Restaurant giant Landry’s will be working with New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG) in order to roll out a bitcoin loyalty rewards program, the group announced Tuesday (Nov. 9). The report says the program will allow members of Landry’s Select Club to access bitcoin points...
London-based FinTech Mode is teaming with U.K. payroll service PayEscape to launch a trial of the first bitcoin payroll offering in the U.K., according to a Thursday (Nov. 11) press release. The internal pilot program will run during the rest of this year and the...
La Haus, a property technology company based in Latin America, is now taking bitcoin for home purchases, CoinDesk reported. The purchases will go through on-chain transactions and the Lightning Network, according to the report. Bitcoin can be used to invest in luxury housing development Kahaal,...
Bitcoin and ether have reached new record highs as analysts posited that a rally in financial assets could be partly due to investors who are attempting to hedge against inflation, Bloomberg reported. Bitcoin jumped as much as 3.6% to $68,513, according to the report. Ether...
More businesses are accepting cryptocurrencies, including Bakkt Holdings as of last week, according to a press release. Bakkt said it will allow for the buying, selling and holding of ether. “At Bakkt, providing flexible opportunities for users to enjoy their digital assets is a top...
Bitfinex Pay, a cryptocurrency payment gateway, has integrated with browser and wallet extension MetaMask, which could expand crypto use to “tens of millions of users,” Cointelegraph reported. The integration allows MetaMask users to send and receive crypto in what Bitfinex Chief Technology Officer Paolo Ardoino...
The price of bitcoin took a hit on Thursday (Nov. 4) in London as investors took in the U.S. Federal Reserve’s plan to decrease how many bonds it purchases, Yahoo reported. The Fed wants to cut its pace of asset purchases by $15 billion per...
Africa’s cryptocurrency market is now the third fastest-growing in the world, Bitcoin Magazine reported Tuesday (Nov. 2). Data from Chainalysis showed Africa received more than $105.6 billion from July 2020 to mid-2021, with the continent also leading in retail-sized bitcoin payments — the highest in...
STAR Bank will be Alkami Technology’s first client to use the company’s tech to offer crypto to customers, the companies announced in a joint press release Tuesday (Nov. 2). Alkami, a cloud-based digital banking solutions provider, will provide STAR Bank with tech from NYDIG’s platform...
