World experts commented to Cointelegraph regarding the announcement of Wim Raymaekers, Head of Banking and Treasury Markets at SWIFT.
SWIFT To Integrate FinTech And Blockchain But World Experts Advise Understanding It First The First BTM Opens in Finland’s Largest Shopping Centre Itis Bittiraha.fi and Bitcoinkaupat.com opened the first Bitcoin ATM in the largest shopping centre of Finnish capital
Coinizy Brings the World's First Bitcoin to PayPal Exchange Coinizy launches the world’s first Bitcoin to PayPal exchange option. This new option promises to simplify Bitcoin to fiat exchanges and withdrawals.
New Profit Potential from CCEDK’s New Currency Obits CCEDK released a new currency called Obits that offers holders a share garnered from trading and referrals on the OpenLedger platform.
Bitwage Raises $760,000 funding from Orange and Draper Associates Bitwage announced today the closure of the funding round to build the Future of Payroll with $760,000
Social Network Effects to Usage in Real Life with Bitholla New mobile payments start-up Bitholla, which allows peer-to-peer payments in digital currencies from any mobile wallet of the user’s choosing, has arrived.
FinTech Startups Call For Reforms In Australia A group of 32 startups, investors and startup accelerators call for the Australian government to bring major innovation to the federal financial technology industry.
Bitcoin Companies In London Consider George Osborne To Regulate A Problem Of Opening Bank Accounts George Osborne, the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, has to resolve the problem of getting a bank account in the United Kingdom for Bitcoin-related companies.
Coinbase Releases Mobile App For Real-Time Monitoring Of Bitcoin Trading Activity One of the biggest Bitcoin exchanges Coinbase has recently announced major updates to its mobile app that will allow traders to monitor Bitcoin trading activity "on the go".
BitGo Unveils Open-Source Bitcoin Key Recovery Service Bitcoin security platform BitGo announced the launch of the first automated open source Key Recovery Service (KRS) software that allows generating, securing and storing private backup keys
R3 Blockchain Consortium Adds 3 More Banks Three more banks have announced joining the Distributed Ledger Group (DLG) and R3 Blockchain consortium that include Mizuho Bank, UniCredit and Nordea.
BitRuble’s QIWI & Moscow High School of Economics Launch Blockchain Master Classes Payment service provider and future BitRuble issuer Qiwi are launching a series of blockchain focused master classes called “Promising Distribution”
World Wide Web Consortium Launches Work Group to Boost Bitcoin Adoption The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) launched new Web Payments Working Group to examine ways for easier adoption of payment instrument improvements or new payment instruments.
World's First School to Issue Academic Certificates via Bitcoin Blockchain Holberton Software Engineering School announced it will become the first school to deliver academic certificates that are secured and accessible via Bitcoin’s blockchain.
Sweden to Become World’s First Cashless Country A study by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm shows that Sweden is on track to become the world’s first cashless country.
Ukraine’s Capital May Adopt Decentralized Management Principles from Bitcоin Foundation Bitcоin Fоundаtiоn Ukraine supervisory board member Yuriy Kostiv is running for the deputy's seat at the Kiev Council of Deputies and is looking to bring its principles of decentralized management to Ukraine’s capital.
OpenCart Online Shops Welcome Bitcoin Payments BitcoinPay has announced the launch of plugin for stores using the OpenCart Online Shopping Solution that allows integrating digital money payments into their e-commerce platforms.
‘Neucoin Will Have More Consumers Using It Than Bitcoin within One Year’ - Founder NeuCoin (NEU), a cryptocurrency specifically designed to aid the implementation of online microtransactions and tipping within online products and services, finally launched September 23
5 Russian Banks Cyber Attacked in Bitcoin Extortion Plot Five banks in Russia have undergone a DDoS-attack according to Artyom Sychev, Deputy Director of the General Directorate of Security and Information Protection of Russia’s Central Bank.
LottoShares: World’s First Physical Lottery on the Blockchain LottoShares is the world’s first digital asset tied to a physical lottery that will use blockchain technology for proof of fairness and 100% transparency, which could unravel the lottery business as we know it.
UEFA Cup Champion’s Email Hacked; Selling for 40 BTC Hackers have broken into football star Alexander Kerzhakov’s e-mail account and are looking to sell 904 letters from the player’s correspondence for at least 40 bitcoins during a “private auction”
Azerbaijan Mulls Its Own Cryptocurrency: ‘CryptoManat’ Azerbaijan is actively discussing the possibility of creating a “Cryptomanat” coin – the cryptocurrency equivalent of its national currency, the Azerbaijani manta, reports the Echo local newspaper.
All ‘BitRouble’ Domains Scooped Up for Millions by Russian Payment Service Provider Qiwi Russian payment service provider Qiwi has registered all domain names such as bitrouble.com, bitrouble.org, bitru.rf, and bitrub.li, according to the Russian newspaper “Kommersant.”
Bitnation Registers First Refugees on the Blockchain A decentralized project called Refugee Emergency Response was recently launched by Bitnation to help resolve the current refugee crisis in Europe by registering undocumented individuals on the blockchain.
First ETF to Invest in Bitcoin ‘Impressed’ by Price Stability This week ARK Investment became the first ETF to invest in Bitcoin, purchasing publicly traded shares of Grayscale's Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC), which are linked to the price of bitcoin directly, for ARK’s Web x.0 ETF fund.
UBS Developing Blockchain-based ‘Settlement Coin’ Swiss banking giant UBS is developing a new blockchain-based currency "settlement coin" – a digital currency that’s backed by fiat money and fits into the existing regulatory framework.
BitRuble? First Russian Cryptocurrency Announced by Qiwi Russian payment service provider Qiwi has reportedly invested “several hundred million rubles” to develop the first cryptocurrency designed for the Russian market.
Gov’t Funded Blockchain Lab to Open in the UK A Blockchain lab is scheduled to launch in the UK next month as a result of Innovate Finance teaming up with Hartree Centre to explore the opportunities offered by blockchain technology.
Russia’s New Law Threatens Internet Privacy as LocalBitcoins Volume Spikes Recently the Russian State Duma adopted amendments to the law "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Security" that will enable Moscow to tighten its grip on the Internet.
Bitcoin’s Price ‘Melody’ Made Audible in Russia’s Capital While Russian authorities are scratching their heads about cryptocurrency, Bitcoin is being put in the spotlight in the center of Moscow.