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• US Fed Reserve: Facebook’s ‘cryptocurrency’ dream faces core legal, regulatory challenges

  The US Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said yesterday that Facebook must overcome a “core of legal and regulatory ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• An overview of Facebook’s 'cryptocurrency' supporters — who’s in and who’s out

  Finding it hard to keep track? We've put together a quick overview of every organization that's still involved with Facebook's ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Sodinokibi ransomware earns hacker $287K worth of Bitcoin in 3 days

  Criminals who distributed the Sodinokibi ransomware threat earned a huge payday from victims who paid the requested Bitcoin ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• US hospitals opt for paying hackers to survive Ryuk ransomware attack

  Cybercriminals are targeting hospitals across the globe with ransomware. Some of the hospitals are giving in to the attackers' ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Drug dealer sells fentanyl for cryptocurrency, gets 30 years in prison

  Yesterday an Iraqi man was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for selling various narcotics in exchange for cryptocurrency ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Google supercharges its mobile payment app in India with WeChat-style mini apps

  Google introduces a Spot Platform for Google Pay, allowing businesses to create branded experiences that's accessible to ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• IKEA just allowed an invoice to be paid via the Ethereum blockchain

  IKEA Iceland accepted payment in digital fiat from Nordic Store, and the invoice was settled using smart contracts programmed ...

  • David Canellis

• China has no idea when it will launch its digital currency

  Despite reports that China was readying itself to deploy its government digital currency, it now seems it's less surefooted ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• KPMG survey reveals blockchain tokens might only be good for

  'Big four' accounting firm KPMG quizzed Americans over how they feel about blockchain tokens, and only 38% believe they're ...

  • David Canellis

• Chinese subway stations now let you pay for tickets by scanning your face

  Facial recognition technology is used across China for everything from identifying criminals to measuring students’ attention ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Cryptocurrency scammers have netted $4.26B so far this year, report

  Cryptocurrency scammers continued to swindle funds throughout Q2 2019, netting approximately $4.26 billion so far this year.  ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• SpankChain launches SpankPay so users can pay for porn with Bitcoin

  Adult content platform SpankChain has launched SpankPay, a cryptocurrency payments platform.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• 'Crypto-Twitter' really wants a Satoshi symbol — but nobody can agree on one

  The 'crypto-Twitter' community wants a symbol for small denominations of Bitcoin, known as Satoshis. There's loads of options, ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Bitcoin whale moves $468 million crypto-fortune for less than $400

  Bitcoin whales are shifting fortunes for tiny fees relative to the traditional finance sector, and this one moved almost ...

  • David Canellis

• India doesn't want WhatsApp sharing your payment data with Facebook

  Indian government raises concerns that WhatsApp’s payment service might share user data with Facebook and Instagram, compromising ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• WhatsApp Pay will officially launch by the end of the year in India

  WhatsApp has been testing its payment service in India for over a year now. Today, the company's head said it'll launch by ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 5 ways AI is revolutionizing the world of finance

  There are plenty of reasons to believe artificial intelligence will spur the next revolution in the way we handle wealth ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Bitcoin ransomers claim second victory as Florida town pays $500,000

  A second town in Florida has paid over $500,000 in Bitcoin to hackers following a ransomware attack.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• PSA: Set your Venmo transactions to private right now

  A new research has found that Venmo continues to make it easy for third-parties to scrap users' public transaction history ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• 3 years later, Visa’s blockchain-powered payment network finally goes live

  Visa’s blockchain-powered B2B payments product has finally gone live after almost three years in the making.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• CHEAP: Get intimidatingly ripped with 20% off the Fitbit Ionic smartwatch

  Summer's almost here, which means one thing: you need to get into shape. Luckily, 20% off the list price of the Fitbit Ionic ...

  • Deals on TNW

• Congressional report: Bitcoin adoption 'miniscule' compared to traditional finance

  Distributed ledger systems that underpin cryptocurrencies aren't capable of processing the number of transactions required ...

  • David Canellis

• AT&T now accepts cryptocurrency, and it’s probably a bad idea

  The American cell network operator AT&T has announced that it's accepting Bitcoin as an online payment option, after partnering ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Bitcoin Pizza Day: How a hungry Florida man made cryptocurrency history

  Nine years ago today, the first ever Bitcoin transaction for a consumer product took place after a Florida man spent 10,000 ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Nura’s new ‘headphone subscription’ isn't as stupid as it sounds

  You already subscribe to Netflix, Spotify, and iCloud – but time to add one more to your list: headphones? Yep, Nura's ...

  • Callum Booth

• Your business passed the GDPR challenge — but SCA is next

  Europe is bracing itself for a big shake-up in how we pay for things online, which will have significant consequences for ...

  • Guillaume Princen

• $356 million in cryptocurrency stolen in first three months of 2019

  Cryptocurrency exit scammers and exchange hackers have made a killing this year, and soon they'll have to launder it all... ...

  • David Canellis

• Dutch central bank tested blockchain for 3 years. The results? ‘Not that positive’

  Cross-border payments, tokenization, and some smart contract stuff. These are blockchain's potential use-cases, according ...

  • David Canellis

• Australian cryptocurrency scams earned $4.3 million last year, up 190%

  Australia's consumer watchdog has detailed the extent of the nation's problem with cryptocurrency fraud - and the data says ...

  • David Canellis

• Lil Pump now accepts Bitcoin on his merch store (but will he dump it?)

  Columbian-American rapper, Lil Pump, is now accepting the cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, as a payment method on his online merch ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Adult site CamSoda will now let you pay for porn with Bitcoin

  CamSoda has integrated cryptocurrency payments, enabling users to purchase tokens on the platform using seven different ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Payment options in apps can be designed better

  Let’s start with a simple thought: What was the last meal that you had? How did you decide to eat a certain dish as opposed ...

  • Dharmesh Ba

• This Canadian town is letting residents pay taxes in Bitcoin

  A small town in Canada, just north of Toronto, is joining Ohio in providing its citizens with an option to pay some taxes ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• We shouldn’t care about companies accepting Bitcoin in 2019

  Bitcoin – the original cryptocurrency – has been around for a decade, but it’s still struggling to achieve mainstream ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Visa is looking for someone to spearhead permissionless blockchain

  Global payment services provider and Fortune 500 company, Visa, is showing signs that cryptocurrency and blockchain will ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Cryptocurrency exchange WEX/BTC-e tied to Bitcoin ransomware hackers, report

  PricewaterhouseCoopers has made a connection between the SamSam ransomware hackers and infamous cryptocurrency exchange WEX ...

  • David Canellis

• How to cancel your Twitch/YouTube/Mixer subscriptions

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice on how to get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Watch out for this new cryptocurrency ransomware stalking the web

  A brand new family of cryptocurrency-fuelled ransomware has been discovered, and researchers warn it's more sophisticated ...

  • David Canellis

• Square launches SDK to help mobile developers take in-app payments

  Square wants to make it easier for mobile devs to deal with payments

  • Matthew Hughes

• Central bank study shows little desire to issue digital currencies

  63 central banks were surveyed on the status their proposed CBDCs, to determine the likelihood of an incoming wave of digitized ...

  • David Canellis

• The awfully patronizing guide to having a merry crypto-Christmas

  As we're wrapping up 2018, it's clear it wasn't the breakout year for cryptocurrency and blockchain that many enthusiasts ...

  • Mix

• UK tax authorities: ‘crypto assets’ are not currency or money

  The UK's tax office published details that outlines its stance on cryptocurrency and digital assets, all in the name of taxation. ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Pornhub: Less than 1% of users buy subscriptions with cryptocurrency

  Despite introducing payments in Verge and TRON, Pornhub says less than 1 percent of its users use cryptocurrency to buy Premium ...

  • Mix

• MasterCard wants to make electronic payments anonymous… with blockchain

  According to a recent patent application, the payment infrastructure provider, MasterCard, wants to anonymize "electronic ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• 3 simple ways to nurture your culture when you start to scale

  As you start to scale, the risk of diluting your culture becomes so much more real. Here's how to nurture your culture, no ...

  • Camille Charluet

• Ripple’s CTO thinks Proof-of-Work is a technological dead-end, but he does hold Bitcoin

  Ripple's CTO David Schwartz has thrown shade on Bitcoin's mining algorithm in a recent TNW Answers session - despite admitting ...

  • David Canellis

• Playboy sues blockchain startup for screwing its cryptocurrency porno payment plan

  Playboy is suing a blockchain startup, claiming its been stiffed on a deal to pay users for watching adult content with cryptocurrency. ...

  • David Canellis

• How a Finnish millionaire lost $35M worth of Bitcoin in a gambling scam

  A Finnish Bitcoin millionaire has lost his cryptocurrency fortune after falling victim to an international investment scam. ...

  • David Canellis

• Analysts: Bitcoin isn't replacing fiat currency anytime soon

  For the past few years, through boom and bust, hype cycles and FUD (and just about anything in between), we've heard that ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Millions of webstores can now accept cryptocurrency through Coinbase

  The new plugin enables WooCommerce webstores to accept cryptocurrencies through a user-controlled Coinbase wallet without ...

  • David Canellis

• MoviePass never had a chance

  Subscription movie service MoviePass offered anyone willing to shell out $10 a month -- less than the price of a single movie ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Applying for a patent - $15K, Mastercard patenting even more blockchain - priceless

  Mastercard have filed yet another another blockchain-related patent application, this one for a system to manage a fractional ...

  • David Canellis

• This startup is the perfect example of Korea’s vibrant crypto market

  Bezant’s ambition is to build its own high-performance blockchain, arguably the most challenging, expensive, and time-consuming ...

  • Lucas Miller