Bitcoin is close to overtaking MasterCard by the amount of value transferred daily, with bitcoin moving $8 billion in the past 24 hours while MasterCard averages $11 billion a…
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Mastercard Patent Claims Cryptocurrency Can Benefit From Fractional Reserve Banking
U.S. multinational financial services corporation Mastercard wants to apply principles of fractional reserve banking to cryptocurrency, a new patent application published Thursday, Oct. 25 reveals. According to the document,…
Why Mastercard’s Multi-Blockchain Might Be a New Step in the Patent Race
On October 9, American financial services giant Mastercard was granted a patent for a method to partition a blockchain so that it can store multiple transaction types and formats….
