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Bitcoin Daily: Square’s Cash App Lets Consumers Earn Bitcoin On Purchases; Nigeria Trades Second-Highest Bitcoin...
December 20, 2020

Square‘s Cash App has a new feature letting customers get bitcoin back with any transaction, CoinDesk reported. Previously Cash App only allowed clients to get U.S. currency back with their transactions, according to the report. But bitcoin has been trending upward for the company and...

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Bitcoin Daily: Salvation Army Now Takes Crypto Donations; Coinbase CEO Warns New Investors Of Crypto’s...
December 17, 2020

The Salvation Army Western Territory is now accepting cryptocurrency donations, according to a press release. Donors throughout the U.S. will be able to send bitcoin and ethereum donations to The Salvation Army using the Engiven’s cryptocurrency donation platform, the release stated. Douglas Riley, territorial commander...

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Bitcoin Triples In Value To Record High Near $24,000
December 17, 2020

Bitcoin reached an all-time high, surging 12 percent to $23,421, more than triple its value since the start of 2020, CNBC reported on Thursday (Dec. 17), citing crypto market data provider Coin Metrics.  The digital currency soared year-to-date by more than 200 percent, breaking the...

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Bitcoin Daily: American Express Ventures Invests In FalconX; Malta’s Banks Skeptical Of Blockchain
December 16, 2020

American Express Ventures has invested in cryptocurrency exchange platform FalconX, according to a press release. The amount was not disclosed in the release, but the investment adds to the $17 million in funding FalconX announced in May, including from investors Accel and Lightspeed Venture partners,...

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Bitcoin Breaks Through $20,000 Mark, Hits Record Highs
December 16, 2020

Bitcoin continued its ongoing surge in price Wednesday (Dec. 16), heading above the $20,000 mark for the first time ever — eclipsing its previous record high set in 2017. The price of a bitcoin traded higher by 5.6 percent, hitting around $20,600. CNBC reported that...

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Bitcoin Daily: Mobile Payments App Slide Now Includes Crypto Option; SatoshiPay To Use German Bank’s...
December 15, 2020

BitPay, which is the world’s largest provider of bitcoin and cryptocurrency services, has announced that mobile payments app Slide will now add cryptocurrency as a payment option, according to a press release. Slide, which was created by the PayPal-backed Raise Marketplace, will allow people paying...

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FIS Powers Launch Of Quontic Bank’s Bitcoin Rewards Account
December 15, 2020

Bank software and payment technology giant FIS is teaming up with a New York-based digital bank to launch a rewards card where users can earn bitcoin. FIS on Tuesday (Dec. 15) announced a partnership with Quontic Bank on the Bitcoin Rewards Checking Account. The launch...

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Bitcoin Daily: Argentina’s Crypto Exchanges See Record Growth In 2020; JD.com Sees 20,000 Digital Yuan...
December 14, 2020

Argentinian crypto exchange Ripio has had a huge surge in users, boasting almost 1 million now as opposed to just 400,000 at the beginning of the year, CoinDesk reported. “I’ve been with the exchange pretty much from the beginning, and I’ve never seen this kind...

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Bitcoin Daily: Didi Joins China’s Digital Yuan Testing; Putin Orders Russian Gov’t Workers, Officials To...
December 13, 2020

Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed an order directing public officials to report cryptocurrency holdings, CoinDesk reports. The order signed Thursday (Dec. 10) requires both civil servants and people who will soon take on a government position to disclose what crypto assets they hold, along...