Square Crypto’s 20th Grant Will Support Bitcoin Design, User Experience

Square Crypto’s latest grant will fund a developer’s work on software that could improve how mining collectives pool hash power.

BitPay has introduced a new modal invoice feature to improve the user experience for users making bitcoin payments on BitPay supported merchant sites. BitPay, the leading Bitcoin payment processor has announced the introduction of ‘modal invoice’ feature on its platform. The Atlanta, Georgia-based company reported the new design upgrade on its blog post earlier this week. The new design, aimed at improving the user experience will offer added convenience for buyers to make bitcoin payments. Generally, the e-commerce platforms redirect customers to a different payments page when the click....

Square Enix, the Japanese AAA game developer and publisher, announced the launch of a new NFT-based gaming franchise, titled Symbiogenesis. The experience, which will be built on top of Ethereum, will leverage the use of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) as art that users can set as profile pictures and use in a separate NFT market. Square Enix Announces Symbiogenesis NFT Project Square Enix, one of the leading Japanese gaming companies, has announced Symbiogenesis, one of its first NFT-based interactive experiences. On Nov. 3, as part of the company’s participation in the India Game....

Square's online marketplace that allows consumers to shop online from local businesses, better known as Square Market, is now accepting bitcoins. What this means is that any business who is signed up with Square Market (which allows them to create an online storefront from their business), can accept your digital currency. "For sellers, the experience won't feel any different. Whether selling services or goods, sellers don't have to change a thing, except potentially expecting new trailblazing customers and more sales," Square wrote in their announcement post on Monday. The San....

BitMEX has collaborated with a non-profit Human Rights Foundation to provide a $150,000 grant to Korean-based Bitcoin scaling researcher, Calvin Kim. Popular crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX has announced a $150,000 grant for Calvin Kim — a Korean-based Bitcoin scaling researcher.The grant comprises the second instance in which BitMEX has backed Kim’s research, with the exchange donating $30,000 to Kim in August 2020. For his current research, Kim plans to implement Utreexo into Bitcoin deployments using the Go and Rust programming languages respectively, while also working on “improving....