Overshadowed by its decision to cut bitcoin services, Circle announced new tech yesterday. Here's how it works.
While momentum for bitcoin as a consumer payment method has waned, Bitcoin Black Friday is still attracting attention from merchants its fifth year on. The event, a bitcoin version of the usually aggressive, post-Thanksgiving shopping spree, started in 2012 as what its founder Jon Holmquist calls “a half-baked idea”. But that impromptu first year has blossomed […]
Russian payments firm QIWI has joined the R3 blockchain consortium.
ACI's new central bank blockchain prototype demonstrates the potential for distributed ledgers to change global banking infrastructures.
More than 50 credit unions are now laying the groundwork for what they believe could become the financial industry's first live blockchain project.
Distributed ledger tech will form the “foundation” of financial services infrastructure, according to a new report by the World Economic Forum.
Russian payments firm Qiwi now estimates it could upgrade its core database to a distributed ledger-based system by 2021.
Research from financial services giant Credit Suisse examines how the stock performance of incumbent financial firms could be impacted by blockchain.
A new research report by banking giant Citi asserts that it does not view bitcoin and other digital currencies as a disruptive threat.
IBM's Martin Hagelstrom looks at how bitcoin can achieve growth in a market full of digital payments systems run by tech and finance giants.
Russian payments firm Qiwi is currently designing its own proprietary blockchain system in an effort to replace its central payments database.
Distributed ledgers are often referred to as a new database technology, but could they come to replace existing payments rails?
CoinDesk interviews Circle founders Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville about their $76m blockchain payments company, its market strategy and its future.
CGI Group has become the latest firm to integrate distributed ledgers into an existing payments product.
Earthport discusses how it is achieving the efficiencies many associate with "blockchain" without using a digital asset or alternative currency.