Rumors that PayPal and Venmo are poised to offer direct sales of Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies, made headlines yesterday.There has been no official confirmation from PayPal yet. But the news coming from several different sources, in conjunction with a recruitment drive for blockchain engineers, have heightened expectations.A look at the peer-to-peer payment space sees intensifying…
A lot of proponents of so-called altcoins make a big deal about their favourite crypto project’s superiority to Bitcoin. Networks like BSV, BCH, and XRP have been especially tailored towards their associated assets’ use as a medium of exchange.Being distributed and largely pseudonymous, actual usage of a cryptocurrency is difficult to assess. One metric that…
Pornography powerhouse PornHub has updated its list of payment methods models receive for payouts for pornographic performances. Among the list of payment methods, includes the controversial stablecoin Tether available for secure payments through a Tron cryptocurrency wallet.PornHub Offers Tron-Based Tether Payments To Adult Industry Models After PayPal DisasterPornHub has announced via their payment methods blog…
American businessman and investor Mark Cuban believes that Bitcoin has “no chance” of becoming a reliable currency. Amongst other criticisms, the billionaire believes the digital asset is too difficult to use for the average person. Naturally, Bitcoin’s staunchest proponents disagree. Some have said that Cuban sounds like a critic of the early internet. Others have…
There are a number of differing metrics analysts use to determine the health of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Hash rate and transactions are two of the most popular but distribution in terms of the number of addresses can also be used to determine adoption rates. Bitcoin Addresses Increasing Over the past two years the number of…
Following a recent council approval, Canadian City of Richmond Hill will be exploring providing crypto asset property tax payments. Helping to provide the service will be domestic digital currency platform, Coinberry. The City of Richmond Hill is the second Canadian city to accept cryptocurrency for tax payments. Innisfil in Ontario was the first city to…
The Dementia Society of America (DSA) has just announced that it will be accepting a range of cryptocurrencies going forward. Thanks to the financial technology’s classification as property in the US, donations made to the charity using digital assets will not be taxed. In addition to the general acceptance of cryptocurrency, the charity has also…
A new browser extension has just been launched that hopes to make it easier for people to start thinking in Bitcoin prices when they do their online shopping. The aptly titled “Get Used to Bitcoin” automatically converts prices at some of the planet’s biggest internet retailers and elsewhere to Bitcoin and displays a price in…
A South African crypto exchange has partnered with an international blockchain-based payment processing firm. The merger between DoshEx and PundiX will allow early cryptocurrency adopters to spend their holdings in real-world locations in South Africa. With millions of South Africans living without access to banking facilities, the merger could help drive digital asset adoption in…
Many of its proponents argue that the greatest impact Bitcoin will have on society will be in developing nations. The belief is that the current most popular permissionless and non-government-correlated asset will one day allow for those in emerging markets to access banking-like services to connect the billions around the world lacking them with a…