Visa Pilots Stablecoin Prefunding To Modernize Cross-Border Payments

Visa is launching a stablecoin prefunding pilot through Visa Direct, in a bid to make cross-border payments faster and more flexible. Visa Direct Will Utilize Stablecoins For The First Time Payments giant Visa has announced a new pilot program for Visa Direct, the firm’s real-time global payments platform. According to the announcement, which occurred at […]

Chinese National At Center Of Historic $6.7B Crypto Bust Pleads Guilty

A Chinese national, “Zhimin Qian” (also known as “Yadi Zhang”), has pleaded guilty in London to offences linked to what authorities call one of the largest cryptocurrency seizures on record. Related Reading: Crypto Kings: Singapore And UAE Dominate Global Digital Currency Usage – Study According to court records, she admitted two counts under the Proceeds […]

Bitcoin Core Vs Knots Is Old News — Satoshi Fought The Same War 15 Years Ago

A fresh round of sparring between Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots over “arbitrary data” and policy defaults is ricocheting across X, but the argument’s bones are older than many remember. As Bitcoin developer Peter Todd put it on Sunday, “Good read. tl;dr: everything that has been said about Core vs Knots has already been said […]

Nick Szabo Drops Bombshell: Bitcoin Core v30.0 Faces Legal Nightmare

Bitcoin’s next major software release, Bitcoin Core v30.0, has reignited a fraught debate over what kinds of data should be permitted to traverse and settle on the network—and who could bear legal responsibility when that data is illicit. On Monday, cryptography pioneer Nick Szabo weighed in with a pointed warning: changes in v30.0 that relax […]

US Bitcoin ETFs Post $900M Net Outflows In Past Week – Details

The US spot Bitcoin ETFs (exchange-traded funds) endured some of the most difficult days in recent months over the past week. With the market sentiment flipping and the BTC price stalling, several US investors cashed out on their positions in the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap. After posting strong performances over the past few […]

Crypto Gamble Wipes Out 87% Of Smart Digital Group’s Market Value

Smart Digital Group’s Nasdaq-listed shares collapsed after the company announced plans to build a cryptocurrency asset pool focused on Bitcoin and Ethereum. Related Reading: Fed Chair Choice May Be Bitcoin’s Biggest Bull Trigger, CEO Says The selloff wiped out a huge chunk of market value in a single day, with the stock plunging roughly 87% […]