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Markets

Facebook Taps David Marcus to Lead Payments Initiatives

Marcus will continue running Libra's Novi digital wallet as he takes on Facebook Financial.

David Marcus is the co-creator of the Facebook-backed libra stablecoin. (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Federal Reserve Is Rushing to Get Its Instant Payments Offering Ready

COVID-19 proved the need for FedNow, even though the U.S. central bank admits the service is still years away.

Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard (Shutterstock)

Markets

Leading Austrian Telecom Provider Adds Cryptocurrencies to Its Cashless Payment Network

A1 Telekom Austria said cryptocurrencies will now be available to use in its cashless payment app, allowing over 2,500 merchants to accept bitcoin, ether and dash.

Vienna, Austria

Markets

You Can Now Buy Hedera Hashgraph’s HBAR Token via Simplex

Users can buy and sell cryptocurrency with a debit or credit card through global payment processor Simplex’s fiat gateway solution.

Hedera Hashgraph (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Bitcoin Has American Mindshare but Few Users

The results from the Federal Reserve's annual Survey of Consumer Choice are in: Most people know of bitcoin, few are using it.

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Finance

Bitcoin App Bottlepay Is Back From the Dead With a New Lightning App

Bottlepay remodeled its whole product to comply with EU regulations. Roughly 1,000 people are now on the waitlist for the app's relaunch.

(Benjamin Voros/Unsplash)

Tech

WikiLeaks Shop Now Accepts Bitcoin Lightning Payments

In 2011, WikiLeaks was among the first organizations to accept donations in bitcoin. Now its shop is taking bitcoin payments over Lightning.

(Elijah Hiett/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Startup Zap Is Working With Visa

Lightning Network startup Zap, Inc. is partnering with Visa to offer the most user-friendly bitcoin services since Cash App.

Zap founder Jack Mallers speaks at Bitcoin 2019 in San Francisco.

Finance

After Years of Resistance, BitPay Adopts SegWit for Cheaper Bitcoin Transactions

Payments processor BitPay has added support for SegWit, three years after a competing block size proposal fractured the Bitcoin community.

SegWit inventor Pieter Wuille speaks in 2015. (Scaling Bitcoin)

Tech

Cryptography Startup Brings Private Payment Channels to Tezos Blockchain

Cryptography firm Bolt Labs has launched a private payment solution, zkChannels, on Tezos.

(Max Bender/Unsplash)