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Largest global blockchain payments provider BitPay has announced the option for businesses and merchants to receive settlement in Gemini Dollar (GUSD) and Circle and the CENTRE USD//Coin (USDC). Both the digital currencies are stable coins pegged to the U.S. Dollar. Previously,...

Start-ups promising to strike it rich by capitalizing on the assuredly impending rise of bitcoin have attracted investors of all walks. Venture capitalists who have been, as an industry, hyped by decades of exponential returns on tech firms, outsiders just trying to get in on the...

Financial technology firm Circle announced Wednesday $60 million in strategic financing from a cohort of prominent Chinese investors, as well as the formation of Circle China. The Boston-based company said in a blog post the financing was led by Beijing-based IDG Capital...

Santander UK, a division of the Spanish retail and commercial bank, announced last week it is introducing blockchain technology for global payments through a new app. The bank said in a press release it is the first in the UK to use this technology to transfer live international...

Financial technology firm Circle is running a contest encouraging users of its social payments app to send money to friends with the chance to win $10,000. To participate in the “Share the Love” contest, which runs until June 30, you must download and sign up for the Circle Pay...

Last week the financial technology firm Circle announced the launch of support for the sterling pound (GBP) on its social payments app, which leverages bitcoin and the blockchain for transactions. Following its existing support for the US dollar, Circle is allowing individuals to...

Goldman Sachs-backed Bitcoin services company Circle Internet Financial Ltd. is planning to open an office in London, UK, reports Business Insider Australia. Circle founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire and co-founder Sean Neville, along with other executives, are presently in London to...

Where is Bitcoin going? That’s the question on many minds as the price stays stagnant, hovering near $240. It wasn’t long ago, a year to be precise, that predictions were calling for Bitcoin to breach $2000. But this Christmas gift wasn’t to be. Instead, Bitcoin as an asset has...

In a company blog post published last week, Jeremy Allaire, CEO of the digital-currency firm Circle, announced the company has recruited former JP Morgan executive Paul Camp as its new Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Treasurer, and EVP of Financial Operations. “Paul’s...

You know that trope about article titles? The one that says that any rhetorical question in a title is intended to be answered with a “no”? I’m quite glad to finally say that it has been flipped on its head. This question shouldn’t be answered with a “no” – or with a “yes”...