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Singapore Bitcoin Exchange Startup Raises $16M

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A startup in Singapore offering bitcoin exchange and cryptocurrency services just secured another major round of funding. According to reports, Quoine is the largest bitcoin exchange that operates in a major bitcoin market, Japan, as it has $50 million bitcoins transacted over its exchange per day.

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Data Dive, The Bad, The Worse And The Ugly Edition: Store Closures, Coronavirus And Bitcoin

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The emergent form of coronavirus that originated in China’s Wuhan region continues to spread and pick up fatalities. Bitcoin and the Cybercrime Boom . Bitcoin and the Cybercrime Boom . According to reports last week, bitcoin-backed crime was at an all-time high last year. Unfortunately, it seems that group is criminals.

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The Week In Payments: China, China, Challenger Banks And Bitcoin

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And finally, there’s bitcoin, which has seen its use, transacting, trading and popularity fall off of late — except for among one group: criminals. If they can get it under control quickly, it will even then have an impact on GDP and the hundreds of brands that are in the Wuhan region. But that future won’t be built by bitcoin.

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Blockchain Firms Flock To Switzerland’s ‘Crypto Valley’

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He cited “Zug’s high quality of life, openness, pro-business mindset and favorable tax structure” as factors that make the city attractive to people from around the world. One such company in the Zug region is crypto loyalty firm qiibee. Yet Zug does reportedly have one of the lowest tax rates in Switzerland.

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Square: Card Not Present Transactions, Square Card Spend See Gains In Q3

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Stripping out the impact of bitcoin, Square said that CashApp revenues were up 174 percent year on year to $435 million. In international markets, according to the data, regional recoveries meant that seller GPV grew 46 percent year over year and represented 11 percent of total seller GPV up from six percent two years ago. “In

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Startup Roundup: The Storm Before The Calm

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While some countries are struggling more than others, Emailage found that every region is facing new challenges in the wake of EMV going online. Fraudsters are getting more sophisticated, and boots on the ground are needed to address unique issues in each region.

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Governments Fuel Blockchain’s Global Proliferation

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Governments may not be too keen on bitcoin, but blockchain is another story. A regional government in Russia is now working with state-backed VEB, reports in CoinDesk said this week, as authorities explore how to use blockchain “to improve the quality of management decisions.”.