THELOGICALINDIAN - Financial software developer Intuit has been awarded a apparent for processing BTC payments via SMS and weve covered the capacity in todays copy of Bitcoin in Brief Also in The Daily Brave browser affairs to accredit BAT tips for tweets and Reddit posts cryptocurrency is projected to aggregate 5 percent of the portfolios of US investors abutting year and in Thailand a acclaimed amateur has been arrested for an declared crypto advance artifice
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Intuit Awarded Patent for BTC Payments via SMS
California-based aggregation Intuit, a banking software developer, has been awarded a apparent for processing bitcoin amount (BTC) payments via argument letters (SMS), according to a filing appear by the US Apparent and Trademark Office on August 7. The apparent that outlines a arrangement to alteration BTC funds by sending argument letters on smartphones was filed aback in 2014. According to its abstract:
Despite the abiding appliance of the apparent application, Intuit has been continuously developing its crypto-cash acquittal solutions in the meantime. Earlier, the aggregation appear it had accomplished a affiliation acceding with the acquittal provider Veem to body a arrangement for processing all-embracing cryptocurrency payments.
Brave Browser to Enable Tips for Tweets and Posts
Brave, the privacy-oriented web browser that supports opt-in ads and crypto payments amid users and website publishers like Twitchers and Youtubers, is now planning to aggrandize its account to Twitter and Reddit. The startup intends to acquaint abutment for the two platforms in the fourth division of this year, according to an advertisement quoted by CNET.
To booty advantage of the angled system, which uses Brave’s basal absorption badge (BAT), users accept to accredit the payments in the browser. Then, if addition Brave user decides that a cheep or a column is account rewarding, they can accelerate a BAT tip. “The archetypal will be angled – a user brand a cheep and can accord BAT to the tweeter, and optionally cheep aback that he tipped,” the aggregation explained. The apparatus for Reddit users will be similar.
Brave is about aggravating to redefine how online announcement works. Its browser is blocking ads by absence and people’s absorption is adored with tokens. BAT payments can be fabricated amid users, publishers and advertisers. The opt-in arrangement allows anyone who sees a Brave-placed ad to get a allocation of the acquirement from the advertiser. Brave claims to accept added than 20,000 absolute publishers and 3.25 actor account alive users who can accelerate and accept BAT tips. The Brave browser activity was adjourned through an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) and launched by Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich.
Crypto Expected at 5% of US Investments in 2024
Despite declining prices of best cryptocurrencies amidst a connected bearish trend in crypto markets this year, a new analysis has begin that agenda bill are acceptable a abiding allotment of abounding advance portfolios in the US, abbreviating the ascendancy of acceptable instruments such as stocks, bonds and absolute estate. The authors of the abstraction accept detected a growing admiration amid US investors to get apparent to cryptos, advised by abounding to be the abutting big asset group.
The Harris Poll survey, conducted on annual of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), has accustomed that cryptocurrencies will represent 5 percent of the investments of those 35 percent of Americans that accede themselves investors or plan to advance in 2019. At the aforementioned time, Exchange Traded-Funds (ETFs), which accept accustomed abundant absorption in the crypto amplitude recently, annual for 8 percent of the projected investments.
The abstraction has attempted to appraise the ability and acquaintance of cryptocurrencies amid alive investors in the United States. According to the appear results, their levels abide about low with about bisected of the respondents acceptance accepting little or no compassionate of the matter. “Cryptocurrency appears to be adopted to abounding investors. The analysis begin that about bisected of U.S. adults (48 percent) are not accustomed with Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Litecoin,” the AICPA commented on the findings.
Thai Actor Arrested for Alleged Crypto Investment Fraud
Police in Thailand accept arrested Jiratpisit “Boom” Jaravijit, a acclaimed Thai actor, for his declared accord in a counterfeit crypto-investment scheme. According to bounded media reports, he absorbed a adopted civic into advance 797 actor baht (~$24 actor USD) in agenda currency. Mr. Jiratpisit, who was apprehended on Wednesday afterwards the Thai Criminal Court issued an arrest accreditation in July, has been additionally answerable with bunco in money-laundering.
The amateur is one of seven suspects who allegedly committed the crime, The Bangkok Post reported. Law administration admiral said they acted afterwards accepting a complaint that the accused had defrauded the greenhorn into sending them the money in bitcoin (BTC). The fraudsters assured the being the funds would be acclimated to buy shares in companies that had invested in the Dragon Coin agenda currency. The investor, articular as the Finnish civic Aarni Otava Saarimaa, met the suspects in June, 2017. The Thai amateur has denied the charges.
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