech (DLT) networks already in use by fast-moving startups and incumbents looking to shake up capital markets. These systems use blockchain-based platforms like Bitcoin and Ethereum to store, distribute, and exchange value — providing crucial infrastructure for a DLT-driven capital markets economy.

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Clearly Payments

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Primary Use Cases : CBDCs are designed to enhance financial inclusion, streamline payments, and provide a government-regulated alternative to cryptocurrencies and private digital payment providers. China’s digital yuan (e-CNY), for instance, has already processed over $250 billion in transactions as of 2023.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

Bitcoin is up as much as 25 percent since the news came during the past week that China might look to ban bitcoin mining. The move may seem like a bit of a head-scratcher: China is ground zero for bitcoin production, as estimated in a paper penned in part by PhD students from Princeton and Florida International.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Square Crypto has announced that it is giving the first of many grants to support open-source bitcoin projects to the BTCPay Foundation. BTCPay represents everything we love about open-source bitcoin projects. There is more than enough work for us to do there.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

Bitcoin has long been the marquee name — shorthand, if you will — for the cryptocurrency space. And in recent months, the ride has been wild for bitcoin pricing amid the pandemic. On the other hand, bitcoin is also well off of its all-time highs of just under $20,000. bitcoin exchange.). based crypto exchanges.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2020

In addition to its significant revenue increase from seller fees and user deposits, the company’s Cash App generated $875 million of bitcoin revenue and $17 million of bitcoin gross profit during the second quarter of 2020, up 600 percent year over year. By comparison, Square made $306 million in bitcoin revenue for Q1.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

21), and the two companies are going to work together to develop “real-world use cases that are enabled by advanced blockchain technology” that will use Monerium’s “programmable” digital money, according to W. 21) by Coindesk. The deal was announced on Tuesday (Jan. Sean Ford, Algorand’s chief operating officer.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

As bitcoin hovers around $9,100, as Libra may (or may not) give the marquee cryptocurrency a run for its virtual money, it’s worth noting what lies behind the wild price swings — especially the ones that have ramped prices from sub $4,000 levels in short order. And where there is such a whole hearted embrace of promise there lies peril.

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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. Anticipate what needs to happen in order for Bitcoin to break its all-time record again. Find out how blockchain is being used outside of crypto.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

Bitcoin exceeded the $8,000 mark early Tuesday morning (March 10) before falling below the threshold at approximately 11:30 a.m. The price of bitcoin was $7,983.22 The bitcoin increases could continue in the event that equities keep becoming more balanced. Eastern time. as of 4:30 p.m.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

Fast forward to today, and technology has helped play a role in helping Coinstar embrace new offerings and use cases, spanning paper vouchers for cash, or eGift cards for Amazon and Starbucks, among others; and in terms of mechanics, Gaherity said, in the case of eGift cards it is the product partner, not the end-user, who pays the fee.

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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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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2019

Oh, the games people play — but maybe not paid for with bitcoin. Much has been made about the lack of use cases for bitcoin to be used in the world at large, as in real commerce applications, and where transactions are both friction-filled and scarce. But not so fast.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Crypto enthusiasts proclaim that you can front the best-known players like bitcoin or the most obscure blockchain-backed currencies circulating the world and tap into the future of money. Even bitcoin is accepted by only a relative handful of digital retailers. Dhamodharan said that’s impossible to say from the outset.

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