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According to the latest announcements, Mastercard, the financial payments services giant has been granted several new patent approvals this week regarding the implementation of several blockchain technologies into their existing…

A patent application from Mastercard suggests that the payments giant is eyeing blockchain as part of a way to verify the authenticity of coupons. Posted by Stan Higgins on May 31, 2018 @…

Furthering its interest in blockchain-based technology, MasterCard has filed a patent for a system designated to increase the speed with which blockchain nodes are being verified.   It seems the bees in the company’s crypto…

A Mastercard patent application outlines how nodes could be quickly added to a blockchain. Posted by Nikhilesh De on April 30, 2018 @ https://www.coindesk.com/mastercard-seeks-patent-fast-track-blockchain-navigation/ If you want to…

Revolut is a banking app that lets you buy Bitcoin, transfer money, operate a prepaid debit card, buy insurance products and a lot more. It's been pretty popular, having onboarded 1.7 million users and processed $10B worth of transactions…

Mastercard has their hiring eye on blockchain specialists. The massive corporation seeks to further incorporate the technology into their company and needs skilled help to do it. Long gone are the days when “blockchain” was a…

This week in Canada has been marked by another blow delivered to Bitcoin from the traditional banking system. Several large banks have disallowed purchases of Bitcoin using the cards they've issued. In particular, these two large banks…

An executive confirms that Mastercard is open to the use of cryptocurrency, but there is a major catch involved. Banks have notoriously been steadfast in their opposition to cryptocurrencies, and this is for a very good reason.…

Bitwala just emailed out an inspiring vision update, - they are good at inspiring updates - they are almost ready with a "blockchain-driven bank" in Germany, that will offer simple fiat-crypto-fiat transfers, German IBAN accounts for all…

Following the recent VISA and MasterCard ban of WaveCrest, a debit card issuer popular with prepaid bitcoin card providers, finding a provider with working ATM cards has been a problem. The companies try to adapt and find alternative…

Earlier Bankera, an ambitious startup intended to cover the crypto "banking" sphere, has announced it's almost ready to issue new prepaid Bitcoin ATM cards that work. This could not have been timed better, considering both Visa's and…

Sad news for everyone used to cashing out their Bitcoin through ATM cards. AdvCash, a company based in Belize, was one of the few that kept providing working cryptocurrency ATM cards after the recent Visa ban. We've been recommending…