The retailer will accept 15 cryptocurrencies for both online and in-store purchases.
A supermajority of the El Salvadoran legislature voted to adopt bitcoin as legal tender early Wednesday morning.
WeChat Pay and Alipay are scrambling to keep up with regulators after recent announcements regarding initial coin offerings and cryptocurrencies.
UBS doesn't believe bitcoin constitutes money or a viable asset class yet, but it could in the future.
Ripple said today that it will have Kahina Van Dyke, who previously worked at Facebook, as its new senior VP of business and corporate development.
A pair of Walmart patent applications discuss encrypting payment information using a blockchain.