Visa Seeks Developer for 'Secure, Scalable' Blockchain Project
Payments giant Visa has revealed it is seeking to hire a software engineer to help it create a "secure, scalable blockchain network". The news was revealed in a job advertisement by Visa Research – a research arm created by the company to expand its technology research capabilities. Visa Research's remit is to engage with the company's technology and product teams, and business and other partners, to investigate and develop technologies that are "critical to the payments industry in the future", the firm says. As part of its efforts to build three research sections....
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