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Ethereum co-founder Mihai Alisie has spoken up on his concern that Libra is, and will potentially remain, a centralized digital currency.

A spokesperson for Calibra, Facebook’s new digital wallet, says it will not be available in U.S.-sanctioned countries, or those that have banned cryptocurrencie...

Token says it will use the investment to develop its operating system and “accelerate new ways of innovating payments with digital money and ID solutions.”

In the wake of CCN’s Google saga, CT looks at which centralized companies have been hostile to crypto firms in the past.

Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Uber and others have allegedly each invested around $10 million in the governance consortium.

Sources tell the Wall Street Journal there exist multiple plans for integrating the coin into the lives of users.

A report from DataLight claims that if development continues, Bitcoin will pass all competition from extant payment networks.

Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan and Mastercard CEO Ajaypal Banga agreed that there is still no clear blockchain-based business model.

Accenture will work with major firms including Mastercard and Amazon Web Services to introduce a DLT-based circular supply chain.

Remittance company SendFriend has received a $1.7 million investment from investors including Ripple, Mastercard Foundation, MIT Media Lab and Barclays.

Mastercard has filed a patent that aims to anonymize transactions on a blockchain, rather than just the user behind any individual wallet.

A peer-to-peer marketplace that enables people to buy Bitcoin using more than 300 payment methods is experiencing growing demand.

The CEO of Visa said that cryptocurrency does not pose a threat to the company’s “hegemony” since it is “more a commodity” than a means of payment.

Payment processing giant Mastercard wants to patent a new method of simultaneous crypto and fiat storage.

Are Mastercard and VISA about to deem crypto and ICOs ‘high risk’?