“The fact that Tornado Cash doesn’t allow access to its app to comply with regulations doesn’t necessarily mean that the protocol and smart contracts are not available to the sanctioned entities,” Tal Be’ery, the chief technology officer of crypto wallet ZenGo, told CoinDesk in a direct message. Source
A new report highlights how the Lightning Network has grown in popularity as a way of transferring digital assets quickly and efficiently around the globe. CNBC today told the story of Alena Vorobiova, a Ukrainian refugee currently seeking sanctuary in Poland. Vorobiova used Lightning to transfer $100 worth of Bitcoin from Miami, where it was then withdrawn from an ATM in the equivalent Polish currency — all within the space of three minutes. That’s the sort of low cost, high speed transaction that has seen the Layer 2 scaling solution…
Alongside the deal, PolySign is also completing a Series C fundraising round with the addition of new investors including Soros Fund Management, Brevan Howard and GSR. Cowen Digital, which had taken a $25 million stake in PolySign last May as part of a Series B funding round, will add to its existing equity position. Source
The entity behind Ronin’s unprecedented $655 million exploit in March has apparently moved tens of millions worth of stolen ether (ETH) through privacy protocol Tornado Cash in the past week, blockchain data from addresses connected to the exploiter show. Source
Crypto investment company Ark Invest founder, Cathie Wood, has dumped all of the firm’s holdings of PayPal and showed greater confidence in the long-term growth of the Cash App payment system which uses the Bitcoin Lightning Network. Wood explained her firm’s move at the Miami Bitcoin 2022 conference which wrapped up on April 9. The Lightning Network (LN) is a layer-2 solution for Bitcoin meant to facilitate faster and cheaper transactions. Financial technology company PayPal operates the payment app Venmo as a direct competitor with Block’s (formerly Square) Cash App.…
At the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami on Thursday, Cash App announced a new feature for U.S. customers that will allow them to automatically invest a portion of their direct deposit paychecks into Bitcoin (BTC). The mobile payment service run by Jack Dorsey’s Block, formerly known as Square, will enable Cash App Visa Cash Card users to opt into this “Paid in Bitcoin” feature at no cost. Cash App’s Bitcoin product lead Miles Suter, who made the announcement Thursday, explained that any percentage from 1% to 100% of their direct deposits can…
At the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, Block, Inc., formerly Square, Inc., announced three new bitcoin services for the company’s mobile payment platform. The mobile payment platform Cash App will feature a “paid in bitcoin” service that allows users to auto-invest their work pay into bitcoin. Cash App Adds 3 New Bitcoin Services Jack Dorsey’s Block announced in Miami that the Cash App mobile payment system will offer three new features. The San Francisco company explained that the first feature will be a “paid in bitcoin” service that allows people…
Summary: Cash App has launched a new service that allows its users to convert their paychecks into Bitcoin The new feature named ‘Paid in Bitcoin’ allows users to select what percentage of their direct deposits to be converted to BTC U.S. customers will be the first to test out the new feature, and only available to those with activated Cash Cards The payment service provider of Cash App, through its parent company of Block (formerly known as Square), has announced a new feature that allows its users to invest their…
Block’s mobile payment service also announced a feature to round up payments to buy bitcoin with the difference, and the ability to send bitcoin using the Lightning Network. Original
Block (SQ), formerly known as Square, said Monday that a former employee improperly downloaded Cash App Investing reports containing U.S. customer data. The payments company is notifying some 8.2 million current and former customers about the breach, according to a regulatory filing. Source