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ForkLog 10 15.04.2021

AXA Begins Accepting Bitcoin Payments in Switzerland

The Swiss unit of AXA Group, one of the world's largest insurers, has added an option for clients to pay premiums in the first cryptocurrency.

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ForkLog 5 13.04.2021

Experts weigh the odds of Russia being cut off from Visa and MasterCard and Bitcoin’s role in the scenario

Russian residents could be cut off from international payment systems Visa and MasterCard if Western countries continue to pursue a sanctions policy, said Dmitry Peskov, the president's press secretary.

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ForkLog 10 08.04.2021

Billionaire Rick Caruso’s company to accept rent payments in Bitcoin.

The American development company Caruso, owned by billionaire Rick Caruso, will begin accepting Bitcoin as rent for residential and commercial real estate.

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ForkLog 11 30.03.2021

Media: PayPal to allow paying with Bitcoin at partner merchants

In the coming months, the payments giant PayPal will enable users to pay for purchases with Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Litecoin at 29 million points of sale. Reuters reports, citing the forthcoming statement from the company.

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ForkLog 52 29.03.2021

airBaltic adds ability to pay for tickets with Ethereum and Dogecoin

The Latvian airline airBaltic has added the option to pay for tickets with Ethereum, Dogecoin, Bitcoin Cash, USD Coin, Binance Dollar, Gemini Dollar and Paxos.

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ForkLog 9 17.03.2021

Visa chief reveals details of the company’s crypto strategy

Visa, the payments company, has set itself the goal of leveraging opportunities related to new technologies and methods of transferring funds. This was stated by its chief Alfred Kelly in a Fortune podcast.

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ForkLog 10 11.03.2021

Thailand’s largest cinema chain begins accepting Bitcoin

Thai cinema chain Major Cineplex Group has launched a pilot project that will allow moviegoers to pay for tickets with cryptocurrency. Local media report this.

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ForkLog 6 26.02.2021

Mastercard says bitcoin is ill-suited for payments

Bitcoin does not behave like a payment instrument — it is highly volatile and a transaction takes too long, said Mastercard Executive Chairman Ann Cairns in an interview with MarketWatch.

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ForkLog 10 24.02.2021

Alan Howard and NYDIG back Bottlepay’s micro-payments service in a $15.5 million seed round

The Bottlepay bitcoin payments service attracted £11 million (~$15.5 million) in a seed round. Participants included billionaire Alan Howard, partners at the Goldman Sachs investment bank, the FinTech Collective venture firm and NYDIG. The funding will go toward expanding the team, developing the service’s functionality, and entering new markets. “The £11 million raise and a £51 million valuation speak to the scale of Bottlepay’s ambitions, capable of revolutionising payment solutions,” said Mark Webster, Bottlepay’s chief executive.

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ForkLog 9 22.02.2021

Former Bank of England governor joins Stripe board

Mark Carney, who led the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England from 2008 to 2020, has joined Stripe's board.

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ForkLog 7 19.02.2021

Portuguese electricity provider Luzboa to accept bitcoin payments for electricity bills

The Portuguese electricity provider Luzboa plans to add bitcoin payment support for 5,000 customers. Local publication Expresso reports this.

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ForkLog 17 03.02.2021

Visa to test solution to integrate bitcoin payments with banks

The payments company Visa announced testing of a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that will allow customers of traditional banks to buy and sell digital assets such as Bitcoin.

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