Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) may be a certainty – in other words, they’ll appear, here and there, depending on which nation you’re looking at, in months or in years. At some point, the digital euros, yuan, dollars – name your fiat – may well...
Andreessen Horowitz, one of the highest-profile Silicon Valley venture capital firms, will be looking at a new investment fund for investing in cryptocurrency, which could go up to $1 billion, the Financial Times (FT) reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
Wait for the smoke to clear – and then go public. To that end, as reported this week, crypto firm Ripple might be headed to the public markets, if and when it settles its suit with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Get the Full...
Facing charges from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the CEO of Ripple fired back on Friday (April 30), saying that cryptocurrency regulations offer a “frustrating” lack of clarity. Brad Garlinghouse, whose company created the cryptocurrency XRP, made these comments in an interview with...
Cryptocurrency startup Ripple could make a move to go public once the Silicon Valley blockchain platform settles its lawsuit with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Cointelegraph reported Thursday (April 29), citing SBI Group CEO Yoshitaka Kitao. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
In the bid to make digital currencies more widely available and embraced by consumers, perhaps … make them easier to buy. To that end, PayPal users can link their wallets to Coinbase, the newly-publicly traded exchange, so that they can buy cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin (among...
Coinbase is giving U.S. consumers a new way to purchase cryptocurrency using debit cards and bank accounts linked to PayPal, the crypto exchange said Thursday (April 29). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
To get digital fiat into the hands of consumers, to get a national currency firmly entrenched against the crypto upstarts who would seek to sidestep the central bankers — put the national currency directly in their wallets, so to speak. Get the Full Story Complete...
Chinese eCommerce giant JD.com has been paying some of its employees using digital currency for the past few months, the company revealed Sunday (April 25). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
