It looks like you soon will be able to buy and sell cryptocurrencies through PayPal and Venmo. CoinDesk published an article highlighting the plans that came from sources. PayPal declined comment. “My understanding is that they are going to allow buys and sells of crypto directly from PayPal and Venmo,” a well-placed industry source told CoinDesk. “They are going to have some sort of a … [Read more...]
1 year after selling for $30 million Voice.com getting ready for public beta
A year ago Voice.com sold for $30 million and became the largest reported domain name only sale of all time. Block.one purchased the domain name from MicroStrategy. Block.one is the company behind EOS.IO a blockchain powered by the cryptocurrency EOS. Voice.com will be a new kind of social media platform. The public beta will launch July 4. (you still need to be invited to … [Read more...]
The Novi domain registrations start pouring in
Yesterday it was announced that Facebook was rebranding the name of their digital wallet Calibra which is tied to their Libra digital currencies. The name was inspired by the Latin words “novus” and “via,” which mean “new” and “way,” respectively. Yes I did say "currencies" as The Verge points out "Although Facebook initially said that there would be a single Libra coin pegged to a … [Read more...]
every major US payment processor has exited the Libra association
As we covered here a few times over the last few weeks, Facebook is having all kinds of problems with it's partners in Libra. Paypal dropped out and now the rest of the U.S. payment processing companies have dropped out. TheVerge wrote: The first to ditch Libra was Paypal, which withdrew on October 4th. Then, over the course of a few hours on October 11th, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and … [Read more...]
Can Facebook prevent it’s financial partners from abandoning Libra?
Since Facebook announced it's plans for Libra in June, many domain investors climbed on board the Libra domain name train. With a lot of excitement for both Facebook Libra and domain registrations, optimism was high. That optimism might need to be tempered a bit, an article in the Wall Street Journal speaks of financial partners like Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc., and others are having second … [Read more...]
Bitcoin.com publishes a piece on crypto domain names
Jamie Redman wrote a pretty long piece about the buying, selling and discussion of crypto related domain names. Redman went through a lot of social media posts, referenced a discussion about crypto on Namepros and pulled out a bunch of sales. It would have been nice for Jamie to have left out the squatter moniker and just referred to people buying a selling as domainers, investors or … [Read more...]
Support for Facebook’s Libra is beginning to wane
The Next Web published a piece about some of the early backers of Libra looking to back away and maybe back out completely. The story written by Yessi Bello Perez takes a look at a recent report from FT.com (you need to subscribe to read it). It looks like the backlash from regulators is prompting some companies to think about it changing course. From the article: Now, the FT it’s spoken … [Read more...]
