Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency
Indonesia Central Bank Among Latest To Ban Crypto As Payment
June 17, 2021

In what may be yet another door slamming shut to the use of cryptocurrency in mainstream commerce, Indonesia is nixing the use of the digital offerings as payments. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

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Morgan Stanley Estimates 8 Pct Of Bank Deposits Could Be Impacted By A Digital Euro
June 16, 2021

Morgan Stanley analysts have said a digital euro might preclude a decline of 8 percent of consumer deposits from euro zone banks, Reuters writes. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

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Wag! Goes To The Dog(ecoin)s, Via BitPay
June 16, 2021

The pet services platform Wag! announced on Wednesday (June 16) that it has begun accepting cryptocurrency through BitPay, including — fittingly enough — Dogecoin. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

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Bidding For The ‘Big Bang’ Of The Internet — And Perhaps NFTs’  Future
June 16, 2021

For what might be thought of as the Big Bang of the Web, the bidding starts at $1,000. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to...

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Web Inventor Berners-Lee Will Auction Original Source Code As NFT
June 16, 2021

The original source code that was written by London computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee is going up for sale at Sotheby’s Online Auction as a non-fungible token (NFT). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

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Celebrities, Influencers Push Crypto Ads On Social Media
June 15, 2021

Celebrities and influencers, including Kim Kardashian West, are now posting advertisements for various digital coins and exchanges, CNBC reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe...

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China Tests Digital Yuan In Wage Payments
June 14, 2021

Digital yuan is now in play in China’s Xiong’an New Area, CoinDesk reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today....

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Buffalo Market’s Pay-With-Crypto Brings Food Distribution Into The 2020s
June 14, 2021

Cryptocurrency may be the payment method of the future, but food distribution is, in many ways, the industry of the past. With the bulk (no pun intended) of the industry’s transactions still occurring through offline channels, food distribution has fallen behind the consumer. Get the...

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PYMNTS Data Brief: Nearly One-Quarter Of Past, Current Crypto Owners Have Paid With It
June 14, 2021

Wherever one comes down on the debate around cryptocurrency as an investment, a currency or a hybrid of both, it’s captured the public imagination in a big way this year, and all kinds of people have thoughts — and plans — for how they’d like...