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Drugs, Drugs and More Drugs: Crypto on the Dark Web
Down the Silk Road: Where crypto has always been used for payments.
Why Banks and Payment Processors Shun Perfectly Legal Businesses
Porn, gambling and even furniture sales are deemed “high-risk” merchant categories. Sometimes the risk is financial; other times it’s just bad publicity.
![“We would usually advise our clients to steer clear of a lot of these things," says one consultant. "Whether it's financial, reputational or regulatory [risk], who needs this headache?” (Illustration: Yunha Lee/CoinDesk)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2Fs3y3vcno%2Fhotfix%2Fa8270552bb0a30adf2955799891e1d82615c0c54-1440x1080.jpg%3Fauto%3Dformat&w=1080&q=75)
PayPal’s Blockchain Chief on the Future of Crypto in Payments
Blockchains offer unique advantages, but these must be combined with a user experience that feels similar to the one consumers know today, writes Senior Vice President Jose Fernandez da Ponte. This piece is part of CoinDesk’s Payments Week.
The History of Cash-Like Digital Payment Instruments
How and why those original digital payments projects are no longer with us today can give us an idea of what needs to be done to do it right. This piece is part of CoinDesk's Payments Week.
La historia de los instrumentos de pago digitales similares al efectivo
Cómo y por qué esos proyectos originales de pagos digitales ya no están entre nosotros hoy puede darnos una idea de lo que hay que hacer para hacerlo bien. Este artículo es parte de la Semana de Pagos de CoinDesk.