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Global payment companies Mastercard announced on December 10, 2020, its official decision to ban their customers from using credit and debit cards to arrange purchases on one of the biggest adult websites. Visa has taken the same measure on a temporary basis. Mastercard Cuts Ties With Pornhub Following Accusations According to a statement sent through Bloomberg, Mastercard said that after investigating Pornhub “over the past several days,” which “confirmed violations of our standards prohibiting unlawful content on their site.” Another payment processor giant, Visa,....

More demand could just mean bigger correlations to traditional markets, the bank’s researchers say. Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrency adoption may not necessarily make its price higher in dollar terms, Goldman Sachs argues.In a note seen by Bloomberg published Thursday, the international banking giant claimed that mainstream acceptance of crypto assets would increase their correlation to other mainstream asset classes.Goldman: Adoption is a “double-edged sword”In a view contrary to that of many Bitcoin proponents, Goldman sounded firmly uninspired by the prospect of crypto as a tool for the....

Goldman Sachs’s words have been interpreted as a sign that the cryptocurrency craze may be coming to an end. The analysts at this global banking powerhouse say they don’t see mainstream adoption boosting the crypto industry soon. Unfortunately, that means bad news for those who bought bitcoin or other crypto assets on hope chests full-force optimism about its value increases exponentially over time. Cryptocurrencies are becoming more and more popular as the adoption rate for Bitcoin increases. The strategists tell Bloomberg that correlation has started to occur with other macro....

IT consulting giant Infosys believes that estimates for how long it will take blockchain technology to achieve mainstream adoption are greatly exaggerated. According to Infosys principal technology architect Peter Loop, work on blockchain applications will benefit from an accelerating pace of overall tech adoption that will soon put pressure on existing legacy financial solutions. "It’s not 10 years away. It’s years or less away. The way the pace of technology works, the way continuous integration works, these things will be integrated pretty quickly once it happens," Loop said in a new....

Bitcoin has been around for about 7 years now and its adoption is gradually picking up. But when we say that bitcoin adoption is picking up and lot of people are using it to make payments etc., we are actually referring to only a fraction of total world's population. We have been reading about forecasts that say "bitcoin is going mainstream", but how can we call that "going mainstream" when bitcoin adoption is less than a meagre 1 percent. READ MORE: Bitcoin Community to Hit 5 Million Mark by 2019. Is bitcoin ever going to be mainstream? Banks incorporating bitcoin technology for their....