Among the information most notable this week is the announcement of Visa. The company providing credit card and payment services invited the organizations that want to issue virtual cards recharged with cryptocurrencies to join the Fast Track program Fintech. Also, this February 27, it was learned that in Argentina are wedged with a token that will release an amount in bitcoins (BTC).In these seven days, bitcoin (BTC) also recorded a further decline in its price, which led to the criptomoneda close below $ 9,000. Some analysts pointed to the coronavirus as the cause. At the time of writing this article, BTC is priced in USD 8.575, as was reflected in the market price of Latin america and Spain, according to the price calculator of Breaking News.With Breaking News, interested parties can keep up to date on changes in the market prices of bitcoin, ether, bitcoin cash and litecoin, with relation to your local currency. To do this, you can visit the section of the Market is Latin, which has a pricing calculator to perform conversions quickly and easily to your national currency.
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By means of a notice published in recent days via Twitter, Cuy Sheffield, CEO of Visa for the area of the cryptocurrencies, invited the services of portfolios of cryptocurrencies interested in integrating the Visa cards to join the Fast Track program Fintech. The invitation arises as a result of the partnership established with Coinbase from 2015 to integrate the Visa cards to this house of change, and that has been deepened, with an agreement that allows Coinbase to issue the first debit cards that allow you to make payments directly with bitcoin.Forbes magazine in Argentina published that Gravel, a recognized exchange house of cryptocurrencies, wedged a coin with a QR code that will release an amount in bitcoins (BTC). The currency will have the figure of General José de San Martín, hero of argentine independence whose face illustrates the ticket of ARS 5, which was effective until 29 of February, by orders of the government.The mexican companies who wish to know about technology accounting distributed (DLT) or blockchain and its potential application to their business models, already have the National Laboratory of Industry 4.0 and Blockchain, a proposal of the consortium Center of Industrial Innovation that has the backing of the ministry of Economic Development of Mexico. The institution is presented as an alternative to the development of technological solutions, affordable products and services in the technologies of industry 4.0 and blockchain.The National University of Colombia (A) states that since almost a year ago, implements the method of certification of qualifications based on a blockchain, however, until today, only 29.1% of the graduates of last year, culminates the process. In a statement, the A she urges the graduates to perform the procedure to get the degree validated in a blockchain.Between the 26 and the 26 of February, the price of bitcoin has lost around 6%, falling below the mark of USD 9,000 for the first time since the end of January, almost a month ago. Among the reasons that are discussed within the ecosystem, there seems to be consensus that the increase of the threat by the epidemic of coronavirus is affecting not only the cryptocurrencies, but to other markets.If you want to know the meaning of several words from the terminology of the criptomundo, you can reference the extensive Glossary of Breaking News.
Thin client: a client that only downloads a small portion of a chain of blocks, allowing you to execute your tasks without consuming as much storage space on your device.
Criptotutorial of the week:
The subscriptions of the streaming service most used in the world can pay with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, ether, litecoin, dash and dogecoin are accepted to offer the service. Provider of gift cards for Cryptocurrencies Bitrefill has added a service that allows users to purchase more than 750 gift cards different spread in more than 170 countries, to be used on platforms such as Amazon, Ebay, Play Store, App Store, or Netflix, among others.
Podcast of the week
Joan Telo is a systems engineer, security specialist, and professional in mining cryptocurrencies with a lot of experience in the market of miners. In this episode he sat down to answer questions about the landscape of Bitcoin after the halving.