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Rakuten buys struggling bitcoin startup Bitnet to create a ‘blockchain research lab’
August 19th, 2016
Rakuten has confirmed that it has acquired the assets of Bitnet, a bitcoin wallet startup it invested in, which will be used to create a ‘bitcoin lab’ for the Japanese retail giant. The transaction is undisclosed but it follows a Wall Street Journal ...
Hackers claim to have stolen cyberweapons from NSA, demand 1 million Bitcoin in exchange
August 17th, 2016
A hacking group called The Shadow Brokers claims to have acquired hacking tools from a group linked to the US National Security Agency (NSA), and is now asking for 1 million Bitcoin (about $568 million) in an auction in exchange for ...
Paysafe published Unaudited Interim Results for the 6 months ended 30 June 2016
August 12th, 2016
Paysafe Group plc, global provider of payment solutions, reports strong growth in the six months ended 30 June 2016. Reported H1 2016 revenue increased 118% to $487m (H1 2015: $223m); pro-forma constant currency revenue growth was 20%, up from ...
Financial technology: Money finds new paths
August 12th, 2016
Africa may be slowest to embrace fintech, but the continent is ripe for disruption. WHAT IT MEANS: Australia’s progress a benchmark for Africa. Africa’s unbanked are an opportunity for tech firms. Disruption of the banking sector is well on ...
Online lender secures record-breaking $52.5 million FinTech funding
August 11th, 2016
Finova Financial’s industry-first, cloud and mobile-based consumer auto title lending platform has raised $52.5 million in a combination of equity and a credit facility, one of the largest initial rounds in FinTech industry history, Finova announced today. The funding round ...
Feds to auction $1.6 million in bitcoin
August 9th, 2016
The federal government will sell roughly $1.6 million worth of bitcoins recovered by law enforcement operations, the U.S. Marshals Service said on Monday. The block of around 2,700 bitcoins — a digital currency — will be sold in late ...
Could bitcoin change the game in Africa?
August 4th, 2016
In the wildest of claims, bitcoin – the virtual paperless and stateless currency transacted on the borderless internet – was going to tear apart traditional money transfer companies and help alleviate poverty. Accessing the multibillion-dollar remittance flows to Africa certainly has ...
Bitcoin Sinks After Hackers Steal $65 Million From Exchange
August 3rd, 2016
Hong Kong-based Bitfinex halts trading, deposits, withdrawals Digital currency is down almost 20 percent this week Bitcoin plunged after one of the largest exchanges halted trading because hackers stole about $65 million of the digital currency. Bitcoin slumped 5.5 ...
Is this the end of Bitcoin anonymity? EU plans database of Bitcoin Users
July 28th, 2016
The European Commission is proposing the creation of a database that will hold information on those using virtual currencies and that will record data on the users’ real-world identity, along with all associated wallet addresses. This is the first proposal ...
Visa Europe Partners for Bitcoin Micropayments Trial
July 27th, 2016
Bitcoin micropayments startup SatoshiPay is developing a new proof-of-concept with Visa Europe’s innovation unit. Work on the project was first disclosed earlier this year, when Visa Europe Collab said that it was exploring bitcoin micropayments for connected devices. At the ...
