Fintech startup Strike launches new Visa Card to allow payments in Bitcoin

    Strike, the leading blockchain-based startup, entered into a collaboration with financial giant Visa Inc. to offer crypto rewards through its new crypto card. The startup also said that access to the card could be granted by joining a waitlist. Digital currency-based payment protocol Strike, built on the Lightning Network, has announced the launch of a…

    Bitcoin Law makes El Salvador the first country to recognize cryptocurrency as legal tender

    El Salvador has become the first country to officially recognizes Bitcoin as legal tender. A supermajority of lawmakers in the Latin American country’s Legislature voted by the Bitcoin Law. In a Wednesday vote, El Salvador’s Congress voted by a supermajority in favor of the president’s proposal for the Central American nation to adopt Bitcoin as…

    El Salvador To Become The World’s First Country To Declare Bitcoin As Legal Tender

    The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced that the country’s government would declare Bitcoin as legal tender, alongside the U.S. dollar. In a video broadcast to a multiday conference Miami Bitcoin 2021, the president announced El Salvador’s partnership with Strike, a digital wallet company, to build the country’s modern financial infrastructure using Bitcoin technology….