Sentences with phrase «chain transactions at»

Cleverly utilizing Bitcoin's programmable elements (e.g., multi-signature and timelock) lightning users should be able to make a virtually unlimited number of off - chain transactions at low cost, potentially boosting Bitcoin's micropayment - ability and overall scalability.

Not exact matches

About a fourth of Sweetgreen's transactions are already made through the chain's app, and the company plans to roll out a new mobile - optimized online ordering system at all locations by the end of the year.

While Starbucks may not be the first company that springs to mind when it comes to e-commerce, 21 % of all transactions at the chain are made using mobile devices, in part due to the company's thriving loyalty program.

The definitions and graphic below outline this payment chain and the typical flow of a Square payment transaction, along with the types of fees typically paid and received at each stage.

However, cardholders who frequently shop at luxury retail chains like Saks Fifth Avenue are more likely to purchase high - ticket items regularly; therefore, it will be extremely difficult to distinguish fraudulent transactions from those of a legitimate nature, allowing criminals to abuse stolen payment cards and remain undetected for a longer period of time.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to: changes in consumer discretionary spending; our eCommerce platform not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the streamlining of the Company's vendor base and execution of the Company's new merchandising strategy not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the amount that we invest in strategic transactions and the timing and success of those investments; the integration of strategic acquisitions being more difficult, time - consuming, or costly than expected; inventory turn; changes in the competitive market and competition amongst retailers; changes in consumer demand or shopping patterns and our ability to identify new trends and have the right trending products in our stores and on our website; changes in existing tax, labor and other laws and regulations, including those changing tax rates and imposing new taxes and surcharges; limitations on the availability of attractive retail store sites; omni - channel growth; unauthorized disclosure of sensitive or confidential customer information; risks relating to our private brand offerings and new retail concepts; disruptions with our eCommerce platform, including issues caused by high volumes of users or transactions, or our information systems; factors affecting our vendors, including supply chain and currency risks; talent needs and the loss of Edward W. Stack, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; developments with sports leagues, professional athletes or sports superstars; weather - related disruptions and seasonality of our business; and risks associated with being a controlled company.

So, when the chains will split, you are at risk of losing your coins on one chain on making transaction at the other.

«While it is obviously very important to structure a transaction that is legally sound and that achieves the desired accounting treatment for our client, we strive to create solutions that go beyond fulfilling the minimum requirements,» states Anil Walia, head of global trade and supply chain advisory at RBS.

Once you finish a block transaction in every mining process, you will be required to apply a hash algorithm, which in turn creates the next block at the end of that block chain.

But by looking at chains of transactions in the public blockchain, it's possible to identify transaction patterns, and with enough effort, often the real - world owner of a specific address.

This reduces the need to wait for a transaction to be included in a block at the end of the chain.

First - time buyers are the lifeblood of the housing market with each transaction having knock on effects further up the chain and creating churn, something which is desperately needed at the moment.

They collected 648 customer surveys and transaction receipts at seven restaurant outlets of one large full - service restaurant chain.

Can you see where some of the folks working in customer service at Amazon, arguably not the highest up in the food chain, might not even have taken a moment to think where these refunds would be coming from (simply pushing the transaction through to the «account» in question)?

Aside from the borrower, all parties involved in the securitization chain experienced healthy profits because they were able to sell each derivative at a slight premium, multiplied over a high volume of transactions each year.

Also, travelers in need of account activity can often gain miles when paying for rental cars and rooms at hotel chains, which may let the cardholder select the airline to credit for the transaction.

Mr. Cutshaw previously served as president, chief development officer, and chief legal officer for a global restaurant chain; partner at a US - based law firm focusing on international transactions; senior executive with the U. Government; and cofounder of the post-Soviet private university Georgian American University in the Country of Georgia, where he served as its first Dean of Law and Provost.

Traditionally, supply chain transactions are completed manually, creating delays and a higher risk for recording error, which can cause differences between what was recorded and what was actually loaded,» wrote Chris O'Connor the General Manager at Internet of Things Offerings for IBM.

If the B2X chain does not have replay protection, transactions will be valid on both chains at the same time.

At 13:20 UTC on August 1, 2017, «Bitcoin Cash» forked from the main Bitcoin block 478559, inheriting all previous blocks in the chain, but rejecting Bitcoin and Bitcoin block transactions henceforth.

SegWit's goal is to boost the blockchain's transaction capacity by sending transactions off - chain and onto second layers like the Lightning Network, which is all about creating a global credit network that will tie up funds for at least half year, and really, how many people have six months available to place into a bank?

Cleverly utilizing Bitcoin's programmable elements (like multisignature and time - locks), lightning users should be able to make a virtually unlimited number of off - chain transactions with instant confirmations and at low cost.

Public blockchain supporters would argue, well if all you're doing is putting hashes somewhere without giving away any trade facts, then why not use Bitcoin's blockchain as it is the most tamper - resistant and battle - tested chain, and the cost of transactions can be kept low by bundling data and committing the bundle at once — using techniques like Merkle trees.

The OpenST utility chains also extend the established ETH gas market to pay for transaction fees, but the utility chains can run at lower cost because Mosaic validators can operate in a collaborative environment guarded by Ethereum's adversarial Proof - of - Work.

«While some blockchain communities have increased on - chain transaction capacity (e.g. blocksize increases), this approach generally degrades the decentralized state of the network and can not reach the millions of transactions per second the system would generate at world - scale,» Alex Simons, director of program management at Microsoft Identity Division, wrote in a blog post.

«We're hard at work preparing our Spring release, 1.7, for your pleasure; upcoming we have 2 - factor wallets, an enhanced transaction inspection and development environment, HD account chains, the Parity light - client protocol and the various improvements to the Ethereum protocol that will make up Metropolis.»

Alice can pay Bob several off - chain transactions, but Bob can not pay Alice through the same channel at all.

At the same time, the Lightning Network has made considerable gains in adoption since its own release less than two months ago, providing an «off - chain» scaling solution which could reduce the average transaction fee and wait time to virtually zero.

At that point, sending a transaction that includes a small amount to the address above on the Legacy chain will not be replayable on the 2x chain.

Would it be possible to use one batched transaction to open multiple channels at once with just one on - chain transaction?

On - chain transactions on Decred take five minutes on average to settle (they take 10 minutes on Bitcoin), which is awkward at best when you want to pay for something on the spot.

From Charles's perspective, SegWit will not sufficiently lower on - chain transaction fees, which he sees as the key issue for users at this time.

While some blockchain communities have increased on - chain transaction capacity (e.g. blocksize increases), this approach generally degrades the decentralized state of the network and can not reach the millions of transactions per second the system would generate at world - scale.

While the original Medium post regarding the New York Agreement claimed the signatories accounted for $ 5.1 billion worth of monthly on - chain transaction volume (more than half of the entire network for April), the general view of SegWit2x from bitcoin holders is unclear at this time.

If you're going to avoid an on - chain transaction fee with your bitcoin payments, then you'll likely be holding your coins in a bitcoin bank, such as Coinbase or Xapo, with the receiver of your payment also having an account at that particular bitcoin bank.

It might seem like a small change, but every optimization could matter, especially at a time when on - chain transaction fees are increasing (and could increase even more if the cryptocurrencies become more popular).

Although they ran into difficulty at first, they were able to complete the swap via on - chain transactions through Decred's repo wallet.

If PayPal's technology can be implemented at a large commercial scale, it could allow cryptocurrency payments to be processed between merchants and buyers instantly and off - chain, eliminating large transaction fees and most importantly, long verification periods.

If one of the blockchains has significantly more frequent blocks than the other, one can create two transactions: One with a nLocktime for the next block on the faster chain, and another that spends at least one of the inputs from the first transaction with a very high fee.

Yet, the transaction chain that links your wallet to an account at a Fiat money exchange can easily reveal you.

With these transactions taking place off chain, the result is an almost instantaneous transaction, at a much cheaper rate.

While proposed Layer 2 protocols are at an early stage and haven't been outlined in detail, they essentially work by sending transactions to an «off - chain» platform.

Towards TenX's goal of making a platform that seamlessly integrates multiple currencies for real world use, they have leveraged the COMIT (Cryptographically - secure Off - chain Multi-asset Instant Transaction) protocol that connects every blockchain, which was originally developed at MIT.

New transactions are registered and compiled in batches called «blocks» at regular time intervals; the blocks are created via the process called «Bitcoin mining» and added to the end of the «chain» of all the existing blocks, hence the name for the system.

«The only restaurants we are looking at are a few chains where we have relationships, as well as some of the larger transactions,» according to Lewis.

Kushner and its partners put out a request for funds in October, but the agreement's closure has been slowed as it was run up the chain of command at JPMorgan, according to one person familiar with the transaction.