PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Who knew that Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, known for their early involvement in Facebook, were in love with bitcoin? You might, when you find out that they were the first to file for a bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). And do you care?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

Huawei has created a technology based on the blockchain to help the Beijing government more effectively monitor and supervise citizen information, CoinDesk reported. Red Date Technology CEO Yifan He said to Cointelegraph that the initiative would start bringing stablecoins into the network in the near future.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2017

Bitcoin’s value keeps breaking through ceilings again and again. Wednesday night into Thursday morning, trading saw bitcoin fly by another milestone: $1,500. Wednesday night into Thursday morning, trading saw bitcoin fly by another milestone: $1,500. What looks like a record high one day is left in the dust the next.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

The filing process only takes about 45 days, but Sberbank is also still debating how Sbercoin will be taxed, according to Cointelegraph, citing news agency Interfax. Popov also noted Sberbank has completed internal testing of the technology and is “ready to work with such a fiat currency,” the report stated.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Amid rising interest and investment in digital currencies like bitcoin, some countries are issuing new warnings about the volatility involved in cryptocurrency trade. In today’s bitcoin roundup, regulatory bodies in the U.S. In today’s bitcoin roundup, regulatory bodies in the U.S. According to Tuesday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

And finally, there’s bitcoin, which has seen its use, transacting, trading and popularity fall off of late — except for among one group: criminals. And, speaking of things that may not be the future of financial services… Bitcoin, The Currency Of Digital Crime . But that future won’t be built by bitcoin.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2016

Stop ISIS, bring peace to the Middle East, clean up the economy, create more jobs, fix the education system, lower taxes, etc., Promoting bitcoin. Of course, when the former commissioner, Bart Chilton, says bitcoin, he’s talking blockchain and all digital currencies. So, why digital currencies? Just like the Internet.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

Coverage includes Amazon opening up voice applications for iOS users, Overstock’s blockchain unit nabbing a huge investment, Intuit securing a bitcoin processing patent, Facebook and L’Oréal using augmented reality for makeup tests and Dish accepting Bitcoin Cash as payment. Dish, one of the leading providers in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

Kadena’s existing blockchain clients include $3 billion asset manager USCF Investments, healthcare technology company Rymedi, and leading Latin American technology business Alteum, as well as one of the world’s top 100 largest banks, and Fortune 500 companies. “In

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The Nassau Guardian reported that the framework will address many of the regulatory challenges the bank associates with crypto, including tax evasion, market volatility, fraudulent initial coin offerings (ICOs), and anti-money laundering policies.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2019

The technology could also be used to verify that any returned drives have undergone a “certified erase” process to remove any user data. In other news, Brazil’s Tax Authority has announced that transactions involving cryptocurrencies must now be reported to the Department of Federal Revenue ( RFB ).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Visa also announced that it had extended the real-time, ubiquitous capability to other disbursement types as well including insurance claims, contractor payments, tax refunds and even merchant account real-time funds settlement. The culprit is said to be the use of the BitGo wallet and the structure of the bitcoin accounts itself.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

dollar-backed digital currencies for the payment of government taxes, fees and services. Technology is the future. If you look at five of the six largest companies in the world today, they are technology companies,” said Premier David Burt. “We Telegram is challenging the SEC’s assertion that Grams is a security.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The company’s blockchain chief Yige Cai revealed last week that the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has approved a new license, and that the company is setting up a team to support the platform.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Cryptocurrency has come a long way since bitcoin’s emergence as an unregulated, anonymous payment technology. Indeed, what will drive crypto adoption, Chell told PYMNTS, is in the technology’s ability to reduce payments friction, and integrate compliance and security. ” Confusion, Doubt Remain.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

Just like the volatility of bitcoin, the world of blockchain is no stable place. Hype over distributed ledger technology (DLT) has certainly led to a bump in shares for companies operating in the space — and even for some companies with seemingly no connection to the tool. But it’s not all smooth sailing. million as part of the shift.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

8), the Securities and Exchange Commission ’s (SEC’s) Office of Compliance and Examinations (OCIE) offered up a list of its priorities for the year that has just dawned. In addition, there will be examination of transfer agents (which help to settle transactions) that are developing blockchain technology.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2018

Patent and Trademark Office last week, describes how a semi-private or private blockchain could be used to receive and store identity data, including a “name, a street address, tax identification number” and more. The company has filed for more than 35 patents in blockchain technology.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

The site newsbtc.com noted that the committee that issued the report includes stakeholders such as the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the Reserve Bank of India, the Securities and Exchange Board of India and the Central Board of Direct Taxes. One cue might come from the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

It used a “packing” technique to compress code with encryption to evade Google’s security filters. The Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies alerted Google to the cyberattack on Aug. The idea is to offer more payment options to consumers while creating a more secure online checkout for merchants.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2018

It may seem that modern technology has already solved this problem. Money is then escrowed from the seller’s account and held securely by AirTM until the customer transfers the money from his bank account to the seller. Fast forward and AirTM is once again turning its eye to bitcoin, and to cryptocurrency as a whole.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Governments may not be too keen on bitcoin, but blockchain is another story. According to reports, Kaliningrad governor Anton Alikhanov and VEB chairman Sergey Gorkov met with officials at the Russian Investment Forum to announce their collaboration using, according to Alikhanov, VEB’s “competence in the area of blockchain technology.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

Rogoff also says that cash is used as a tax dodge, as a way to keep illegal immigrants from being paid a respectable wage and for employers to unduly benefit as a result, and for those in European countries as a way to evade the value-added tax and keep the underground economy alive. Reality Check: Bitcoin Is For Criminals.

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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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Tomorrow's Transactions

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Whatever Bitcoin is, it isn’t cash. Remember that IRS Ruling about Bitcoins being a commodity, so that traders would have to track the buying and selling price of each individual Bitcoin in order to assess their tax liability? From Bitcoin Tax Ruling – Credit Slips ]. This isn’t true of Bitcoins.

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Banking 2020

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The final key driver of hidden payments is virtual currencies, with Bitcoin the most famous of these. With major companies such as Dell and Expedia now accepting Bitcoin payments, virtual currencies’ share of the non-cash market is set to grow as more merchants and consumers embrace the technology.

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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. See [link] for a more general overview to the problem. Hash-Based Cryptography.

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NCR

DECEMBER 19, 2016

From the gradual adjustment to EMV chip card technology in the US to the ongoing growth of fintechs and challenger banks, 2016 has been a big year for the financial services sector. EMV chip technology for credit and debit cards was rolled out in the US in October 2015. Getting onboard with EMV.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is cracking down on exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that misleadingly use blockchain in their names. According to Bloomberg , issuers cannot use “materially deceptive or misleading” names under the Investment Company Act of 1940. In other news, Corporate Traveller , a U.K. Our model is the right one.”.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

What’s not included: No pure-play coins such as Bitcoin because they are primarily assets, not financial services. Mercado Bitcoin. Phantom Technologies. Conversely, crypto must be the core of what the company does. No pure-play mining companies. Nov 2021 round. Dec 2021 round. Blockchain.com. Mar 2021 round. Chainalysis.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

What’s not included: No pure-play coins such as Bitcoin because they are primarily assets, not financial services. Mercado Bitcoin. Phantom Technologies. Conversely, crypto must be the core of what the company does. No pure-play mining companies. Nov 2021 round. Dec 2021 round. Blockchain.com. Mar 2021 round. Chainalysis.

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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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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 19, 2016

Japanese Bitcoin exchange. Mexican Bitcoin exchange. Payment security technology. Income tax service. Pariti Technologies. Tags: Consumer, SMB, accounting, bookkeeping,, tax returns, tax prep. Source: Crunchbase. Latest round: $27 million Series C. Total raised: $34.4 HQ: Tokyo, Japan.

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Lex Sokolin

JANUARY 14, 2021

Instead, they have either (1) been directly owned by retail investors through crypto exchanges or decentralized apps, or (2) been packaged and secured for safe handling by newly buy-side funds for the largest endowments and family offices in the world. Like taxes. Bitcoin remains scarce, as does Ether. This is the way.

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