Think Globally and Act Locally: Growing the Gig Economy Through Local Payment Methods With the world evolving into a massive gig economy and hundreds of platforms offering freelancers the chance to create their own work schedule, it’s becoming easier for workers to provide affordable services to consumers. An estimated 34% of the global workforce works either freelance or for a gig platform, with this statistic projected to grow […] The post Think Globally and Act Locally: Growing the Gig Economy Through Local Payment Methods appeared first on TechBullion. … Read More
What to Expect When Congress Talks Crypto (Twice) Tomorrow Two Congressional committee hearings will examine whether crypto is the future of money, as well as what sort of regulation the space may need.… Read More
Litecoin’s Lee: Bank Deal Might Lead to New Crypto Services Charlie Lee took to reddit Tuesday to clarify his and the Litecoin Foundation’s roles in the new acquisition of nearly 10 percent of a German bank. … Read More
Mastercard Wins Patent for Speeding Up Crypto Payments Mastercard is looking to improve crypto by designing a payments system that will link accounts holding both fiat currency and cryptocurrencies. … Read More
GMO’s New Internet Bank Will Settle Payments With Blockchain Japanese digital services firm GMO Internet has just launched a new web bank that it says will soon use blockchain to facilitate payments.… Read More
Elix: Decentralized Crowdfunding, Lending, and Payments. Crowdfunding has become a major source of raising capital for startups and other small to medium organizations in the last few years. Websites like Indigogo and Kickstarter have a significant user base that rely on collecting funds for their projects. Before the concept of crowdfunding came into existence, people and organizations would turn towards banks […] The post Elix: Decentralized Crowdfunding, Lending, and Payments. appeared first on TechBullion. … Read More
American Express Thinks Blockchains Could Help Prove Payments Credit card giant American Express may be looking into developing a new proof-of-payment (PoP) system based on blockchain technology.… Read More
Russians Indicted for US Election Hacks Used Bitcoin to Fund Operations Twelve Russian officials indicted for hacking into Democratic National Committee email accounts allegedly used cryptocurrencies, the DOJ announced.… Read More
Litecoin Foundation Acquires 9.9% of Bank in Payments Partnership Litecoin Foundation, the non-profit behind the popular cryptocurrency, says it now owns part of a German bank thanks to a new deal with TokenPay.… Read More
Interview with Aleksandr Kents, the CEO of Citowise; Cryptocurrency Wallet and Payment solution Aleksandr and his team at Citowise are providing free and secure cryptocurrency wallet and payment solutions for businesses and private deals. 1) Please tell us your name and about yourself? My name is Aleksandr Kents. I am one of the founders of Citowise. A few years ago I started learning about cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain and […] The post Interview with Aleksandr Kents, the CEO of Citowise; Cryptocurrency Wallet and Payment solution appeared first on TechBullion. … Read More