Payments giant Mastercard suffered a severe outage last week that led to a hold-up in transactions. As reported on July 12 by the Financial Times, it had a global impact, sparking a round of complaints from the payment firm’s customer base.…
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What Crypto Really Thinks About Litecoin’s Banking Ambitions
It was news that was perhaps too strange for crypto’s typically divided reactions. First revealed Wednesday, the Litecoin Foundation, the non-profit that develops the software that powers the sixth-largest cryptocurrency, bought a stake in a very real, non-crypto bank. The move was…
Bitcoin’s Unknown ‘Kings’: The Magazine Mystery That’s Got Crypto Guessing
Bitcoin may be global, but it’s still a small community This is why a recent Fast Company South Africa story attracted international commentary – and not in a good way. After all, it isn’t every day that relative unknowns get…