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Payment companies Mercado Pago, Visa, Stripe, Mastercard and the eBay online trading platform have left the digital currency project Libra, the largest social network Facebook, according to the Financial Times. “We respect the vision of the Libra Association. However, eBay decided not to move forward as a founding member. Currently, we are focused on introducing the managed payment option for our users, ”said representatives […]

The author of the initiative to create an alternative version of the digital currency Libra incorrectly provided information about some of the project participants. So, representatives of Tendermint, Chainlink, Web3 Foundation and Hashed denied their participation in it, CoinDesk reports. Earlier this week, during the Devcon5 conference in Osaka, Wireline co-founder Lucas Geiger introduced the OpenLibra initiative, designed to become the "non-corporate version of Libra" […]

Since 2016, global investments in blockchain technology have increased five-fold and their total volume has reached $ 2.7 billion. This was stated by Olga Skorobogatova, Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, writes TASS. According to her, these figures testify to the interest of states in the new technology. “Against the background of investments in other technologies, this is not so much, but it is significant […]

One of the largest payment systems in China, Alipay, has announced its intention to block any payments related to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The fact that Alipay will become one of the gateways through which users from China will be able to buy bitcoin the day before was announced by the head of the Binance exchange, Changpeng Zhao. However, the company itself refutes this possibility. If any transactions are identified as being […]

The Masterchain blockchain platform received a certificate from the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation that it uses Russian cryptography standards and meets information security requirements. This was reported by representatives of the FinTech Association. In addition, the mechanism of embedding the platform in a decentralized depository system (DDS) was approved. “Masterchain certification allows us to talk about the platform’s readiness for industrial operation. Currently, DDS is being launched to account for electronic mortgages for […]