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This Business Adopted Bitcoin 4 Years Ago And Nobody Used It Yet. The crypto world is full of very interesting stories. The story of a small business in the United Kingdom, Seymour Locksmiths, is interesting but somewhat tragic, though. This story was originally reported by The Next Web’s Hard Fork.…
Boosting the fintech ecosystem, from Miami, the United States, Visa and Finnovista announced on August 30 to Cointelegraph in Spanish, what are the 12 finalist startups of the Visa Everywhere Initiative competition in its third edition for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Visa Everywhere Initiative is a global innovation…
The new regulatory framework of the Mexican fintech industry is generating noise. Other Latin American countries follow its implementation closely, looking for clues for their development at home, while local enterprises are quick to comply with the regulations that will come into force in the coming days. And for potential…
This week, among the most outstanding news of the Latin American crypto and Blockchain ecosystem, now, Santander bank customers in the subcontinent will be able to send money to the US through the Ripple remittance service, the bank announced Monday. In Panama, the point of sale provider, PundiX allied with…
Webmag is developing a platform for digital corporate publishing and is currently funded by Media Lab Bayern. With Webmag, companies can create customer magazines and product brochures cheaply and easily. The two founders explain their startup. Who are you and what are you doing? Please introduce yourself and your product…
Frankfurt Blockchain startup Agora Innovation secures a high six-digit investment from High-Tech Gründerfonds. High-Tech Gründerfonds is investing a high six-figure sum in the Frankfurt blockchain startup Agora Innovation GmbH Frankfurt Fintech Agora Innovation develops software for legally compliant financial transactions at Blockchain Fintech Agora Innovation secures Seed-Investment from High-Tech Gründerfonds…
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has hired a former executive of the cryptocurrency finance company Circle. Marieke Flament, who previously worked as Circle’s European CEO, will join RBS as executive director of Mettle, her digital service for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Reportedly, Mettle has been operational since November 2018,…
It sounds like the plot of a business crime: the founder of a crypto exchange dies of a rare disease. He leaves a laptop. But the bank employees are no longer able to approach the money. The password and the recovery key can not be found. The deceased founder took…
Lately, the Internet has been full of news about the next Facebook cryptocurrency project. So, what would it take to further increase the expectations for Facebook’s crypto project? Well, it seems that a partnership with Uber, PayPal, Mastercard and Visa is the solution. Facebook is associated with Uber, PayPal, Visa…
The leading platform for streaming games, owned by Amazon, Twitch, has enabled the payments of bitcoin (BTC) and bitcoin cash (BCH. In March Twitch had discretely eliminated bitcoin and bitcoin cash as payment options for subscriptions by eliminating Bitpay as a payment method. According to the report, Bitpay has been…