Payment systems

Four years ago, fried-chicken chain KFC tweeted from its Canadian account that it would accept bitcoin as payment for its "buckets."

The company told AFP its tongue-in-cheek campaign - "digital tender for chicken tenders" - sold out in an hour and the chain has not taken crypto payments since, but online articles regularly recycle the claim that KFC "accepts" bitcoin.

Thousands of cryptocurrency enthusiasts are gathering in Miami as the city builds its reputation as one of the key locations to develop the blockchain technology despite its underdog status.

Dozens of companies are using the Bitcoin 2022 conference running from yesterday through tomorrow as a venue to network, pitch ideas and share announcements to the industry and beyond.

Bulgaria is second in Europe after Romania in the number of cash payments, according to statistics from 'Global Findex'. In our country, 63% of transactions are made with cash, and in our neighbor - over 78%.

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Apple announced on Feb. 8 a new service that will allow U.S. businesses later this year to accept payments on their iPhones from touchless cards or other iPhones, a new challenger in the booming payments business.

The Facebook-backed digital currency project Diem has announced the winding down and $182-million sale of its technology, capping a years-long initiative that drew significant concern from regulators.

Cryptocurrencies have become increasingly popular around the world in recent years, and in Bulgaria, it turns out, there is already a store where you can shop for basic necessities and pay with bitcoins.

The US dollar strengthened slightly against major currencies today as the Euro fell in Asian trade as stock markets were nervous of tensions in Ukraine and a possible more aggressive rise in the Federal Reserve's (Fed) reference rate this week.

A top EU financial regulator has renewed calls for a bloc-wide "ban" on the main form of bitcoin mining and sounded the alarm over the rising proportion of renewable energy devoted to crypto mining.

The information denied 5 years ago by Ivan Geshev - then only the head of the special prosecutor's office, that Bulgaria "arrested" over 200,000 bitcoins in 2017, appeared in the latest report of one of the largest cryptocurrencies in the world - Kraken.