Weekend Roundup: Shopping with Bitcoins on the Mastercard Network, First Publicly Traded BTC Exchange
On Monday, CoinSpark released a new tool that allows bitcoiners to attach private messages to transactions. Open sourced CoinSpark is a colored coin protocol that allows users to move assets around the blockchain much like Counterparty. CEO Gideon Greenspan told CoinTelegraph: "The guiding principle of CoinSpark is that users can use a lightwight wallet on their computer. [...] [Both the sender and the recipient] can prove the message exists very easily without having to go to a notary, or without having to go to any kind of a central intermediary." The results of the Bitcoin election....
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NewBitcoin ATMs in the USA and the UK, youth entrepreneurial program looking to empower under-served populations with Bitcoin, MGT Capital Investments to merge with Tera Group and launch the first publicly traded American Bitcoin derivatives exchange, and more top news to wrap up the week. MGT Capital Investments announced on February 26, it has enter into a Letter of Intent with Tera Group, Inc., the owner of TeraExchange, LLC, a Swap Execution Facility regulated by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Both companies are looking to come to a definitive agreement by March....
Updated with comment from Mastercard. UPDATE (2nd July 21:00 BST): Updated with comment from the Cryptocurrency Defense Foundation. Global financial services giant MasterCard has filed a patent that would seek to incorporate bitcoin into its design for a planned global online shopping cart. Entitled 'Payment Interchange for Use With Global Shopping Cart', the filing was submitted by the New York company to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in March 2013. The patent application is part of a series of filings related to MasterCard's effort to build a global online shopping cart....
Grayscale Investment’s Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT) began trading in May with the ticker GBTC. Over the last few days, the price of BIT surged, and at one point traded at US$133.70 per share. SpectroCoin has integrated with mobile payment network Worapay, to allow users in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to pay with bitcoins at Lukoil gas stations. Blocknet will be adding Ethereum onto its inter-blockchain network. Ethereum will bring its decentralized apps and smart contract features to the inter-blockchain network, along with its cryptocurrency, Ether. "A share of GBTC is equivalent to....
Payments giant Mastercard has announced that it is preparing to allow a number of cryptocurrencies to move through its network directly. Customers, merchants, and businesses will no longer need to convert cryptocurrencies into fiat currencies to transfer through the Mastercard network. Mastercard Prepares to Let Cryptocurrencies Move Through its Network Mastercard announced Wednesday that it will start “bringing crypto onto its network.” In a blog post on the company’s official website, Raj Dhamodharan, Executive Vice President of Digital Asset and Blockchain, explained....
With BTC setting a new record above $48K and Mastercard implementing crypto payments, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.