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Bitcoin Daily: Ripple’s $29M Charity Donation, Bitcoin’s ‘Death Cross’

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Bitcoin is nearing a so-called “death cross” – the point when the 50-day moving average falls below the 200-day moving average, CNBC reported. Bitcoin was trading at $7,880.64 In investment news, Boston-based Flipside Crypto notched $3.4 Newegg doesn’t actually accept bitcoin directly: It uses BitPay to process the payments.

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Fed’s Powell: CBDC Will Be Years, Not Months, Away

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Despite that, there have been early studies of such payment methods at the central bank’s Boston location, CoinDesk reported. And he said the private sector’s ability to create private money like bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies that led the Fed to look into all of this in the first place, CoinDesk reported.

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The Finanser’s Week: 17th July – 23rd July 2017

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These are the ones I quite liked, so it’s not … What happened to the bitcoin bubble? I was interviewed by UBS’s wealth management team a month ago, when the bitcoin bubble was in full bloom. Credit and debit card surcharges to be banned – BBC The worst offenders are airlines and food delivery apps, the government says.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Uber, Bitcoin, Botnets, SWIFT – And The Wells Wallets

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The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. Gox, the Toyko-based and now defunct bitcoin exchange run by Mark Karpeles, all sorts of people were trying to find the missing bitcoins that vanished when the exchange went belly up. Unfortunately, for those people with the missing bitcoin, on that score, there’s only bad news.

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Five At Five: Mastercard Makes A Biometric Bet

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Mastercard Introduces Remote Biometric Card Enrollment. As biometrics have begun to represent the next generation in securing payments, Mastercard has unveiled a technological advancement for its own biometric cards. are considering the regulation of digital tokens outside bitcoin. Ether In The Crosshairs Of Regulators.

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And The Payments And Commerce Innovation Winners Are…

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PricewaterhouseCoopers — after 83 consecutive years of tabulating the Academy Awards without incident — managed to accidentally put the wrong card in Warren Beatty/Faye Dunaway’s hands for the Best Picture award and … well the rest is YouTube history. PwC is now called Probably Wrong Card!”. Not much of a chat.”.

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Why One Startup Is Desperately Seeking Regulation

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Officials at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the national bank regulator, told the Boston startup they would weigh its request. The OCC offers few limited-purpose charters, mostly for trust companies or credit card issuers. In the last 10 years, it has issued eight such charters.