Categoria: Payments

Visa just spent $5.3 billion to acquire Plaid, the fintech company powering Venmo and other banking apps. Plaid’s API software allows startups, like the mobile investing app Robinhood and the cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Gemini, to connect to users’ bank accounts. According to Visa, one in four people with a US bank account have used Plaid’s technology.

Sorgente: Visa acquires the fintech company behind Venmo for $5.3 billion

Bitcoin was first created by Satoshi Nakamoto so that people could use the internet to safely and privately exchange value with others without the need for a centralized third-party or intermediary.

Today, ten years later, the economy inspired by Bitcoin is still growing — and using the foundations of decentralization, peer-to-peer, and open-source as a means to solve some of the problems of interacting and transacting on the internet.

Sorgente: Visualizing the new crypto economy – Abra

Facebook Inc. unveiled plans for a new cryptocurrency called Libra this week. When it launches in 2020 or later, it will be a stablecoin–a digital currency that doesn’t fluctuate much because it’s supported by established government-backed currencies and securities.

The world’s largest social media company published a 12-page white paper on Libra and has more than 20 partners for the project. But there are still many questions. After a week of analysis, here’s what Bloomberg reporters and editors know about Libra, along with key unknowns that remain…

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