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PortuguêsMulti platinum-selling recording artist Akon has chosen to build his Akoin cryptocurrency ecosystem on top of the Stellar blockchain. Akoin co-founder and president Jon Karas said they chose to launch…
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Square’s Cash App derived half of its fourth-quarter revenue from Bitcoin (BTC) services. According to a shareholder letter published on Feb. 28, Bitcoin revenue amounted to $178 million during the…
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Very close to half the revenue on Square’s Cash App in the fourth quarter came from bitcoin. Jack Dorsey’s payments company reported on bitcoin (BTC) profits as part of its…
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Newly released Blockchain 50 list by major finance publication Forbes features some new entrants like major international association, the United Nations. Shortly after including six blockchain-focused firms into its Fintech…
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We live in an age where young women use everything from emojis to bitcoin to practice witchcraft. Claire Gallant, an ethereum fan who founded the Future Witch Facebook group, along…
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Perhaps the two most prominent supporters of Bitcoin’s (BTC) Lightning Network have seen their share prices rocket this week as the technology gains fresh recognition. Data covering the share prices…
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Transparent Financial Systems, a Seattle-based startup developing a real-time “cryptographic settlement” network, has closed a Series-A funding round that raised over $14 million. Led by Pantera Capital and with participation…
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Financial services and mobile payment company Square thinks it has found a way to turn fiat into crypto in real-time point-of-sale transactions. How it works On Jan. 21, the United…
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Payments provider Square has won a U.S. patent for a new network that enables seamless crypto-to-fiat transactions. Granted Tuesday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the patent details a…
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Singer Akon tweeted yesterday, “Just finalized the agreement for AKON CITY in Senegal. Looking forward to hosting you there in the future.” The futuristic city Last year, Cointelegraph reported early plans…
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Sources suggest that Twitter is looking to add a tipping function to the popular social network platform. Given Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey’s repeated appraisals of Bitcoin, it would…
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PayPal has finalized the purchase of the Honey deal finder startup, for a consideration of $4 billion. This latest move pushes the payment processor well ahead of crypto-friendly payment rival,…
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Since bitcoin and digital currencies have become popular, fiat on and off-ramps have sprung up that allow investors to enter and exit the cryptoconomy. However, many of the entryways into…
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In less than six months’ time, Bitcoin will see an extremely important event. Known as a “halving” or “halvening,” the number of coins issued per block to miners will get…
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More than 200,000 Robinhood clients have already expressed their intent to use its new fractional stock trading app announced yesterday. Vladimir Tenev, co-founder at Robinhood, said that the clients were…
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