Global eCommerce marketplaces have conquered online retail in recent years. In 2019, sales on global marketplaces reached $2 trillion, which is 52% of all online retail in the world. Amazon became the first place for product search long ago, outracing Google 59% of all online shoppers search for products right on Amazon avoiding the biggest online search engine.
One use case is the option of making multiple micro-transactions in a row, and so to speak turning payments into a continuous digital cash flow. Imagine, paying for subscriptions by the second. Once you have a payment channel established, sending satoshis over the browser is as simple as watching a video online.
Bitcoin Bunny is ready for the Lightning Network
Who is going to send the torch to Switzerland at the speed of light? Potz Blitz! Heiland Zack! :-)
Meet Bitcoin Bunny on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Payment21_XBT/status/1093504791035162624
The new Global Cryptoasset Benchmarking Study by the University of Cambridge (UK) is out. The second edition provides insights into the current state of the industry. Payment21 is one of 180 entities from 47 countries selected for the survey. Highlights from the report:
A Little Bit of Money
Thought Experiments on Cross-Border Payments - Of Couriers, Bankers, and Bitcoiners
Intentional Delays by Banks are a Myth
Read a preview of the e-book: "The Ins and Outs of Bitcoin for Merchants”. It is the second part of Chapter 10.
Learn more about how blockchains get attacked and how Bitcoin got hacked now! See:
http://ithare.com/how-blockchains-get-attacked-and-how-bitcoin-got-hacke...
A Little Bit of Money
Thought Experiments on Cross-Border Payments - Of Couriers, Bankers, and Bitcoiners
The Black Hole of the Banking Galaxy and Other Horrors
Read a preview of the e-book: "The Ins and Outs of Bitcoin for Merchants”. It is the first part of Chapter 10. See:
http://ithare.com/how-blockchains-get-attacked-and-how-bitcoin-got-hacke...
There’s a lot of material out there about Bitcoin, but not very much of it deals with the practical realities of using it as money. Most publications emphasize what Bitcoin is currently trading at, and how cryptocurrencies may evolve even further as an asset class in the future.
A Little Bit of Money
Thought Experiments on Cross-Border Payments - Of Couriers, Bankers, and Bitcoiners
Series 22: Tangled International Wires
How Legacy Cross-Border Payments Work Today
A Little Bit of Money
Thought Experiments on Cross-Border Payments - Of Couriers, Bankers, and Bitcoiners
Series 21: The Enlightenment of Money
Protest against stereotyping cryptocurrency as high-risk
The Swiss Bitcoin processor implements the Risk Management Platform of Coinfirm, to utilize blockchain analysis tools for AML-compliant cryptocurrency transactions.
London, United Kingdom and Sankt Gallen, Switzerland – March 8th, 2018: Payment21, a Swiss-based Bitcoin processor which provides AML-compliant cryptocurrency transactions, has partnered with the blockchain RegTech leader Coinfirm.
A Little Bit of Money
Thought Experiments on Cross-Border Payments - Of Couriers, Bankers, and Bitcoiners
Series 20: The Winds of Change in Capitalism
Satoshi is a transitional object
There are too many non-transparent ICOs. Their unrealistic promises to contributors displace legitimate TGEs in the market. That's one of the reasons why the crowdfunding industry needs to be regulated on a practical level.
Economics provides us with a theoretical explanation for the current dilemma. It is the so-called “lemons problem” referring to problems arising from asymmetric information. See: "The Market for Lemons."
A Little Bit of Money
Thought Experiments on Cross-Border Payments - Of Couriers, Bankers, and Bitcoiners
Series 19: Towards Dialogue and New Policies
The age of digitization: anonymity and trustless business relations
Begin accepting digital payments in 5 easy steps