By Eddie Lo, Product Manager, Coinbase We are now offering millions of customers in the US a simple and speedy way to buy crypto on Coinbase using your debit cards and bank accounts linked to PayPal. Buying crypto should be simple and easy. However, moving money in the traditional world of finance can be anything[…]
British finance minister Rishi Sunak told the Bank of England on Monday to look at the case for a new “Britcoin”, or central bank-backed digital currency, aimed at tackling some of the challenges posed by cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. A BoE-backed digital version of sterling would potentially allow businesses and consumers to hold accounts directly[…]
Stripe has launched Stripe Issuing service in 20 countries across Europe, enabling its global user base to start issuing cards in the continent. The service has now been launched in Estonia, Finland, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, and the UK. The service[…]
The crypto industry as a whole has seen a momentous year of growth, heavily spurred on by the entrance of institutional investors adopting bitcoin due to its store of value properties. The 2020 spike bitcoin experienced was also accelerated by its global adoption as the number of global cryptocurrency users surpassed 100 million in Q3 2020. For Luno, a U.K.-based[…]
PayPal has partnered with cryptocurrency company Paxos to launch a new service. PayPal users in the U.S. will soon be able to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrencies. More countries are coming soon. PayPal plans to support Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin at first. You’ll be able to connect to your PayPal account to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Behind[…]
COVID-19 promoted the adoption of technological models that generate alternatives to the use of physical money and that this new year will be consolidated as a real alternative in people’s daily lives. According to BPC Banking Technologies, these will be the four trends that will define the way payments will be made in 2021: 1.[…]
We already knew that PayPal was planning to support cryptocurrencies as a form of payment, and now, the online payment app announced US customers can do just that with its “Checkout with Crypto” feature, which is rolling out today. After rolling out the ability for US users to buy and sell cryptocurrency directly from their accounts last November, PayPal’s[…]