The majority of Play Store users are likely not intentionally using cryptomining on their devices. Therefore, Google needs to take the responsible approach of preventing unwanted or unhealthy usage of their end users’ devices, according to Barry Shteiman, vice president of research and innovation for Exabeam.

Despite legal cannabis category's regulatory complexity — or perhaps motivated by it — a new breed of merchant acquirers is slicing through the thick government red tape to process cannabis payments, one state at a time.

Russia's S7 Airlines implemented its first blockchain-based smart contract for the refueling of one of its aircraft.

After the 2008 banking crisis, centralized payment systems and financial services don’t have as much appeal to the younger set as a more transparent decentralized system, argues Csaba Csabai, founder and CEO of Inlock.

Bitcoin's scale and energy consumption have held it back as a payments option, but there are advancements that can change that, according to Jan-Willem Burgers, Europe technology lead with the distributed ledger practice at Capgemini.

Kevin Jenkins, former managing director of Visa U.K. and Ireland, joined the board of London-based fintech Nuggets to oversee business development for the blockchain-based security provider as it enters the massive mobile payments market in Asia.

Because the legal cannabis industry is typically considered too high-risk for most banks and payment processors to work with, most technology solutions are designed to duplicate the familiar process of paying by card.