The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has focused on the role of Apple and Google in mobile payments with a critical eye.
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Nonfungible tokens are being used to reinvigorate postage stamp collecting in Austria and the Netherlands.
7106A data analyst on the Isle of Man demonstrated how contactless payments work on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network using an NFC enabled Bolt Card.
5479About 40% of vintage whisky bottles were either fake or not produced when claimed.
5030A South Korean county with a population of mostly elderly residents has seen a strong rise in stablecoin adoption.
3913A new cryptocurrency hardware wallet stores private keys securely and fully isolated, while NFC technology enables authorization of transactions through a mobile device.
6845Italian winery adopts NFC-enabled closures to its wines, adding tasting notes, reviews, and blockchain-based authentication.
3508Dutch bank ABN AMRO announced that it is launching a blockchain inventory tracking platform dubbed Forcefield.
3904New all-in-one crypto 'banks' rival ordinary brick-and-mortar institutions, provide additional benefits.
25331General Bytes is the manufacturer of the Bitcoin-only Red Bull vending machine installed recently at Hackers Congress. GB marketing guru Martijn Wismeijer tells us all about secrets of manufacturing Bitcoin ATMs.
1694There are many reasons why Near Field Communications (NFC) NFC is beneficial to consumers but as with many modern technologies; it doesn’t come without its risks.
4007South Korea’s leading Fintech startups are set to file a petition with the Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) against Apple Pay for their violation of local laws on consumer protection.
805Plutus.it has launched a contactless payment application called Tap & Pay.
1479If you’ve seen movies like Idiocracy, even at the future’s lowest level of technological advancement, people will be scanning body parts to get through life.
1164OneBit, a bitcoin wallet app that enables its users to pay with bitcoin at any credit card accepting store, has entered the alpha stage of development.
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