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Payment Giant Visa Sets to Modify PoS Charges to New Business Categories
United States-based merchants are set to see an adjustment in fees to be paid as part of huge updates of payment giant Visa point-of-sale (PoS) system.
Visa Launches a Blockchain System that Algorithmically Ensures Fairness
Visa, a prominent card payment solution provider, has developed a blockchain-driven system dubbed LucidiTEE that seeks to enable multiple parties to compute large-scale private data jointly. This is touted to happen in such a way that policy compliance is guaranteed even if the input providers are offline.
Suzhou Next City in China to Test Digital Yuan DCEP in Red Envelope Event
China’s central bank is scheduled to test its digital yuan dubbed the Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP) in a second red packet lottery event in Suzhou on December 12.
Pressure Piles Up on BitMEX as Recent Outage Exposes Network Holes
Once branded a “Bitcoin casino," BitMEX has plunged into a series of crises over the last few years. The crypto exchange found itself trending on Twitter in the US recently because of the recent shutdown. BitMEX announced that its trading engine went offline for over an hour because of an incident, which the exchange identified as a “major outage."After some investigation, the exchange later announced that that platform restored its online operations. Such outage of BitMEX’s trading engine is the latest in a series of negative circumstances facing the exchange. Currently, as Bitcoin price hits $10,000, the major outage has prompted warnings that the exchange is becoming increasingly unreliable. The outage left customers unable to access their funds.
3 Benefits You Need to Know About Cryptocurrency Credit Cards
A breaking story shows that MedeTrade crypto exchange has integrated Dash in its Visa cryptocurrency credit and debit card. Therefore, crypto users need to know about benefits associated with cryptocurrency visa card.
Velas 3.0 Is Coming: Here's What You Need to Know
Velas (VLX), a platform designed to address the scaling and usability challenges seen by other blockchains, is on the verge of releasing by far its largest update to date — with the impending launch of the Velas 3.0 ecosystem.
DappRadar—What is the Dapp of 2019?
In the second part of our exclusive interview with Skirmantis Januskas, CEO and Founder, DappRadar - we discuss Ethereum’s transition to proof-of-stake, the growing Dapp ecosystem and the DeFi revolution instigated by MakerDao.
Reddit Invites Developers to Submit Ethereum Scaling Proposals for its Token Project
Popular social news aggregator, web content rating and discussion site Reddit invites developers to develop is Ethereum based Community Points
Is Wikipedia the Next to Join the Blockchain Revolution?
Since starting in 2001, the platform has increased to over 49 million pages and millions of articles. Each month, as many as 50,000 new articles are submitted and added to the site, meaning that storage and security are extremely important to its constant growth and usability.
Europol Empowers Victims with Tools to Fend Off Ransomware Attacks
Europol, European Union’s law enforcement agency, has put together an anti-ransomware initiative that has managed to intercept $630 million dollars and more in ransomware demands, since 2016.
Bank of England is Considering Developing a Central Bank Digital Currency Amid Surge in Crypto Popularity
The Bank of England has confirmed it is considering the development of its central bank digital currency (CBDC). The confirmation was made by the governor of the bank Andrew Bailey in a webinar session with college students.
Bahamas Looks to Deploy its CBDC The Sand Dollar Across Borders
The Central Bank of the Bahamas (CBOB) has says it wants its digital currency dubbed the Sand Dollars integrated with other countries' currency.