Starbucks Receives Bakkt Equity to Start Accepting Bitcoin Payments in 2019
It seems that Starbucks has received a significant portion of equity in Bakkt despite not being a direct cash investor.
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It seems that Starbucks has received a significant portion of equity in Bakkt despite not being a direct cash investor.
Tether (USDT) has taken a step to further their prospects in the cryptocurrency industry by collaborating with Tron to launch the stablecoin on the Tron blockchain.
Ripple (XRP) has been at the center stage of the cryptocurrency industry with many great developments in its favor. However, Forbes’s Jason Bloomberg published an article saying Ripple is a scam.
According to the New York Times report, Facebook plans to use its crypto token for in-app payments across its suite of applications. The Facebook Coin will be a stablecoin pegged to three different fiat currencies.
After two delays, the Constantinople and St. Petersburg hard forks have finally gone live. With this release, four different Ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs) have been officially activated.
Wozniak calls Bitcoin as something which has provided “massive value creation”. He admits holding a few Bitcoins for experimenting with new devices and applications.
In less than 12 hours, Constantinople and St. Petersburg hard forks will go live. But before any network upgrades are applied to the main network, they take place on test networks, such as Ropsten.
Mizuho Bank will partner with over 60 financial institutions to use its J-Coin Pay platform while serving over 59 million customers.
Ripple‘s XRP token currently bears further uplifting news as SBI, which is a Ripple enthusiast, has planned to have a few banks in Japan and utilize the token by the 2025 Osaka Expo.
Electronic trading across CME Group Inc.’s futures markets resumed late Tuesday after technical problems triggered an hourslong trading halt.
According to J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, their controversial JPM Coin created for institutional clients could have a consumer use one day.
Truly great news come from Coinbase, which, to the joy of large XRP community, decided to add XRP to its professional trading platform, Coinbase Pro.
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of the second largest cryptocurrency Ethereum, tweeted about XRP, stating that ‘it’s better sound money than Bitcoin.
Though the Constantinople hard fork has been already postponed twice now it is expected to occur together with the St. Petersburg upgrade this week.
Yesterday I had an opportunity to see (and try) new Samsung Galaxy S10. It is long awaited and the latest entry in the hugely-successful Galaxy S range. From the moment you pick it up the latest flagship, it’s clear that a lot has changed.