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If you don’t have anything better to do during the holidays, and you’ve thought about wandering around the beautiful grounds of porn sites, you might want to become a bitcoiner.Recently, Visa and Mastercard —the two leading credit card companies in the world— revoked support for payment to Pornhub, after an investigation by The New York Times revealed that the website was being used as a kind of underground repository for videos of non-consensual, violent sex and even child pornography.The...

The crypto space and the traditional banking space appear to be one and the same as of late. There have been several crypto-based companies that are seeking to either establish their own banks or establish themselves as banks, and Paxos Trust – the official crypto partner of digital payment system PayPal Holdings Ltd. – is the latest firm to travel this route.Paxos Trust Is Trying To Become a Little MoreThe company has recently submitted paperwork with the Office of the Comptroller of the...

Die Kreditkartenfirmen Mastercard und Visa haben angekündigt, dass ihre Karten künftig nicht mehr auf der pornografischen Webseite Pornhub eingesetzt werden können. Die entsprechenden Verbindungen würden blockiert, teilten die beiden US-Unternehmen mit. Der Schritt steht in Zusammenhang mit einem Bericht der Zeitung „New York Times“ und dem Schweizer Fernsehen. Demzufolge zeigten viele der bei Pornhub...

Momentan gibt es fast keine Branche, in welcher Jobs geschaffen werden. Aktuell schaffen lediglich die beiden Branchen Blockchain und Fracking Jobs. Transferwise hat soeben 750 weitere Jobs angekündigt, welche global geschaffen werden. Aber vor allem auch die grossen Bitcoin-Börsen sind wahre Job-Wunder, wie das Magazin Cryptonews in einem Artikel aufzählt. Transferwise startete im Jahr 2011 mit 3...

A year after PayPal suspended transactions for the leading adult website Pornhub, MasterCard, and Visa have followed the example in the midst of child abuse allegations.With cryptocurrencies remaining one of the few available options for payments, the question stands if such association is indeed positive for the industry.Visa and MasterCard Block Use Of Cards On PornhubThe popular adult website has attracted lots of negative attention to itself in the past few years. The situation worsened...

Der Schweizer Markt gehört zu den am schnellsten wachsenden Märkten von Revolut in Europa. zusammen mit Ländern wie Italien, Portugal, Irland, Rumänien und Polen. Ein grosses Problem all dieser Neo- und Challenger Banke ist, dass die meisten ihre Services nur in einer Smartphone App zur Verfügung stellen. Erst wenn man mal im Ausland ist, die App nicht funktioniert oder das...

Visa, a global financial services company and credit card giant, has partnered with Circle Internet Financial, a leading crypto fintech startup, to integrate the latter’s stablecoin.Visa Taps USDC for Digital PaymentsAccording to Forbes, on Dec. 2, Visa will be adopting Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) into its credit card platforms. The collaboration between both companies would see the use of the stablecoin to send and receive payments.Although Visa will not be a custodian to the USDC, Circle will...

The US-based cryptocurrency lending company BlockFi has partnered with the American multinational financial services corporation Visa to bring Bitcoin to the masses.Bloomberg reported that the two US companies will offer a credit card that rewards clients’ purchases with the primary cryptocurrency, instead of traditional options such as cash and airline miles.Dubbed the Bitcoin Rewards Credit Card, it will allow customers to receive 1.5% of their purchases back in BTC. Should the user spend...

Hey Informanten, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 1026. Im heutigen Video geht’s um folgende Themen: Coinbase führt ETH 2.0 Staking ein, Chef der Börse Stuttgart wird neuer BitMex CEO & Visa und BlockFi launchen Bitcoin Reward Kreditkarte. 1.) Ethereum 2.0: Coinbase führt Staking einhttps://www.btc-echo.de/ethereum-2-0-coinbase-fuehrt-staking-ein/ 2.) BitMEX: Chef der Börse Stuttgart wird ab 2021 neuer...

Bitcoin has recovered somewhat since its recent drop into the low $17,000 range. Just yesterday, the currency was trading for slightly over the $17K line, but the asset has since added about $800 to its price and brought itself up out of the gutter. The currency is not where it was during the early portion of the week, though it is beginning to show signs of recovery.Bitcoin Is Coming BackThese last two months have been huge for bitcoin given how much attention and praise it’s gotten. Things...