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During BTC's parabolic run in 2017, the Kimchi premium surged as high as 20%. Is history repeating itself?

PLUS: Goldman Sachs to offer clients bitcoin! With Bitcoin hovering just below $60k and Ethereum sitting just under $2k, it looks like April could be another bullish month in the crypto industry. In lieu of a typical introduction summarizing the week’s news, I am going to embed a tweet from the @Unchained_pod, the new Twitter handle for all Unchained content. Click the link...

Bitcoin held gains, bond yields rose, and gold slipped ahead of President Biden's next big spending push that could total anywhere between $2 trillion and $4 trillion. The BTC/USD exchange rate approached $60,000 in an early morning rally in Asia, driven higher by a flurry of fundamentals, ranging from PayPal's decision...

In another incredible news for the cryptocurrency space, leading payment giant Visa announced its decision to allow the use of the USD Coin (USDC) to pay for transactions on its network. According to the Visa announcement, USDC, the Ethereum stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar, will now be accepted as a means of payment on the Visa network. Revealing the growing adoption of...

Despite the overwhelmingly bearish sentiment in the crypto markets since mid- March, Bitcoin opened the new weekly trading session with a bang. Bitcoin Whales Continue to Accumulate High-net-worth individuals are accumulating BTC en masse, adding fuel to the bull market. ...

The credit card issuer's partners will have the ability to exchange USD Coin (USDC) through its payments network.

Visa now supports cryptocurrency transactions with direct acceptance of payments in USDC. Visa Leverages Ethereum to Settle Payments While the company has supported digital currencies in the past, working closely with Crypto.com and Anchorage, any transaction made with...

According to Reuters, Visa announced today that it will begin accepting cryptocurrency USD Coin (USDC) to settle transactions on its payment network. The move by the fintech giant coincides with the growing institutional acceptance...

Proceedings with its ambition to increase and strengthen the adoption of digital currency payment solutions around the world, Crypto.com has entered into a strategic partnership with global payments technology firm Visa. Announcing the collaboration via an official blog post, Crypto.com noted that the partnership will further its ambition of global-scale crypto adoption as well as increase the reach of the Crypto.com Visa Card....

Visa CEO Al Kelly says that the payments giant is planning to enable cryptocurrency buying and spending on its network. Users Will Buy and Spend Crypto Kelly stated during Fortune's Leadership Next podcast that his firm has two strategies related to Bitcoin....

The company is planning to enable the purchase of Bitcoin on Visa credentials.

Visa is making important moves ahead to get closer to the rapidly evolving crypto payments industry. In the latest...

A reading of Nic Carter’s latest essay for CoinDesk on the inappropriateness of comparing the energy consumption of bitcoin and Visa transactions.

Popular financial services giant Visa is currently exploring the possibility of offering some digital currencies directly on its platform, Chief Executive Officer Alfred Kelly has revealed. The Visa boss disclosed this in the payment giant’s fiscal Q1 2021 earnings call, noting that...

Centralized payment firms like Visa, Mastercard and PayPal have an opportunity to offer innovative stablecoin payment networks, the research firm said.

After consolidation, Bitcoin is trading at $36,763. Encouragingly, Ethereum surpassed its all-time high, hitting $1,668, and is now trading at $1,600. Let’s find out some exciting crypto news for today. Visa...

Visa has partnered with Anchorage, the first federally chartered crypto bank. The credit card giant will launch a new initiative to enable the purchase and sale of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies at traditional...

VISA, the world's leading payment processing giant has announced a new Pilot API program for its banking partners that would allow...

Visa is working with Anchorage to allow customers at traditional banks to "buy and sell digital assets such as Bitcoin."

The payments company works with wallets and exchanges to enable crypto purchases, and could eventually use digital currencies over blockchain in the same way it processes traditional money.