PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2019

In other news, Brazil’s Tax Authority has announced that transactions involving cryptocurrencies must now be reported to the Department of Federal Revenue ( RFB ). Those who do not comply will face penalties ranging from 100 to 500 Brazilian reais or from $25 to $130, according to Cointelegraph.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

Cryptocurrencies , like bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Ripple , are digital assets designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses strong cryptography to secure transactions,” he said. Cryptocurrency, however, is more than just an asset that stores value. It is used as currency, a means to exchange for goods and services.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Milan, Italy was the host of a formal bitcoin conference to address scaling and a protest conference that addressed, well, everything that the formal conference didn’t. Scaling of bitcoin is a thorny issue and one that caused some dissension at the Scaling Bitcoin conference that took place on October 8 and 9.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

On the global stage, bitcoin fell below $7,000 to just above $6,800, and Ripple slipped to its lowest price since the end of 2017. Here in the United States, tax season looms, of course, which may put additional pressure on cryptos. International Innovation, With a UK Focus. Same alarms, different week.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Governments may not be too keen on bitcoin, but blockchain is another story. Singapore stepped onto the global stage as a world leader in blockchain innovation in recent months. As regulators begin to consider blockchain regulations, many have signaled a desire not to hamper innovation while doing so.

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Banking 2020

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Non-bank payment providers are typically governed by consumer protection rules that are less stringent than banks’ financial regulations, so are often able to bring innovative offerings to market faster and more easily. The final key driver of hidden payments is virtual currencies, with Bitcoin the most famous of these.

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 5, 2019

Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. Two years back, Equifax lost 140 million identities, again from poor security practices. And yet, only 2% of all Bitcoin transactions have anything to do with illicit activity?—?no

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Lex Sokolin

AUGUST 5, 2019

Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. Two years back, Equifax lost 140 million identities, again from poor security practices. And yet, only 2% of all Bitcoin transactions have anything to do with illicit activity?—?no

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Bankelele

DECEMBER 24, 2015

On Tuesday, December 15th , the Central Bank of Kenya issued a public notice on bitcoin in the Daily Nation: CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC ON VIRTUAL CURRENCIES SUCH AS BITCOIN – it read. As part of the Bitcoin community here in Kenya, I am a vocal advocate of digital currencies, writing extensively on the subject over the past 2 years.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Alternative lending, eProcurement and cross-border payments innovators all saw impressive activity (though several funding values remained private), and one single startup raised $165 million — more than the rest of the eight other funding rounds this week combined. BitPesa secured $2.5 eProcurement. Tradeshift. Alternative Lending.

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Vitalik Buterin

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Problem: create a blockchain design that maintains Bitcoin-like security guarantees, but where the maximum size of the most powerful node that needs to exist for the network to keep functioning is substantially sublinear in the number of transactions. In my own view, further progress at this point is incremental.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This openness to banking alternatives presents opportunities for fintech startups looking to innovate in financial services from the outside. But incumbent banks are also at the forefront of the most promising innovations in personal finance today, such as virtual credit cards. From big banks to big tech. Retirement.

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NCR

DECEMBER 19, 2016

We’ve been hearing for some time that cash and checks are on the way out, to be replaced by cards, contactless payments, mobile wallets and other exciting innovations. Meanwhile, in Indonesia, many consumers moved back to cash after the government launched a plan to tackle tax evasion by tracking all credit card transactions.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In the early 70s, See’s was able to produce about $2M a year (after tax) on just $8M in net tangible assets (including all accounts receivable.) Berkshire Hathaway bought See’s, and by 1982, it was up to producing $13M after taxes on just $20M in net tangible assets. That premium is the company’s “economic goodwill.”.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 22, 2015

Avalara will detail the Weird and Wacky World of Sales Tax. Did you know that sales-tax in the U.S. There are over 12,000 taxing jurisdictions covering millions of taxability rule combinations. Blockcypher will explain how Bitcoin and block chains enable programmable money. is handled unlike any other place on the planet?

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 14, 2015

It was another stellar week for Finovate alums with 6 fundings totaling $123 million: money transfer service Payoneer ($50 mil), AI innovator Kensho ($33 million), tax specialist VATBox ($24 million), , cash-back specialist Mogl ($7.9 million), mobile security provider Tyfone ($6.6 VAT tax refund solution .

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

Plus, bitcoin transferred over the dark web was up 65 percent in the first quarter of 2020. Bitcoin Usage On The Dark Web Up 65 Pct YoY. Crystal Blockchain Analytics released a report that showed the value of bitcoins transferred across the dark web was up by 65 percent in the first quarter of the year to about $384 million.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

On July 9, 2016, just eight days away, the bitcoin market is going to change. As for the impact of that change, it’s all speculation for now, but just the chatter around bitcoin’s halving event has sent its prices fluctuating a bit more than normal. bitcoins instead of 25 bitcoins. We’ll find out July 9.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

MAY 6, 2016

As I am sure you know, the security of the bitcoin blockchain rests on a consensus protocol that includes a proof-of-work algorithm, and executing this algorithm (which is computationally very intensive) has become known as “mining” by analogy to gold mining (because of the bitcoin reward for the activity). Wait, what?

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

The withdrawal from R3 was not a reflection of Goldman’s interest in the technology; WSJ reports that the bank continues to focus on blockchain technology internally, pursue patents in the field, and last year was part of the team that invested $50 million in bitcoin startup, Circle Internet Financial. Bitcoin’s Mini Boom.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Users May Withdraw Stored Bitcoin until July. Title: Wyre Pivoted Away from Consumer Bitcoin Payments.

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