Estonian Bank Applies Bitcoin Technology to Create a Wallet App
Estonia-based LHV Bank has given its nod to create an app that will utilize the Bitcoin blockchain technology to facilitate transactions. The money-transfer app has been named as "The Cuber Wallet," and will be available on both Android and Apple devices. The financial services platform i.e. the app will enable users to send and receive euros at zero costs and in quick time. According to Finextra, LHV said: "Cuber (Cryptographic Universal Blockchain Entered Receivables) is technically a new kind of certificate of deposit that can be used as a building block for innovative financial....
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One of the largest banks in Estonia, LHV, is now offering cryptocurrency trading directly from its app through crypto exchange Bitstamp. The bank says it is the “first bank in the Baltics to start offering crypto trading.”
Large Estonian Bank Now Offers Crypto Trading
LHV announced this week that it has become “the first bank in Estonia to offer its clients the opportunity to trade in crypto assets.”
Starting Monday, LHV customers can trade major crypto assets directly on its mobile app. Transactions are carried out on the cryptocurrency....
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