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As of today, cryptocurrency is now accepted as payments at tens of thousands of merchants in the U.S. on the Flexa network. Top brands such as Whole Foods, Baskin Robbins, Lowe’s, and Nordstrom will now accept Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Gemini Dollar. Flexa network is establishing new payments infrastructure for crypto. The payments network […]

Bakkt, an institutional cryptocurrency trading platform led by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), expects their bitcoin futures to be listed on federally regulated futures exchanges in July. The institutional crypto trading platform Bakkt will be conducting the first user tests of its bitcoin futures live on federally regulated futures exchanges. “We’ll be working with our customers […]

eBay could be about to enter the crypto world. If advertisements at the Consensus conference in New York are true, the e-commerce giant could be adopting crypto payments in the immediate future. “Virtual Currency. It’s happening on eBay” Although there has not been an official announcement, the news would allow eBay’s 180 million active buyers […]

According to Paolo Ardoino, the chief technology officer (CTO) of Bitfinex, the crypto exchange has completed fundraising of $1 billion in tether (USDT). Ardoino said: “Bitfinex is able to raise 1b USDt in 10 days, in a private sale. Private companies, giants in our industry and outside, made investments for > 100m each. A legion […]

In 2013, cryptocurrency investors, enthusiasts, financial regulators and the crypto community witnessed the largest bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, collapse. New York regulators decided they needed to step in and ensure that kind of thing did not happen in their state. Two years later, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) […]

The developers of Qtum, a platform for building and deploying smart contract-enabled decentralized applications, have revealed that Robin8’s Profile Management Ecosystem (PMES) allows users to upload their intellectual property (IP) data to QTUM’s blockchain network. As explained in an official blog post, published on May 11th, 2019 from Qtum’s Medium account, influencers, subject-matter experts, inventors, artists, […]

Two of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance, and Coinbase, have both seen around 1 million unique daily visits in April, with many believing Bitcoin’s latest price surge caused the websites’ visits to jump 13 and 27 percent, respectively. Over a million internet users visit Binance every single day While mainstream adoption still might be […]

Taiwanese electronics company HTC announced that its new blockchain smartphone, the EXODUS 1s, will have the capability to host a Bitcoin full node. The budget version of the phone will retail under $300, as first reported by CoinDesk. On May 11 at the Magical Crypto Conference in New York, Phil Chen, the decentralized chief officer […]

StormX, a popular gamified microtask platform based in Seattle, has recently patented innovative micropayments technology that allows for better scalability by creating a hybrid solution of off and on chain transactions using bolts and Storm Token, the company said in a press release shared with CryptoSlate. Seattle-based startup looking to revolutionize micropayments StormX, Inc., the […]

Altcoins across the board—including Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, EOS, and Binance Coin—are surging as Bitcoin makes its ascent past $7,000. Altcoins depreciate as bitcoin surges Altcoins have been hemorrhaging capital as bitcoin climbed from $5,687 on May 7 to $6,343 on May 11—an 11.5 percent increase. The relationship is visible when looking at overall market […]