Square, the digital payment company, is getting into bitcoin by reportedly letting some of its customers purchase the cryptocurrency. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe...
Prompted by an announcement that CME Group, the world’s largest futures exchange, is launching futures for digital currency in 2017, around 100,000 people signed up at Coinbase a day later. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and cryptocurrencies all have something, surprisingly, in common: similar market values. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter,...
Goldman Sachs said that when it comes to being assessed on the majority of the key characteristics of money, there’s no competition — gold wins out over cryptocurrencies. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
Hackers are using virus-infected consumer computers to generate bitcoin, according to news from The Wall Street Journal. Unknowing users may be having their processing power commandeered to mine the virtual currency. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
Taiwan is the latest country to make comments about bitcoin regulation, according to news from Reuters. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter,...
Jordan Belfort—a former stockbroker portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street—called initial coin offerings, or ICOs, “the biggest scam over.” Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...
Upper West Side eatery La Sirène is now accepting bitcoin as a form of payment, according to news from The New York Post. Patrons of the New York restaurant, opened by chef Didier Pawlicki, will find that they can pay with cash, check, American Express and...
Two innovators approached a well-heeled investor asking for money. Their sales pitch was very convincing. They told this investor that their innovation was so incredibly cutting-edge that only the hopelessly uninformed would fail to recognize its value. The innovators said that they had picked him...
