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Venezuelan authorities have ordered the termination of operations with payment systems Visa and MasterCard because of sanctions from the United States. This is stated in a joint statement by the Central Bank of the country and the Department for Supervision of the Banking Sector under the Ministry of Economy and Finance, signed on May 16. It is expected that operations on debit cards Visa and MasterCard will be stopped from November 30, 2019, […]

The US Senate Banking Committee has demanded Facebook Inc. provide information about a secret cryptocurrency project codenamed Libra. Lawmakers are interested in exactly how the company intends to process the personal data of users of this proposed payment system. Representatives of the committee stressed that last year, Facebook requested data about its users from US banks. They added that many experts believe […]

The founder of the Ethereum smart contract platform, Vitaly Buterin, cited an interesting fact from his biography, saying that in 2013 he wanted to get an internship at the California-based company OpenCoin, which was later renamed Ripple Labs. According to him, this happened in the middle of 2013, when he lived in Canada. He, however, was denied a visa, because according to […]