Sentences with phrase «major digital currency companies»

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The Switzerland - based company, whose service lets users instantly convert one type of digital currency to another, built an API that allows Overstock to accept any major digital currency and get paid in bitcoin on the backend.

This partnership marks another major milestone in the acceptance of bitcoin worldwide, as larger and more global companies embrace the digital currency.

From our early roots of being the first company in the world to build a fully - integrated Bitcoin pilot system for a major bank, over the subsequent few years launching consumer wallets, exchanges, and merchant services to become the market leader in Southeast Asia and Africa, starting to build our UK presence in 2016 and now finally launching across the wider Europe: we are now one giant leap closer to our goal of bringing digital currency to everyone, everywhere.

«Major bitcoin industry companies including Digital Currency Group (DCG) subsidiary Genesis Trading and bitcoin hedge fund Binary Financial are set to participate in a government auction of just over 44,000 BTC (worth $ 18.3 m at press time) to be held on Thursday.»

It may be early days in Canada for fintechs, a catchphrase for new innovative financial technology startups, and major technology companies that are challenging traditional financial institutions on their turf by offering cheaper and easier - to - use Internet - or smartphone - based services such as payment apps or peer - to - peer lending or digital currencies, but Canada's Big Six banks are paying heed even though they appear to be on solid ground.

Lack of capital is still a major issue, in spite of 2017 being a record - breaking year, and many companies are attracted to using digital currencies to crowdfund as opposed to going through the motions with more traditional investors.

However off late this premier digital currency company founded by Airbnb engineer Brian Armstrong has affected a major change in its stance by informing customers via email about its forthcoming introduction of Bitcoin cash from 1st January 2018.

Make what you will of this wave of enthusiasm for digital currencies, but their surging popularity is now also drawing scrutiny from governments and major tech advertising companies like Facebook.

Speculation that some major Japanese banks will start trading bitcoin as a currency like the Yen, Dollar and Euro Company share prices increasing in value due to links with digital currencies

The digital currency has massive potential in the region where major financial institutions have espoused the company's blockchain technologies.

As reported by Bloomberg, Soros» firm is the third - largest shareholder of the e-commerce company — which, in addition to notably becoming the first major retailer to accept digital currencies as a valid form of payment in August 2017, plans on starting its own cryptocurrency exchange and offering its own digital coins.

Rakuten wants is digital currency services to solve two major aspects of the company.

There is a lot of work that still needs to be done before digital currency truly goes mainstream, but the fact that major companies are dealing with the new technology bodes well for long - term adoption.

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the ongoing Bitcoin block size debate and the stance taken by major companies active in the digital currency world.

The companies claim that H.I.S. is the first major company in the Japanese travel industry to accept the digital currency.