Visa has made a decision to allow the use of the stablecoin USD Coin in the settlement of transactions on its network over the Ethereum blockchain.

As announced on Monday, global payments technology company Visa Inc. mentioned transactions on its network could now be settled via Cryptocurrency with the use of the stablecoin USD Coin. 

According to a Reuters report, Visa noted the program was piloted with the payment platform Crypto.com, further stating that plans are underway to extend it to other crypto partners.

The USDC, or USD Coin, is a stablecoin crypto with a 1:1 fixed ratio to the US Dollar in value.

This marks a turning point in the settlement of transactions on the Visa payment network especially for partners with cryptocurrency holdings. The traditional process required customers with cryptocurrency holdings to convert the asset to fiat currency at an additional conversation rate before payments could be made on the network.

On the other hand, with this recent development, customers could easily settle transactions directly with the use of USDC by paying to Visa over the Ethereum blockchain, eliminating the hassles and extra fees that come with conversions.

Head of Crypto at Visa, Cuy Sheffield noted that this move comes as a result of increasing demand for cryptocurrencies from “consumers across the world”.

Recall that Visa had been one of the major adversaries of Bitcoin and digital assets, attracting general criticisms for its otherwise “backward” stance on growing technology.

Now, with the recent decision to allow transactions directly with USDC, it has completely embraced the emerging concept of cryptocurrency—a move that could potentially open doors for seamless transactions on its network, attracting more cryptocurrency proponents.

It wasn’t until early this year that the Credit/debit card company made a complete turnaround in its position with the unveiling of its crypto payment service for banks last month after a period of seemingly ceaseless antagonism against digital assets.

Visa’s recent decision to accept settlements in USDC is the latest indication of increasing adoption of crypto in the FinTech industry with major big players like BlackRock Inc, BNY Mellon, and MasterCard Inc embracing and adopting virtual assets.

Meanwhile, the payment giant PayPal had been indicating interest in crypto right from the jump, stepping into the Crypto space officially sometime last year as they finally allowed users to hold cryptocurrencies on the platform.

MasterCard Inc. recently announced its plans to support digital assets, outlining strict criteria for adoption. Inasmuch as indications suggest not all cryptocurrencies would be adopted, these recent decisions by major financial firms suggest growing acceptance of digital assets—a revolutionary concept that can potentially affect the financial industry as well as conventional business transactions in a huge way.

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The battle between Bitcoin and Ethereum has been the main issue for more than a year now. As Cryptocurrency predictors make their predictions, some of their predictions coming to past others backsliding, as usual, it is normal as long as Cryptocurrency trading is a concern.

These two Cryptocurrency (Bitcoin and Ethereum) are the most widely used and discussed Cryptocurrencies in the trading market. Aside from that, the technology behind each is extremely powerful even as they lead the crypto trading.

But the question is, among these two who is the king and the leader in the crypto race. In 2008 Bitcoin was introduced into the world of trading by Satoshi Nakamoto which is a public peer to peer electronic cash with a blockchain technology which exsiccates all transactions.

The blockchain is a ledger that records and stores all transactions. Bitcoin miners are important in the sense that they are always available to confirm all transactions to other networks by adding them to the blockchain which is important for the Bitcoin blockchain. Once a transaction is made and added to a miners blockchain it cannot be reversed or traced which makes it unique and special.

In 2015, Ethereum was launched as open software. It is the largest decentralized platform till now which has led to the design of dApps and smart contracts.

Ethereum, on the other hand, serves as a platform that runs a smart contract. It is not just a currency but a platform with Ether as its digital currency. They are applications that run as programmed without any difficulties (the interference of third party or fraud). This makes the fundamental difference between Ethereum and Bitcoin.

Blockchain technology is the main core for Ethereum and Bitcoin. But their algorithm consensus makes the difference. Even though Ethereum has faster block time than that of Bitcoin.

According to BitInfoCharts, Bitcoin Block time is more than 8 minutes and that of Ethereum is 25 seconds. Isn’t that amazing for Ethereum speculators?. Bitcoin and Ethereum have been battling for some time now especially in the area of Cryptocurrency trading (buying and selling). Bitcoin outperforms the substantiality of Ethereum since the introduction of Cryptocurrencies in the trading market.

The price of Bitcoin is around $5000 in 2019 for the first time, bitcoin was around $900 in 2017. And has increased 5.5x its price level. Therefore, increasing the price and making it a leader of all Cryptocurrencies in terms of trading.

The price of Ethereum is around $ 160 this year, it started at just $10 at the beginning of 2017. Now the price has increased 16x. Which shows a higher increase compared to Bitcoin.

It is clearly seen that Ethereum and Bitcoin have been battling since ages. Where the two are known to be the largest digital currency so far. It is known that Ethereum has more failures in relation to consensus than bitcoin and also has more downtime than bitcoin.

Bitcoin will always lead the Cryptocurrency race as long as crypto trading is concerned.

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Due to some issues, Constantinople has been postponed several times. Regardless of many delays, Constantinople has now become a realization and finally completed. On February 28, the upgrade was completed at block 7,280,000, and in the end, proceeded with the fork.

Ethereum which is a top smart contract platform and the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap has in a few days been going deep into the bear’s territory. The cryptocurrency has a market cap of over $14 billion is now trading at $138. Though Ethereum has been on a rough road come from last year, there is one thing that has a huge effect the price of the cryptocurrency, which is previous and recent hard forks and if we see more of that, then it is expected to take the value of Ethereum higher progressively. According to some cryptocurrency expects and analysts, Ethereum’s Constantinople hard fork may shortly bring a massive increase in value Ethereum.

Constantinople presents the main feature which is the reduction of block rewards. Miners of the cryptocurrency usually got 3 ETH per block as a reward but will currently get a payout of only 2 ETH for each block mined. Even though this is something of penance for miners, this game-plan is generally conventional and has picked up significant support from devs last August. Ethereum’s lessening block rewards are intentionally expected to stop miners, and to decrease the number of new ETH that is produced by the miners. Eventually, this will lower inflation and have the value of existing ETH very high. Lesser mining motivations will likewise aid Casper to get ready, which will be presented in Ethereum 2.0.

Constantinople have few other features built into the upgrade that can favorably affect Ethereum’s price, with one being the lessening of gas costs for particular transactions, which will allow a lot more transactions on the platform. I think to base at previous forks, Constantinople can affect the activities of the cryptocurrency’s market in the weeks ahead, though so far, no significant change is seen in Ethereum’s market value. In any case, the fact that after the previous fork come off, it took Ethereum’s price over 30 days to go above resistance, then, if history reoccurs, a post-Constantinople upgrade effect will be many weeks uptrend for the Ethereum price.

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With the level of cryptocurrency awareness currently on the increase and a lot of new projects coming up with better positions to displace the old ones, there is a need for the second largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization Ethereum (ETH) to fight for its life.

ETH is presently moving towards the $150 after weeks of leaving this price mark. It has shown that it is a force in the market by reacting positively to the positive volatility in the market. The present market is experiencing an increase in price bullishness and ETH is also among the altcoins that are gaining against Bitcoin and USD.

However, the presence of complement sites has shown that ETH is out to do all things to remain relevant. These projects are offering alternatives to what the Ethereum blockchain could attain. The Tron blockchain has now been officially listed as the number one dapp blockchain ahead of Ethereum. So, maintaining a continuous price change ahead of TRX, the Tron token could restore the confidence of Ethereum investors.

Also, the attitude of Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin who does not give out free Ethereum to the public had changed after the launch of Tron Arcade that provides seed fund for developers with its investment of $100 million in the project.

The controversy surrounding the release of Ethereum Constantinople last month and how it was postponed as a result of the position of some developers that other hard forks would be launched. With the understanding of what this could cost the Ethereum network, it was postponed to avert what happened to Bitcoin Cash during its hard fork in Nov 2018 from happening to the coin.

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Most Digibyte investors have been facing a severe problem on how to withdraw their funds from any of the exchange platforms, or from their Chrome wallet or android wallet to a real currency like the dollars. This post will give a summarised lecture on how to do that. 

Firstly, to withdraw digibyte to dollars or any local currency, there is the need to exchange the Digibyte amount to either Bitcoin or Ethereum, or to any cryptocurrency that is widely supported by all exchanges. In this case, you can directly sell them for the preferred currency.

if you are using an exchange platform like the bit-z website to withdraw digibyte, you should first have at least 1000 Digibytes in your wallet to complete the transaction. Their minimum withdrawal amount is 1000 DGB. In this case, you should check the minimum withdrawal amount for digibyte on any exchange platform you are using before proceeding with the process.

Digibyte holders can go the easy way buy directly exchanging their digibyte to Bitcoin or Ethereum on the exchange platform, then sell their converted asset to any medium that buys BTC or ETH for dollars or the preferred currency. The problem here is that after exchanging DGB to BTC or ETH on the exchange platform, you may face another challenge of not meeting the minimum withdrawal value for ETH or BTC. In this case, you come back to zero. Some exchange platforms also support direct sales of cryptocurrencies in exchange for dollars. In this case, all these options are more complicated or are not supported by the exchange platforms.

To withdraw DGB without any coin exchange on the exchange platform, go to www.changelly.com to open an account. Choose the currency you want to send, and the currency you wish to receive. From there, proceed with the other procedure by entering the amount you wish to send, and providing the BTC or ETH wallet address you want them to send the DGB equivalent amount to. Mind you, changelly only allows DGB transactions which have a minimum amount of 1400 DGB. In this case, you should be willing to withdraw 1400 DGB to use this method.

After providing all the information requested by Changelly, they will generate a DGB wallet address for you to send the funds to it. Copy the address, then go to your exchange platform, or your wallet if you are selling from there. Rightfully locate the send button in your wallet or identify and click on the withdraw button when using an exchange platform. Enter the exact DGB amount you requested on the changelly platform, provide the copied DGB wallet address in the field provided, then click on withdraw or send.

Go back to the changelly platform, then click on history located at the top right corner. The transaction record will appear. Click on it, and you will be able to know whether Changelly has received the DGB or not. If they receive the DGB, they will send the equivalent amount in BTC or ETH based on the chosen coin to the wallet address provided. After they send the BTC or DGB into your wallet, find a trusted merchant or website, and sell them in exchange for the preferred local currency.

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