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Crypto Payments Adoption in FinTech: How Do Retailers Fit in?

Retail TouchPoints

For retailers, the revolutionary payments shift towards cryptocurrency will certainly come with challenges, but it may all be worth it. After all, offering this option opens the door to a whole new audience of more than 106 million people across the world that hold assets in cryptocurrency. Get ready for a technology retouch.

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5 ways cryptocurrency benefits ecommerce

GetElastic

Issuing as a mysterious concept narrowly known by those in IT and developing into worldwide hype, cryptocurrency has become a controversial phenomenon in today’s world. Bitcoin continues to influence the macroeconomy, and pretty much everybody believes (or wants to believe) that digital currency will bring about a bright future.

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PayPal Purchases Cryptocurrency Security Provider Curv

Retail TouchPoints

In October 2020, PayPal committed to helping shape the role that digital currencies will play in the future of commerce and financial services, and the company recently created a business unit focused on blockchain, crypto and digital currencies. Curv was founded in 2018 by CEO Itay Malinger and CTO Dan Yadlin. “As

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How to Adapt Your Ecommerce Business to Increase Sales in 2021

Retail TouchPoints

Increased popularity and use of cryptocurrencies : Bitcoin continues to be a player in the shadows. Despite this, its use is gradually spreading, above all among large brands and the most technologically advanced vendors. Its popularity increases even though it’s an abstract concept that’s difficult to understand for many users.

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Trends Analysis: Why Cryptocurrency May Still Be Important for eCommerce

ESW

Cryptocurrency, and Bitcoin especially, are more likely to draw raised eyebrows than excited grins these days. There’s a bigger discussion about what crypto — and the blockchain technology behind it — can do for the entire eCommerce sector. This could prove to be the real story of cryptocurrency’s rise. Alternatives.

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Crypto-Commerce: Banking on Blockchain for B2B Payments

GetElastic

After significant hype with the rise of cryptocurrencies, there was a ‘Blockchain winter.’ The predictions for rapid adoption by 2020 never materialized; however, the underlying technology, Blockchain, still holds promise, especially in the B2B payments space. Blockchain’s foundation is distributed ledger technology ?(DLT).

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Digital Wallets and Cryptocurrency: DTC Brands Must Prepare for the Future of Money

ESW

Whether you love it or are indifferent, cryptocurrency is here to stay — for better or for worse. There has been a lot of hype, especially in recent years, about the impact digitally native currencies and digitally native payment processes could have on eCommerce. What Cryptocurrency and Digital Wallets Can Offer Brands.