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Payment giant PayPal is still wary of cryptocurrencies, said John Rayne, the company's CFO, in an interview with Yahoo Finance. He noted that PayPal has already tested the ability for merchants to accept Bitcoins for payment. However, the company found that users preferred to convert cryptocurrency to Fiat as quickly as possible, probably due to volatility. At the same time, Rainey added that PayPal will continue to study […]

Microsoft Corporation, in collaboration with JPMorgan American financial holding, will improve Quorum blockchain platform, CoinDesk reports. The platform developers, together with Microsoft experts, reconstructed the privacy architecture. In particular, they replaced Constellation’s privacy engine, written in the Haskell programming language, with Tessera’s Java manager. As the head of Quorum, Oli Haris, said, the changes will make the blockchain platform more attractive […]

Member of the US Congress Brad Sherman called for a law to prohibit the purchase of cryptocurrency. He made such a statement during a meeting of the Financial Services Committee. Today in Congress Rep. Sherman called for a bill to ban all cryptocurrencies. This is why the Coin Center is needed in DC now more than ever. pic.twitter.com/jgikm7z8bI – Coin Center (@coincenter) May 9 […]

The operator of the same name blockchain platform tZERO, a subsidiary of the retail giant Overstock, has closed a $ 5 million financing round from Hong Kong venture capital firm GSR Capital. Initially it was assumed that the company will receive $ 400 million, reports CoinDesk. Last summer, Overstock and GSR Capital signed an agreement under which GSR pledged to acquire a stake in tZERO in the amount of $ 270 million, Overstock shares for $ 104.55 […]

The largest social network Facebook can announce the launch of its own cryptocurrency in the third quarter of this year, reports Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the situation. The first country where the new steyblecoin will be tested is supposed to be India. Here, ordinary payments are already being tested on the basis of WhatsApp Pay's Facebook service. In addition, it is reported that to work on the project the company […]

Craig Wright, a senior researcher at nChain, failed again in an attempt to prove that he was the creator of Bitcoin. “The address list of Satoshi Nakamoto,” which the entrepreneur submitted to the court in the framework of the proceedings with the Kleimanov family, turned out to be copy-paste. This was reported by representatives of the company WizSec. Case No. 9: 18-cv-80176 (BB / BR) by ForkLog on Scribd Despite the fact that in the public version […]