Google's Project Loon Expands Bitcoin Access to Developing World
One problem with digital currency and Bitcoin in the modern world is its inherent connection to the internet. Using internet access as a backbone isn't a weakness; rather, the issue is with the world not having a fully-integrated internet system set in place. Some places like the United States and Europe are incredibly close to the internet being as common as electricity, but underdeveloped regions still have problems. According to the Internet Transmissions Union (ITU), by December 2014, sixty percent of the world's total population still won't be connected to the internet; exiling around....
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Stellar Development Foundation is a nonprofit organization working on bringing banking and financial services to the unbanked across the world. A simple Google search is enough to know that there are over 2.5 billion unbanked adults across the world. These people don't have access to, or don't use banks or any microfinance institutions to manage their money. Most of the unbanked population are from the developing countries in African, Asian and South American continents. The unbanked population in these regions do not have access financial institutions or services for multiple reasons.....
Google is one of the many players looking to venture into the world of peer-to-peer payments shortly, and their Wallet payment solution is evolving over time as well. However, it was rather shocking to hear Google is dropped support for the physical debit cards linked to Google Wallet, as the company is shifting its focus to the mobile ecosystem. Online peer-to-peer payments are the new hot trend, which is part of the reason Bitcoin is gaining so much popularity. Google Wallet Debit Card Dropped. Similar to what other popular online payment processors are offering, Google Wallet users had....
BNB Chain ecosystem participants are set to have access to Google Cloud services in a newly formed collaboration. Binance’s smart contract blockchain platform BNB Chain has partnered with Google Cloud to bolster Web3 and blockchain startups.Startups that are currently building products and services on the BNB Chain blockchain will also be able to build on Google Cloud’s scalable, secure and open source infrastructure.This will see over 1,300 active, BNB Chain-based decentralized applications (DApps) from the world of decentralized finance (DeFi), Metaverse, blockchain games and nonfungible....