‘Going back to the roots’: Circle, Square and the path to cryptocurrency payments

Payments companies Circle and Square have both made a consumer push for bitcoin buying and selling services and are now refocusing on the vision of bitcoin for payments
Circle has created a cryptocurrency pegged to the U.S. dollar in an attempt to develop a standard protocol other industry participants will also adopt

Tanaya Macheel | May 18, 2018

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