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Russia to Pilot Digital Ruble for Payments Between private Individuals
Jan 20, 2022 at 11:23 // News Twelve Russian banks are preparing for the first phase of testing the digital ruble. The CBDC will be available for payments between private individuals. If this ph...
Global Payments Division of StoneX Launches Digital Payment Initiative
Nasdaq-listed financial services provider, StoneX Group today announced that StoneX Payments, the company’s global payments division, has introduced a new digital payments initiative to facilitate its...
Shiba Inu, Ether, and DOGE Are Slowly Eating Into Bitcoin’s Multi-Billion Dollar Payments Sphere ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     Altcoins and stablecoins have downsized Bitcoin’s dominance as a means for paying for goods and services online by 27%. This is according to a new re...
Google exec says company will ‘evolve’ with user, merchant demand for crypto payments
advertisement Google is shuffling the proverbial deck on the payments front, tapping a former PayPal executive to lead that division and, as Bloomberg reports it, “set a new course.” The m...
Mastercard strikes NFT payments deal with Coinbase amid wave of crypto partnerships
A 3D printed Mastercard logo is seen in front of displayed stock graph in this illustration taken September 20, 2021. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Mastercard said Tuesday it inked a deal with Coinbase, the la...
Coinbase NFT Marketplace Will Support Mastercard Payments
Key Takeaways Coinbase and Mastercard have joined forces to simplify the process of buying NFTs. Coinbase’s NFT marketplace will support Mastercard payments. It’s expected to launch in the...
Bitcoin payments decrease over the past year
Bitcoin payments decreased over the past year as other cryptocurrencies grew Stablecoins have been used to carry out cross-border payments across businesses Individuals are holding Bitcoin rather tha...
Bitpay Statistics Show the Use of Bitcoin for Payments Is Dwindling – Bitcoin News
The use of bitcoin as a digital currency for payments has gone down significantly, according to the numbers stemming from Bitpay, one of the leading cryptocurrency payments processors. While most of t...
British Payments Regulator Fines Mastercard and 4 Others £33M
The United Kingdom’s Payment Systems Regulator (PSA) has imposed a total penalty of more than £33 million on five pre-paid card issuers: Mastercard, allpay, Advanced Payment Solutions, Prepaid Financi...
Altcoins Are Encroaching On Bitcoin’s Dominance On Digital Payments
Bitcoin has dominated the digital payments space for the longest time and continues to do so. However, this dominance is on the decline as more altcoins are being chosen as the preferred digital curre...
Ford Signs 5-Year Deal with Stripe to Boost Its Digital Payments
On January 17, Ford Motor Company signed up a five year-deal with online payment processor Stripe to bolster its auto e-commerce capabilities. Stripe will facilitate transactions for vehicle orders an...
Nearly 25% of Small and Micro-Size Businesses Plan To Accept Crypto Payments This Year: New Visa Survey
Global credit giant Visa says that nearly a quarter of small and micro businesses (SMBs) plan to start accepting crypto assets as payments in 2022. In a new study that surveyed 2,250 small business ow...
Ford signs five-year payments deal with Stripe for e-commerce drive
A Ford F-150 pickup truck is offered for sale at a dealership on September 6, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Online payment processor Stripe has signed up Ford Motor Company as ...
Bitcoin takes a hit as a popular payments token among consumers
Crypto-payments processor BitPay Inc. is in the news today after it told Bloomberg that payments using digital tokens have become a popular method of purchase. Interestingly, however, Bitcoin has note...
For Digital Payments, Use Of Bitcoin Decreased In 2021
According to Bitpay Inc., one of the biggest crypto payment processors in the world, for purchases, the use of digital tokens other than Bitcoin is increasing among consumers and businesses. Bloomberg...
Jack Dorsey’s Payments Company Is ‘Officially Building an Open Bitcoin Mining System’ – Mining Bitcoin News
In mid-October 2021, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey revealed the payments firm Block Inc. (formally Square) was considering joining the bitcoin mining industry. Three months later, Dorsey tweeted that hi...
Bitcoin Is Still Not Being Used for Payments Enough
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have come a long way. Many are no longer just speculative assets but have crossed into hedge fund territory following the excessive printing of money and the spread of the c...
25% of Small Businesses in 9 Countries Plan to Accept Crypto Payments in 2022 (Visa Study)
According to a recent survey conducted by the payment processor giant Visa, almost a quarter of the participants across nine nations said they intend to embrace digital currencies as a form of payment...
Dogecoin Payments Go Live On Tesla, Sends DOGE Surging
Tesla has announced that it has begun accepting payments in DOGE in its online shop, which means customers will be able to buy merchandise from Tesla’s online shop and pay directly in DOGE. However, D...
Dogecoin Set To Break New Grounds As Elon Musk’s Tesla Officially Onboards DOGE Payments ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     The reveal came first from the company’s website, with its support section disclosing the addition of the cryptocurrency as a payment option. “What c...
Dogecoin leaps 25% after Musk announces DOGE payments for Tesla merch
Dogecoin (DOGE) prices rose substantially on Jan. 14 as Elon Musk announced that Tesla would start accepting it as payment for merchandise. Tesla merch buyable with Dogecoin — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) J...
One in Four Businesses Surveyed Plan to Accept Cryptocurrency Payments This Year – Featured Bitcoin News
Payments giant Visa has conducted a survey of small businesses and found that almost a quarter of those who responded plan to accept cryptocurrency payments this year. “I think more people are feeling...
Lawton Plastic Surgery Says “Yes” to Crypto Payments
Lawton Plastic Surgery in San Antonio, Texas is the latest business to say “yes” to cryptocurrency payments. Owned by Dr. Gary Lawton, the facility is supporting assets like bitcoin, Ethereum, and sev...
Tesla Begins Accepting Dogecoin Payments — Some Merchandise Can Only Be Purchased With DOGE – Altcoins Bitcoin News
Tesla now accepts dogecoin for some merchandise on its website. CEO Elon Musk delivered on the promise he made in December that his electric car company will accept DOGE. Meanwhile, Tesla still has no...
Dogecoin Up as Musk Says Tesla Is Accepting Payments
Key Takeaways Dogecoin jumped today after Elon Musk revealed that Tesla had started accepting the asset for merchandise payments. The meme coin has experienced a rally over the last few days. It faces...
Report: 82% SMBs are open to accepting cryptos as payments in 2022
Cryptocurrencies are getting harder to ignore with each passing day. It’s not just big institutions acquiring crypto but even small businesses have been following the same tune. The crypto industry is...
Tesla launches Dogecoin payments for merch but there is a catch
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that Tesla now accepts Dogecoin (DOGE) as payment for the company’s merchandise. DOGE-eligible products in the Tesla store can be purchased by sending DOGE to Tesla’s Dog...
Dorsey’s Payments Firm Block Starts to Begin Mining Bitcoin
Block Inc, formerly known as Square, will begin mining Bitcoin with its mining system based on custom silicon and open source for individuals and businesses worldwide. Block’s co-founder Jack Do...
Dogecoin Spikes 20% as Tesla Enables DOGE Payments
The largest car manufacturer by market cap, Tesla, has enabled Dogecoin payments months after halting BTC settlements due to environmental issues. As a result, DOGE’s price spiked by double digits. It...